The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-05-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Women's Relief corps national
convention is to be held in Minneapolis
August 16 and II.
kan business the duplex system will be
installed on the cables.
The twelfth annual international ar
bitration conference will be held at
Lake Mohonk, N. Y, May 30-June /.
The present session of the fifty
ninth congress has enacted 5000 laws
to the present time, breaking all rec
ords.
Capt. Henry Larson, of the lumber
steamer Crete, died in Duluth, MINI.
His body will be taken to Marine City,
Mich.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Mrs.
Reid are entertaining a large party
at Wrest Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire,
England.
Dr. Rufus P. Johnston resigned as
pastor of the Fifth avenue Baptist
| church, New York, where John ID.
| Rockefeller worships
Mayor Brown, of Lincoln, Neb., in
| St. Louis denied he was there for the
purpose of gathering data against the
Standard Oil company.
determination of the Pulajanes, the
famous natical inhabitants of Samar,
is advocated by Gov. Curry and other
| inhabitants of the island.
| New York has 81 400 collected for
Mont Pelee victims, four years ago,
that it cannot spend. The only pos
sible claimant is negro ex-convict.
William T. Ellis, of Philadelphia, is
to make world tour to investigate
religious conditions and missions. He
is sent by the Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A.
and other bodies.
Rufe Combs, of Midway, KY, is a
candidate before the Carnegie hero
| fund commission. He crawled into a
| gas-filled pit and rescued Richard
| Hodson, an attorney.
Wilhelm Mayer pleaded not guilty in
| New York to the murder of a Mrs.
| Vogel in FrankIort-on-the-Ma Ger
many. He and Sophia Christiani
will be returned to Germany
| E. w. Hurley, assistant grand chief
engineer, arrived at Memphis, Tenn,
| from Montreal and took part in the
proceedings of the convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
John Richardson, of Lexington, KY,
was killed and Herbert Corneilson, Of
Danville, KY, was fatally shot by a
Waterman in a loaded merchandise
car in the Queen Crescent yards at
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Comparison by the war department
using smokeless powder was much
less deeply pitted after 300 shots than
one which was fired $50 times with
brown powder
Senator Fairbanks will not leave
Washington until after the railroad
rate bill is disposed of, as, having pre-
sided in the senate continuously since
! the debate began, he desires to con-
tinue until it is passed.
The apostolic delegation at Washing
| ton has received the pontifical briefs
| by which Monsig. j. b. Morris, vicar
| general of the diocese of Nashville,
Tenn, has been appointed titular
| bishop of acmonia and coadjutor to
| the right reverend bishop of Little
| Rock, Ark.
The state supreme court has affirm
ed the decision of the district court
in the case of Frank M. Campbell, a
| former member of the Kansas City,
Kan, school board, convicted of &C
| cepting a bride in 1903, and sentenced
| to a term of from one to seven years
| in the penitentiary.
Orders have been issued by the war
| department for Col Enoch H. Crow
| der to return to Washington from San
| Francisco and become acting judge ad-
| vocate general of the army in the alb
sence of Gen. George B. Davis, who
| will leave for Europe to represent the
United States at the Geneva confer.
| ence.
Henry G. Coll, assistant cashier Of
the First National bank of Milwau-
kee, found guilty two weeks ago by
| jury in the United States district
court on charges of misapplying funds
| and making false entries in the books
of the bank, was taken to Fort Leay-
enworth, Kan, to begin his ten-year-
sentence in the federal penitentiary.