The Ely miner., 1903-01-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Jan. "a.

For the Week Ending Jan. "A.
The southern California orange
crop this year is record breaker.
The State bank of verdigree, Neb..
closed it's doors with liabilities Of
$19,O 900.
John P. Teeple celebrated his one
hundredth birthday at his home in
Laporte, Ind.
Mrs. Mary A. Hunt, of Beloit, Wis,
is 1o1 years old and possessed of all
her faculties.
Coal men charged with conspiracy
were placed on trial in Judge Horizons
court in Chicago.
Joseph Petross and his three sons
were killed by the caving in of a
mine at Natalie, Pa.
Timothy Harrington, NJ. P, has been
reelected lord mayor of Dublin for the
third successive time.
Duncan Clinch Hayward has been
inaugurated as governor of South
Carolina at Columbia.
Eugene Mccarthy, the "schoolboy
pugihst," of New York, died from the
effects of blow received in bout.
Julian Ralph, newspaper man,
author, correspondent and magazine
writer, died in New York, aged so
years.
Congressman Chester D. Long has
been nominated for United States
senator by the Kansas republican
legislative caucus.
Rev. H. W. Todd Grant, chaplain Of
I. o. o. F. of Illinois and chaplain of
the Fourth regiment Illinois infantry.
died at Vandalia, Ill.
Mrs. Roosevelt gave another of her
Friday evening musicales at the white
house, to which large number of
guests were invited.
Gov. Durbin, at the conclusion OF
the Indiana coal inquiry, declared
there was no evidence of collusion
to force up the price of coal.
George j. Jordan, Chicago sewing
machine agent, was shot and killed by
Charles Wendt, saloonkeeper, in a
dispute over a 6O-cent bar bill.
William Shields, who had lived the
life of hermit on the slope of Mount
Bigelow in Maine for twenty-three
years, was found frozen to death.
M. w. Savage, recent purchaser and
present owner of Dan Patch, the fa-
nous PAGER, has insured his valuable
animal in Minneapolis for $4,000.
The second anniversary of the death
of Queen Victoria was observed by
memorial services at Windsor, London
and elsewhere throughout Great Brit
ain.
Prof. w. D. MacClintock, of the UNI
versity of Chicago, in an address de-
scribed moral ideals as microbes"
ready to live in any susceptible organ
ism.
A small bone in President Roose-
velt's right wrist was fractured DUR
ing fencing bout with Gen. Wood.
Physicians say it will have mended in
few days.
In railway wreck on the Illinois
Central road at Dempster, Tenn, En-
gineer Norton, Fireman Mcdaniel
and Baggagemaster Meyerrick were
fatally injured.
IuS SOFcl uIuCuC Jug hCyuCh was
wrecked on Block island and boat
with six of the crew dashed to pieces
on the rocks, but the men were res
cued by life savers.
Mrs. w. Knute and her youngest
child, of Elcho, Wis.,, are dead from the
effects of burns sustained while escap-
ing from their home, which was
burned to the ground.
The famous copper mines of Castle.
townBerehaven are to be reopened.
This is good tidings for southern Ire
land, as the mines have been aban-
doned for many years.
Patrick Deehan was acquitted in
Chicago court of the alleged murder
of John Linders, by jury whose men,
bers first knelt and prayed for light
in arriving at their verdict.
Southern senator's and representa-
tives left white house reception in
huff and held indignation meetings be-
cause several negro officials attended
President Roosevelt's reception to con-
gress and the judiciary.
A wireless telegraph message from
President Roosevelt to King Edward
was transmitted 5000 miles by Mar
conf from Wellfeet (Mass.) station
to Cornwall England. The previous