The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-04
DOMESTIC

Twenty-SiX persons have been indicted
at Savannah, Ga, for holding negroes in
slavery.
A fire in the big livery stable of Rice.
Benge & Co., at Danville, KY, cremated
26 fine horses.
r. E. McCandless and George E. Price
fought pistol duel at Edmonton, KY,
and both were killed.
Sixty-five thousand employees in cotton
mills in New England have submitted to
ten per cent cut in wages.
Settlement of the Chicago city railway
strike was baked by union men, just
as peace articles were about to be signed,
and negotiations were continued. Riots
followed attempts to run cars and shots
were fired by the police to stop the de-
struction of property.
Samuel Gompers has been chosen
president of the American Federation of
Labor for the twenty-first consecutive
time.
Sing Sing prison for the murder of Mrs.
Josephine Lanta Patro in New York
city October 6, 1902.
Private schedules of James S. Watson,
former president of Porter Brothers
Company in Chicago, show his liabilities
to be 81 ,295, 900.
Seventeen persons have been killed in
football games during the present sea-
son, with the hardest contests yet to be
played. A dozen are in the hospitals.
. American Federation of Labor at its
closing session in Boston adopted res
olution asking all working people to
purchase goods bearing the union label.
The two hundred and twentieth ami
versary of the landing of the first Ger
man colonists in North America was
celebrated in Washington.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Jones says that 257 In
dian schools are in operation with an
attendance of 24,357. A total of $757 ,173
has been paid to the Indians for their in
herited lands under the act of May 81,
1902.
Strikers attempted to wreck a coal
mine in the Cripple Creek district in Col
orado and troops were sent to keep Or
der.
The entire cotton belt region of west
Mississippi and Arkansas is enveloped
In dense smoke as result of serious for
est fires which have been raging for
three days.
Thirteen miners were killed and great
damage was done by an accidental ex-
plosion of gas in coal mine No. 20 at
Bonanza, Ark.
At Savannah, Ga, Edward ]. McRee
Frank McRee and William McRee. Of
Valdosta, entered plea of guilty 20 Is
indictments charging them With peon-
age and were sentenced to Fay fine of
$1,000 in two of the cases.
Burglars broke into the post Office at
Nant1coke, Pa, blew open the safe and
secured $4,000 in money and stamps.
The white house is in mourning on ac-
count of the death of the presidents
uncle, James K. Oracle. There will be
no social entertainments until the cab
met dinner.
August Is has been fixed as the date
for holding the annual G. A. r. encamp-
ment in Boston.
Secretary Hay notified Great Britain
and Holland that America will not guar
antee any part of the Colombian bonds,
but says Panama ought to.
President Roosevelt entertained rep
resentative Montana workingmen at
dinner at the white house and promised
them square deal' in all labor mat
tiers.
Bob Fitzsimmons and George Gard
ner fought 20 rounds in San Francisco
for the light heavyweight champion
ship. The decision was awarded to the
former.
While making an effort to save the
life OF his two-year-old sister, whose
clothes had caught fire from an open
fireplace, Ernest Petit, eight years old,
was burned to death at Asheville, N. G.
A nitroglycerine tank at the Aetna
powder works, Miller Station, Ind,
blew up, killing Albert Hoenscher and
fatally injuring Charles L. Potter and
A. Fisher.
At Lansing, Mich, the jury which
tried ex-senator John Holbrook for at
tempted bribery Of talesman in the
interest of Eli R. Sutton, brought in
@ verdict of not guilty.