The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-06
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


Mrs. Catherine Reddy, of Yonkers, has
been awarded damages of $50, 600 for in
iuries received in wreck on the New
York Central railroad.
Conductor James Rowan and Fireman
Leslie A. Helm were killed by the ex-
olosion of a locomotive on the Pennsyl-
yania railroad near Rohrerstown, Pa.
Two students in Broadus college, the
Baptist UNCONVENTIONAL school in Clarks-
burg, w. Va, have smallpox and the en-
tire college is under quarantine.
The John Street church in New
York. "The Mother Church of Ameri-
can Methodism," celebrated it's one
hundred and thirty-seventh anniver-
sary.
President Roosevelt, on behalf of the
government, has accepted the 100000
painting representing the signing OF the
peace protocol with Spain, presented by
H. c. Frick.
Six hundred employees of the Interna-
tional Tailoring company struck in
Chicago in sympathy with their fellow
workers who were locked out by the
New York strike.
The government is building up a
formidable fleet of revenue cutters on
the great lakes, in view of the recent ac-
tivity of Canada in enforcing boundary
laws.
St Louis trust companies experienced
a run, but by meeting all demands re-
stored confidence.
Dowie so far has failed to make a
single convert in New York, and has not
collected enough to pay gas bills, thus
indicating that his $3.50 900 trip is fail
ure.
John Mitchell's book, organized La
bor," makes strong plea for trades
unionism, and in his review of the great
anthracite coal strike he pays high
praise to President Roosevelt for aiming
at settlement.
Unions have begun war of retalia-
ton on contractors in Chicago who have
brought suits against labor bodies with
the intention of disrupting their organ
izations.
Children are barred from white
school at Richmond, Va, because their
great-grandmother was an Indian.
Mabel H. Bechtel, pretty mill en-
ploye at Allentown, Pa, was found dead
near her home with her skull crushed
and two rival lovers and her four
brothers have been arrested.
Young Corbett" was awarded the
decision over Hughey Murphy at Bos-
ton after ten rounds of fighting.
A wrestling match at Pittsburg for
the championship of the world between
Tom Jenkins, of Cleveland, O., and Dan
Mcleod, of Canada, was won by Jenk-
ms.
farmer named Little, in Smith county,
Miss, and was afterwards shot to death
by mob.
President Roosevelt celebrated the
forty-ffth anniversary of his birth and
many beautiful and touching reminders
of the event came to him from every
: part of the country.
The steamer Manhattan, with cargo
of $4,000 bushels of wheat, was burned
on Lake Superior. The crew was saved.
The annual report of Surgeon General
Rixey to the secretary of the navy calls
for more hospitals and hospital ships
Ira McGriff, well-to-do farmer, shot
his wife and himself at New Paris, O.
At Memphis, Tenn, Dan Patch paced
half mile in SO fiat, and paced mile
towagon in 1:57A, both new worlds rec
ords.
Engineer T. ]. Pettus, Marion Nc
Comb, ]. B. Higgins and John Thomp-
son, negro firemen, were killed in a rail-
way wreck near Bessemer City, N. c.
Six white men were arrested at Lind
wood, Ala, by federal authorities on a
charge of whipping negroes.
One thousand canning department en-
ployes at the stockyards in Chicago
struck for increased pay.
A run on the ST. Louis trust companies
was ended, depositors being treasured
by the confidence in the institutions ex-
pressed by business men.
Secretary Hitchcock says the western
land frauds have been exaggerated, but
promises to decapitate all officials found
guilty of crooked transactions.
Gov. Hunt, of Porto Rico, will next
January be appointed United States dis
trict judge for Montana.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, the general
conference of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church of America requested all mem
.bers to vote the ticket of the prohibition
party.
The National Union of Shipwrights
Joiners and Calkers of America have es-
tablished nine-hour work day and
will do away with all Sunday labor.
At the Memphis race track Monk and
Equity, driven by Mr. Billings, their own
er, lowered the worlds trotting record
for mile to pole to 2:0S.
The cruiser Baltimore has been sent
to Puerto Plata, San Domingo, to look
after American interests at that block
AIDED port.
Drivers of all st. Louis express COM
panies, to the number of 400, went on
strike for increased pay.