The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-11-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Nov. 8.

Senator Hanna has been initiated
ut Cleveland as member of the Loyal
Legion of Ohio.
Mrs. Annie O'Mahoney is the first
woman in Ireland to be imprisoned un-
der the crimes act.
Judge John H. Baker, of the
United States district court of In
diana, has resigned.
Burglars wrecked the safe and
robbed the post office at Culver, Ind,
of $1,000 in stamps.
French government arbitrator in
the coal strike decided not to raise
miners wage rates.
Earthquake shocks are said to have
been felt in Hancock and Houghton
counties in Michigan.
A dispatch announces the death of
Gen. Manuel Lizando Barillas, former
president of Guatemala.
Fire on the Rosebud Indian reserva-
ton in Nebraska burned 800 head of
cattle and several ranches.
City Marshal Jordan, Tony Jones
and jeff Chenault were killed in
shooting affray at Orange, Tex.
President Roosevelt spent his first
day at his desk in the new executive
offices adjoining the white house. -
The Grand opera house, one of the
leading playhouses at Nashville,
Tenn, has been destroyed by fire.
George Vest, Jr., aged AZ, son and
private secretary of Senator Vest, Of
Missouri, died suddenly in Washing
ton.
Henri Fournier drove an automo-
bile mile in A is seconds at Dour-
dan, France, making a new worlds
record.
Discovery has been made of serum
that has been successfully tested in
treating ordinarily fatarcases of scar
let fever.
Prof. George Hausmann, aged Is
years, one of the best known pomolo-
gists in the United States, died at
Napa, Cal.
The Delaware & Hudson railroad
has been bought by the Pennsylvania
and New York Central companies for
$50, 900.
Ben Stell, of the Rival bowling team
in the American league, broke the
| worlds record in Chicago, rolling
score of 800.
The secretary of the treasury has
discontinued the acceptance of state
and municipal bonds as security for
public deposits.
Colorado railroads will require doc
tors certificate from sick persons
after December 1 to avoid carrying
contagious diseases.
Edward S. Bragg, formerly United
States consul general at Havana, and
transferred to HongKong, arrived in
New York from Cuba.
In its annual report the civil serv-
ice commission urges that congress
provide for the Reconsideration of the
entire departmental service.
Eight men were drowned, three YES
sells driven ashore and practically
every lighter on the Nome Beach in
Alaska was wrecked in a storm.
Prof. Robert C. Kedzie, dean of the
Michigan agricultural college and in
ventor of the kerosene safety test,
died at Lansing, aged 70 years.
The Minnesota Harvester company,
with a capital of $5,0OO,OOO, has been
incorporated at ST. Paul. It's object is
to fight the big harvester combine.
Count Boni de Castellane, husband
Of Anna Gould, has been unseated by
the French chamber of deputies on
charges of irregularities in his cleo
ton.
Daniel E. Storms, secretary of state
elect of Indiana, has appointed Frank
l. Grubbs, editor of the Lafayette
Courier, first assistant secretary Of
state.
Eleven Cuban children imported for
instruction in school at Point
Iona, Cal, have been ordered sent
back by the New York immigration
officials.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade says
that trade and industry are making
steady progress, reports from all
sections of the country containing
evidences of wholesome development.
Philippine natives are suffering
from famine because of the rice crop
destruction by locusts and death of
carabaos by rinderpest. The United
States will spend $2.OO0.oOO for relief.