The Ely miner., 1907-10-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sixteen Haytians were sentenced 10
death for conspiracy to overthrow
the government of the republic
The Clover Leaf grain elevator and
$4,000 bushels of grain burned In
Madison, ILL.,, the loss being 100000.
Mrs Claudia Bodey Money, wife of
the senior senator from Mississippi,
H. d. Money, died suddenly at Beau
voir, Miss
1t was reported that Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt would be married to duke
Countess Szechenyi
Anton Hupp, the proprietor of the
Grand hotel at Carlsbad, and we'll
known to thousands of Americans, is
dead at the age of 67 years.
The bodies of two nuns buried in the
the Ladies of the Sacred Heart i'll
Chicago were found to have been pet,
rified.
The schooner Martha Tuft is report
ed in Seattle, Wash, to have foun,
dered October at the mouth of the
Katalla river, the crew being rescued
from the rigging.
The New Hampshire state board of
railway commissioners found train
dispatcher responsible for the Canaan
wreck on the Boston & Maine road in
which 26 lives were lost.
Gen. Webb Syck, a civil war veter-
an with brilliant record, murdered
his young bride of two weeks, ana
then committed suicide at their man.
sion in Fairview, suburb of Pikeville,
Ky.
A hearty laugh killed Samuel A.
Ballard, pioneer wealthy farmer liv-
il G northeast of Boone, la. He guf-
| fawed at some act of one of his work
| men, threw up his arms and fell
| dead.
Lieut.. Allan Lefort, U. S. A., was
turned over to the federal authorities
at New York for trial on charges of
forging the names of other army Off
GERS on notes on which he obtained
| loans.
Albert Kirby Fairfax, scion of the
family of Fairfax, prominent in Vir-
ginia since prerevolutionary times, has
| become an English citizen in order to
| qualify for a seat in the house of
| lords as Baron Fairfax.
The Madrid government has decided
to recall Gen. Santa Olalla, the Span
| ish commander at Casablanca, whose
| differences with Gen. Drude have
caused endless frictions between the
French and Spanish forces.
The Canadian secretary of state re-
ceived a telegram from DR.. Munro,
the immigration agent at Vancouver,
stating that the number of Japanese
arriving at Vancouver with passports
since January l., was 5000. About
three-fourths of these came from Hon.
olulu or were destined for the United
States.
The insular government of Porto
Rico refused to honor United States
Marshal Hubbard's requisition for
funds to pay the expenses of the fed
eral court, because of the marshal's
failure to conform to the provisions
of the recent law changing the former
methods of disbursements of funds of
the island.
The Central Federated union a.
New York has received an appeal from
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, which has been
sent to all the affiliated unions asking
them to request all political candi-
dates in the present campaign to COM
NIT themselves openly ,as to govern
ment by injunction.
Because John G. Milburn, counsel
for John r. Hegeman president OF
the Metropolitan Insurance company,
under indictment on charges of per-
jury and forgery, was engaged in the
Standard Oil case, the arguments in
New York on the motion to dismiss
the ten indictments against Mr.. Hege-
man was postponed until next Mon
day.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, son of the late
famous socialist leader in the reichs-
tag, who has been on trial on the
charge of high treason in the publica-
ton of a pamphlet addressed to the
youth of Germany, in which he advo-
Gated a general military strike in the
event of an unpopular war, was SEN
fenced to 18 months detention in a
fortress.