The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-20

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bezzling $50, 900.
Speaker Cannon selected as his secre-
tary L. w. Busbey, we'll known as po-
litical writer throughout Illinois.
Dan Patch paced mile on a half-mile
track at Birmingham, Ala, in 2:O3A,
lowering the worlds record for PAGERS.
John Alexander Dowie has returned
to Zion City from his New York crusade.
Over 5000 men in the employ of the
Chicago City Railway company went on
strike for higher wages and employ
ment only of union men.
United States Commissioner Perry l..
Claxon was found dead near Carbonate,
ILL., He is supposed to have committed
suicide.
The United States Steel corporation
decided on 10 per cent. cut in wages,
by which it is expected to save SIS ,OO0,-
900 annually.
The indianapolis Sentinel has been
sold to new company, of which Thomas
Taggart will be president.
Moses Sale, appointed as a circuit
court judge at st. Louis, is the first Jew
James Hickman shot his wife and him
self at Urbana, Ill. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
Five persons were instantly killed and
several badly injured by wreck on the
Erie Traction line near Erie, Pa.
Secretary Wilson has asked congress
for $25, 900 for the pure food inspection
80 he loy orfy, ant of O oriaI11turQ
The whole Pacific coast from British
Columbia to southern California and the
states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and
western Colorado were swept by bliz-
zard.
William Jennings Bryan sailed for
Europe with his 13-year-old son, Will
liam j., Jr., on the steamer Majestic.
The annual report of Adjt. Gen. Hall
shows that the strength of our regular
army on October Is was 59,1S1, and of
the organized militia on July 1 last, 49,
542
Miss Lily Bengert, Baltimore (Md.)
high school student, was seriously beat
en- by classmates for talebearing.
A tornado in Indiana wrecked the
church at White River and destroyed
many houses. and barns.
Denver, Col, is threatened with coal
famine because of the miners strike,
and business men will appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to act as mediator.
Fire destroyed all the principal bust
ness houses at Kempton, Ind.
Fire at Savannah, ILL.,, destroyed ele-
vator ga" owned by Armour & Co., with
100000 bushels of grain, the loss being
100000.
Memorial services were held at Pur-
due university at Lafayette, Ind, in
honor of the IA students and others who
lost their lives in railway wreck.
Mrs. Edward De Witt Walsh, young
and beautiful, left her guests during
dinner at her country home in Mont
clair, N. j., and shot herself to death.
The reason is unknown.
Five men offered to sell one of their
ears to DR.. A. L. Nlden, of New York,
for grating on rich western man.
Wild rioting marked the first day of
the Chicago City railway strike, cars be-
ing wrecked and a score or more of the
nonunion men injured. Service on the
entire system was abandoned at noon
Arson is suspected at Abba, Ia, where
two fires broke out simultaneously and
destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of property.
Freight trans collided near New Hope,
KY, and six trainmen were killed.
jenkins City, Mo-, town of 400 in
habitants, was practically destroyed by
fire.
The monument erected on Missionary
Ridge in Tennessee to the memory CT
Ohio's troops who participated in the
battle on the famous heights was dedi-
Gated.
The postal receipts at so of the largest
post Offices for October were $500, $40,
an increase of seven per cent. over the
same month in 1902.
Edward Hoover was hanged at Michi-
gan City, Ind, for the murder of his ia
ther-in-law, Frank Sutton, in Indianap-
oils last May.
Robbers blew open the post Office safe
in Lafayette, o., and secured 5000 in
stamps and $500 in money.
H. L. Kaines and H. L. Scott, alleged
expert railroad ticket forgers, were ar
rested in Chicago.