The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $3,247,3S5 during the month OF
MAY. Cash in the treasury, 1875, 16s, s07.
Total debt, less cash in the treasury,
$1.31O, S56,93O.
The total receipts of the government
in MAY were $44, 49, 800, and the dis
bursements $40, $4,000, leaving sur
plus for the month of So, 526,973.
The body of Superintendent E. F.
Egan, of the Great Northern railroad,
who was lost in Montana mountains
on November while hunting, has been
discovered by searchers near Bolton.
A supreme court ruling on Ha-
waiian manslaughter case declares
that the islands criminal procedure
has not been abolished by annexation.
Celestine CARING, "a years old, COM
mitted suicide at New York after writ
ing that promise to kill herself was
given to her husband if he died first.
An explosion destroyed the plant at
Elmira, N. Y. where jovite, high ex-
plosive, was manufactured, and three
men were killed.
Mrs. Anna N. Noggie and Mrs. Hiram
Johnson, the oldest twins in the United
States, celebrated their eighty eighth
birthday at Monroe, Wis.
The total circulation of national
bank notes May 90 was $4O6, 443, 205, an
increase for the year of $49, 696,o21.
President Roosevelt witnessed a
wild west show at Cheyenne, where he
was given a beautiful horse, which he
rechristened Wyoming.
In the Chicago judicial election the
democrats elected II and the repub-
licans three judges.
Eighty-fve persons were killed and
40 fatally injured at Gainesville, Ga,
by cyclone, and property aggregat-
ing 100000 was destroyed.
Prof. John F. Hicks, botanist at the
state agricultural station at Wooster,
o.. was shot to death before the home
of his sweetheart by some unknown
person.
The floods are subsiding at Topeka,
Kan, and the height of the peril is
believed to have passed. Thirtyfour
persons are known to have persisted.
United States supreme court passes
upon number of important cases and
adiourns for the term.
The total coinage executed at the
minis of the United States during May
was $1,7SO,4S6.
Twenty-Five hundred square miles of
the most fertile valleys of Kansas and
Missouri, including populous cities, are
covered with flood waters.
Whitaker Wright, the British finan-
cial operator under arrest at New
York for alleged fraud, was refused
habeas corpus by the supreme court.
Water four feet above the danger
line is predicted for ST. Louis by the
government weather bureau.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, of Crawling,
Micl.., is charged with causing the
deati, of Mr.. and Mrs. John Murphy
and their daughter by giving them
poison.
A treaty with the Uintah Indians has
been closed which will throw open in
Utah 1,G50,000 acres of reservation land
for settlement in October, 1894.
The floods were subsiding at Kansas
City, Mo-, and conditions were much
improved.
The New York building trades strike
is practically ended and work will be
resumed at once. Drivers and la
borers. get no concessions and waive
union recognition.
President Roosevelt made stops at
several towns in Iowa on his home
ward journey. In an address at Du-
buque he favored a national policy
which refrains from wronging the
weak, but refuses to accept wrong
from strong nations.
The deaths from the tornado at
Gainesville, Ca, number 100. One thou
sand survivors are homeless and with
out food or clothing.
Six railroads have made peace with
the freight handlers union and thus
averted strike in Chicago.
Former Speaker Thomas B. Reed left
personal property valued at $431, 900,
according to report filed by the ap-
praisers at New York.
Topeka has decided to solicit outside
assistance for food sufferers, doubt
ing it's ability to care for 10000 sick
and homeless refugees. Four hundred
refugees are still unrescued.
The Ferris wheel, which cost $780,
COO, has been sold to a wrecking COM
pany in Chicago for $1,s00 and will be
removed as junk.
Another general strike of anthracite
coal miners is threatened by the execu-
tive board at Wilkesbarre, Pa, because
of the operators refusal to recognize
the miners Representatives on the con-
citation board, as promised under the
arbitration agreement.
The Mississippi river was above the
danger line at ST. Louis and an addi-
tional rise of five feet was predicted,
with enormous loss.
The cruiser Tacoma was launched at
the ship yards of the Union Iron works
in SaI francisco.