The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-17


dress at Put-in-Bay, o., said the race
question in America was one of the most
threatening with which the country had
to contend.
At Idaho Falls, Idaho, James Stewart
shot his wife, and then committed sui
eide.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the International Baptist Young Peo-
Piles Union began in Atlanta, Ga.
The warship Bancroft has been Or
dered to Venezuela by Secretary Moody
to release by force if needed five Ameri-
can steamers detained by revolution
airy forces.
The Georgia legislature killed the
child labor bill, which prevented en-
ployment of children in cotton mills un-
der certain age limit.
Moses Blewett and George Rabi-
schund, an expert electrician, were
killed by live wire while at work in
Duluth, Mimi.
1t is announced further state aid for
the Illinois flood sufferers along the
Mississippi will not be solicited.
Warren P. Noble, pioneer member
of the bar and one of the Ohio civil war
congressman, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at Tiffin, O., aged SO years.
Over 5000 men are yet needed in the
Kansas harvest fields to save the great
wheat crop.
Secretary Root has taken steps to pre-
vent the use of influence" in the award
ing of army contracts.
A steam carriage for the emperor OF
Japan has Just been completed at To-
ledo, o.
Educators in convention at Boston
discussed manners and morals OF mod
ern college life and favored some direct
influence to guide the students.
Ara Cushman & Co., shoe manufac-
turers in Boston. failed for 100000.
The body of Edward Delehanty, ia
nous baseball player, was found near
Buffalo, N. Y, where he had fallen
through an open drawbridge.
Troops are in control of Evansville,
Ind, and no further riots have occurred.
The last link of the United States gov
eminent telegraph system connecting
St. Michael with Seattle has been con-
nected.
The action of Gov Durbin in refusing
to allow the trial of Lee, the colored
murderer of Patrolman Massey, rem
dered the further presence of soldiers at
Evansville, Ind, unnecessary, and they
were withdrawn.
Five people were killed and four in
jured at railway crossing near Red
Comb Junction, o.
A crusade against the aggression of
labor unions is planned by the National
Manufacturers association committee,
backed by a S1,500,000 fund.
The United Society of Christian En-
deavorers has reelected Rev. Francis E.
Clark, D. D., president.
DR.. John w. Cook, of De Kalb, ILL.,, has
been elected president of the National
Educational association.
The navy department has taken steps
to prevent further interference with
American shipping in the Orinoco river
by insurgents or government forces.
The government is determined to
stamp out the peonage system in the
southern states. Special counsel has
been appointed to prosecute cases.
In a railway wreck near Canon City,
Col, three engineers and a fireman were
killed.
The United States government may
not forward the Jewish petition to Rus
STA. st. Petersburg is to be asked if it
will be agreeable before the document
is sent.
The Pacific squadron, composed of the
flagship New York, the cruiser Marble
head, and the gunboat Bennington, has
sailed from the Puget sound navy yard
for the north.
Barney Oldfield established a new
worlds record by driving an automobile
mile on half-mile track in Marion,
Ind, in 1:16 2-5.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
sumed his official duties after short
visit in the Catskills.
William Jennings Bryan will go to
Europe this fall to study sociology under
monarchial forms of government.
To Michael Torlinski, of Nanticoke,
Pa, Pole, only Is years of age, be-
longs the distinction of having been the
first of his nationality to win a cadet
ship in Americas naval academy.