The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-22
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Forest fire. raging in the Cascade
mountains along the Columbia river
in Oregon are destroying millions of
feet of valuable timber.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
seven days ended August II were:
Pittsburg, .761; Brooklyn, .552; Chi
cago, .543; Boston, .523; Cincinnati,
.467; st. Louis, AT; Philadelphia, 1893;
New York, .319.
Richard Dodson was killed and 40
persons injured by lightning striking a
church at Leslie, Ga.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, chief JUS
tice of the supreme court of Mas
sachusetts, has been appointed asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of
the United States, vice Justice Gray,
resigned.
An incendiary who started 10 fires
ut Peoria, ILL.,, and caused heavy loss,
was arrested and identified as Ed
ward Flanagan. \
The international Typographical
union began it's forty-eighth annual
convention in Cincinnati.
julius Hoffman, a farmer, aged 65,
near Rockport, Ind, committed sui
eide after burning $4,000 in money in
order that his young wife might not
enjoy its benefits.
The governments monthly crop re-
port shows the condition of corn Au-
gust 1 was S6.5, compared with S7.5
for 1901; winter wheat crop esti-
mated at 3s0,000,O00 bushels.
An earthquake at Skagway, Alaska,
broke windows and tumbled down
chimneys on houses.
Alderman Frank T. Fowler, of Chi
cago, has purchased the Waukegan
Qll.) Daily and Weekly Sun.
Prince Tsai Chen told President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay of China's
gratitude to the United States, and the
president then cabled China that he
would try to preserve its integrity.
Neumiller's livery barn was burned
by an incendiary at Peoria, ILL.,, and 10
horses were cremated.
A severe frost did damage to corn
in the northwestern portion of Iowa.
A cloudburst at Madison, N. j., I'M
covered many caskets in a cemetery
and foated them away.
New York anarchist, said to have
been commissioned to kill European
royal parsonage, killed himself in mid
ocean.
The government report says the out
look for splendid crops is very prom
Using.
The international Harvester COM
pany, with capital of $12O,oOO,OO0, has
been incorporated in New Jersey to
absorb all big concerns.
Senator's Quay and Penrose, of Penn
sylvania, have received "endless chain"
letters urging them to end the miners
strike.
Thirteen patents have been issued to
q weather bureau official on wireless
telegraph apparatus.
The grand lodge of elks meeting at
Salt Lake City was attended by Il, 900
visitors. George A. Cronk, of Omaha,
was elected ruler.
The price of domestic sizes of an
thracite coal has been in New York ad-
vanced to SO a ton.
The international Typographical
convention in Cincinnati decided that
the Typographical Journal should
hereafter be published monthly in
stead of semi-monthly.
The treasury department is con-
fronted with the problem of finding
currency to move 100000, 600 bushels
of corn and wheat this fall.
President Roosevelt will proba bly,
call an extra session of the senate to
ratify commercial treaty with Cuba.
Two men were killed and four in
jured in railway accidents at Ham
mond, Ind.
Charters of more than $4,000 corpo-
rations doing business in Illinois have
been Cancelled because of failure to
comply with the law.
Policemen Timothy Devine and
Charles Pennell were shot and killed
in Chicago by two housebreakers
whom they were trying to capture.
Judge Jackson has released Thomas
Haggerty and six other members of
the United Mine Workers, who were
serving 80 and 80 days in Jail at Park
ersbuIg. W. Va, for contempt of
court.