The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-04-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

wrecked by an earthquake.
Most of the business district of VOL
cottville, Ind, was destroyed by fire.
Two new submarines for the Ameri-
can navy were launched at Quincy,
Mass.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
postponed their visit to Madrid until
the autumn.
Republicans elected their state
ticket in Michigan by majorities of
about $4,000.
Mrs. Charlotte Graft, of Chicago,
was killed with an AK by her husband
after a quarrel
Two men were killed by an explo-
sion in the Lowelville steel furnace
near Youngstown, o.
Mrs. Russell Sage is the largest in
uividual tax payer in New York city,
being assessed on $7,500,O00.
l. c. Towner resident of Elgin.
ILL.,, for so years and one of that city's
pioneer merchants, is dead.
The Peterson planning mill, st.
Louis. was almost totally destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Fl. w. Goode, of Portland, Ore, who
was president of the Lewis and Clark
exposition, died at Atlantic City, N ].
One thousand grooms employed in
New York riding academies and livery
stables struck for recognition of their
union.
H. E. Bowman, an insurance agent
representing himself to be from Co.
lumbus, was found dead in a Delphos
CO., hotel.
Mrs. w. H. Ogden of Ripon, Wis,
shot justice of the peace in the chest
because he fined her husband one dol
lar for theft.
Fire, believed to be incendiary, des-
troyed the plant of the West Kentucky
Coal company at Sturgis, KY, causing
loss of about $4,000.
The attorney of Cook county, Illi-
nois began suit against the estate of
the late Marshall Field for S1,76S,946
in back taxes on personally.
Mrs. Joseph Jack, of Trenton, n. j..
is blind, with little prospect of re-
gaining her sight, as the result of
violent attack of sneezing.
Six trainmen were killed in a head
on collision between two freight
trains on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad six miles south of
Fort Worth, Tex.
Bishop John c. Cranberry of the
Methodist Episcopal church south,
died suddenly at his home in Ashland,
Va. He was rs years old and had
been bishop since 1882.
The trial of Haywood. one Of the
officers of the Western Federation of
Miners, for connection with the MUIR
der of former Gov. Steunenberg, was
set for May 9 at Boise, Idaho.
F. A. Holbrook, promoter of the
church and school furniture trust,
pleaded guilty, at Chicago, to charges
Of violating the antitrust law and of
conspiracy in restraint of trade.
George B. Boswell. aged 50, a mil
!ionaire, art connoisseur and retired
business man, committed suicide in
the East Liberty station of the Penn
sylvania railroad, Pittsburg, by shoot
ing himself.
Thrilling experiences in a storm at
sea, in which four men lost their lives
and the Italian steamship Industrial
Jared badly, are told by two members
of the crew who have arrived at Ply
mouth, England.
Four men are missing as the result
of a collision in the North river, New
York, when the tug John D. Daley
was run down and sunk by the ferry
boat Musconetcong of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad
company.
Rev. Richard Hall, aged go years,
died at his home in st. Paul, Mimi,
after an illness of about ten days. He
was born in Ipswich, n. H., in 1917
and was one of the first Congregation
al missionaries in the territory OF
Minnesota.
Rendered insanely jealous at the
sight of his sweetheart in company
with another man, Roscoe James,
son of the superintendent of the Ore
gon penitentiary, shot and killed Miss
Grace n. Disney, of Warren, Ore, and
then shot himself in the head. He
will die.