The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-01-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

fire in Delhi, N. Y.
An Entire family of six was killed
by escaping gas at Burlington VT.
Nine buildings were wrecked by an
explosion of dynamite at Lowell,
Ariz
The will of A. ]. Cassatt leaves his
estate of $5,OOOOOO to the widow and
three children
j. w. Roney, manager of the Ameri-
can Home Finding association of Chi
cago, was killed by train.
The Pacific liner City of Panama,
which was thought to be lost, arrived
safely at Mazatlan, Mexico.
The Chinese trading quarter of
Bangkok was devastated by fire, the
loss being about 100000.
The equestrian statue of Gen.
George B. Mcclellan in Washington
will be unveiled on May Is.
All the negro troops now in the
United States have been ordered to
prepare for service in the Philippines.
A bomb thrown from an elevated
railway platform in New York in
jured five persons, two of whom will
die.
Miss Mary F. Johnson, sister-in-law
of Gov. Guild of Massachusetts, eloped
with and married titled sewing ma
chine agent.
Louis de Lario, clerk of the house
committee on irrigation, was killed by
blaze that broke out in sleeping
car in Iowa.
Birmingham, Ala, was selected as
the location for new sub-treasury
by caucus of southern senators and
representatives.
A convention of shippers in Chicago
decided to ask President Roosevelt to
issue special message urging de-
murrage legislation.
Jeff Shelton, formerly editor of the
Carterville, Mo-, Record and the Webb
City Sentinel, and pioneer of Mis-
souri,, died of paralysis.
One of three firemen buried in the
debris of a New York fire was found
to be alive and was rescued after
eight hours of digging.
Corporal Knowles of the Twenty
fifth infantry, colored, was arrested
for the murderous assault on Capt.
E. B. Macklin at Fort Reno.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman, who went to prison in 1892
for assaulting H. c. Prick, were ar
| rested at meeting of anarchists in
New York
Postmaster General Cortelyou re-
signed the craftsmanship of the Repub-
lican national committee and Harry
S. New of Indiana became acting
chairman.
William H. Bailey, who was train
master in charge of the supplies for
the army commanded by Gen. Grant
during the civil war, died at ST Louis
from Bright's disease.
A runaway team dashed into a
crowd at New York, killing baby IN
its carriage and so injuring the child's
mother and three other children that
they can hardly survive.
Alfred E. Davis, the last of the pio-
neer railroad builders of California,
| died at Alameda, aged 70 years. He
was associated with the late James j.
Fair in railroad enterprises.
A dispatch from Colombo reports
immense tidal waves on the south
| coast of Ceylon Friday few hours
after a seismograph had recorded a
| submarine earthquake 1000 miles to
the southeast.
Coroner Kline of Dayton, o., has ex-
onerated the Gilman family in connec-
| ton with the murder of Dora Gilman.
He says he believes Davis Curtis, who
was tried and dismissed in magis-
trate's court, s guilty of the murder.
An Omaha passenger train struck
a sleigh containing Miss Matte Glenn
ons, aged %, and ner brother, aged
| II, on grade crossing in the town of
Union, near Eau Claire, Wis. Miss
| Clemens head was cut off; the boy
may recover.
The safety vault at the Peoria, ILL.,,
| public library was blown open and all
records of defalcation in the case OF
Newton C. Dougherty, former superin-
tendent of schools of that city, were
stolen and afterward burned in the
| furnace in the building.