The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. 1s.

For the Week Ending Dec. 13.
The London press blames Germans
for sinking Venezuelan warships.
The December wheat crop estimate
assumes an almost perfect condition.
DIR. Adolf Deucher has been chosen
president of the Swiss confederacy.
Andrew Carnegie, wife and daugh-
ter reached New York from Europe.
The weekly trade review reports
brisk business throughout the coun-
try.
Six men were reported killed in
Northern Pacific wreck at Fridley,
Mimi
Mrs. Elizabeth Stricken, who lived
near Decatur, Ind, died at the age of
1O3 years.
A rumor has reached Alden, Arabia,
of the assassination of the Mad Null
lab in Somaliland.
Harry Pulliam, of Pittsburg, has
been elected to the presidency of the
National Baseball league.
An attempt to lay the shore end of
the Pacific cable at San Francisco
failed because of high tide.
The new Wooster university build
ings, costing over 100000, at
Wooster, O., have been dedicated.
John ID. Rockefeller will give pos
sibly $100,OOO,OO0 to establish nation
al educa tional institution at Washing
ton.
For the first time in history Amer
lean capitalists have bought large
holdings in the stock of a Canadian
bank.
The total value of crops in Iowa the
past year is placed at 1915, 722, 339, or
6O,00O,0O0 less than the value of crops
of 1901.
The National Civil Service Reform
league convention in Philadelphia
elected Daniel c. Gilman, of Balti-
more, president.
Bogota is to be informed that the
United States will not tolerate any
further delay in negotiating isthmian
canal treaties.
Former President Cleveland pre-
sided at a meeting in Philadelphia in
aid of the Berean Manual Training
School for Negroes.
A dispatch from Dublin says the
Irish people are united for self-gov-
eminent, but do not seek separation
from Great Britain.
A committee of the Federation of
Women's Clubs found distressing con-
ditions in factories in Chicago where
children are employed.
Diplomatists in Washington deplore
the attitude of Britain and Germany
toward Venezuela, which has no
money to pay their claims.
A reciprocity treaty between Cuba
and the United States has been
signed in Havana by Gen. Bliss and
Secretaries Zaldo and Monies.
A new counterfeit $50 gold certi-
ficate, act July 10, 1882, check letter c.,
Lyons register, Roberts treasurer,
portrait of Garfield, has been dis
covered.
The senate committee on education
and labor concluded the taking OF
testimony on the eight-hour bill and
intends to act on the measure at an
early date.
An iron and wooden toy trust, with
$1O,000,000 capital, will be organized
January 1 to eliminate wholesalers.
Prices have already advanced five to
ten per cent.
The house committee on judiciary
shelved three joint resolutions pro-
posing an amendment to the consti.
tuition disqualifying polygamists from
holding office.
Three thousand Chicago union
cigar makers have decided to post
pone their increased wage demand
one year to help manufacturers fight
the tobacco trust.
James j. Hill thinks the era of pros.
perity has reached it's height and
that downward tendency will soon
be apparent, with diminished indus
trial activity and tighter money.
President Baer, of the Reading rail-
road, in a speech in New Y ork, declared
that 'tinkering politicians" who try to
override the federal constitution will
be checked by the supreme court.
The coroner's investigation of the
Lincoln hotel fire, in Chicago, where
IA persons were killed, disclosed
that six rooms had no outside win
dows, and that rooms leading to the