The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-12-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Mrs. Jams q. Blaine. Jr.. obtained
decree of divorce from the son of the
famous statesman.
John Wilkie, a wealthy farmer of
Abba, Ia, drank carbolic acid in mis-
take for whisky and died.
1t is reported in London that Lord
Kitchener is to wed Mrs. Samuel
Sloane Chauncey, of New York
President Roosevelt issued an ap-
peal for funds for the relief of millions
of famine sufferers in China.
An agreement to arbitrate the diff
ferences averted the threatened strike
in the New York railway yards.
Bishop Henry Cosgrove, of the Cath
olic diocese of Davenport, Ia, died
after a long illness from cancer of the
Kidneys
Two men made futile attempt to
rob the safe of the Buss Milling COM
pany at st. Louis, after shooting the
cashier.
Mrs. Jacob Heyl, whose husband
was the central figure in the Schan-
dein will case in Milwaukee, has sued
for divorce.
The Corn Products Refining company
will begin work in April on a monster
100000 plant to be located at Sum-
nit on the Chicago drainage canal.
Curtis Jet was found guilty of the
assassination of James Cockrell, town
marshal at Jackson, KY, four years
ago, and sentenced to life imprison-
ment
Henry Chesterfield, a retired bust
ness mtn of Elgin, ILL.,, was killed in
the woods near that city while cutting
down trees. A tree fell on him and
crushed him.
Tens of thousands Of Christmas
shoppers were compelled to walk
home in Chicago because of a break
down of the South Side elevated rail
way system.
The contract for the battleship SUI
perb, the third of the Dreadnaughts to
be laid down this year, has been
awarded to the Armstrong;, of New
castle-on-Tyne.
Congressman-Elect Lassiter, of Vir-
ginia, in speech at the New Eng
land dinner at Charleston, said the
president emulates Caesar, and urged
the election of southerner.
Mrs. Alice Linen McWhirter and her
six children, Helen, six years old. and
Elizabeth, four years old, were burned
to death in fire that destroyed
their home at Pompton Lakes, N. ].
Four robbers attempted to hold up
a crowded car at Wentworth avenue
and Thirty-first street, Chicago, and
were driven off by the police, who
were summoned by a mysterious mes
sage.
Recall of Sir Mortimer Durand, the
British ambassador, is said in Wash
ington to be due to gossip prompted
by class jealousy on the part of the
titled wife of an attache Of the en-
bassy.
Mrs. Rachael Brookfield Day, an
actual daughter of the revolution, died
in Newark, N. j., at the age OF SO.
She was daughter of Capt. John
Brookfield, who served throughout the
revolutionary war.
Yale university will very soon come
into possession of an unrestricted leg
acy amounting to 100000, the res
iduary estate of DR.. Ebenezer B. Bel
den, of New York city, who was q
member of the class of 1841.
Mrs. Blanche Horeon Boardman Lin
coin, wife of Fred D. Lincoln, Office
manager of the American Wooden
company, and one of the best known
child educators in the country, died
at her home in New York city.
Ten terrorists- were executed at
Riga, Russia. They belonged to q
band guilty of series of robberies,
bomb outrages and murders extending
over months, and also were concerned
in a plot to kill Baron Moeller-Sako-
melsky, governor general of the Baltic
provinces.