The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-01-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Jan. 10.

For the Week Ending Jan. 10.
The bank of Louisville, Neb., was
| broken into and robbed of 81 200.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
ordered coal inquiry at Boston.
Chicago's poor are suffering for fuel
ans Mayor Harrison has appealed for
aid.
The state university building in
Norman, OKLA, has been destroyed
by fire.
Forty-eight Howard county Qnd.)
| girls will go to North Dakota to marry
| farmers.
Daniel II. Hastings, governor OF
Pennsylvania in 1894, died at Belle
fonte, aged "a years.
Fire destroyed the central building
of the Young Mems Christian associ'
alton at Cleveland, o.
The American Beet Sugar associa.
ton has formally withdrawn its oppo'
sition to Cuban reciprocity.
Scores of poor people in Indianapolis
stole coal in broad daylight to keeT
| their families from freezing.
Three persons were killed and IA OIL
more injured, one fatally, by collision
on the Pennsylvania road at Ada, Ohio
With production of 16,329,S05 bar
rels of -four in the year just closed
Minneapolis passed every previous rec
ord.
| Board of trade corners establishing
fictitious prices for grain were de-
clared illegal by the appellate court
in Chicago.
| Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, wa:
sworn in and in his message declared
his purpose to prosecute the railway
merger suit.
Emil johnson, a teamster, shot ant
killed Miss Benna Benson at Virginia
Mimi, because she refused to marry
him, and then killed himself.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the temperance
reformer, has purchased large resi-
dence at Kansas City, Kan, to be usee
as a home for drunkards' wives.
Crazed by family troubles, his wife
having sued for divorce, Joseph Policy
retired farmer of Eldora, Ia, sho
his wife and then killed himself.
Venezuelan government troops re
captured Tucacas port from the reb
els, taking $50 prisoners, and the ad
fvance on Caracas was checked.
| Rev. DR.. j. T. Mcfarland, of Topeka
was fined 500 for contempt of cour
| by police magistrate whom he scoret
for fine imposed on Mrs. Nation.
Weekly trade reviews repor
prompt collections and satisfactor,
business conditions, fuel shortag
being the only disturbing element.
The public library for which An
drew Carnegie gave $35O,000 was dedi
Gated at Washington with addresse
by the donor and President Roosevelt
Reports have reached Europe tina
new atrocities are being committee
in Macedonia and the people are flee
ing from the country in great mum
bers.
| In Berlin horse meat banquet wa
attended by 600 persons, who ate hors,
soup, picked horse tongue, filet an
roast horse to prove palatable qual
| tiles.
The Pennsylvania road has divided
ownership of the Reading with thu
| Vanderbilt interests, the two now con
trolling almost the entire eastern
anthracite and bituminous coal indus
try.
John Butler, alias w. C. Lane, ar
rested at Quincy, ILL.,, and identifies
as an Abingdon bank robber, was pos
ing as a wealthy stockman and en-
pertaining friends at an after-theate
| lunch.
| Ernest Davis, colored, was hanged a
| Manchester, Va, for the murder O
John Henry Stokes, another negro
Sol Dunn, colored, was hanged at Au
gusta, Ga, for killing William Springs
a white man.
| New York coal dealers advanced
| prices to $14. Ocean steamships ar,
| delayed for lack of fuel. The Detroi
| city government will ask for a stat
law enabling it to spend $4,000 for Goa
to be. sold at cost.
| New York's coal shortage is grow
ing more serious. Independent out
put has advanced to $11 and $13. In
dianapolis poor are stealing fuel il
| daylight. st. Louis receipts of Goa
are so per cent. below normal. An
thracite coal sells at SIS in Boston.