The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March %.

For the Week Ending March 2S.
The straits of Mackinac are now
open for navigation.
Will Dorsey (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery.
The supreme court of Ohio has de.
clared constitutional the state local OPP.
ton statute.
The Missouri legislature before adj
journing made appropriations amount
ing to $6, 463 ,Oo2
The weekly trade reviews report
business accelerated by the early
opening of spring.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia will be launched at
Newport News April IS.
The German empress was thrown
from her horse near Berlin and her
right arm was fractured.
Frank NJ. Steinhart, of Illinois, will
succeed William A. Rublee, of Wiscon-
sin, as consul general at Havana.
Macabebe scouts defeated a San
Miguel force after brisk battle.
The enemy left As dead on the field
Walter Chism, Luther Owen and Jen-
ME George We're drowned near Caruth-
ersville, Mo-, by the upsetting of ca.
noe.
John V. Connolly, noted horseman,
was thrown to the street by the horse
he was riding in Madison, Ind, and
killed.
The Carthusian monks, the richest
religious order in France, have been re-
fused permission to remain i'm the re.
public.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children will
spend the time during the presidents
western tour at Sycamore Hill, Oys.
ter Bay.
The National Councib of Women, in
session at New Orleans, elected Mrs
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco
president.
While insane Mrs. Peter Burke killed
her four children at Fiskdale, Mass.
with an ak, cut her own throat and set
fire to the house.
1 on his tour of the west. He will
travel $4,000 miles, visiting % states
and two territories.
Fire destroyed the plants of the
American Cycle company and the In.
dia Rubber company at Akron, o., the
loss being $25O,oOo.
Michigan railroads have begun suit
in the federal court to restrain the
state from collecting taxes on the
ad valorem system.
During the first IS days of March
49,162 immigrants arrived in New
York, being 1000 more than during
the same period last year.
A new counterfeit two-dollar silver
certificate, series 1899, check letter
&C." Lyons, register; Roberts, treas.
urer, has been discovered.
William Nichol, James McLellen
Hugh McCallum and H. Boulton were
| drowned in Bass lake, near Owen
sound. Ontario. while fishing.
The Lowell (NIass.) Textile council
voted to strike because ten per cent
wage increase is refused. Seven plant.
and $4,000 employees are involved.
William B. Byers, a Colorado pioneer
and founder of the Rocky Mountain
News, the first daily newspaper pub
lished in Denver, died in that city, aged
- years.
Seven packing concerns purchased
last summer by Armour-Swift-Morr
interests have been merged in the Ma
tional Packing company, with $4,000,
600 capital.
At the annual meeting of the trus
tees of the Drake university in De:
Moines, Ia, ex-Gov N. M. Drake, the
founder. announced donations aggre
eating $15O,OOO.
The Mills & Knight company, Of
Boston, one of the oldest printing
and book houses in New England, has
assigned. Liabilities, 91,279; assets
nominally about the same.
At the national convention in New
Orleans of the American Women:
Suffrage association Susan B. Anthony
was elected honorary president ant
Carrie c. Gait, of New York, was elect
ed president.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9Th
aggregated $4,000, 31S,131. The de
crease compared with the CORE
| spending week of last year was 80.