The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-12-26
THE. NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week EndingDec. 20.


Prof. E. A. eastman, of Decatur,
has been elected president of the Il
linois state board of education.
The German bundesrath approves
the tariff bill in the form in which it
passed its third reading in the reich
stag.
Comptroller of Currency Ridgley, in
an address before New York bankers,
says more elasticity is needed in the
monetary system.
Congressman James A. Hemenway
has announced himself a candidate
for the republican nomination for
governor of Indiana.
South American republics are not
likely to side officially with Venezuela.
Newspapers of Peru, Bolivia and Sal
vador urge united resistance.
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
cided that the marriage of divorced
persons within six months of the grant
ing of a decree in that state is void.
The French steamer Modoc with 223
passengers on board. collided with a
cruiser in Toulon harbor and grounded
While walking on the tracks at War
rem, ILL.,, George Galway and Karl
Kurth were struck by the west-bound
flyer on the Illinois Central and killed.
Martin H. Bakkedal has been APP
pointed receiver of the Bank of West
by, Wis; the liabilities are placed
at 100000 and the assets at $155,00O.
A ST. Louis hotel keeper was held
responsible by a jury for the death
of guest who persisted in fire, and
the widow was awarded $1,000 dam
ages.
Unrequited love is said to have been
the reason why Herman Helscher
shot and mortally wounded Voltai-
rine La Cleyre a noted anarchist, at
Philadelphia.
Because of the high wages paid to
mechanical help, the Santa Fe and
other western railroads are retrench-
ing by cutting down the salaries of
office employees.
The will of Mrs. Martin Adams,
widow Of Charles Kendall Adams,
former president of the University
of Wisconsin, gives a large part of
the estate to that institution.
The post office of Grandville, o., was
lynamited and robbed of nearly 200
| by two men who escaped. The post
office at Big Stone Gap, Va, was robbed
of $1,000 in money and stamps.
A group of New York fnanciers are
said to be DESTROYS of assuming Vene-
zuelas debts, providing the United
| States will assist in collecting the
money from customs receipts.
At the presentation of credentials
by Ambassador Tower to Kaiser Will
helm his majesty promised very
good, though not very large, ex-
hibit for the ST. Louis exposition.
Payment of $365,OOO insurance poll
cies on the life of r. C. Whayne,
found dead at Louisville, Ky, from a
gunshot wound, will be refused. The
| question of suicide is still unsettled.
The United States Steel company
bought the Union steel mill, near Pitts
burg, and the Sharon mill, at Sharon,
Pa, from the Union company, and
| $45,0OO,OOO bonds are to be issued in
payment.
The house eight-hour la Dor bill, pro-
viding penalty of IS against govern
| ment contractors for each day and
every laborer allowed to work over
eight hours, was agreed to by the sem
ate committee.
Fulton (Mich.) citizens headed off a
hotelkeeper who planned to open bar
room by incorporating as a cemetery
| association and locating plat so rods
away. The law of 1869 forbids saloons
within that distance.
The demand for coal grows more
strenuous in Chicago, and the charge is
made that mine owners are discrimi-
mating against the west. Railway Off
| Gals say they are doing their utmost
to get supplies to market.
The tobacco trust will fight Chicago
independent cigar dealers with a new
| factory employing 500 union hands, and
by employing 200 solicitors after jan
| uary 1. Labor unions are expected to
desert the independents as a result.
The Illinois legislature will be
| asked to amend the state law to pre-
vent corporations organized else
where from escaping state tax and
! license. Inducements offered by New
| Jersey and Arizona are declared to
| aid evasion.