The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11
DOMESTIC.

Mrs. David Plapp, of Malta, ILL.,, was
found dead in a snowdrift
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the constitutionality of the
Kansas eight-hour law.
Peter Niedermeier, Harvey Van Dine,
Gustav Marx and Emil Roeski, Chicago
bandits, we're arraigned before Justice
Kersten and all pleaded not guilty ex-
cept Marx.
The wages of $4,000 cotton textile OPP
eratives in Massachusetts, have been re-
duced.
Cashier Francis D. Wright, of the de-
funct Dundee Qll.) First national bank,
has been arrested for the alleged embez
element of 100000.
Forty-four persons were killed in Cook
county, ILL.,, during November by rail-
ways and los injured, and AZ committed
suicide.
The historic Academy of Music, the
largest theater in Brooklyn, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
900.
H. O. Wright, of Pendleton, Ind, a
Purdue student, died at Indianapolis,
making II deaths from the Big Four
wreck on October 80.
The government receipts in November
were S44,692,594 and expenditures SAT-
427,7SS, leaving a deficit for the month
of $2,735,19
Phil Davis, Walter Carter and Clint
Thomas, all negroes, were lynched near
Belcher, La, for shooting Robert Adger.
Secretary Wilson says that the balance
of foreign trade in favor of the farmers
of this country during the last IA years
has been s4,SO6. 100000.
Maria Rhodes shot Frederick Hayden
in Springfield, ILL.,, and then killed her
self.
The United States transport Logan
sailed from San Francisco for Manila,
among the passengers being Is brides,
all married to army officers within
year.
Receivers in bankruptcy for the prop
erty OF John Alexander Dowie at Zion
City, ILL.,, were appointed on the petition
of creditors. Dowie's immediate liabili-
ties are placed at 1886, 900, and he claims
that he has ample funds to pay all debts.
Delegates from eight western states
met in Chicago and enthusiastically APP
proved the plan for an alliance of the
farmers.
Circus Dixon, a young white man, was
hanged at Trenton, N. c., for the murder
in March, 1901, of Godfrey Weber.
The annual report of Director Roberts
of the United States mint bureau shows
that the coinage last year aggregated
zoe, S72, 4S2 pieces, breaking all previous
records.
The United States battleship Missouri
has been placed in commission.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
$5,426,999 during the month of Novem-
Der. Cash in the treasury $369, 237 ,429.
Total debt, less cash in treasury, $685.
829,41O.
The total circulation of national
bank notes on November 80 was SAIL
106,979, an increase for the year of $780,
252,
The Rockefeller-Gould combination is
said to have gained actual control of the
Pennsylvania lines, as well as other vast
railway interests.
The government report on the condi-
ton of crops says winter wheat is not
satisfactory, and that corn is uneven in
quality.
Alfred Bayliss, state superintendent
of public instruction, says that over
100000 pupils were enrolled in Illinois
schools last year.
Fred Strube, murderer of Miss Alice
Henninger, of Havana, ILL.,, was cap
tured in Missouri and confessed his
crime.
The town of Greenwood, Del, was
nearly wrecked by an explosion of dyna-
mite. Two persons were killed and 100
injured. and many houses were burned.