The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

J. Ogden Armour has bought two
English gray shires and will exhibit
them in Chicago.
John E. Owens, vell-known news
paper writer and traveller, committed
suicide in Cincinnati.
A shortage of $4,000 was found in
the accounts of former treasurers of
Ashtabula county, Ohio.
There have been five cases of bu-
bonic plague in San Francisco, four
of them resulting fatally.
Residents of Ridgeway, Pa, are
fleeing from a strange malady that
has killed rs children of the town.
Theodore A. French, an aeronaut,
was killed at LAWN Rock, Conn, by
the failure of his parachute to open.
DR.. James Walkley Sweet, one of
the well-known family of natural
bone setters," died at New Haven,
Conn.
Obadiah Lum Sypher, pioneer dealer
in antiquities in this country, is dead
at his home in East Orange, N. j.. in
his 74th year.
A coroner's jury freed Mrs. Made
line Washer Langlotz, who shot and
killed her father after he had killed
her mother in New York.
Jarvis and John Woods, two broth
ers who became estranged 40 years
ago on account of woman, have made
up at East Brookfield, Mass.
John Schmidt, wealthy ranchman
living near Los Angeles, CAL, was
sandbagged, drugged and robbed in
Philadelphia. He lost $1,000 in the
tenderloin district
War department advices indicate
that the Pulajanes have been COM
pletely subdued on the island of Leyte,
for the first time since the American
occupation of the Philippines.
DR.. John Charcot, who headed the
French antarctic expedition of 1908,
says he is organizing another expedi-
ton and hopes to start in July, 1908,
Tin an attempt to discover the south
pole.
Three men had narrow escapes
from death when an automobile driven
by Edward Lawrence of Joliet, ILL.,,
crashed through a bridge over
branch of the Desplaines river at
Channahan, Ill.
Federal Judge Mcpherson at Red
Oak, Ia, ordered the Mutual Life In
surance company to pay 100000
| policy on the life of Lucius H. Per-
Linc rafuSiro 70 nnrpoif tho oxhnnoo-
| ton of the mans body.
An agreement has been reached on
| the price to be paid by the United
| States government to the owners for
three islands in Panama bay and for
| the improvements now there. The land
is wanted for canal purposes.
The British admiralty is about to
sacrifice one of the earlier type of
Holland submarine boats with the OBJ
| ject of acquiring knowledge of the ef-
feet of mine explosions upon boat of
that class. Mines and torpedoes will
be exploded at different distances from
! the vessel.
Experiments at the Sandy Hook
proving grounds with dunnite, the
high explosive invented by Maj. Dunn
of the ordnance corps, U. S. A., have
proved that the United States posses
ses the secret of an explosive more
| powerful and destructive than any
other ever invented.
Ruth Peterson, 15-month-old child,
is dead at her home in Tottenville,
Staten Island, and the police, who al
lege that the child died without medi-
cal attention, placed the father under
arrest on a charge of manslaughter.
The parents refused to give medicine,
believing in the efficacy of prayer.
Diamond Robbery in Appleton, Wis.
Appleton, Wis, Aug. 20.-Two
thieves took $1,000 worth of diamonds
from Henry Ramps jewelry store
Monday while two clerks and several
customers were in the place. One of
the thieves was detected pocketing