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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-11
WILL GO IT ALONE.
Uncle Sam Decides to Investigate the Mis-
sionary Massacres.

sionary Massacres.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The United
States government, it is authoritatively
announced at the state department,
has decided to enter forthwith upon an
investigation of the Cheng Tu riots,
with the cooperation of Chinese rep
resentative.
As at first arranged, the inquiry was
to have been made in cooperation with
England, but there has been change
of plan within the last few days.
occasioned partly by the fact that
the British consul at Cheng King,
who is to conduct the investigation on
behalf of his government, and to
whom with the concurrence of an
American missionary member, it was
at first proposed to intrust the pre-
liminary investigation of the facts,
has been detained at his post and, it is
said, will not be able to begin the in
quiry for month or more.
There are also understood to be
other reasons why the state depart
ment of this government has decided
upon an independent investigation.
such as France has already made, and
such as England will make later.
It is said at the state depart
ment that it is not true, how
ever, as has been represented,
that the policy of this government has
been changed by any feeling of dissat-
isfaction or resentment caused by what
ever apparent delay has supervened
on England's part in proceeding with
the inquiry. The department has other
reasons which it is not yet prepared to
make public.
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Meant to Kill.

PARIS, Sept On. Rothschild's bank
ing house in this city was the scene
Thursday of another nihilistic attempt
At 500 o'clock a man entered the
bank from the Rue Laftte. In the
vestibule detective who was on guard
there saw the stranger trying to
light the fuse of bomb which he
carried with cigarette. The ashes
on the cigarette prevented the
ready ignition of the fuse. and the
man, seeing that he was observed,
threw the bomb upon the carpeted
floor. 1t did not explode, and the man
was arrested. When he was taken to
the police Office he boldly avowed him
self an anarchist
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-11
An Oddly.

The Mankota News is responsible for
the following: One of the most remark
able oddities on record is found in the
case of child born only few days
ago at a house in the limits of this city
The father of the child is mulatto and
the mother an octoroon. The entire
body of the child is distinctly divided
into black and white, one-half being
very fair and the other as black as an
Ethiopian. Why nature should have
chosen such peculiar method of ar
ranging the pigment is a puzzle for the
doctors. While the story sounds little
like Munchausen, the truth of the mat.
ter is beyond question.
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Interesting Facts shown By the Treasury
Statement,

WARRINGTON. Sept. 6. - The debt
statement issued Wednesday shows a
net increase in the public debt less cash
in the treasury during August of So,
SIS, 41s.06. 49,
The interest bearing debt increased
e210, 900; the non-interest bearing debt
decreased $295, l66, and cash in the
treasury decreased $3.1i0, 374Os. The
balance of the several classes of debt.
at the close of business August 81,
were:
Interest bearing debt, STAT, $50, slO;
1ebt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, sl.6e5. so. %; debt bearing no
interest, 1917, 9O6, 99s. &c. Total, 81 12d,-
963, 479. IS.
The treasury circulation statement
shows a net decrease of money of all
kinds in circulation in the United
States on September l of $40, $50, 95s,
making the total of circulation 81 ,603,-
$50. O2s, or sa2.s7 per capita, based on
20, l27, 900 population. As compared
with September l, 1894, there is de-
crease in circulation Of $40. 900, 900.
At the close of business Wednesday
the treasury gold reserve stood at
SlOG, lis. 172. This figure was reached
just before the end of the days busl-
ness by the syndicate depositing 81
500, 600. Prior to o'clock Assistant
Treasurer Jordan reported 81, 100000
in gold withdrawn at New York
for export to Europe. When that
report was received the gold re-
serve had fallen below the $780,
OOO, 900 mark, standing at S97,615, l75.
On the treasurer's books it stood above
the reserve limit, but Withdrawals on
Monday had not been taken up. Tues
day the gold reserve was all day be
low the limit to the amount of S1,lOo,-
900. This fact was not known at the
treasury until Wednesday, as it was
generally understood though not
officially reported, that the $1,000, OOt
in gold deposited by the Farmers Loan
and Trust company on Tuesday had
been on the syndicate account
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A spanish Outrage

New YORK. Sept 6---Atrocities by
Spaniards as revolving as those COM
mitted by the japanese at Port Arthur
have just been reported to the Cuban
revolutionary party in New York
Enrique Trujilio, editor of FL
Porvenir, received letter Thurs
day from Juan Maspons Franco,
chief of staff under Gen. Maxine
Gomez, the commander in chief of the
insurgent army. 1t is dated Head
quarters, in the field, August g." and
sends details of the capture and re-
capture of the city of Barre, and the
massacre of thirty-seven inoffensive
Cubans mostly women and children
by the Spaniards under Commander
GarridO.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-11
a PoET.s GEM OF 4 GIRL
He Nearly Lost Her When He Sprinkled
Whale Oil On . FavorIte Bed OF Roses

He Nearly Lost Her When He sprinkled
Whale Oil On . FavorIte Bed Of Roses-
New Jersey is proud of poet who
has a house in that state and publishes
in New York. and the poet himself is
proud Of gem of q servant He came
near losing her the other day. This
particular girl came from an old whal-
ing town in Maine three years ago,
and she has been in the poets house
hold ever since. She made no acquain-
tance among the neighbors' girls. and
she had no steady company. In other
respects she was worthy of the poets
commentators. During the three years
that she has worked for Mr.. Poet she
has never asked for a vacation to visit
her old home.
81 never think of the place." said
Mary, "for if did 1 am afraid that l
would get homesick."
1t was through the poets own care
lessness last week that he nearly lost
Mary. There is thrifty bed of roses
in front of the poets house that is his
fad and pride. Destructive bugs and
worms, whichever they might have
been, swooped down on that bed .
week ago and threatened to destroy it
/ he poet took advice and, as conse-
quence, invested in whale oil that was
warranted to kill bugs at long range.
As he sprinkled the bushes with the
whale oil light breeze carried the
odor of it back to the kitchen. where
Mary was working. Both Mr.. and
N,c ho< 4
seemed to be wool gathering while she
was serving them at luncheon. She
mixed the orders that were given to
her, and she made Mrs. Poet unhappy.
Before dinner was served Mary raped
at Mrs. Poets door.
"Come in. Mary" said her mistress.
"Are you ill?"
"No. marm," said Marg, i'll at ease,
land don't know why it is, but-but
but"
well, but what?"
"Why. marin. lin homesiclk. I've
been thinking of Maine all day. There
seemed TO be something in the air that
suggested home. If 1 don't get over i,
! tomorrow shall have TO GO home.
Its in the air to-day"
Mrs. Poet summoned her husband
from his study and told him of the
calamity that threatened the house
/ hold.
Dear, dear: that's too bad. How
can we spare Mary? Homesick, en-
| poor girl? Strange, too, for she has
been here contentedly for three years.
Said it was in the air? Wait a minute.
By Jove. 1 have it She was right
1t was in the air. It's that whale oil
on the rose bushes"
Mr.. Poet played the garden hose or
the rose bushes for an hour after din
ner, and Mrs. Poet scattered lime near
the kitchen. Mary's inconsistencies wa:
gone the next day.
ut was just something in the air, >
she said. and I'm sorry, marin, that
troubled you"
Half of the Poets rose bushes ar,
stripped of leaves, but Mary remained
N. Y Sun.
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Capture of DIR. Fraker.

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept s.-Living in
the Willis of northern Minnesota, so
miles from a post Office, with only a
boy for a companion, DIR. George w.
Fraker, who planned one of the most
gigantic and successful insurance
swindles of modern times, was Mon
day captured by officers who have
been on his track for the past two
years
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RUNNING-FOR BOYS.
Every Boy Can Become . Runner If He
Tries.

Tries.
Every American boy should learn to
run. In Greece, in the days when men
and women took better care of their
bodies than they ever have since, every
boy, and girl too, was taught to run,
just as the American girl is taught to
read. And as far as we can judge by
the statues they have left behind
them, there were very few hollow
chested. spindle-legged boys among
the Greeks. The Persian boy was
taught to speak the truth. run. ride
and shoot the bows.
The English boy is encouraged to
run. In fact, at some of the great
English public schools, boys of thir-
teen and fourteen years of age, like
Tom Brown and East at Rugby, can
cover six and eight miles cross-coun.
try in the great hare-and- hound runs
Every boy is turned out twice week.
out of doors. and made to run, and fill
himself full of pure fresh air and sun
shine. and gain more strength and life
than any amount of weight pulling or
dumb bell work in stuffy gymnasiums
would give him See the result-the
English boys, as a whole.z are a
stronger set than we American boys
Erery English school-boy is to some ex-
tent an athlete. And that is what
American boys should be. Not be-
cause football. baseball and tennis are
valuable in themselves, but for the
good they do ikf strengthening boys
bodies.
BY playing ball every day for hours
in the open air; by exercising his arms,
back and leg muscles in throwing. bat
ting, running and sliding: by going to
bed early and giving mp all bad habits
in preparation for the games, boy
stores up strength, which he can draw
on all his life long-Aat is why every
boy should be an athlete. But not
every 10y can play football or base
ball. He may not be heavy or strong
enough: he may never be able to ac-
quire the knack of catching or batting
the ball. Erery boy can become run
ner.-S. Scoville, Jr., in st. Nicholas.
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THIS is theexcellent foppery of the world
that, when we are sick in fortune we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon,
and the stars: as if we were villains by
necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion;
knaves, thieves and PREACHERS by spherical
predominant Shakespeare.
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BASEBALL

Standing of the Various League Clubs at
Close of Games Sept 8.
The following tables show the num-
Der of games won and lost and the per-
centage of the clubs of leading base
ball organizations National league:
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"A work containing all known docu-
ments concerning the life and family
of Dante, corrected by new researches
in the various Italian archives, is soon
to be published in Rome in forty num-
bers, under the title of The Diplomatic
Dante Codex." Each number. will have
five phototype plates. and it is expect
ed the work will be issued at the rate
of ten numbers year. The edition
will be limited to three hundred num-
bered copies
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TRANps-Giveup-"whaf was your b,,si-
ness before you took to trampingr' Pick
up-"Being tramped on.n
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MACDON0UGH At REST.
The Late Millionaire Is Laid
in the Tomb by
Friends.
Buried at Calvary Cemetery From
st. Mary's Cathedral-Solemn
ObSequieS.

The funeral services over eX-Commodore
Joseph Macdonough were held in St.
Mary's Cathedral yesterday morning at 10
o'clock.
1t was the wish of the deceased, shared
by the members of his family. that the
funeral should be devoid of all display and
publicity. therefore only few immediate
friends ard his kinsfolk were present.
The services were impressive. & solemn
mass of requiem was celebrated by Very
Rev. Father Prendergast, assisted by
Father Byrne as deacon and Father Han
nagan as sub-deacon. Father E. P. Demp-
sey acted as master of ceremonies. The
floral tributes were few, but very beautiful.
No remarks were made over the remains.
Wilcox's mass was rendered by the choir
under the direction of Professor Robert
Harrison.
Those who escorted the remains to the
grave as pallbearers, all close friends of the
deceased, were: /. Cutie, ]. L. Rathbone,
f. E. Eyre and James L. Tucker; from the
Pioneers-J. l.. Pinkham, Robert Wander
cook, ]. P. Bearing, P. Caduc and H. H.
Walsh; from the Loyal Legion-Captain r.
]. Johnson, Colonel E. Miles and Dr. II .
w. Yemans; from George III. Thomas Post,
G. A. R.. ]. S. Geisling.
The funeral proceeded to Mount Calvary
Cemetery, where the remains were placed
in the vault of the late w. S. O'Brien,
brother-in-law of Mr.. Macdonough. Among
those accompanying the remains to their
final rest were Mr.. and Mrs Ager of New
York and w. OBJ. Macdonough.
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aries were not forthcoming if such was not
the case? Why did they agree Tor not dissenN
to playing the music festival on percentage?
Why did they accept their pro rata of the pro-
ceeds from the aforesaid mu steal festival?
most respectfully request that the affidavits
sent to you some time ago be submitted in evil
dence.
Local No. 10 refused to suspend Mr.. Scheel
after he was blacklisted by No 1 for the simple
reason that we heard all the testimony and de-
cided he was not guilty. We considered 1t
Scheel for over three months, or until the Ma
tional League met, to find out whether he was
guilty or not. If the National League found
that he was not responsible for the claim, after
considering the evidence, what would have
been done or could be done to repair the injus-
tice done Mr.. scheel. for the three months or
more he was deprived of making living?
1t would be justice if he were found guilty,
but it would be very different if he was proven
innocent, and we believe him to be so.
1t was decided to wait until the National
League met and heard all the evidence in the
case, and after having done SO if Mr.. Scheel
was held responsible by the league we would
abide by the leagues decision.
1--WE promised to abide by the leagues
decision, and we are forced to do SO, said
J. Matheson. Scheel asked if there could
be no alternative, but he was told the only
alternative was for the San Francisco lodge
proceeding which could not for a moment
be contem plated. The question of time
was discussed and it was decided to give
Scheei till next Tuesday before suspending
fraIernal relations with him.
After the meeting many expressions of
personal sympathy were expressed for
Scheel, few of the impulsive spirits de-
claring that if that was the way the Ma
tional League meant to run things it would
be better for the San Francisco lodge to
withdraw from the union.
1--WE have made a big fight for the man
since last December said J. Matheson.
him we have no alternative about suspend
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ing haternal relations. We are only a
subordinate lodge and have to obey or
ders." Eugene Schmitz expressed the
same regret at being compelled to obey the
distasteful orders of the National body, but
added, This is like decree of the Su-
preme Court"
Scheel himself was very much cast down
over the decision. 81 have no $780," he
said, land without that am forced to lay
down the baton. 1t is unjust. Only four
teen men made any complaint and they
were the worst musicians in the band. All
of them agreed TO accept the pro rata for
the festival and because it was not finan-
cial success they turned round and declared
that they wanted salaries for that week
they accepted pro rata though"
''Scheel was imposed upon by his mana
ager with regard to the contracts" said AL
Marks. "They were made out in English,
which he did not speak at that time and he
understood that they only provided for
fares one way"
Joe Redding is the chief arbiter of the
destinies of the Park band. When asked
yesterday who would be ScheePs successor
he replied: "There is no question of any
successor. We have two conductors
Scheel and Spadina; and if Scheel is sus-
pended Spadina, who is an excellent must
clan, will take his place, as he has done
before on various occasions"
Scheel visited Joe Redding in the after
noon, and the musician-lawyer made the
suggestion that the musical people of San
Francisco would very slikely arrange a
monster benefit for Scheel. At present no
details have been arranged, but several in
fuential ladies were approached on the
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THE FINANCE COMMITTEE,
The Half-Million Club Wants a
Map for a System of
BOuleVardS.
Recorder GIynn Says the Records
Are Kept in Books That Are
Falling to Pieces.

The Finance Committee of the Board OF
Supervisors met yesterday afternoon and
among other things considered COM
munication from the Half-million Club, in
which they are requested to provide in the
tax levy $4,000 for the expense of prepar-
ing maps for a system of boulevards to con-
meet in this City with the grand boulevard
to San Jose. The matter will be favorably
reported upon.
resolution authorizing the purchase OF
a lot adjoining the Collingwood School
house at the now reduced price of $1,000
was proposed.
The petition of property-owners that
$4,000 be provided for improving Holly
Park was reported against for the reason
that for lack of watering faculties the
money would be thrown away.
A communication was read from Mavor
Sutro calling attention to the conflicting
action of the board with regard to the ten
ants on the Lincoln School property. A
recent resolution instructed him (the
Mayor to warn the tenants to remove the
Improvements from the LAND, while the
opinion of the City and County Attorney,
which had been asked some time pre-
viously, advised the board that it had no
power to purchase the improvements
while the tenants had no right to remove
any such that became attached to the
property. To advise them to clear it away,
therefore, would be improper.
/ The matter was again referred to the
City Attorney for advice.
A communication from County Re-
corder Glynn asked the committee TO visit
the Hall of Records and see for themselves
how much he needed attention. He said
he was crowded for room on his book
shelves and other conveniences, but most
of all many of the records were in need of
being copied as the books were falling
apart and the paper fading. He said this
was the fault of the contract system in
making the books-calling for bids and
granting the contract to the lowest with
out standard of excellence being set up
and the bidders required to bid to it.
The committee will visit the Hall of
Records next Monday afternoon.
The question of the summer adjourn
ment was discussed, and it was decided
that the date could not be fixed before
August.
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Musicians Union, which commanded the
local lodge to suspend all fraternal rela-
tons with Fritz Scheel at once, till he had
settled the claim of $1132, put in by the
New York musicians, who had gone East
after playing with him in Metropolitan
Temple at the mdsical festival.
Scheel protested that of all the musicians
only those who had proceeded to New
York had uttered any complaint, though a
number had gone home to other local
lodges. AS to salary during the festival
week, the men had agreed to take pro
rata and had accepted 1t. With regard to
the frst-class railway fare and expenses
"either way" he had been deceived in the
legal significance of the word either.
In response to this appeal the president
stated that from the beginning the San
Francisco lodge local No. 10) had been
heartily in sympathy with Scheel, and
that considerable correspondence had
passed on the subject. The local lodge
had brought censure on itself for the de-
termined manner in which it had taken
Scheel's part. The secretary had read ex-
tracts from his correspondence. One letter
ran:
Why did not the members of No. complain
to the officers OF local No. 10 when their sal
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CONTROL OF THE POUND.
Ex-Policeman McDonough Is No Nearer
the Coveted Position-Secretary
HOlbrook's Views.

Three weeks ago Patrick McDonough
presented petition to the Health and
Police Committee of the Board of Super
visors asking to be appointed pound
master. McDonough is an ex-polceman
and is also close friend of ex-Pound-
keeper Jacob Lindo. Secretary Holbrook
says that his petition is entirely in the
interest Of Lindo and is purely political
scheme.
The officers of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals are con-
siderably worked up over the affair and
are bending every energy toward defeating
the petition. The matter was to have
come up before the Supervisors commit
tee for final disposition yesterday, but
action was postponed for two weeks.
II think it would be an outrage to take
the pound away from the society" said
Secretary Holbrook. 1.-THE City derives
a handsome revenue from the pound and
is not at the least risk or expense. Even
if McDonough gets the appointment he
has no place suitable for pound. I
hardly think, however. that the Super
visors will appoint McDonough, for that
would mean return to the old system,
which was disgrace to our City,"
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will be 800 feet long and will seat 5000

will be 800 feet long and will seat 5000
people.
Mrs. Rose French was delegated to OBJ
tain from Chief Crowley detail of police
to keep order in the grand stand and pro-
tect the children.
Mr.. Reichart appealed to the ladies to Sc
cure money. They replied that they sent
out 700 begging letters yesterday and ex-
pected replies soon.
AT meeting of the entertainment COM
mittee Mrs. Theo Smith, chairwoman of
the refreshment committee, reported that
she had visited the park to secure prices
for 5000 sandwiches for the children.
Mrs. Vidaver, who is a member of the
same committee, reported that she had
been to various hotels, restaurants and
| candy-stores to get them to donate sup
plies for the entertainment of the children,
and that she had met with encouraging
success. Sandwiches had been promised
as follows: Palace Hotel, 500; Young e.
500; New Creamerie, 500; Popular, 300;
Original Creamerie, 100;. New York
Kitchen, 100; California Cafe, 100; Quaker
Dairy so; California Dairy Kitchen, So
Six roasts were promised from Campis,
ten dozen cookies from SWANS and ten
pounds each of candy from Haas and
Gruenhagen's. She thought that all the
supplies needed could easily be secured in
this way.
Mrs. Vidaver's report appeared to pique
Mrs. Smith. She complained that Mrs.
Vidaver had been usurping authority.
She did not wish to accept the donations
and finally threatened to resign from the
committee. After some trouble, however,
the matter was smoothed over. The do.
nations were thankfully accepted and Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Vidaver were asked to
confer on the matter of supplies.
The contract for furnishing the interior
decorations for the Pavilion was awarded
to Frank E. Knapp, who is also to place