The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-10-23
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.

The Paterson (N j. flood damage is
estimated at s., 100000. The danger was
past and the water was receding there
and at Passaic.
J. w. Butman, a retired capitalist,
dropped dead in Decatur, ILL.,, from heart
disease. He was so years old.
Violations of the naturalization law
yere discovered in Chicago and elsewhere
by C. d. C. Vandusen, government agent.
The bank at Foxhome, Mimi, a private
Institution conducted by Standring
Brothers, closed its doors.
The livery stable of L. Leavitt, with
contents. including % horses, was de-
stroyed by fire at Sioux Falls, S. D.
A break in the Ramapo river sent
wall of water 20 feet high down the
Ramapo valley, in New York state, de-
stroying everything for distance OF
ten miles. Residents of the district es-
capped to the hills.
The nineteenth annual encampment of
the Union Veterans union began in Lou
isville, KY.
Word has been received at the white
aouse from Gov. Taft that he will be
teady to assume his new duties as secre-
tary of war in January.
The transport Sheridan arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with 600 men of
the First, Fifth and Sixth cavalry and
200 mariners.
Miss Annie Ball has the distinction of
being the first woman in Chicago to
o;po 70
gineers and to get license.
Despondent because of continued i'll
health, Bernhard Schultz and his wife
committed suicide in Milwaukee by in
haling gas.
Earl Ellsworth, of Woodstock, ILL.,, is
said to have confessed to the murder of
his father, mother and boarder two
years ago.
Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, has been
advised by President Roosevelt to re-
duce his militia guard at Cripple Creek.
The Farmers Cooperative Shipping
association, commonly called the far
mers' trust, has incorporated in Ne
braska.
Seven Indians were killed in quarrel
following drinking bout on the Black
foot reservation in Montana.
The Hetzlor summer resort hotel at
Cedar Lake, Ind, was burned and Will
liam Potter and wife persisted in the
flames. The couple had just been mar
ried.
Ten monuments erected on Antietam
battlefield by the state of Ohio, including
the one to the memory of President Nc
Kinley, were dedicated.
Frederick Crawford, of Oshkosh, shot
and killed his wife in Menasha, Wis,
wounded a man named l.. ]. JOurdain,
and blew out his own brains.
johnson Chase Hull, the oldest letter
carrier in the country, fell dead while
standing beside the coffin containing the
body of his brother in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The water in the flooded districts of
Paterson and Passaic, N. j., is receding
and no apprehension of further damage is
felt.
The Boston baseball team, champions
of the American league, won the worlds
championship by defeating Pittsburg,
leader in the National league.
In faith healing case the New York
court of appeals declared that failure to
provide a physician in case of sickness
was criminal neglect.
Nine of the largest wholesale bakery
firms in Chicago have combined, it is
said, to control the bread market.
The Office of the Journal at Kensal,
N. D., was wrecked by gang composed
of the lawless element which Editor AL
len had attacked.
John Kenahan and John Wilson were
convicted of murder at Chenille, Mont,
and sentenced to so years in prison.
The United States supreme court has
convened for the October term.
Esau Jeffries and William Rice, SOL
diers at Fort Morgan, Ala, were
drowned by the overturning of a yacht.
The former was from Tennessee and the
latter from Illinois.
The Panama canal route has not been
abandoned by President Roosevelt, who
believes Colombia will agree to new pro-
posals.
The trial of Daniel v. Miller, former as
sIstant attorney general, and Joseph N.
Johns, of Rockville, Ind, was begun at
Cincinnati for alleged postal department
conspiracy.
The receipts at so Of the largest post
Offices in the country during September
were $5,509, 422, a gain of nearly nine per
cent over the same month last year.
Bob Fitzsimmons failed to knock out
Joe Grim in the scheduled six rounds at
Philadelphia.
Four men robbed the Farmers State
bank at Berwick, ILL.,, of $4,000.
DR.. Francis Landley Patton has been
lnaugurated president of Princeton IN.
- seminary.
Ex-President Cleveland, speaking be-
fore the Commercial club of Chicago.
called for new crusade which shall
rescue the political holy land from the
infdel of corrupt methods, and urged
all good men of every party to join in
the laovem emit.