The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-03-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

TIE NEWS In 0hlEFs
Three trainmen were killed by the
explosion of a locomotive at Cincin-
natl
Three masked men held up the pas
senger station of Macon, Mo-, and got
away with 5000.
The appearance of several small.
pox cases in Paris caused great rush
to get vaccinated.
Robbers blew the safe of the First
National bank of Batesville, Ind, but
obtained little money.
Sixteen tunnel miners were injured
by the collapse of part of an inter-
cepting sewer in Chicago.
A revolution has started in the state
of Tachira, Venezuela, with Gen. Juan
Pablo Penalosa as it's leader.
Parmenio Bettoli, noted author
and literary critic, died suddenly in
Rome. Apoplexy was the cause.
M. H. Alberty, banker of Chero-
kee, Kan, fell down mine shaft dur
ing an epileptic attack and was killed.
John d. Rockefeller denounced as
pure rot the story that he was going
to give 100000 to modernize China.
The Elder-Dempster liner Jebba was
wrecked on the rocks near Prawle
Point, England, but all aboard were
saved.
Two men were seriously injured and
many others hurt in strike riot at
| the Republic Iron & Steel mills in East
| Chicago.
Calvary Baptist church, Lexington,
900, was destroyed by fire with all it's
contents. ..
Victor Emmanuel Orlando has been
appointed minister of justice in the
Italian cabinet in the place of the late
Sig. Gallo.
M. Berthelot, who was foreign min
lister of France in the Bourgeois cabi-
net, died suddenly on being told his
wife had expired.
Mgr. Thomas P. Thorpe, a well
known prelate in the Cleveland do
cese of the Roman Catholic church,
| ul0Q OIL drIeTldl SC0lSrOSlS.
The White Star liner Suevic struck
on the rocks near The Lizard, off the
English coast The passengers and
crew were landed in safety.
Walter Pelham, an English author
and playwright, died of pneumonia at
the Mansion house, Garrison-on-the-
Sound. He was 7S years old.
C.. r. Clark, a prominent citizen of
New Albany, Ind, en- route to San
Antonio, Tex, for his health, died on
a Missouri & Texas train at Pilot
Grove, Mo.
Gov. Folk announced he would call
special session of the Missouri legis-
lature to consider bills for the regu.
lation of public utilities, corporations
and dramshops.
w. J. Rhees, keeper of archives
of the Smithsonian institution, died
of heart failure in Washington, D. c.
Mr.. Rhees had been connected with
the institution since 1852.
Pedro Marcos, a lawyer, of Valla
dolid, Spain, his two children, their
nurse and young lady were drowned
by their carriage and horse falling
from a bridge into the canal.
Bishop OGorman, of Sioux Falls, S
D., was received by the pope, who
warmly praised Archbishop Ireland
and the action of the United States in
the Philippine church matter.
Upton Sinclair's Helicon hall, neal
Englewood, N. j., was destroyed by a
gas explosion and fire, and one man
was killed and several members of the
socialistic settlement were injured.
Jan Gulkus, alias Jack Ziotkowski
wanted in Tacoma, Wash, and other
places in that state on the churge OF
jewelry robberies amounting to $50,
900, was arrested in Chicago after a
desperate battle iwth the police.
President Roosevelt has appointed
an inland waterways commission OF
eight members whose duty it will be
to prepare and report comprehensive
plan for the improvement and control
of the river systems of the United
States.
Dynamite discovered in the ruins OF
the Sinclair colony home at Engle
wood, N. j., strengthens the incend
larry theory. One of the members OF
the colony is said to have been walk
ing around the house just before the
explosion.