The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Oct. II,


Gov. Yates opened the republican
state campaign at Anna.
The Cuban senate has discontinued
its legislative sessions until Novem-
Der 3.
A French coal miners national
strike, involving 10000 men, was or
dered at Paris.
Sir Thomas Upton has sent another
challenge to the New York Yacht club
for Americas cup.
Four men were killed and two
wounded in a shooting affray in the
streets at Ell Dorado. Ark
Earl Bush and Frank Anspaugh were
blown to pieces by an explosion of
nitroglycerine near Lima, o.
The private bank of F. H. Cutting
and j. T. Willett at Otto, Ia, closed it's
doors with liabilities of $4,000.
Rev. Kate Hughes, of Table Grove,
has been elected president of the Hi
nois Equal Suffrage association.
With over 5000 students, Columbia
university in New York opened for its
one hundred and forty-ninth academic
year.
Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown,
negroes, were lynched at Newbern,
Tenn, by mob for the murder of
farmer.
Violence continues in the anthracite
region. One striker was killed by a
guard. and two trains were wrecked by
dynamite.
The first annual meeting of the trus-
tees of the Mckinley National Memoir
ial association will be held in Canton
October 25.
Rhode Island republicans nominated
Charles Dean Kimball for governor and
Endorsed President Roosevelt for re-
nomination.
Prof. John Trowbridge, of Harvard,
claims that experiments conducted by
him nave shown lightning will not
strike water
President Roosevelt is opposed to
bulky government reports and has
asked department chiefs to make
them shorter.
The British Miners federation
adopted resolution. favoring gov
eminent control of land, mines, min
erals and railways.
Five persons were drowned near
Kincardine, Ont, in an attempt to
rescue the crew of the stranded
schooner Anna Maria.
Lady Henry Somerset, president Of
the worlds W c. T. T., reached New
York and declared England is becom-
ing a nation of drunkards
The Beaumont oil field in Texas
has again been swept by fire. Fifty
five derricks were burned, and there
were reports of loss of life.
Vice President Barabas caused an
uproar in the Hungarian parliament
by openly accusing the emperor of
conniving to ruin the kingdom.
The largest increase in the postal
receipts in the history of the SER
vice is shown in reports of so lead
ing post offices for September
Rev. j. L. Prince. a Baptist preacher,
was shot and killed by Pole Watson
near Henderson, Ky, because he per-
sisted in visiting Watson's daughter
Officials at Washington are much
disturbed over the delay and appar-
ent Indifference on the part of Cuba
in concluding the commercial treaty.
An attempt of the New Orleans Rail-
way company to start cars on its lines
which have been tied up for II days
precipitated riot and troops were
called out.
Henry l. Toews. teacher at AL
toona. Ma nitoba, fatally shot two
school trustees who criticised him,
shot two of his pupils fatally. and
then killed himself.
The New York police fear coal riots
by the poor when freezing weather
comes. The city refuse dumps now
being sorted over and apportioned
under police guard.
The shoe manufacturing trade is be-
ing transferred from the east to the
middle and western states. Boston
trade for the year decreased 3S7.OCo
cases Chicago and ST. Louis gained
! 16 per cent,
The government monthly crop re-
port showed condition of corn as
| 1916 against "a 3 for 1901; oats yield,
345 bushels an acre, against 251 for
1901; condition of potatoes, S2.5,
against S9.l for September l.