The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-10-30
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.

OOhtSSIAO.
A head-on collision occurred on the
Southern railway between Keysville
and Meherrin, Va. Four trainmen were
instantly killed and five injured.
Four men were run down and killed
on the Mahoning Valley CO., street rail-
way lines.
Battleship Maine, in her endurance
run from Newport News, Va, to Guile
bra, Porto Rico, showed an average
of fifteen knots an hour and running
one stretch of so miles at the rate OF
1877 knots an hour,
j. Hill, in an address to the irrigation
congress at Bismarck, N. D., declared
charge for moving freight in the north
west has dropped from 1921 per ton in
1882 to IS cents in 1903.
The steamer South Portland, from
Portland, Ore, to San Franciso, wrecked
On Cape Blanco and 81 of sc persons on
board were believed lost.
Mary Mcdowell, in an address to the
Illinois Federation of Women's clubs at
Cairo, urged working women to organize,
and asked boycott of goods made by chill
dren.
John A. Dowie is denounced in an open
letter by Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, OF
New York, as a juggler whose sermons
are beyond bounds of respectability.
The National Spiritualists' Associa-
ton of the United States and Canada met
at Washington in annual convention.
Al Wade and Ben Wade, convicted of
the murder of Katherine Sullivan at
Toledo, o., will be electrocuted Novem-
Der II.
Railway clerks are preparing to pre-
sent demands for an increase of wages
to begin January 1.
Pension Commissioner Ware, in grant
Ing promotions to number of clerks in
his bureau, warns them that merit Is
the only thing considered and outside in
fuence will injure those attempting to
use 1t.
DIR. Dowie was Kissed by his audience
at Madison Square garden in New York
because of his fiery language.
Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant
postmaster general, has completed his
report on the scandals investigation.
Lou Dillon, queen of the trotting turf,
easily defeated Major Delmar in the race
for the $4,000 gold cup at Memphis.
BY the Alaska award America gets two
Islands which dominate Port Simpson,
where the Grand Trunk Pacific is to end
The Canadian commissioners refused to
sign the verdict, declaring their country
betrayed.
The banking concern of j. E. Brown, of
Chatsworth, ILL.,, has made an assignment
with liabilities of $33 iii; assets, $685.
42S.
c. E. Norris reached Middletown, N. Y,
after an S,O00-mile walk from San Fran
cisco, undertaking to cure consumption.
He started August 8, 1901.
President Roosevelt has announced his
Intention Of going to Oyster Bay to cast
his vote on election day, Tuesday, No
vember 8.
Howard Elliott, of st. Paul, Mimi,
hasbeen elected president of the North
ern Pacific railroad.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Mrs. William Tate,
a colored woman, % years old, gave
DlrIn 10 Jour girl DdDleS.
The guardianship of Moses Fowler
Chase, millionaire incompetent, has been
awarded by the federal court of appeals
to his father, F. S. Chase, of Lafayette,
Ind.
The federal national bank of Pittsburg,
Pa, closed its doors with 81 900, 900 owing
depositors.
Robbers secured SIS 900 in stamps and
money from the post Office at Superior
Wis.
The president has appointed Horace
w. Bailey United States marshal for
Vermont, to succeed Fred Field, dis
missed.
Branch banks and asset currency were
opposed by speakers at the American
bankers convention in So Francisco.
Government agents ar, investigating
an alleged land graft" ring on the Pa
cific coast, which is said to have secured
large areas of land illegally.
Twenty thousand persons who were
unable to enter John A. Dowie's New
York meeting stampeded at the entrance
and trampled on women and stopped
street traffic.
The battleship Missouri broke all rec
ords for speed on her trial trip by cover
ing &C knots at 1906 per hour.