The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-03-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
= France obtained three rich provinces
By the new treaty with Siam.

Only two white laborers in the
canal zone died during February.
The project of police, Client, Bel-s
GUM, will add women to the force.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion of a locomotive boiler at Onava,
N. M.
A great gas well near Sapulpa, 1. T.,
caught fire and could not be extin-
guished.
Fire in the F. H. Lawson tinplate
factory at Cincinnati did 100000
damage.
A concrete dam and power house
just completed near DEBORAH, Ia, sank
into the river
Speaker Cannon and members of
congress spent a day inspecting the
Panama canal.
A male teacher of English in Ora
been unmasked
Secretary Taft was entertained at
Charleston, S. c., on his way to the
Isthmus of Panama.
Cleveland Harding (colored) was
lynched near Florence, Ala, for at
lacking white woman.
Fire at Minersville, Pa, destroyed
the Union Brewing company's plant
and four tenement houses.
Elmer Sheppard, colored, who was
only II years old but weighed $40
pounds, died in Appleton, Wis.
William Henderson, of Oregon City,
Ore, killed his wife, wounded her
father and then committed suicide.
Mrs. Mary Peters, widow, commit
ted suicide at Cleveland, o., by jump
ing from high bluff into Lake Erie.
M. Pobiedonostseff, ex-procurator
general of the holy synod, died at his
home in st. Petersburg, aged 80
years.
Ten men successfully passed the
governments first competitive ex-
animation for positions in the con-
sular service.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., informed
health is near breakdown. He will
take long rest.
Strikers in chocolate factory, at
Vevey, Switzerland, became riotous
and were fired upon by gendarmes,
several being injured.
William John Merrall, vice presi-
dent and director of the Acker, Mer-
rail- & Condit company, died at his
home in New York city. He was rs
years old.
airy, has been selected for promotion
to the rank of brigadier general to fill
the vacancy created by the death of
Gen. Whit.
The Pennsylvania railroad an
nounced in Philadelphia that it may
countermand orders for $4,000, 900
worth of improvements owing to the
two-cent fare agitation.
A collision between the Dover-Ca-
lais mail steamers Princess Henriette
adm Lord Warden near Dover, Eng
land, caused excitement on both YES
sells, but no one was injured.
DR.. Mauchamp, a Frenchman, was
murdered in Morocco and the Moors
then made general attack on Euro
peans. The British consular agent
was forced to fire, killing two men.
Former Senator Joseph r. Burton,
of Kansas, on reaching his home at
Abilene, delivered an address in
which he called himself martyr and
said the sugar trust had plotted to
ruin him.
United States Judge Emory Speer
in a decision in the case of Lucy
Snead, administrative, against the
Central of Georgia Railway company,
upheld the constitutionality of the en-
ployers' liability act, passed by the
last congress.
Maj. c. W. Penrose, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, was acquitted of the
charge of neglect of duty, preferred
against him at the instance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for alleged miscon-
duct in connection with the shooting
up" of Brownsville, Tex, by negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry
last August.