The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-18

with typhoid fever at Butler, Pa, and
Mayor Kennedy has appealed to the
world for help.
In sinking an artesian well near Chey-
enne, Wyo., the drill at depth of 265
| feet penetrated lake or stream and
water spouted out to height of 40 feet.
Soundings failed to find bottom.
| Prof. j. d. Robertson, in lecture to
an Eclectic society in Chicago, declared
doctors will have nothing to do when
people stop bathing.
Clarence Walker, aged seven, was
saved from drowning in lake near
Kenosha, Wis. By his six-year-old sis
ter, who threw a scarf to him and held
him from sinking.
The Goulds have gained an entrance
to Cleveland for the Wabash road, using
trackage rights over the new Erie cut
| off.
Secretary Cortelyou, in his report,
| says the new department of commerce
and labor has no authority to settle dis
putes between employer and employee.
Chairman Foss, of the naval affairs
committee, consulted with President
Roosevelt on the necessity for a larger
navy.
Zion City celebrated the dismissal of
the receivers and DR.. Dowie announced
to his followers that the town will here
after be on a cash basis.
A schedule of 145 games next season
was decided on by the National Baseball
league conference at New York.
President Roosevelt has decided to ap-
point Thomas ]. Atkins, chairman of
the republican state committee of Mis-
souri,, to be assistant United States treas
urer at st. Louis.
Dr. Edwin Holt Hughes has been in
augurated president of De Paw uni
versity at Greencastle, Ind.
Orders have been received at the
Brooklyn navy yard directing that the
battleship Indiana go out of commits
sion for repairs.
The winter wheat area is estimated by
| the governments report at $4,000, 900
acres, decrease of six per cent from
1902.
A committee of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition company at st. Louis
will ask congress for an additional ap-
preparation of 100000.
Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, of Rising
Sun, Ind, died of shots fired through a
window of her home and her twin
brother was called before a grand jury
for examination.
Nine. Nordica has entered suit in the
New York courts for divorce from her
husband, M. Doeme.
The National Contractors conference
held its first meeting in Chicago and
made plans for permanent association.
Rioters brutally assaulted the non
union crew of Chicago city railway
car and wrecked the car.
In navigating the great lakes during
the season just closed "a lives were lost,
ten being passengers
Mrs. Mary Mcknight was convicted at
Cadillac, Mich, of poisoning her
brother, his wife and their baby, and
was given life sentence.
Eight thousand Independent tele-
phone companies will be merged into a
combine with $35,OOO,OOO capital. ac-
cording to plans of the Interstate asso-
citation.
The Elkhart Qnd) national bank,
which failed recently, cannot pay cred
itors in full, according to a United States
treasury official
War between the United States and
Germany over the latter's encroach-
mentS in South America is reDOrted tn
have been predicted by Gen. Macarthur
at the Hawaiian conference
The Standard Oil officials ordered
bloodhounds sent to Montpelier, Ind,
| where some one opened the valves of five
| immense tanks and permitted the oil
to escape.
Fifteen persons were injured and
Frank A. La Sale killed in a train COL
lision near Steubenville, o.