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The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-04
AHappy Outcome.

From the Smart Set.
Gilleyle-KiIduFs elopement wasn't successful
was IL
POiude1ter-Oh. / don't know The cid ma,
caught them before they reached the minlstrr's
The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-04
CLOAK ROOM STORIES
When congressman Practice
Jokes on Each Other.
CHAMP CLAeK Is REMINISCENT

A Man Whs Fsand Pleasure In Reading
ObiruaTies--traHse Requests from Con-
stitHent.-A Preacher Nhs Wanted a
TeHI-Witty Retarfs in DsbaIe---ennfor
ChiItsn'- Stery-Laesy CsmpaiEa ABee-
dofe-wanted a CoiIeeuoa In Congress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Coal is worked so easily in China that
in Shansi it sells at Is cents per ton at
the mines.
In London walking is now looked up
on as a health-giying exercise, and is
greatly INDUCED in by all degrees.
Sundays and fixed. holidays excepted,
it is estimated, that 10000 worth OF
fish is daily dragged out of the sea by
British fishermen.
The government monopoly of the
liquor business which Russia began to
introduce in 1895 now extends to 35 dis
tricts. The profits last year amounted
to 321, O0O,O rubles.
The natural coral formation, togeth-
er with good workmanship, has made
the roads of Bermuda famous in the
cycling world, and enthusiasts of the
wheel who have been so fortunate as
to visit this island have called it the
Cyclers' Paradise.
The Obi, most western of the great
Siberian rivers, has been the most i'm
portant factor in communication with
the interior of the country. Rising in
| Mongolia, it has a course of $500 miles,
drainage area of more than 100000
square miles, and upon the river and
its tributaries a regular navigation sys-
tenn is in operation over more than 10,-
600 miles.
The vicissitudes of Paris have been
| numerous and important. During the
present century it has twice been oc-
cupied-in 1914 and 1S71-by foreign
| troops, and it has TWEEN 1S4S and
1s7O-been in state of siege and under
martial law. Napoleon ruled it as first
consul and emperor, Louis Philippe as
king, Napoleon III. as president and en-
peror. Paris has also seen two repub-
| lies and one commune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Invested.

i
The investment of half million
dollars belonging to the permanent
school fund and received by the state
from payment on land certificates and
land sales held by the state auditor
since Jan. /, has just been completed
by the state treasurer. The last $780,
600 was invested few days ago in
Virginia state bonds, bearing 2 per
cent interest for the first year and 8
per cent thereafter.
Some difficulty has been found in
securing desirable investments for the
school fund, and as result with the
last investment made, as well as pre-
vious ones, it was necessary to pay a
premium on the bonds before they
could be purchased. In all, the state
has invested in United States bonds
and the Massachusetts, Alabama,
Delaware, Tennessee, Virginia, state
capital certificates and other miscel-
laneous bonds, over S7,00O,00O.
The various school funds also have
as an asset $6,2sO,003 due on land con-
tracts, that is, land sold to settlers on
time, bearing a good rate of interest,
making total of over $4,000, O0O
owned by the permanent, general and
permanent university fund.
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Chicago. where he struggled to estab-
lish law practice for several months.
but gave it up and came to Duluth in
the spring of 1890. He has always
taken an active interest in politics, and
until the free silver agitation in 1896
was a stanch republican. In 1892 he
stumped considerably for the repub-
lican ticket through the northwest.
and his remarkable eloquence soon
brought him to the front. At the next
republican congressional convention
for the Duluth (Minn.) district, Mr..
Towne was enthusiastically nominated
for congress, and was elected with an
Overwhelming majority. He seemed
destined to be one of the foremost re-
publicans in the west. until in the early
summer of 1896 he declared himself in
favor of free silver. In the fall be was
nominated by the democrats and pop
ulists as their candidate for congress.
although holding his seat in that body
as a republican. He was defeated by
Page Morris by nearly 1900 votes. In
the fall of 1898 he was again nominated
by the fusionists for congress, and was
once more defeated by Morris by plu-
rality of 1000 votes, although he car
ried Duluth, the home town of both
candidates. by 1,343. In the summer
of 1898 he was chosen national chair
man of the silver republicans.
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JAPS ARE ] PLEASED.
Rejoice in the Marriage of Their
Crown Prince, Yoshihito.
His Bride Is the Princess Sada, a Pref
~ Maiden of Fifteen-Some of
the Details of a Swell Jap
anese Wedding.

Cable dispatches from Toxic an
nounce that Yoshihito Harunomiya,
the heir apparent to the mikado of
Japan, was united in marriage there
with Princess saba, pretty little
daughter of the great house of Full
wara. The prince imperial escorted
the brideto-be from the home of her
parents to the imperial palace, where
the wedding was performed.
Princess saba, now the crown prin-
cess of Japan and its future empress.
is Is years of age. She is a daughter
of the powerful Prince Kugo Michi-
kata, who is direct descendant of
the illustrious family of the Full
waras, who have furnished many an
empress to the Japanese. The family
is noted for its military traditions and
its great wealth. About IS months
ago the mikado decided that his son
should marry. and the little princess,
then a pupil in the third grade of the
high school, was selected as the bride.
japanese girls mature at much
earlier age than their fairer European
sisters, which accounts for the youth
fulness of the prince imperial's bride.
When the court of Toxic selected lit
tie Sada for that high honor she was
taken from among her companions at
school and turned over to efficient
masters whose duty it was to instruct
her in those special branches in the
study of which modernized Japan en-
coura CeS its nobility Dropping all
her studies save history. French and
geography, she began to devote herself
especially to these and to the study
of music, not forgetting the cultiva-
ton of her talent for poetry, which is
said to be so unusually promising as
to threaten the prestige of the pres
ent empress as poet. In addition to
these mental exercises the princess
has not been allowed to neglect her
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vaal cat could not approach his tent
without being shot. So Boer sympa-
thizers will gain nothing by forward
ing their household pets as munitions
of war to President Kruger.
"Bobs" is the victim of an cntipa-
thy. He cannot help himself. An an
tipathy cannot be reasoned away, and
it has nothing to do with courage. 1t
is something person is born with or
else acquired very early in life. Many
persons share Lord Roberts antipa-
thy for cats. Nearly everybody has
one for snakes. Oliver Wendell Holmes
wrote story about young man who
had mortal antipathy for beautiful
young women, which is about TIE sad
dest antipathy that could be mag.
ined.
So the British general is entitled to
sympathy and not scorn because the
sight of cat makes him tremble all
over and feel family faint.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
IS AFRAID OF CATS.
for Felines Which Amounts AL
most to Mania.

Gen. Lord Roberts, the hero of Kan
dahar, who wears the Victoria cross
for gallantry in the field, is afraid OF
cats.
If the fate of the empire depended
on it. '.Bobs" could not stroke the fur
of cat.
A few thousand domestic cats scat
tered over the veldt woul,, drive the
commander in chief of the British
forces out of South Africa. a single
cat hurled into his tent might de-
moralize the finest plans for battle
or march.
1t is not likely that the Beers will
be able to take military advantage of
Lord Roberts weakness. for he is well
guarded, and the most patriotic Trans
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
District Delegates.

FIRST DISTRICT.
Convention meets at Lake City.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Delegates-George Fitzsimmons, Can
by; j. X. Lankard, Redwood Falls.
Alternates-Judge j. III. Quinn
Fairmont; S. D. Bedford, Rushmore.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Delegates-E. A. Whitford, Dakota
county; DIR. A. G. Stoddard, Renville.
Alternates-Dr r. r. Storen, Sibley;
DR.. P. r. Resiner, Waconia.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-H. F. Barker, Cam
bridge; F. C. Schiffman, ST. Paul.
Alternates-Ben Knauft, st. Paul;
George Newberg, Kanabec county.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-Thomas II. Shevlin, S. E.
Olson, Minneapolis.
Alternates-Judge H. G. Hicks, DR.
E. B. Zier, Minneapolis.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Delegates F. Ferris, Brainerd;
DR.. ]. J. Eklund, Duluth.
Alternately. A. Caswell, Anoka;
John A. Gutenberg, Pine county.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Delegates-Ray w. Jones, Frazee;
Fl. L. Melgaard, Argyle.
Alternates-H. Dykman, Brecken'
ridge; S. A. Thomas, Big Stone.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
CHARLES A TOWNE.
United States by the Sioux Falls
POpulist Convention.

Charles A. Towne was born in Ing
ham county, Mich. near the city of
Lansing. Al years ago last October.
His parents were in comfortable cir
cumstances and young Towne. after
receiving q common school education
was sent to Ann Arbor university,
where he graduated in both the acad-
emic and law courses. After receiving
his sheepskin Mr.. Towne went to Mar
quette. Mich. where he opened a law
Office and practiced his profession for
about three years. He then moved to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Illuminnnt. and the Eve.

The number OF winks in given time
is found by Koiz, Russian physician,
to furnish fairly accurate measure
of the degree of eye fatigue caused
by various illuminants. This method
gave the following unexpected results
from readings of ten minutes: With
a candle, 6.s winks per minute. city
gas, 2.s; sunlight, 2.2; electric light.
Is.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN
Oils Full and Official Name Is Yoshihito
Harunomiya.)

calisthenics, and her naturally robust
physique has been strengthened by
work in the gymnasium and in the
open air.
Prince Yoshihito is 81 years old, but,
young as this may seem for benedict
to occidental custom. it is a very ma
ture age for Japan. The groom's i'm
perial father was married at the
startlingly early age of Is. Yoshihito
is not the son of the empress. The
dynasty cannot be endangered by the
practice of monogamy, and that is
why the emperor is always supplied
with several secondary wives, who live
of these-Mme. Yanagiwara-is the
mother of the crown prince.
All of the mikado's hopes of a sue
cession in his direct line are centered
upon Yoshihito. He is the only living
son of the emperor, ana would have
been married long ago had he not
been something of an invalid 1t is
said that he has weak lungs, but late
ly he has been in very good health,
owing to the skill of eminent foreign
surgeons who have been consulted in
the case. Should the prince have no
issue. the crown of japan will pass
TO an heir who is only remotely re-
lated to the reigning house. Hence
the great solicitude of the milSado and
his friends for the marriage of the
delicate young man who is at last a
husband.
A japanese wedding is not simple
affair and that of the crown prince
was no exception to the rule. The
bride is required to wear 10 silk gar
ments and to make several changes of
gowns before the ceremony can be
said to be finished. No vows are in
terchanged, but such ceremonies as
the west is familiar with are replaced
by the drinking in solemn fashion of
severa, draughts of wine from differ
ent vessels. The vessels are very
small-about the size of benedictine
glass-and bride and groom alternate
in consuming the wine from these
diminutive utensils.
Prince and Princess Yoshihito were
the recipients of hundreds of costly
presents from all kinds of sources.
The most important of these is fine
palace. magnifcently furnished, in
which they begin their married life
surrounded by every comfort conceiv-
able to the oriental Imagination and
possible of production by modern art.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
FROM DISTANT PLACES.

OF the 3,7O0 Chinese in New Zealand
only 26 are females.
1t is known from Arabian sources
that Egypt was once free from plague
for at least 300 years.
A return shows that during 1899
1922 natives emigrated from Ireland,
nearly 5000 more than in the proceed
ing year.
Settlers in Siberia along the new
railroad are buying their agricultural
and other machinery In the United
Ststes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25


Minneapolis, May 16.-The Republi-
can state convention met at the expo
sition building, in Minneapolis, and
was called to order by Chairman John
II. Steele.
The reading of the call was dis
pensed with, and John c. Gibbs nom
mated ex-Lieutenant-Govern Gideon
S. Ives, of st. Peter, for temporary
chairman. The temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent.
Professor C. L. Sawyer, formerly
principal of the Minneapolis South
Side high school, offered a motion ask
ing the convention to tender the table
made in the manual training depart
ment of that school-it being the same
one used in the national conventions
of 1892 and 1S96-for the use of the
chairman of the coming national con-
vention. On motion of Mr.. Johns, of
st. Paul, the convention adopted Pro-
lessor Sawyer's suggestion.
Somebody thought the organization
was not really permanent, so it was
made permanent again.
Senator Allan J. Greer, of Lake City,
offered a resolution that Senators Da-
Wis and Nelson and Sam Lord, of Kas-
son, and Thomas Lowry, of Mime
apolis, be chosen as delegates at large
to the national convention. The reso-
luton was unanimously adopted.
State Auditor r. C. Dunn offered a
resolution indorsing w. ID. Washburn
for vice-president and instructing the
delegation to present his name to the
national convention if the situation
warrants. Mr.. Dunn made plea for
a unanimous vote.
Clarence Warren, of Hennepin,
moved that the resolution be laid on
the table. Somebody else wanted it
referred to the committee on resolu-
tions. Warren's motion was voted
down. F. S. Schiffman, of Ramsey,
demanded a roll call on the resolution.
The motion was finally put and car
ried by an overwhelming storm of
"ayes" to few noes"
The balance of the delegates and
electors were selected as shown above.
Chairman Grimshaw read the report
of the committee on resolutions. They
were cheered plank by plank and
unanimously adopted. They are re-
produced in full in another place.
The resolutions committee recon-
mended that the proposed new plan
of state organization be referred to
the next state convention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
News in Brief.

news In brler.
The bids for the construction OF
Polk county's new court house, to be
erected in this city this summer, was
let today to the Gross Construction
Company, of La Crosse. The building
will cost $4,000.
The ST. Paul agent of the American
Tobacco Company says that single
shipment of seven carloads of cigar
cite tobacco is on it's way to ST. Paul.
1t will be distributed through the
Twin Cities and the Dakotas.
Excellent work is being done by
Prof. Shaw, of the state agricultural
school, who is instructing classes of
boys from the public schools in the
art of gardening.
The Minnesota Sunday School Asso-
citation, at it's final session in ST. Paul,
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Lowell E. Jepson. Minneapolis;
treasurer. Willard b. Glow, ST. Paul;
directors to serve three years, H. B.
Avery, Minneapolis; Ralph Powell, ST.
Paul; John Bell. Minneapolis; Charles
N. Miller, Minneapolis; Mr.. Hawks,
Duluth.
Stanislaus Szudera, the S-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Szudera,
was drowned by jumping into the
Mississippi river at Winona from a
boat in which he was playing. The
body was recovered within an hour.
The Italian laborers employed by
the Northern Pacific have gone out on
q strike, demanding more wages for
the hours they are obliged to work.
About six hundred are implicated in
the strike, sixty being employed near
the city. 1t is thought that the diff
ferences will soon be settled.
Mathilda Peterson, the only girl in
the senior class at Manchester, has
been assigned the first honor, the
valedictory Grafton. The second hon
or and salutatory Grafton was won by
Roy Smith, of Boyne City, Mich, and
the third honor and honorary grafton
by j. Z. marlborough, of Park Rap
ids.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Black Diamond. Are Rnre

The only place where ''black dia-
monds" are found is in the Brazilian
province of Bahia. They are usually
found in river beds and brought up
by divers. Others are obtained by tun-
neling mountains. The largest speci-
men ever found was worth $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Forest Fires.

Forest fires on the line of the Du-
luth & Iron Range road totally de-
stroyed the camps of the Martin Tie &
Lumber Company, near Waldo station,
nothing but horses being saved. The
lumber camps of Scott & Holston
Lumber Company were also threat
ened but were saved. The telegraph
operator at York station was COM
PEELED to abandon his office, which did
not burn, however. A heavy shower
has dampened the woods considerably.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
REPUBLICANS NAMED
The State Convention Selects Dele
gates to National Convention.

Senators Davis and Nelson and Thomai
Lowery and Samuel Lord named az
Delegates-at-Large. The Ad-
ministration Endorsed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Forcible Possession.

While holding possession of a build
ing leased to p S. Lobdell as meat
market at Mankato, George E. Keene,
well known photographer, shot Lob
dell, infiicting three wounds, none of
them servious. Lobdell emptied his
revolver at Keene, without effect.
Lobdell was battering his way in at a
door. A crowd was present, besides
attorneys for both sides, and Chief
Bruees and one-patrolman. Keene
and Lobdell are both under arrest.
The affair caused much excitement, as
both parties are well known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
wisconsin Town Burned.

Ashland, Wis, May 16.-North York,
a hamlet on the line of the Wisconsin
Central railroad, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. The
fire originated in the woods. The loss
is not given.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
BAT AND BALL.
Tables Showing the Standing of the
Clubs of Leading Organiza-
tiOns Up to Date.

The following tables show the
standing of the clubs in the lead.
ing baseball organizations. National
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
AIternatess

Kenneth Clark, of Romsey.
j. Frank Wheaton, of Hennepin.
David N. Tallman, of Kandiyohi.
M. w. Sivright, of Mcleod.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
London,s Big Smoke Cloud.

Every day there hangs over London
vast smoke cloud that is estimated to
weigh about 300 tons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Suicide to Music.

Mrs. Barber Click, of ST. Paul, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself over
the stairway leading to the basement
of her home. The body had been
hanging nearly an. hour when found
Deceased was sufferer from melan-
cholia, and at times had talked OF
death.
She seemed in unusually bright
spirits and talked cheerfully to her II
year-old daughter, Mary, to whom she
remarked that she believed she was
getting well and would live many
years.
Mother and daughter were busy to.
gether about the house until shortly
before 9 o'clock, when Mrs. Click re.
quested her daughter to play the
piano. The daughter complied, and
played number of selections, while
she supposed her mother was engaged
in an adjoining room. Finally, calling
to her mother, and getting no re-
response, Miss Click became alarmed
and began searching for her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
Took a Tumble.

Early in the morning a guest at the
Grand Central, Crookston, fell out of a
south third story to the ground be-
meath, distance of about 25 feet. 1t
is not known just what he had in his
mind when committing this thrilling
escape, but it is supposed he was sim
ply walking in his sleep and the fact
that he landed partly on some bricks
near basement window without
hurting himself in the least, lends a
suspicion to the establishment of this
belief. In order to get out of the win
dow he had to remove a large screen
and crawl over another bed in the
room.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25

JOHH u. UUZ6IIt, JdChSOIIs
Other Electors--Chosen by Districts.
First District-Edwin Dunn, Ohm.
sted.
Second District. c. Donovan,
Lyon.
Third District-O. X. Nasseth, Good
hue.
Fourth District-Carl Wirth, Ram
sey.
Fifth District-John S. Dodge, Hen
nepin.
Sixth District-George A. Whitney.
Wadena.
Seventh District-H. w. Stone.
Swift.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25

Senator Knute Nelson, of Douglas
Thomas Lowry, of Hennepin.
Samuel Lord, of Dodge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-25
EIectors-at-Large.

w. E. Lee, Todd.
John L. Gazelle, Jackson.
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Minnesota's Delegates-at-Large.

Senator Cushman X, Davis, of Ram
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I'd ANNUAL $40 SUIT SALE

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year ago and that the values we offer this
year are intended to pARALYzE COMPETITION
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-27
Rev. G. K. Stark, of the Swedish Luth-
eran Church, Will to Go An
Evanston Parish.
CHANGE TO:BE MADE APRIL FIRST
No Successor Has as Yet Been Appointed
for the Church in This City.-W11l
Probably be a Young Man.

Rev. G. K. Stark, pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church of this city,
has decided to accept the cali recently
given him to the Swedish Lutheran
church in Evanston.
The announcement of the decision
has not as yet been made known to the
congregation, but will proba bly, be
made at the services held on New
Years day. Strong pressure has been
brought to have Mr.. Stark remain with
the Kenosha church, but the new open
ing is such favorable one that he
cannot turn aside from the offer which
will give him greater field of activity.
The members of his church here will
hear the decision of Mr.. Stark with
the congregation for two years and in
that time he has practically made the
Swedish Lutheran church of Kenosha.
It was through his hard 1abors that the
new building was erected and through
his efforts that society has grown from
a few families to one of the strongest
church organizations in the city.
Rev. Stark will remain with the
church here until after the first of
April and in the meantime an effort
will be made to find successor to him.
Several men have been spoken of for
the. position, but as yet no definite
action has been made in regard to ex-
tending a call and no action will be
taken until Rev. Stark has formally
announced the acceptance of the call to
Evanston. The members of the con-
gregation are in favor of selecting a
young man and one who is able to take
up the work commenced by the retiring
minister.