The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-01-03
CONDENSED SPECIALS.
BITS ABOUT PEOPLE,

BITS ABOUT PEOPLE,
King Edward will personally open par
lament.
Marconi will probably select Cape Breton
for permanent wireless telegraphy station
Critical period in illness of Gen. Alger has
been passed and doctors confidently assert
that he will get we'll.
DEsTRUCTIyEAN AND FATAL FLAMES
Grain elevator of H. F. Mueller at CHI
cago burned; loss 100000.
Simon Owens, colored, aged lO2. burned
| to death at Guthrie, Okla.
Fire in pharmaceutical department or
Cudahy packing plant at Omaha, Neo.,
did over $4,000 damage.
| CHURCH ITEMS:-
Zionist congress opened at Basic, Switz-
erland, by President DR.. Theodore Herzl'
of Vienna.
New church law admitting women as
delegates has been adopted by Methodist
conferences
Pope has honored John D. Crimmins, of
New York, by making him knight COM
| mander of Order of ST. Gregory the Great.
ARMY AND NAVY:-
Navy department has taken initial steps
to adoption of wireless geography.
Admiral Evans to be assigned to Asiatic
station, which he will ultimately command.
Lieut. Gen. Miles has decided to accept
the situation with the best possible grace
and the reprimand will make no decided
change in his future plans. official or social.
INTERNATIONALLY
Treaty of commerce between Italy and
Russia signed at st. Petersburg.
Monthly line of steamers between New
York and Philippines to be established.
Gen. De Wet on night of December "a
routed Col Firman'S camp at Zeefonteln
and captured two guns.
Delegates to Pan-American congress
| have substantially agreed to plan of ar
bitration, which, is practically The Hague
convention.
INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL:-
| A soft coal famine exists in Detroit and
situation is becoming serious.
| Michigan railroad commission planning
to revise railroad code to prevent accidents.
| On January B. & o. railroad will shorten
| workday hours of freight trainmen from
| IL to 10 hours.
| American tabocco trust has cornered
| Turkish tobacco crop, principal source OF
| supply for German cigarette manufac-
| turers.
EDUCATION AND REFORM
Congressman De Graffenried. of Texas.
| has prepared bill to present to congress
providing for admission of Indian boys to
| West Point.
| Rumor in New York says Andrew Car
| nege will give more than $1,O00,0OO to Co.
|
| ing and to assist needy students.
Suggestion made at convention of Chill
| dren's Home societies in Chicago that
negro boys trained in northern white fam
! lilies is solution of southern race problem
FATAL ACCIDENTS
| Four boys drowned while skating on
Lahave river at Bridgewater, N. S.
| At American bridge works at Chicago
iron girder weighing $4,000 pounds fell, kill
| ing three men.
| Tornado and floods caused loss of several
lives in Italy and cemetery at Naples was
| washed away.
| Two prominent men of ST. Louis leaped
| from automobile to avoid collision with
| locomotive and were crushed under wheels
| of engine.
| POLITICAL:-
| Ohio Republican league will hold its BAN
quet at Springfield on February II.
| Rural free delivery mail carriers are to
be placed under civil service on February l.
| Gov. Shaw, of Iowa, refuses to intimate
what his policy will be when he assumes
| duties of secretary of treasury.
| Panama Canal company may offer theil
| canal for $40 900, 900 and commission is likely
| to recommend acceptance and Nicaragua
| may lose.
| CRIMINAL RECORD
Safe in Henry Prag's mill at New Doug
| las, H.. robbed of 81, 200
| Diamond chain valued at $500 stolen or
| way from Washington to New York.
| Negro employee of st. Louis health board
confessed to giving out infected serum tina
| caused 13 deaths.
In a general fight at Childersburg, Ala.
| ]. Bird (white) and his son Ruben were
| killed and Tom Holley (colored) and George
Bird wounded the former probably fatally
A race riot was averted by the prompt Jail
| ing of all the negroes