The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Three children named Dominique
were burned to death in Blind River,
Mich.
Fire in the printing plant of the
Blanchard Press New York, did $685.
600 damage.
Ten persons were injured when a
Santa Fe passenger train was derailed
at Norborne, Mo.
Thomas w. Lawson, the Boston
financier, was received in private au-
dience by the pope.
Gen. Kuroki and staff were greeted
at Missoula by great crowd of Jap
anese of western Montana.
The Burlington flyer was wrecked
near Manhattan, Mont, one passenger
being killed and 25 injured
w. r. Haymaker, formerly an alder
man of Fort Worth, Tex, committed
suicide in Kansas City hotel.
George B. Butler, portrait painter,
died at his home, near Croton Falls,
N. Y. He was in his SEVENTEEN year.
All bids for officers quarters at the
naval training station at Lake Bluff,
near Chicago, were rejected as too
high
Three white men and Is natives
were killed by an explosion in the
Modder-Fontein gold mine in the
Transvaal.
Mrs. Mary Hurley, of Winona,
Minn,. formerly prominent in society
but for several years recluse, was
found dead.
King Carlos of Portugal will visit
Argentina after his trip to Brazil early
next year, according to a cable dis
patch from Lisbon.
Max Francis Klepper, artist and
illustrator, died at his home at Flat
bush, N Y. He was an animal painter
of note, 46 years old.
Miss Harriet T. Haskell, for 40
years head of Monticello seminary for
young ladies at Godfrey, ILL.,, died Of
heart trouble, aged ~.
President Livingstone, of the Lake
Carriers association, said that the
lake freight traffic would be greater
this season than ever before.
The jury that heard the case
against Victor Roland O'Shea, of Chi
cago, charged with killing his wife,
disagreed and was discharged.
Rev. Henry Bryant, colored
preacher of Bridgeport, o., was killed
in Grand Rapids, Mich, by folding
bed closing and breaking his neck.
David Rosenthal Cincinnati artist,
has sued Edward c. Wettengel for $40
600 for SANDER because Wettengel
said unkind things about his work as
painter.
A dispatch from klamath Falls,
Ore, says Count Otto Won Valdez
stein, who was reported killed at Will
lows, Cal, is alive and well at Kla-
math Falls.
Twelve identical bids for the Mag
ara Falls IN. W coal contracts for
the schools may lead to an ipvestiga-
ton of an alleged combination of coal
dealers of western New York.
Secretary Taft decided against the
steam shovel men employed on the
Panama canal who had asked large
increase of pay In some other mat
tiers he ruled in favor of the workmen.
Theodore Nemoyer brought suit
against the Chicago-New York Elec-
trio Air Line Railway company in Chi
cago, to enjoin it from doing business
in Illinois and asking an accounting
and the appointment of receiver
Ernest w. Huffcutt, former dean of
the law school of Columbia university,
and legal adviser of Gov. Hughes of
New York, committed suicide on
Hudson river steamboat. Overwork
had brought on nervous strain and
insomnia.
The trial of three former employees
of the Shelby Steel Tube company,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government by supplying defec-
tive boiler tubes for war vessels, was
begun in Pittsburg. One of the de-
PENDANTS pleaded guilty and turned
states evidence.