The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-04-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire destroyed large part of the
native quarter of Manila.
Four children of John H. Green
were burned to death at Fulton, Ky.
Secretary of War Taft and party re-
turned to Washington from their Car
ibbean trip.
Sir George Armstrong, proprietor
dence in London.
The vice governor of the prison at
Rostor-on-Don, Russia, was assassi-
mated in the street
Fruit in eastern Colorado was
nipped by sharp drop in temperature
following snowstorm.
Paris is menaced by snail famine,
due to scarcity in the department of
Yonne, the principal source.
Samuel Conkle, was arrested at
Chester, W. Va, charged with selling
tickets of Mexican lottery.
The British torpedo boat Ariel
struck breakwater at Valetta, Malta,
and sank, one man being drowned. :
William Sander, a student at Co
lumbia university, was drowned in
the swimming pool of the gymnasium.
Two trainmen were killed by col
lision between a passenger train and
a freight at Woodlawn Junction, Ala.
Thomas W. Bishop, one of the best
known newspaper men in South Da-
kota, died of paralysis at Salem, S. d.
NJ. PAX Yong VIVA, chief of the
board of auditors of the imperial
Korean household, was assassinated
at Seoul.
William T. Havens, messenger OF
the Independent Packing company of
Chicago, disappeared with $1,000 CIV
en- him to deposit
A Minnesota senate committee val
ued the railroad property in that state
at $215,000,000 and said the roads
earned Is per cent. on that basis.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana,
lost papers worth 100000 in an acci-
dent in the Las Animas river, near
Trinidad, Col, when he fell into the
stream.
Edward l.. Somers, freight traffic
manager of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad since 1908, died
at his home in New Haven, Conn, of
neuralgia of the heart.
Rev. Leroy A. Belt, d. D., aged II,
ex-president of the Ohio Northern uni.
versity and prominent in the Meth
odist church, died at his home in Ken
ton, o., of>heart disease.
Several thousand skilled workmen
who had been discharged from the ar
senal at Woolwich, England, marched
| to London and protested to the pre-
mier and war secretary.
William T. Dadvidge, an actor who,
! tried to kill Miss Rosalie d. Wilbert.
| a trained nurse, when she refused to
marry him, was sentenced in New
York to one year in jail
The entire plant of the Seacoast
Canning company, leased to the Amer
lean Can company of New York, at
| North Lubec, Me-, was burned The
loss is estimated at 100000.
The Chinese government has or
dered 100000 rifles through Ger,
man firm in Shanghai, with the object
of arming the troops throughout the
empire with the same type of wea-
| pom.
The temperature at Ell Paso, Tex,
| fell to 80 degrees and heavy frost COW
cred everything, doing much damage
| to gardens and fruit. 1t was the cold
est April weather in Ell Paso's his
| tory.
Serious disorders have occurred
| in Cairo, Egypt, as result of a strike
of the cab drivers and tramway en-
ployes of the city. British troops are
patrolling the chief thoroughfares to
preserve order.
William January, who was sent to
the penitentiary at Leavenworth IL
years ago for robbing a post Office
and escaped three years later, was ar
rested in Chicago He had married
and become prosperous business
man.