The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Heavy snowstorms prevailed in
Wisconsin and Iowa.

Rufus B. Bullock, former governor
of Georgia, died at Albion, n. Y, aged
70 years.
-Four people were seriously injured
and two cars demolished at Superior,
Wis, in rear-end collision.
Ten workmen were drowned at
Locust Point, Baltimore, by the col
lapse of new railroad pier.
Nine. Emma Games, the opera sing
er, was given an absolute divorce from
her husband, Julian Story, the artist.
Bandit Raisuli is reported from Tan.
gier to be fomenting revolution
among the Lakhm tribes in Morocco.
News has reached Rio de Janeiro
that the steamer Thornhill with her
crew had been lost when the steamer
burned.
Frightened by policeman entering
her Philadelphia home to arrest her
husband, Mrs. Josephine Hess, aged
46 years, dropped dead.
Attorney General Stead filed the
long-expected suit of the state against
the Illinois Central railroad in the cir
cult court of LaSalle county.
One person was killed and 80 per-
sons were seriously injured by an ex-
plosion of dynamite at the harbor
works at Antivari, on the Adriatic
Excise Commissioner Thomas E.
Mulvihill announced his intention to
proceed Immediately to close 200 sa-
looms located near public parks in st.
Louis.
David G. Cook, a noted pathfinder
and detective, died suddenly in Den
yer, Col, of heart disease, aged so
ty, Ind.
Several bloody fights occurred in
Tegucigalpa between factions of the
victorious Honduran rebels and the
Nicaraguan troops were compelled to
intervene.
Mrs. Mate L. Chester, of Chicago,
grand secretary of the Order of the
Eastern Star, was instantly killed by
a fall down an elevator shaft in
Peoria hotel.
Frank Fitzmaurice, president of the
Citizens bank, of Eagle Grove, Ia,
eloped with and married Miss Nellie
Ferguson, a nurse who attended him
in recent illness.
John G.. Schwartz, former county at
torney, prosecuting attorney for two
terms and at one time prominent in
Republican politics in Cincinnati, died
from consumption.
The bond robbery from the Trust
Company of America in New York
which at first was said to involve $50.
900, now is said by trustee to have
grown to an 100000 theft.
Lack of money-about $60,000-to
finance the expedition, may mean the
abandonment of the dash to the north
pole which Commander Robert E.
Peary has planned for this summer.
Two hundred and sixty journeymen
plumbers quit work in Milwaukee
upon refusal of the Master Plumbers
association to grant demand for an
increase in wages of so cents a day.
Binger Herman, former congress
man from Oregon, and former commits
sioner of the general land Office, was
acquitted of the charge of destroying
public records by the verdict of a
jury.
Eddie" Tate, the safe-blower, who
escaped from a Peoria hospital, was
arrested in Chicago and told story
making serious charges against for
mer Chief of Police Collins, of that
city.
Albert Zimmerman and John Beck
er were killed and eight men were in
jured at Luxembourg, suburb of st.
Louis, by an explosion of dynamite,
while they were attempting to extin-
guish a fire.
Eight men who were working in a
new tunnel at the National Cash Reg
lister plant, Dayton, o., were painfully
burned in an explosion of natural gas.
The men were shot out of the tunnel
by the force of the explosion.
Mrs. A. J. Elliott, aged 70, of Ever
EFT, Wash, was burned to death at La
Crosse Wis, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs r. J. Russell, wife of a
manufacturer. The accident was caus-
ed by the overturning of an alcohol
lamp.