The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-03-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March ).


The population. of:New York city is.
now placed at 3,732.9O3.
Ira D.. Sankey, evangelist and sing
er, has, it is said, become totally
blind.
Mrs. Josephine Quintal. aged 1o2
years, died at her home in Jackson
vile, Ill. :
President Roosevelt has signed all
the appropriation bills passed by
congress.
John D. Rockefeller has given S20,-
600 to negro college at MARSHALL
town, Tex.
The British army estimates for 1903
"a call for a total expenditure of
Sill, 1925 900.
James Madison Bell, colored poet,
friend and associate. of John Brown,
died in Chicago.
Local manifestations in behalf of
the reelection of President Diaz are to
be held all over Mexico.
The president has renominated
William d. Crum as collector of Gus
toms at Charleston, S. C.
William Ross was executed at Bot
tineau, N. d., for the murder of Thorn
as Walsh on July 5, 1902.
Weekly trade reviews report i'm
proved conditions, due to increased
movement of freight and fuel.
Charles E. L. Henderson was hanged
at Duluth, Mimi, for the murder on
June 81 last of Ida Mccormick.
Andrew Carnegie has given Prince
ton university $1.0O0,OO0 for the con-
struction of a graduate school.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived at San Francisco from
Manila with nearly 1900 soldiers.
The Wisconsin legislatures proposal
for a national conference on the negro
question is favored in the north.
Arthur P. German, of Maryland, has
been chosen by the democrats as their
leader in the United States senate.
The new United States monitor Ne
vada has been placed in commission at
the navy yard in Portsmouth, N. III.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael
Herbert have exchanged ratification
of the Alaskan boundary treaty.
A national and international good
roads congress will be held in st.
Louis from April 81 to May next.
The world fve-men bowling record
was broken in Chicago by the Empires,
of Chicago, the new record being 1,152.
Earl Shaw and Lee Shellenberger
were killed at the Warren mine, near
Joplin, Mo-, by bowlder weighing a
ton.
A general strike against the Ameri-
can Bridge company has been ordered
by the structural iron workers in Phil
adelphia.
Sir Thomas Upton announced, after
inspecting Shamrock LII. at Glasgow,
that the launching would take place
March II.
Government receipts in February
were $43,O2S,179 and expenditures $751;
75O,749, leaving surplus for the month
of $5,277, 43o.
Admiral Crowninshield, displeased
with his flagship, asked to be placed
on the retired list, and his request
was granted.
The Arkansas legislature has passed
bill requiring street car companies
to operate separate cars for white and
colored people.
The fire loss in the United States
and Canada in February was $16,OO0,-
600, against $21,O1O,0OO in the same
month in 1902.
Josiah Muir, the inventor of the pa
per car wheels now in use on rail-
roads, died at Morristowr, n. j., at
the age of 81 years.
The Indiana legislature has passed
bill appropria ting $15o,Ooo for the
Indiana exhibit and building at the
ST. Louis exposition.
James J. Corbett and James j. JEFF
fries have agreed to fight in California
in July or August for the heavyweight
championship of the world.
Col. Yorke, of the London board of
trade, after inspecting American rail-
ways, reports that in many essential
respects they are superior to the Brit
ish.
The secret of restoring lost eyesdght
is claimed 10 have been discovered by
Prof. Peter Stems, of Paris. An APP
paratus supplies the place of the eye,
while the function of seeing is per-
formed by the brain.