The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-09-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

John ]. Phillips, prominent coal
operator, was shot and killed by
burglar in his home in Cleveland, o.
The steamship Noordland, with $50
passengers aboard, was disabled in
midocean and drifted for nine hours.
Steps are being taken to save st.
Paurs cathedral in London, which has
been gradually sinking for two cen
turtles.
An epidemic of cholera in the lower
Yangtse ports of China is causing 200
deaths daily, according to advices
from Shanghai.
John ]. Jackson, of Parkersburg, w.
Va, former United States judge,
dropped dead at Atlantic City. He
was SO years old.
DIR. Villaldo in an official report to
the war department says the Ameri-
can soldiers at Cienfuegos, Cuba, are
not in danger of yellow fever.
When trolley car ran into car
riage belonging to Olcott G. Colt in
New York Mrs Colt was perhaps fatal
ly injured and her husband badly
bruised.
The Southern Pacific railroad is con-
sidering plan to electric the Sacra-
mento division of its line, which runs
over the mountains and presents hard
problems in winter
King Edward, shocked by an indeli-
cate song in a cafe chantant in Mari
enbad, got up in his box and left the
theater, followed by all the English
and Americans present.
The Illinois board of live stock COM
missioners elected DR.. ]. M Wright of
Chicago delegate to the congress of
state sanitary boards in jamestown,
Va, September 16 and II.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield, in
an interview given out at Cleveland,
O., declared that the administration in
it's war on trusts would next take up
the case of the lumber trust
Joseph Stinel, aged "a years, was
shot and killed in bed in an Italian
boarding house at Pittston, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa The police believe
the "black hand" is responsible for the
crime.
The Ohio state fair at Columbus
was formally opened by addresses of
welcome by Gov. Harris, Mayor d. c.
Badger, President l.. c. Bailey of the
board of agriculture and Secretary ].
Y Bassell of the board of trade.
Joshua Kay, an aged inmate of the
Soldiers and Sailors home at Erie,
Pa, committed suicide by jumping
from fast express train at Fishers
Ferry, near Sunbury, Pa. He was a
sufferer from cancer.
Winfield T. Durbin, former governor
of Indiana, in statement said that he
had been offered $4,000 by Kentucki-
ans to give up Gov. Taylor when he
was a fugitive in Indiana on account
of the Goebel murder
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
was shut off from discussing politics
before the Allegheny county teachers
institute in Pittsburg. He delivered
the prescribed part of his speech to
1900 persons in the open air.
President Nicholas Murray Butler Of
Columbia university has announced
the program for the trust conference
to be held in Chicago October 1925.
The four days discussion will cover
every phase of the present agitation.
The American farmers earnings are
$1,000,00O,000 greater this year than
last, according to preliminary report
on crops which will be published in
the next issue of the American Agri-
culturist. This big gain will be entire
ly due to the increased prices of farm
products, as the production in general
will be fully ten per cent. less in guam
tity than in 1906.