The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-02-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


State Senator Howard Robb of Ar
kansas, died at Arkansas City.
Hugh Mcmillan, brother of the late
Senator Mcmillan of Michigan, is dead
in Detroit.
Mrs. Mercedes Donovan of Mem
phis. Tenn, was killed on the street
by robber.
M. Pobiednostseff, former procura.
tor general of the holy synod, is seri-
ously ill of influenza.
Five students of the University of
Michigan were fined for creating dis
turbance in theater.
Burglars stole the valuable Byron
Reed collection of coins from the
Omaha public library building.
John P. McManus, editor of the Pilot
Rock (Ore.) Record, shot and killed
a gambler named Robert Estes.
The Russian famine relief committee
appealed to the American people for
money to aid starving peasants.
John Wachter, pioneer business
man of the upper Mississippi valley,
died at La Crosse, Wis, aged 73 years.
DIR. E. M. p Ludlam, prominent
physician of Chicago, contracted cry
sipelas while nursing his wife, and
died.
The deaths are announced at Carta-
gena, Spain, of Vice Admiral Sanchez
Ocana and Rear Admiral Martinez H.
lescas.
Vice Admiral Topete, it is stated,
will be made admiral of the Spanish
navy in place of the late Admiral Be
ranger.
Funeral services for Representative
John R. Rixey, of Virginia, who died
of consumption, were held in Wash
ington.
An official Russian messenger, while
on his way to Moscow bank, was be-
set by ten armed men and robbed of
$25 900.
The Japanese government ordered
the evacuation of Manchuria, leaving
behind only sufficient troops to guard
the railway.
Fire broke out in the big Coliseum
on Wabash avenue, Chicago, and did
$4,000 damage before it was got un-
der control.
Sentences ranging from IA to 20
years were passed by Judge Goss
against the Sawyer bank robbers at
Minot, N. D.
George A. Taylor, one of the first
settlers of central Kansas, died at
Junction City, Kan, of heart failure,
aged 70 years.
Seven coal laden barges and three
empty barges were sunk in the Mis-
sissippi river at Memphis, involving a
loss of $4,000.
John Mcclellan, Dowieite teacher
at Showers Corners, Ind, was injured
in an attack by the schoolboys be-
cause of his religious belief.
The supreme court at Topeka, Kan.
has finally dismissed the cases against
Chauncey Dewey and his cowboys fol
the killing of the Berry family.
Secretary Hitchcock appointed w
Scott Smith as superintendent of the
Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas. tC
| succeed Martin A. Esiele, resigned.
The last water coming through the
break in the Colorado river was shut
off after a long and hard struggle by
the Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany.
The new battleship Vermont, built
by the Fore River Shipbuilding com
pany, was formally turned over to the
government at the Charlestown navy
yard.
The schoolship Saratoga was severe
ly buffeted by gale at sea and was
forced back to the Delaware in dis
tress with the boys working hard al
the pumps.
The schooner M. v. B. Chase
thought to have been lost on Diamond
shoals, was reported at Wilmington
N. c., as anchored Is miles west Of
Cape Fear Bar.
Vice Admiral Hairi Pasha died sud
denly and mysteriously in CONSTANT
nople a few hours after the revocation
OF his appointment by the sultan on
battleship commission.
Packing plants in st. Louis and Chi
cago, as well as those in East st
Louis, may be seriously affected by a
decision in the United States criminal
court at st. Louis, barring rendering
works from city limits.