The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


cluse near New York, was found MUIR
dered and her home looted.
William H. Meyers, Milwaukee,
dropped dead as he was about to reg
lister in a hotel in Denver, Col.
Several men have been killed in a
mutiny ON board the Turkish troop
ship Assar-ITewfik at Port Said.
S. Morriami and H. Mita, Japanese
roommates fought each other to death
in Portland, Ore, one being shot and
the other stabbed.
Examination of the midshipman
graduates of the naval academy of
1906 will be held November Is at the
Atlantic and Pacific stations.
In jumping from a moving train at
Cairo, ILL.,, P J. Thistlewood, wealthy
grain dealer of Cairo, fell and broke
his neck, dying almost instantly.
Nathan Taylor. and Bud Kaiser,
farmers of Buckeye, O., were burned
to death with the house in which they
were sleeping. Taylor left a family.
According to the Tientsin CORE
spondent of the Berlin Tageblatt, Emil
Tiele, clerk in the Austrian con-
sulate there, has been killed by Chi
nese.
Henry Wilkinson, the six-year-old
son of DR.. and Mrs. M. R. Wilkinson.
of Oconomowoc, Wis, was killed by
falling from an apple tree near his
home.
Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greedy, for
mally took charge of the northern d.
vision of the United States army at
st. Louis, succeeding Gen. Henry c.
Corbin, retired.
The Columbia Typographical union
of Washington, voted to expel 20 men,
bers who refused to continue the pay
ment of the assessment levied for
strike benefits.
The governors of several states have
notified the Pennsylvania state board
of trade that they approve of a uni
form railroad passenger fare of two
cents a mile.
The recurrence of Carlist agitation
in Catalonia, Spain, has caused the
civil and military authorities of that
province to adopt most severe meas
ures for its suppression.
Rev. w. D. Cox, for five years pas
tor of Kingsley Methodist church at
Milwaukee, preached his last sermon
and will take the stump in Wisconsin
for the Prohibition party.
Mr.. Takahashi, vice governor of the
Bank Of Japan, arrived at Victoria, B.
c., en- route for New York and London
to negotiate another foreign loan for
the Japanese government.
Three street cars collided on First
avenue in Seattle and more than a
dozen passengers and car employees
were injured. Three of the passengers
are not expected to survive.
The Alabama Democratic conven-
ton nominated John R. Tyson for
chief justice of the supreme court
and John H. Dowdell and T. C. Nc
Clellan for associate Justices.
The seventh quinquennial interna-
tional homeopathic congress adjourned
at Atlantic City, after the most sue
cessful meeting in its history. The
congress will meet in England in
1911.
Richmond P. Hobson has written to
Secretary Werner of the Y. NJ. c. A.
of Oshkosh, Wis, that he will accept
the invitation to be the guest of honor
at banquet to be giyensby the Y. NJ.
c. A. January IA.
Ben Jordan and Carl Brown, both
under 20 years of age, confessed that
they derailed a st. Louis & San Fran
cisco fast passenger train near Ko-
soma, l. T, July %, when the fireman
was killed and the engineer badly
hurt.
The Ohio state board of agriculture
has appointed A. P. Sandles, Samuel
Taylor and William Miller a commit
tee to have charge of the agricultural
and horticultural exhibit Ohio is to
have at the jamestown exposition
next year.