The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-03-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Danube river overlooked its
banks and did great damage.
The Milwaukee Gas Light company
reduced the price of gas to 80 cents. !.
Two German steamships foundered
in the North sea and "a men were
drowned.
Twenty-Five Greek laborers were,
drowned in the Sacramento river at
Pitt, Cal.
John Turner, who was an intimate
friend of Charles Dickens, died at
Paola, Kan.
Michael Bower and his ten-year-old
daughter were killed by train at Ian
caster, N. Y.
Three men were killed by the ex-
plosion of locomotive boiler at Me-
tuchen, N. ].
Robert C. George, chief deputy clerk
of the federal courts at Cincinnati for
26 years, is dead.
Robert B. Oliver and his six fore
men were acquitted of the charge of
peonage at Knoxville, Tenn.
Speaker Cannon and other con-
gressmen, who are on their way to
Panama, arrived in San Juan, P. r.
Princes Edward and Albert, the ED
est sons of the prince of Wales, will
tour the world shortly in battleship.
Katherine Eleanor Conway. editor
of the Boston Pilot, was awarded the
Laetare medal by Notre Dame univer-
sity.
The first all-steel fireproof. mail car
in service was put on the road by the
Pennsylvania between New York and
Washington.
Clinton Babbitt, Democratic mem
Der of congress from the First Wis
consin district in 1891 and 1893, died
at Beloit. aged Is years.
President Roosevelt will sign an
order restoring to the public domain
approximately 100000 acres of land
recently withdrawn as coal lands.
The French line steamer La Savoie
encountered severe gales and was
swept by monster wave that forced
Hay in the hold of the steamer
Devonian took fire while the vessel
was at the White Star docks at
Charlestown, Mass. Little damage
was done.
Bert Curtis was arraigned in New
York charged with having entered the
Misses Lockwoods' school for girls at
Scarsdale, N. Y, and stolen $4,000
worth of gems.
Leonidas M. Preston, who commit
ted suicide in New York Thursday, is
said to have forged notes aggregat-
ing nearly 100000 and to have lost
all his money betting on horse races.
The post Office department will not
draw the color line in the matter of
white and negro mail clerks working
white clerks of the middle west had
planned to ask.
A bomb was exploded in Barcelona,
Spain, injuring the man who was car
rying it. Another bomb was discov-
cred near the palace of Marquise Co.
oWAOl VI IIC Opohloh lAh0ot-
lantic company.
Rodolphus w. Fuller, S5 years old,
the inventor of the machine to make
horseshoes, died at Hanover, Conn.
Fuller's invention was copied by men
who made millions through it, but the
inventor died poor man.
The indictment for subornation Of
perjury against Frederick C. Fair
banks, son of the vice president, in
connection with his marriage to Miss
Helen Scott of Pittsburg, was quashed
in a decision handed down by Judge
r. G. Richards at Steubenville, o.
The grand jury at Peoria, ILL.,, re-
turned indictments against ex-Sheriff
Daniel E. Potter, Deputies w. E. Pc
ters, Robert Conkey and Sherman
Hunt, and City Clerk Robert Joos, the
ter being charged with embezzlement
of city funds and malfeasance in Of
flee. Ex-Sheriff Potter and his depu-
ties, it is said, misused the county
funds to the extent of $4,000.