The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-10-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Oct. 2o.

Thirty persons were hurt in a wreck
on the Big Four road near Parker, Ill.
The king of Siam will visit the United
States next year as the nations guest.
The Kentucky confederate veterans
home at Pewee Valley has been dedi-
Gated.
Five men were drowned by the foun-
dering of craft off Fogo, N. F., during
gale.
The trustees of the University of
Chicago voted 10 to for segregation
of sexes.
England, France and Germany will
withdraw their troops from Shanghai,
China, January 1.
The next meeting of the National
Educational associa ton will be held in
Boston next July.
Nine Americans and Europeans were
drowned by the capsizing of launch
on the Siberian coast.
President Roosevelt decided to with
hold all appointments until after the
meeting of congress.
The national w. C. T. U. convention
at Portland, Me-, declared for compul-
sorry temperance instruction in public
schools.
Charles A. Russell, member of con-
gress from the Third Connecticut dis
trict since 1856, died at Danielson, aged
so years.
Secretary Moody has decided to ask
congress for large increase in the
navy's fighting ships and an increase
of officers.
Weekly trade reviews report retail
business retarded in some places by
mild weather, but movement of goods
fully sustained.
Arthur Meyer, aged 10, self-con-
fessed murderer of Douglas Craft, has
been sentenced at Kankakee, H., to 20
years imprisonment.
A jury at Clarinda, Ia, has found
| William Lucas guilty of the murder of
Emma Moore and fixed his punishment
! at life Imprisonment.
Chief Engineer Melville, of the
navy, in his annual report suggests
| the use of oil for fuel on the tor
pedo boat destroyers.
Retail cigar dealers and ma nufactur-
ers outside the American Tobacco COM
| pany win meet in Chicago to plan
| fight gainst the trust.
| John d. Rockefeller has given to the
Teachers college of Columbia univer-
| sity $5OO,OOO, with a proviso that it
raise a similar amount.
| Arthur Meyer, aged 10, self-con-
| fessed murdered of Douglas Craft, has
| been sentenced at Kankakee, ILL.,, to
20 years Imprisonment.
Attorney General Knox, who in
vestigated the Panama canal title,
will in his report hold that the COM
pany can give a perfect title.
F. A. Heinze, of Butte, Mont, is ac-
cused of offering a $2,500,0O0 bride to
the SON of Senator Clark for aid in get
ting political control of the state.
The Missouri Valley Homeopathic
Medical association has begun war
on kissing, which is declared to be a
nuisance and breeder of disease.
The American Tobacco company has
appealed to the Iowa supreme court a
case to test the validity of the state law
taxing cigarette dealers $25 month.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
supreme court, took a personal hand
in a class fight at Columbian univer-
sity, of which he is director, and
put stop to the fray.
Mrs John Lame, wife of farmer liv-
ing near Brockett, n. d., poisoned her
eight-months-old son and then COM
mitted suicide with poison. Domestic
| trouble is said to have been the cause.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers has issued circular declar-
ing war on union labor and demand
ing the defeat of the eigth-hour day
and anti-conspiracy bills now before
congress.
Col. Mosby, special agent of the in
terror department, reports that cattle
raisers are illegally occupying mil
lions of acres of public lands in the
west which ought to be open to home
stead settlers.
Andrew Carnegie was installed as
lord rector of ST. Andrews university,
| Glasgow. In his address he urged
the German emperor to form a politi-
| cal and industrial union as United
States of Europe" to resist American
| invasion.