The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-01-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. 8.

tronomer Of ireland, is dead. He was
born in 1854
The foreign Office at Berlin says
Germany is not sending any warships
to Mediterranean waters.
Mrs. Yerkes has arranged that the
hospital provided for in her husbands
will shall be built at once
Iowa people, fearing the possible eff
feet of the biennial election law, will
seek revision from the legislature.
The Hotel Andwur and the block in
which it was located was destroyed by
fire at Elyria, O. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
negress sued a New York excur-
sion manager for $4,000 damages for
barring her from European trip be-
cause of her color.
The Catholic population of the Unit
crease for the year of 1879, Isl. Chicago
alone has 100000
Mary Mcdonald, a negress who
claimed to be 1875 years of age, died at
the home for aged and infirm colored
persons in Philadelphia.
Jacob c. Rustman, president of the
Jefferson Ice company, of Chicago.
killed himself while insane, dreading
competition of the trust.
TIL campaign in England for the
general election is the most severe of
any in the last 20 years, contests be-
ing made in almost every district.
King Edward has dissolved parlia-
ment, and has ordered an election of
members OF the new parliament, which
by law will assemble within 80 days.
Secretary Root is waging campaign
for larger appropriations for the con-
sular service in order to enable Amer
lea to maintain it's pestige in other
lands.
Fire destroyed. the Bennett & Nor
gan rectifying plant at Marion, n. c.,
the largest in the state. if not in the
south. The loss is put at from 100000
to $250.000.
The boarding house of Erskine Reed,
in st. Louis, Mo-, caught fire from the
furnace and three women boarders
persisted. A fourth broke a leg in
jumping from an upper window.
Frank Cox pleaded guilty in the
United States district court at Spring
field, ILL.,, to robbing the post Office at
Worden, ILL.,, and was sentenced to five
years in the Chester penitentiary.
A. T. Kelliher. of Chicago, convicted
last week at Salem, Ore, of forgery in
connection with land frauds in that
state, was sentenced to Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for term of five
years.
Fire of probably incendiary origin
broke out in the kitchen of the Nor
rison cafe in the Marquardt building
at Des Moines, Ia, totally destroying
the cafe and did probably 100000
damage.
o. W. Meadows, a prominent farm
er and merchant of Hancock county.
Ga, was found dead two miles from
his home Meadows was shot through
the body near the heart and must have
died instantly.
To an engineman's failure to remem-
Der orders is attributed the disas-
trous wreck on the Philadelphia &
Erie railroad at Horns Siding, Pa,
when three men were killed and 20 per-
sons were injured.
The north or main building of the
state normal college at Albany, N. Y,
was burned to the ground and the resi-
dence of the president of the college,
Dr. William J. Milne, was badly dam
aged Loss, about 100000.
By the explosion of ten sticks of dy-
Mantle in the home of August w.
Schroeder. in Groves, near Menominee.
Mich, Gertrude, his two-year-old
daughter, was killed. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Schroeder seriously injured.
Aloysus Jaeger, confined at the coun-
ty hospital in San Francisco, as the
result of self-infiicted gunshot wound
has confessed that at Sioux City, Ia,
IL years ago, he robbed the American
Express company of $1,000.
Gov Warner of Michigan received
the resignation of Warden Vincent, OF
Jackson prison. Mr.. Vincent stated in
his letter of resignation that business
reasons were responsible for his desire
to retire as head of the prison.