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RECORDS BROKEN.
Horses Owned and Driven by Mr.. Bill.
ings Show Wonderful Speed on
Memphis Race Track.

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 29.-The eight
day meeting Of the Memphis Trotting
association was brought to a fitting close
yesterday afternoon with the breaking
of two additional worlds trotting rec
ords Lou Dillon, Mr.. Billing S champion
trotter, driven by her owner, went mile
to wagon in two minutes flat, cutting a
second and three-quarters from the pre-
vious record made by herself; The
Monk and Equity, driven by Mr.. Billings,
their owner, lowered the world s trotting
record for mile to pole to 2.O8.
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Parks Convicted.

New York, Oct. 3 .Fo or the second
time within two months Samuel j. Parks.
walking delegate Of H Housesmiths' and
Bridg s union, local No. 2, has been
convicted of the crime Of extort ion ii the
court Of general sessions, and remanded
for sentence a week hence. g
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SCANDINAVIA NEWS
DENMARK.


Germany, is anything but a success.
whenever there is storm the fer
,11ts' rles are a. e sure to be behind time. In
many instances the ferry arrives at
sGedser after the train has left and
means that an extra train must be
4 run rl1 from Gedser to Copenhagen.
Some Danes go so far as. to assert
that the boasted line will be only a
parody until the Germans build
I 553sbr'reeallkwaters cal off the harbor at War
nemunde.
SWEDEN.
a large number of swallows were
6overtaSen overt; by rough weather in. Hell
slnborg, and many Of them became
SO helpless that they could be caught
with the hands.
Two Persians We're picked up by
the police at Arlof, and sent beyond
the borders Of Sweden as vagrants.
1t is proposed to have the coal bas-
kets used at the railway stations
made by convict labor, for in this
line of work it is supposed that the
competition would not be felt so
keenly by free labor. Thousands and
thousands of these baskets are in use
all over the country. They are gen
orally made of cedar twigs.
{ The railway department. is contem-
plating an extension Of the Northern
Trunk line from Morjarv to Hapar-
anda.
A part Of the village of Bonarp was
destroyed by fire during storm
which threatened to carry the flames
to every house in the village.
The business men of Kristianstad
are uniting their efforts in the inter
est of a new ship canal from their
city to Anus.
The gateway to a house in Lerum
is to be made of the jawbones of a
whale. There will be plenty of
room, for the bones are over 16 feet
long.
The ecclesiastical council proposed
revision of the wedding formula of
the state church. The same body also
expressed itself in favor of keeping
all kinds Of intoxicants away from
the military camping grounds and
barracks Of Sweden. g9
Several crews of men are at work
on the Kjefing and sjobo railroad,
which will be completed in about one
year from now. The length of the
line is 80 (Engish) miles.
The king and the queen will make
an extended trip to central and
southern Europe, leaving Sweden in
February and staying away three or
four months. The queen will leave
little earlier than the king, and
they will meet again in Abazia, where
they may remain for some length of
time.
The fishermen of Bohuslan have
had a very prosperous year, the aver
age returns per man for the season
being about $3.50. a
The population of Sundsvall has
decreased very materially during the
present year.
A committee appointed by the re-
tail liquor companies (bolag) of
Sweden proposes that the companies
be permitted to sell liquors only for
consumption on the premises.
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Fire at Coney island.

New York, Nov. I'm blaze that
baffled the firemen seven hours Sunday
afternoon, the bowery at Coney Island
was again laid in ashes. Two lives, so
far, are reported to be lost; one man
mortally injured, score of others hurt,
300 buildings destroyed, 500 persons
made homeless and more than 81 ,OOO,-
600 damage done. How many more
dead in the ruins is not known.
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ASphyXiated.

Chicago, Oct Horace L. Green,
editor and publisher of the Free
Thought Magazine, and his wife were
found dead in their bedroom here from
asphyxiation. At first the police were
inclined to the belief that the aged hus-
band and wife had committed suicide,
but later developments tended to show
that the two were the victims of an acci-
dent.
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Kills wife and Takes Poison,

Minneapolis Mimi, Nov. 8. 8 u. ii.
Renreath, Of Minneapo polls, shot his wife
dead Monday at Twenty-sec econd street
and Washington avenue and then took
q big dose Of carbolic acid. His wife died
within a few minutes Renreath was
taken to the city hospital where he was
reported to be in dying cond ition.
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First Publication, Sept. "A, 1909
Notice for Publication.
TIMBER CULTURE FINAL Pro

September II. 1903 5s sE5 81 s.
NOTICES hereby given that ANDERS LAR
Sen has filed notice of his intention to make
lhnal proof before Register and Receiver of q.
nesota, on Friday, the 9th day of November.
1903. on timber culture application No. 1856. for
thenW4 Of section No IL, ,in township No 154
n. range No. AS w. ax
II He names as witnesses, Edward Sommers.
Ole =. MOrud, Herbert Tatro. Moses Tatro; OF
Warren, Minnesota. II
SYLVESTER PETERSON Register.
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Yields Good Rasul4

Washington, Oct. 81 s.. Judge Advocate
General Lemley, in his annual report,
says the system Of probation of prisoners,
which was adopted by the department
somewhat more than two years ago, still
yields good results, which, in his opin-
ion, will warrant its continuance. The
National Prison Association of the Unit
ed States is given credit for. the idea Of
introducing this system in the navy,
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Mills Close Down.

Sharon, Pa, Nov. 3.--The wire nail
works Of the American Steel and Wire
company at South Sharon have closed
down for an indefinite period throwing
about 1000 men out Of work. The mills
have been operated steadily all summer
and fall and part of the time were on
double turn Lack of orders is given
as the cause for the shutdown,
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Cured by Walkin :.

New YorW, Oct. 20. Al fter "a tramp
covering 5000 miles and which took two
years, Charles e. Norris. almost 6oyears
old, walked into New York from san
Francisco When he started Mr.. Norris
was afflicted with tuberculosis and
weighed only SO pounds. When he
reached New York his lungs were sound.
and he tipped the scales at 1871
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successfnlly Launched.

# Philadelphia, Nov 8 3The Pacific
mail steamship Manchuria, which
stuck on the ways Saturday, was
successfully launched Monday at, the
yards of the New York Shipbuilding
company. Camden.
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Double Murder.

a Washington, Nov 3-Lewis Nortfeld
shot and Instantly killed his wife. Sophie,
and then committed suicide at their
lodgings, 210 New Jersey avenue, N. w,
about five o'clock Monday morning. He
is supposed to have been insane.
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The pope came to the scene in person
and remained until the arrangements
to fight the fire were completed. When
the pontiff arrived al the scene he or
~dered everyone to assist in extinguish-
ing the flames. The first intimation Of
fire was had when smoke was seen is
suing from the apartment of M. Marie,
which is located above that of Father
Ehrle, the librarian, who lives over the
library itself. M. Marie is a celebrated
French restorer of ancient manuscripts
ent engaged in copying work, and his
first reproductions have been selected
for part of the vatican's exhibit at the
st. Louis exposition. The famous Bra
mante staircase leads to that part of
the vatican where the fire broke out.
The gendarmes broke in the rear doors
o of NJ. Marle's apartment and found him
in heavy sleep. 1t is supposed that
he retired and forgot to take proper
precautions with his kitchen fire,
which probably blazed up and ignited
some nearby hangings.
News of the fire was Immediately
conveyed to the pope, who was found
kneeling in front of his chapel for his
usual evening prayer. He insisted
on going at once to the scene, notwith-
standing the fact that he was begged
to think first of his own safety. He
proceeded to the library, accompanied
by Monsignor Merry del Val, the papal
secretary of state; Monsignor Bisleti,
the papal majordom, and Monsignor
Dellachise, and followed by the mem
bers of the Noble guard attached to his
person The moment he arrived his
mind grasped the gravity Of the situa-
ton and nc ordered that the firemen
of Rome De called. This was done by
telegraph The firemen arrived in
about ten minutes, and when the fire
engines began working, three rooms
were already destroyed by the flames,
which were extending to the other
apartments. The pope withdrew as
soon as he saw that everything possi-
7ble was being done to fight the fire.
A Remarkable Operation.
ST.. Petersburg, Nov. s.-A surgeon
named Won Manteuffel at Dorpat, in
the government of Livonia, recently re-
moved bullet from woman's heart
and the patient lived three days after
the operation. The bullet had traversed
her heart, but had not penetrated its
larger cavity.
Robbers Secure $4,000.
Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 3.Two heav-
ily-armed men held up Melville Wheeler,
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A Remarkable Operation.
Rohbers Secure $4,000.

Nashville, Tenn, Nov 3.--Two heav-
ily-armed men held up Melville Wheeler,
assistant cashier in the office of the
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph
company at five o'clock Monday morn
ing, secured $4,000 in money and es-
raped. % 9 X 9 3f4 3s5
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WILL HAVE A CHANCE.
But II Trusts Do Not Conform to Law
They Will Be Prosecuted by
Attorney General Knox.

Washington, April 16.-Bad trusts
will be warned and have chance to re-
form. If they do not reform they will
be prosecuted. That represents the
policy of the government. Attorney
General Knox directed one of his as
sistants to say for publication that
there would be no more litigation with
out warning. One of the assistants
SAID that the trusts would probably
have chance to reform after receiv-
ing the first intimation that they were
violating the law. The department of
commerce will do this preliminary
work
The belief here is that the big trusts
are preparing to adjust their business
to meet the new conditions The steel
trust is to become managing corpor-
alton, instead of holding company.
Tie Northern Securities company will
give way and one of the big railroads
in the combination, probably the
Burlington, will become the dominant
factor in the northwestern transpor-
tation business. These changes will go
on like this as rapidly as possible. and
the government will give the capitalists
plenty of time.
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HANGED FOR MURDER.
Criminals Convicted of Taking Life
Pay the Penalty for Their Crime
in Several Places.

Media, Pa, April 15.-Albert West,
a negro, was hanged here for the MUIR
der of Mart w. Allen, a policeman, at
Chester. The crime for which West
paid the death penalty was committed
in Chester on Saturday, February 1,
1902.
Butler, Mo-, April 1s.--Dr. James L.
Gartrell, 6s years old, once member
of the Texas legislature and probate
judge in Texas county, was hanged
here yesterday for the murder of d,
B. Donegan in March, 1901.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 1s.-John
Taylor was hanged at the county jail
here yesterday for the murder on
March 2, 1901, of Ruth Nollard, his
former sweetheart.
st. Joseph, Mo-, April 1S.-Charles
May, who shot and killed Robert Mar
tin on December Is, 1900, at a coun-
try dance, was hanged in the Jail yard
here yesterday. May has had three
trials.
Eugene, Ore, April 1s.-Elilott Ly-
ons, who on February 6 shot and
killed Sheriff w. w. Withers while re-
sisting arrest for horse stealing. was
hanged here yesterday.
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TO Be NO NHNENASH|NG
Postmaster General Payne Says
Post Office Investigation Is
to Be Thorough.
THE GUILTY ONES WILL Be PUNISHED.
Statement Issued Giving Reasons for
the InvestigatiOn-Every Branch
of the Department to Be Probed-
No Immediate Changes in PERSON.
mel of the Service Likely.

Washington, April 15.-Postmaster
General Payne Tuesday evening gave
outa statement in which he announced
that the Investigation of the affairs
of the post office department would
be continued and that any parties
found guilty of wrongdoing will be
dealt with summarily. The statement
is as follows:
During the months of January and
February information and reports
reached me, which 1 deemed it
for the public interest to investi-
gate, and l, personally, gathered
such information and facts as
would enable the proper officers of
the department to undertake thor
ough investigation as to the truth or
falsity of these reports. I directed
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow to take the proper steps to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
TO VISIT GEYSERS.
lOwstOne to View SpOuters
and Falls.

Cinnabar, Mont, April IS. = Presf
dent Roosevelt left the quarters OF
Maj. Pitcher, at Fort Yellowstone.
Friday morning, for Norris, where he
will spend most of the remainder of
his stay in the park. The geysers are
in the neighborhood of Norris. If he
has time he will visit the falls of the
Yellowstone.
During the last two or three days
of his stay in the park the president
will be joined by Secretary Loeb and
the other members of the party. The
plan for the president to spend day
in the Black Hills has been aban-
doned owing to the impossibility of
disarranging the programme as al
ready arranged. An hour will he
spent at Edgemont, where the presi.
dent will be given an old-fashioned
cowboy reception.
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weekly summary of crop conditions:
Winter wheat is generally excellent,
and it has made splendid progress since
the first of the month; in the upper
Ohio valley, however, the freeze of the
4th and 5th caused some injury. On
the whole the condition of the crop in
the winter wheat belt east of the Rocky
mountainsislmore promising than for
years.
Spring wheat seeding is nearly COM
pleted in Iowa and Nebraska, and is
progressing well in South Dakota.
Oats continue promising in the
southern states and seeding is nearly
completed or well advanced-in the CEN
trail valleys, where the early sown is
coming up wellr
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HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE.
Property Valued at Nearly $1,000
600 COnsume ed by Flame in the
Texas OIL Fields.

: Beaumont, Tex, April 16.-A fire on
Spindle Top, which started at one
o'clock Wednesday morning, did dam
age estimated at 100000 to 81 ,OOO, Goo
Two hundred and sixty-five derricks
We're lost. Two hundred rigs were on
the producing wells.
The fire started from a lantern at
Caldwell Oil company's well. The
fly wheel of the engine struck the Ian
tern and ignited the derrick and the
flames spread with tremendous rapid
ity, three blocks, numbers &c. 81 and 3S,
being in ashes by three o'clock.
No effort was made to extinguish
the fire, for it was impossible to get
within hundred feet of the flames.
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Big Yacht Damaged.

Weymouth, England, April is. =
While maneuvering just outside the
breakwater here yesterday Shamrock
Ill, Sir Thomas Lipton's new chal-
lenger for the Americas cup, was dis
masted. One man was drowned, sew
eral others were swept overheard by
the mass of fallen wreckage, and Sir
Thomas and a number of the crew
were hurled down a hatchway. Sir
Thomas sustained a slight injury to
his left hand and the other men were
bruised.
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Two eggs a day from one hen for 81
days is the tale told by Chas. Helmke,
owner of Lonataka poultry farm, at
Green Village, N. ]. The hen is SIM
ply result of careful breeding, for
Dir. Helmke has been experimenting
with this end in view for several
years. 1t has long been a theory Of
his that by proper selection anG breed.
ing a hen might be produced which
would lay at least one egg every day in
the year. He has also theorized on
the possibility Of breed Of hens
which would produce two eggs every
day.
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In that city of innumerable public
conveniences, Paris, one of the novel
ties in street contrivances is an am
bulance in a lamp-post. 1t consists Of
An ornamental bronze pillar, about Is
feet in height, with a round, overhang.
ing top, resembling that of a light
house. The shaft contains a folding
stretcher with printed directions for
affording first aid to the injured In
case of street accident this stretcher
may be obtained Immediately by
breaking a small glass window just
above the letter box, removing key
and unlocking the receptacle.
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Young Chase Returns.

New York. April 15.-Moses Fowler
Chase, wealthy young man of La
fayette, Ind, who was recently found
in a sanitarium near Paris by Consul
General Gowdy, reached here on the
steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm from
Cherbourg. Chase, who was taken
abroad by relatives without, it is al
legged, the knowledge>of his father, had
been in sanitarium four years when
discovered by Mr. Gowdy.
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Naples doctors are studying the ex-
traordinary case of young woman, a
victim Of hysteria, from whose body
pins and needles have been issuing
for some time past. An examination
by means of the Roentgen rays shows
that there are still large number Of
needles and pins in the young wom-
ans body. The doctors are at loss
to explain the phenomenon, but it is
supposed that the girl eats the pins
and needles when in a hysterical fit.
Admitting this, it is still difficult to ex-
plain how they find their way out at
her eXtremities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24

A Sioux City cattleman is consider
ing the advisability of interbreeding
the Arctic musk OK with cattle of the
temperate zone, believing that the
stock so produced would be better
able to withstand the severe winters
of the west. He has been in CORE
spondence with Lieut.. Peary, and the
arctic explorer is favorably impressed
with the project. The vast loss of the
present season among herds on the
western ranges emphasizes the neces-
sity Of trying to infuse harder blood
into American cattle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
RIOT FOLLOWS LYNCH|NG.
Mob Hangs Negro on a Telegraph
Pole Near the Prison in
Joplin, Mo-.
WAS CHARGED WITH KILLING AN OFFICER
Crowd Then Begins an Active Race
War and All COlored Persons Are
Driven from the City and Their
Homes Burned-POLice Unable to
Stop the Riot.

Joplin, Mo-, April 16.-An Infatuated
mob took Tom Gilyard, tramp negro,
from the city Jail Wednesday evening
and hanged him to a telegraph pole
two blocks from the Jail. The negro
was charged with having murdered Po-
lice Officer c. Leslie, who was shot dead
Tuesday night in the Kansas City
Southern railroad yards while endeav-
oring to arrest several negroes sus-
pected of theft.
Officer Leslie had ordered several ne
groes who had taken refuge in box
car to surrender, and when they
failed to do SO he fired several shots
at the car. During the shooting a. ne
gro slipped from the car and, coming
up behind the officer, shot him though
the head. The negro then fled, but was
captured and placed in Jail.
Drive Negroes Away.
The lynching of the negro served
to only temporarily satisfy the indig-
nation of the mob, and later at night
hundreds of men again assembled and
rioted through the negro section of the
city, burning houses, stoDing negroes,
and finally drove every negro from
the confines of Joplin. The police we1e
powerless.
rush was made through Main
street, the principal street of Joplin,
and every negro was frightened off the
street and fed to the north part of the
city, where the colored population re-
sides. In this way the negroes were
driven from all parts of the city to the
negro section. Then the mob charged
down on the section.
Houses Burned.
Stones were thrown, doors and win
dows of negro houses We're broken in,
and finally several were fired. The fire
department responded, but many Of
the houses were burned to the ground.
The mob made endeavors to prevent
the fire department from eXtinguish-
ing the flames, and were partially sue
cessful. All the officers of the city,
township and county were called ont,
but the mob swept them aside and pro-
ceeded with the rioting.
Whole City In Uproar.
After the hundreds of frenzied men
composing the mob had vented their
wrath in the north end of the city they
rushed to the southern, where lived
number of negroes. Their houses were
vacant, and not a negro could be found.
Three more houses were fired and two
were consumed.
All efforts to reason with the rioters
were futile, as apparently frenzy had
seized them. The streets were
thronged. and at ILLS o'clock the whole
city was in an uproar.
Three Men Held.
Joplin, Mo-, April 1S.-The coroner's
jury that investigated the lynching
of the negro found verdict holding
three men. 1t follows:
eve, the jury, after hearing the
testimony at the inquest over the
body of negro, whose name is I'M
known to us, find that he came to his
death from hanging by the neck and
that said hanging was done by Sam
Mitchell, Ed Fields, alias Hickory
Bill, and man named Barnes
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Those ever-ingenious people, the
Chinese, are great at fish farming, and
one of their little lodges for Matching
young fish is most ingenious. Taking
a fresh egg they suck the contents
through tiny hole, and refill the egg
with the tiny eggs of the fish they
want to hatch. The hole is then seal
ed up and the egg placed under set
ting hen. In very few days the
fish ova are so far advanced that one
has only to break the shell into mod
erately warm water and the little fish
spring to life at once.
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Millions for Charity.

ST. Paul, Mimi, April 1s.-The last
will of Mrs. Fannie S. Wilder, widow
of Amherst III. Wilder, has been filed
in the probate court here. By this.
the last one of three wills made by
the members of the Wilder family.
the bulk of the great Wilder prop
erty, valued at 100000, is devoted
to the relief of the worthy poor of
the city.
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Some thrifty citizens Of New Hamp-
shire are reported to look with disfa-
vor upon the proposition that the state
accept Daniel Webster's birthplace, in
the town of Franklin, even as a gift
from the present owners, because Of
the expense to be incurred In its
maintenance and protection from van
dial hands
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Left a Fortune.

Washington, April 16.-Miss Rebecca
J. Taylor, who recently sought unsuc-
cessfully in the district courts to COM
pei her reinstatement as a clerk in the
war department, from which she had
been dismissed, has received informa-
ton that she has been left about $780,
600 by the death of an uncle in San
EropciSoo
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-04-24
Canoe Tins Over

Ottawa, ILL.,, April 16.-J. L. Vallata,
a prominent merchant, and Andrew
j. Bowermaster, contractor, were
drowned in the Illinois river two miles
west of here. Vallata and Bowermas-
ter and another were hunting ducks in
the two were drowned.
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When Prince Henry of Prussia visit
ed the United States persons were sur
prised to see how quickly he picked
up American idioms. To those assos
ciated with him it was not uncommon
to hear such phrases as made him
feel like 80 CENTS "out o. sight" and
"go way back and sit down." with
other current slang. Therefore no
one here is surprised to learn that
in speaking of a statement he deems
particularly direct and appropriate,
Baron Won Sternburg frequently says:
Its bully-right off the bat"