The Ely miner., 1903-04-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending April II.

King Christian celebrated his
eighty-fifth birthday in Copenhagen.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Cleve-
land, o., $250,OOO to erect seven branch
libraries.
The Washington Humane society has
elected President Roosevelt an honor
ary member.
j. W. Bryan, former lieutenant gov
ernor of Kentucky, died at his home in
Covington, KY.
The Indiana supreme court holds
that the weekly wage statute is un-
constitutional.
Jane Lewis (colored) observed her
one hundred and fourteenth birth
day at Hamilton, o.
After serving years imprisonment
on Blackwell's island, N. Y, John Most,
an anarchist, has been released.
A. w. Machen, chief of the free deliv-
cry division of the post office depart
ment, is said to be slated for removal.
States Attorney General Webb says
the use of the Bible in the public
school in San Francisco is unconstitu-
tional.
Mrs. Yetta Brownstein, aged 80
years, and her two children were
burned to death in their home in Phil
adelphia.
The crown prince and princess of
SaXony are said to have become recon-
ciled and will be remarked next week
at Salzbourg.
About a dozen strikers were shot
down by the troops in Rome during
riot which the men had started in the
center of the city.
Shamrock /. was defeated by Sham
rock III. in three trial races over a
windward and leeward seven miles
course at Weymouth.
AT Colorado Springs Carrie Nation
made a savage attack on President
Roosevelt at the Temple theater and
was hissed off the stage.
Reginald Vanderbilt, enraged at an
attempt to secure a picture of his BRIDE
to-be and himself, horsewhipped a
photographer at Newport.
The governor of New Jersey, by proc
lamation, wiped out of existence hum
dreds of concerns incorporated under
the easy laws of that state.
The Northern Securities merger de-
cision expected by brokers to stop COR
poration promotions until federal su-
preme court ruling is secured.
News from Venezuela indicates that
President Castro will sustain Minister
Bowen i'll his refusal to permit finan-
cial syndicates to settle the claims.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada during the month of
March amounted to $9,9O7, 600, against
$12 1854, 600 in the same month last
year. /
Percy NJ. Clark, civil engineer of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, was
killed in tornado north of Appleton,
Wis, and much property was de-
stroyed.
The United States government crop
report for April places winter wheat
condition at 97.3; 579,OOO,OOO bushels
yield will result if continued on acre.
age planted.
Admiral Walkers estimate of the
number of men to be employed on the
Panama canal when the United States
formally shall have entered upon the
project is 10000.
Five men were injured, John Murray,
James Clayton and Jefferson Powers
perhaps fatally, by the falling of der
rick while at work on worlds fair
building at ST. Louis.
James j. Hill hopes the supreme
court will reverse the finding in the
merger case, and intimates that if it
does not the railroad owners will find
some other method to meet the emer-
gency.
The T. c. Williams Tobacco company,
of Richmond, Va, has been sold for $4,-
900, 900 to the British-American Tobac-
co company, combination of the Con-
tinental Tobacco company, the Ameri-
can Tobacco company and the Imperial
Tobacco company, the latter of Eng
land.
In a fight at Jacksonville, O., Mrs.
Henry Skrotsky, Charles Riley, Charles
Cochrane and Seth Tinkham were fa-
tally shot and Henry Hoblett seriously
wounded. The fight grew out of card
playing in a saloon. IT is feared Tink-
ham, Riley and Cochrane will be
lynched. -