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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Match Arranged,

San Francisco, Aug. 19.-Jeffries
and Rubin have agreed to meet in
this city before the club Offering the
best inducements. George Siler has
been selected as referee. Final ar
engagements for the match will be
made on Monday, when each man will
put up $4,000 and sign the usual ar
ticles. The contest will probably oc-
cur in October.
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Matrimonial Mecca.

London, Aug. 19.-According to So
ciety gossip the Connaught household
is the Mecca of manageable princes.
In addition to the report that the
crown prince of Germany is here to
court one of the daughters of the duke
and duchess of Connaught, it is said
that the betrothal of Princess Marga-
ret of Connaught to the czarowitch
(the Grand Duke Michael, brother of
the czar), will shortly be announced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
American Victory in Philippines.

Manila, Aug. ia company of
the Twenty-sixth infantry had an en-
gagement with insurgents Friday in
Camarlnes province. The troops
killed Zebastean Angeles, a brother
of Gen. Angeles, and six privates, and
captured a major, two captains and
nine privates. Another detachment
captured Magasin Caballes, at Lum-
bang, and also seized large guam
tity of supplies.
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CARING FOR THE DESTITUTE
War Department Orders Rat1ons
Issued to People Ruined by
the Storm.
RAILROADS SLOWLY RESUMING TRAFFIC.
Velocity of Wind at Port
Eads-Part of Weather Bureau In
struments Carried Away-Damage
at Mobile Sustained Mostly by
Small Craft and Lumber Mills.

Washington, Aug. 19.-The war de-
partment has directed the command
ing officer at Jackson barracks at New
Orleans to issue 500 rations to desti-
tute people who were driven into Fort
Philip by the recent gulf storm.
Railroads Getting Into Shape.
New Orleans, Aug. 19.-Louisville e
Nashville officials here announced Sun
urday that the traffic over the line will
be opened Sunday. Nothing has come
in over the L. q n. since Wednesday.
The Northwestern has not yet opened
its line and is working hard to do so.
New Orleans depends for it's eastern
mail ON these two lines and the Grip
ping of both of them has completely
shut out all letters and papers from
that section for several days.
Terrible Velocity of Wind.
DIR. Isaac Cline, of the weather bu-
reau, received report from Miss
Eads, Saturday. She stated that the
wind on Wednesday carried away the
thermometer cups which gauge the We
locity of the wind, the highest veloc-
ity taken just before being ~ miles an
hour. The hurricane struck west of
the Mississippi and moved northeast.
Miss Laws says it will be several days
before wire communication with New
Orleans will be established from Port
Eads.
Extent of Damage at Mobile.
Mobile, Ala, Aug. 19.-No coastwise
vessels have reached Mobile since the
storm and the exact state of affairs
has not yet been learned. The great
est damage at Mobile has been to the
small craft and lumber mills. The
market gardeners of the marsh dis
trict suffered severely, their homes be-
ing inundated and their gardens ru-
ined. On the eastern shore of Mobile
bay, the only damage was to wharves,
lighthouses and small boats. At Co.
den, on the western shore, fences,
bath houses and small boats suffered,
but no lives were lost. The schooner
Mexican Gulf is reported to have gone
to pieces on the beach and the sloop
Pat j. Lyons was beached. The steam
er Harold arrived from the fruit is
lands Saturday morning and reported
seeing the schooner Foster Price, of
Pensacola, dismantled about "a miles
from Fort Morgan. The Harold was
not delayed by the storm. The four
masted schooner Asa II. Stowell is
ashore on the Round Island flats be-
tween Mobile and Daphne.
Damage Done at Fort.
The first advices received from the
lower bay since the storm came Sat-
urday by the United States quarter
master steamer Poe. The storm blew
at the rate of 60 miles an hour at
the fort, steadily from one o'clock
until four o'clock, p. m, Wednesday,
and blew down three kitchens of the
officers quarters. The mess hall was
badly damaged and the building adj
joining was unroofed. The tents
used by the workmen were blown
away. The old shed on the quaran-
tine breakwater was washed off. The
railroad track acted as a breakwater
for the camp, but finally gave way
and the camp was flooded with water
waist deep.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Death Preferable to Asthma.

San Francisco, Aug. 19.-Samuel
Levy, retired capitalist, aged rs
years, sought relief from asthmatic
pains by hanging himself to a bed
post at night. He was dead when
discovered. He came to California
from Cincinnati, where he had been
the head of corporation that op-
Grated planning mill and furniture
factory.
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Miller Comes in Seventh.

Brest, Aug. 19.-Miller, of Chicago,
was the seventh contestant in the
international bicycle race from Paris
to Brest and return, a distance of
1900 kilometers, to reach this city,
arriving here at 6:37 o'clock Saturday
morning. He was tagged out. Lesna
passed Morlaix, about "a miles north
east of Brest, on his return journey
to Paris at 5:42 o'clock a. m. He was
going well.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Pottery Damaged by Fire.

East Liverpool, O., Aug. 10-The
Dresden pottery caught fire Saturday
and before it was under control $50, 900
damage had been done. The fire start
ed in the packing sheds and much val
liable ware was destroyed. There
was almost a panic among the 200 en-
ployes when the fire spread to the
main building, but all escaped in
safety.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Dies of His Injuries.

Calumet, Mich, Aug. 19.-Matthew
Amala, trammer injured in the
Tamarack mine accident, died at night
from his injuries. He was 25 years old
and is the fourth to die.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23

President Adams brought no special
message from President Shaffer, and,
so far as could be learned, made no
statement of striking Importance.
Their is a rumor that lodges will
meet again after reports from Bay
View have been received, but none of
the officials would confirm this. If
the men at Bay View refused to strike
there is possibility that the men
here will go back to work.
Strike Doubtful at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Aug. 19.-If the counsel
of several of the leaders of the Bay
View lodge counts for anything. the
members of the Amalgamated asso-
citation in this city will vote not to
Those who were not working on the
day shift Saturday and who are not
in favor of striking were busy visit
ing the homes of many Of the mill
workers who will have say in decid-
ing upon the strike order when the
question comes to vote. One of the
old mill-workers who had spent half
his life at work in the Bayview plant
was willing to wager considerable
money on a ratio of two to one that
the men would vote not to strike.
This man says that four-fifths of the
lodge members are married and have
families, and majority of these, he
says, will vote to remain at work.
The faction, he says, that is willing
and anxious to obey the mandate OF
President Shaffer is composed of
single men who would have no trou-
BILE in obtaining work elsewhere. 1t
is said that in case the lodge votes to
remain at work a number OF the
minority will decide to quit work of
their own accord.
Morgan's Cooperative Plan.
New York, Aug. 19.-While no an
nouncement of Mr.. J. P. Morgan's plan
for bringing the workmen of the steel
corporation in closer touch with the
capital behind the corporation, by Civ
ing stock to the workmen, and thus
taking them into partnership, has yet
been made, it is expected that in view
of the situation in the strike, some
definite plan will be given out. Mr..
Morgan has not been seen at his Office
for some days and Mr.. E. HI. Gary,
chairman of the executive committee
of the United States Steel corpora ton
would not talk for publication on the
subject. He said that at this time an
official announcement might compro
mise the corporations plans or might
cause undue delay.
London Deeply Interested.
London, Aug. 19.-Prior to his de-
parture for New York, Saturday, on
the American line steamer ST. Paul,
Congressman Grosvenor, of Ohio, re-
ferred to the widespread interest
taken in Great Britain in the American
steel strike. The small items of news
appearing in the press are discussed
and repeated on every hand.
1.-THE sympathy of the British public"
said the congressman, sis strongly with
the strikers, not for any good feeling for
the men, but they hope our industrial sys-
TENS may be as damaged and crippled
as theirs have been. They hope the clos
ing of our mills will force us to buy from
theirs and permanently defeat our pros
perity."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Macedonian Congress Closed.

Sofia, Aug. 19.-The Macedonian
congress has closed. The moderates
gained the day and elected a commit
tee under the presidency of Gen. Tzont-
chef. The congress decided that the
members of the committee should not
be militant, but should peacefully pro-
mote the interests of their country
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
To Consider Reciprocity.

Philadelphia, Aug. 19.-President
Theodore C. Search, of the National
Association of Manufacturers, has
called special meeting of the execu-
tive meeting of the executive commit
tee of that organization for Septem-
Der 4, to consider the question of rec
iprocity in all its phases, after which,
it is said, call will be issued for rec
iprocity convention.
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Professor Coming East.

Stanford University, Cal, Aug 49,
DR.. T. d. Wood has resigned his posi-
ton as professor of hygiene and
organic training at Stanford uni
versity and accepted similar posi-
ton in the teachers college of Column
bia university.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Shall Not Pay Duty.

Washington, Aug. 19.-The treasury
department has decided that a Gus
toms duty of five cents pound shall
not be imposed on all coffee imported
into Porto Rico from the United
States.
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Gave Millionaire His Start.

Richmond, Va, Aug. 19.-Charles L.
Crum, a merchant of Winchester, the
man who started Charles Broadway
Rouss in business, is dead at his home
in this city. Crum and Rouss served
together in the confederate army.
Soon after the war Crum Loaned Rouss
the 5000 with which Rouss later began
business in New York, in which he
has since made millions of dollars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Fire MT the $500"

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Aug. 19.-By
the burning of the Bradley Watkins
big lumber, single, cedar tie mill 120
men are out of employment. Loss,
$50, 900; partly insured
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ATROCITY BY KURDS.
Destroy Twelve Villages and Put
All to the Sword Save the
Young Girls.

London, Aug. ia dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Constanti-
nople says a body of 400 Kurds has
been raiding the Damizra district of
Armenia and has destroyed - vii
lagos, leaving nothing but smoking
ruins. Only the young girls were
spared. They were carried off to the
harems. All the males were ruthless
ly butchered,
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Body of Another Victim Found

Cleveland, O., Aug. 19.-The body of
another victim of the crib disaster was
picked up Saturday near the scene of
the holocaust. The body was terribly
burned and in all probability will not
be identified.
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observe Temperance Day.

La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 19.-Saturday
was next to the last day of the Bat
the Island assembly. 1t was Tenn
perance day and during the day sew
eral speeches were made by workers
in this field. Friday was G. A. r. day.
Sunday will be the big day, and a
large excursion will go down from
this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
raft Enthusinstically Received.

Manila, Aug. 19.-Civil Gov. Taft
and the Philippines commission were
enthusiastically received at Vigan,
province of South Illocos, Saturday. A
governor for the province and other
officials were appointed. The commits
sioners are agreeably surprised at the
advancement shown in the places Wis
tied
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Hotel Sold at sherin,s Sale.

Columbus, O., Aug. 19.-The Great
Southern hotel and theater building
was sold at sheriff's sale Saturday for
$25O,000 to Messrs. Ralph and Fred
Lazarus, of this city. The property
has been in receivers hands for some
time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Mrs. James Callahan Dead.

Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 19.-Mrs.
James Callahan, wife of the we'll
known capitalist and philanthropist,
reputed to be the wealthiest man in
Iowa, died at midnight as the result of
runaway two weeks ago, in which she
and her husband were severely injured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
steamer Sink. Barre.

London, Aug. 19.-The British steam
err Knight Commander, which sailed
from here for Baltimore, collided off
Dover with and sank the barge Nor
man Little. The crew of the barge
were saved
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Reelected Chancellor.

Salina, Kan, Aug. 19.-Dr. N. E. Phil
lips, who has just been reelected chan
cellor of the Kansas Wesleyan uni
versity here, has declined the presi-
dency of the New Orleans university,
recently offered him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23

New York, Aug. 19.-The rumor is
current in the navy yard that the con-
verted yacht Mayfower is to be re-
paired and refitted for use as President
McKinley's official yacht. Last year the
Mayfower was used by Gov. Allen, of
Porto Rico. 1t is understood now that
the dispatch boat Dolphin will be as
signed to Porto Rico.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Will Not Recognize Cabinet.

Lima, Peru, Aug. 19.-The chamber
of deputies has decided not to receive
officially any communication from the
cabinet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Trotting stallion Dead.

New York, Aug. 19.-Stamboul, the
trotting stallion, 2:07H, died Saturday
at the farm of his owner, E. 81. Harri-
man. near Goshen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-08-23
Parliament Prorogued.

London, Aug. 19.-Parliament wound
up it's business Saturday and was pro-
rogued, with the reading of the kings
speech.
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t Men Hold Meeting.

The conference of the striking
steel workers ended at IL o'clock,
noon, after a session of two hours
The officials stated that no business
of Importance was transacted. Vice
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II ia ndth Tough Trustee
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BY GEORGE %~ We

and said he wanted to see the pure mind
ed Patriots put in charge of Things.
There were other Clarion Calls to Duty,
and then panicky Miss whose Voice
sounded like some one standing too close
to the Phone read the VaAedictory. She
claimed that the Glass was all Broken Up
at the Prospect of tearing away from the
kind Principal and the Dear Teachers,
but the time had come for them to tackle
the Ladder and get on the Boat and start
up the Noun ain, etc, etc. She hoped that
the whole Glass was ready to Scatter, into
the Great World and pull for Success, and
she said that Success was measured by
Good Deeds and not by Dollars and Cents.
Then the Principal made one of these
We-have- wit h -us-t this Afternoon Introduce
tons, whereupon the Member of the Board
unfolded himself and worked out into the
Clearing where he faced the exhausted
and representative Assemblage. He felt
in his inside Coat Pocket for the MSS,
but 1t was not there. He famed his
Clothes and patted himself, but nary a
Sound of Legal Cap Then he remember
ed that in changing to the Pall-B Bearer S
Makeup he had neglected to transfer the
Speech
For few Seconds he was Non-Plussed.
Then he braced himself and decided to in
troduce a Positive Novelty at Commence
ment Exercises and speak what was on
his Mind So he said: Little People,
have been in a kind of Trance for a
couple of Hours. You have been handing
over a few that were too High for your
Uncle Fuller, l have been around more
or less in my Time and l thought l had
bumped up against several Bright Minds,
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when you enter him against a Juvenile
Phenom.
Il think that it is a Safe Bet that you
Young Folks are better Posted now than
you ever will be again. In the Years to
come your Steady Job will be to forget
what you learned in High School. When
you get thrown out of Employment you
can always sit down and work at that
l am predicting that 20 odd Years from
now, when almost any. one of you will
be trying to raise two or three Children
with one Hand and life a Mortgage with
the other, if some one came along and
asked you to tell the Difference between
Syntax and Prosody, you would tell him
to Brush BY.
Far be 1t from me to Knock the Ben
ef1t of High School Training Although 1
received my Mental Discipline in a Brick
Yard l have always been Sore because
didn't get to wear Glass Colors and learn
one of these Siss-Boom-Ah Yells. l have
worried along without Diploma, and al
though shy on Latin and History, I have
picked up few Points on doing the Other
Fellow, which reminds me. 1 notice that
nearly all of you take a long Run and
Jump at the Almighty Dollar and the Ma
chine in Politics. There seems to be
general Determination not to go out after
the Shekels. What you want is Culture,
and not the Coin. If you feel that way
about 1t, you can gamble that you will
never have enough of it to make you
Proud and Overbearing. Nobody is go
ing to Force it on you. In fact, my Ex-
perience is that it is pretty hard TO Rake
UP even when you want 1t and want it
Bad. Probably you have given more
Thought to this Matter than have but
if you don't mind being Touted little,
L would suggest that you get what you
can of the Long Green and afterward have
a
Households nowadays the Husband rus
ties around and gets the Stun and lets
his Wife work the Culture End of the
Game. Any time that he provides her
with the Spondulix she will bring Home
| enough Culture for Two, all right, all
| right.
1T seems, too. that the whole Bunch
is going out to Root for Purity in Poll
tics. ] would be Reformer myself II
could find any one who would pay me a
Salary for Kicking AS soon as I find
Reform Party compactly Organized and
cornering the Spells, / will be with It
good and strong and / hope you will ell
be with me. AS nearly as 1 can find out
Politicians are not with the Machine be-
cause they are Stuck on II, but because
they need the Money. They would be per-
fectly willing to plug for the General
Good II they could see anything in It, As
you grow older and get more Light on the
Subject and some OF your Friends begin
to run for Office. Probably you will take
more charitable View of Party Manage
ment.
II will now ask you to come up and get
your Sheep-Skins. Take this precious
Certificate home and put II i'm a Dark
, Cool Place. A few years hence, when you
are less Experienced. 1t will give you
Melancholy Pleasure to look at It and
Hark back TO the Time when you knew
Il All. Just one Word in Parting. AL
ways count your Change, and IL you can't
be Good, be Careful"
And he sat down.
MORAL: To avoid dealing with Facts
always have Your Speech i'm your Pocket
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Hart Merriam, chief of the Biological
Survey; DR.. T. 8. Palmer, assistant chief;
A. K. Fisher, the celebrated ornithologist
and Mr.. e. W. Nelson, the well-known
Mexican explorer. The friends of these
gentlemen are having considerable sport
at their expnse with the assertion that
thay are no longer sane. One of the men,
brs of the expedition was scheduled to de-
liver lecture before a scientific society
here few evenings ago on his observa-
lions in the Death valley He began by
announcing that he was there with Fun
ston, and then reading the statement as
to the mental condition of the other sur
vivors. 1t naturally provoked some merri-
ment. But the story has been widely cop
led, and in fact had appeared in substance
in other publications before it was taken
up by the magazine writer. 1t is safe
TO say that the correction will soon be
forgotten, and that Funston's primacy
among the survivors of the expedition will
be unchallenged in the histories of a CEN
fury hence.
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]. p. sawtell. Grimm, Ga.
Publisher Morning Call.
lad.
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derpinning played one OF those hurry-up
Duets. Then a tow-headed Boy with
Weak Eyes and a Scotch Plaid Tie that
looked as though II had been picked off
of Mother. stood on one Foot and told why
Greco and Rome had petered out. He
offered few husky Suggestions in regard
to Educating the Masses and edged back
TO his Seat falling over himself on the
Way.
Then fat little Girl who seemed to
have a Rush of Blood to the Head told all
about Ambition" She said there were
several kinds Of Ambition, and those who
overpayed 1t would surely get good
hard Toss sooner or later. She said the
Trouble was that some People were am
bition to make Money and control Legis-
lation. She didn't think It was right.
A pale Boy with high-water Trousers
and a recent Haircut pulled out the
Tremolo Stop and sang a low Refrain
about "Lifes Duties" He said that no
one should accumulate Wealth or try to
get the Bulge on Honest Toll or put on
any toppy Lugs with Silks and Broad
cloth He advised every one to give up
the Mad Race for Wealth and be a Phi
lanthropist, drying the Widows Tears,
jollying up the Orphans and planting
sweet Flowers along LIES Rugged Path
way.
"our Country" was the Subject chosen
by another Boy. lie said we had Europe
and Asia crowded Off the Map and nothing
could head us or, unless we forgot the
Flag I'm our desire TO grab or the Money
He gave the Politicians q hard Larruping
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c,onvright, 1901, by Robert Howard Rus
sell.
high grade Heeler who had helped
divvv the Campaign Fund and round up
the Barrel-House Vote and get the Ho-
toes into Line for Good Government was
so beloved by his Party that he was
made a Member of the Board of School
Trustees and set up as an Example TO
the Young.
whenever the High School Graduates
put on their white Organizes and dark
Getaways and got ready to go up the
Gang Plank and embark on Iifes Voy-
age, it was the Custom TO have Rep
resentative Member of the School Board
on hand to give them a Send-On One
Year the Political Boss was chosen for
this Honor. He had been putting up Flat
Buildings and buying Bonds on a Salary
OF 81 300 and it was believed that he was
just the one 10 tell Young Folks how to
Succeed in Life. He wanted to know what
he was expected to talk about, and they
told him about Ten Minutes and be sure
and tell the Glass how to shin UP the
Ladder and get death-grip on the Top
Round. For it must be known, Reader,
that when the Gentle Youth break out of
High School they not only Launch on the
climb the ladder of Fame and hike up the