The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-03
The Illinois Typographical union in

convention at Alton elected b. S. Cham
bers, of Chicago, as president, and de-,
clared for municipal ownership.
Sir Thomas Upton arrived in New
York on the steamship Oceanic to take
part in the America cup races.
j. w. Pace, an aged Tallapoosa coun-
ty planter, was convicted at Montgom-
cry, Ala, of holding negroes in invol-
untary servitrde as poems and given
five years prison sentence.
Ex-Congressman Edmund H. briggs
was indicted four times in New York
on a total of "a counts in connection
with the post Office department scan
da.l
Beloit (Wis.) college has been given
$4,000 by Andrew Carnegie for Ii
brary building.
A Peoria qll.) mob again assembled
to lynch John McCray, the murderer
of Detective Murphy, but the prisoner
had been taken to Galesburg.
The coroner's jury at Wilmington,
Del, found that persons unknown
burned the negro George White to
death.
There will be total of over 10000
prizes in the classifications for horses,
cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc., for
the worlds fair show next year in st.
Louis.
Illinois masons laid the corner stone
for new home for aged members of
the order and widows and orphaned
children at Bloomington.
Miss Blanche Boies was convicted of
smashing saloon windows in Topeka,
Kan, and sentenced to 80 days in Jail
and to pay a fine of 500.
AS result of quarrel over card
game at Courtney, Pa, Joseph Bruno
and Rosario Boano and his wife were
fatally shot.
Municipal ownership and operation
of Staten island ferry line has been
decided on by Mayor Low, of New
York.
Postmaster General Payne is i'll from
gastritis. His resignation is unlikely
unless compelled by bad health.
An equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph
Hooker, erected upon the grounds of
the statehouse, was dedicated in Bos-
ton.
The possibility of race war was
discussed at conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Sunday School asso-
citation in Milwaukee. American civil
ization is declared to be threatened and
the nation is urged TO act.
The worlds fair company in ST.
Louis has expended in actual cash S.
100000 up to the first of the present
month.
The board of Cancellation for the
anthracite coal districts met in
Wilkesbarre and adopted rules relat-
ing to the consideration of grievances.
The department of agriculture has
decided to locate at Nacogdoches,
Tex, the largest tobacco expert
mental station in the world.
In freight wreck on the Monon
ten miles west of Lafayette, Ind,
three tramps were killed and six cars
were smashed.
President Roosevelt has decided to
transmit to Russia the American pro-
test against the persecution and MUIR
der of Jews.
Nine hundred union carpenters
struck at the stockyards in Chicago
because their demand for a wage in
erase was refused.
All three Yale-Harvard rowing races
at New London, Conn, were won by
Yale for the first time in history.
Peonage is common in southeastern
Alabama, and an effort to correct the
worst abuses has been started by two
judges.
The Citizens bank at Milton, Ind,
closed it's doors with liabilities of $15.-
600.
On the morning of the Fourth of
July President Roosevelt will send
message formally opening the Pacific
cable to the Philippine islands.
Richmond (Va0 street cars are OPP
Grated with a guard of armed militia
men, under orders to shoot to kill if
necessary to protect property.
Anarchy is said to exist in Delaware.
The mob that burned Wilmington ne
gro defies the authorities, and the
militia is said to be in sympathy with
the mob. A race war is feared.
The wholesale bakery of Kohlsaat
& Co., in Chicago, opened with nom
union help after being shut down six
weeks by strikes.
Young" Corbett knocked out "Kid"
Murphy, of Denver, in the sixth round
of fight in Boston.
The fiftieth birthday of Plano, Ill,
was celebrated with an old-time cos
tune dance and basket picnic, which
1000 persons attended.
Broker F. c. Fuller and his 13-year-
old son, of Cleveland, were drowned
in Lake Erie.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Nebraska democrats will hold
their state convention August 25 at CO.
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