The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-17
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.

DOMESTIC.
Admiral Dewey has resigned as pres
ident of the Thomas Jefferson Me-
mortal association, and Lieut.. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles has been elected to
succeed him.
Joseph ]. Gill, of Steubenville, mem
Der of congress from the Sixteenth
Ohio district, has resigned because of
Ill health
The Colorado legislature will meet
in extra session July 20 to pass an APP
preparation bill for the support of
state institutions.
William Rudolph, charged with muir
der and robbery, escaped from jail at
St. Louis by sliding down an electric
light wire.
Senator Hanna denies that he has
retired or will retire from business.
Mabel Brown, daughter of Chica-
goan. and another woman were muir
1ered by strangulation at Denver.
Charles E. Magoon, acting chief of the
bureau of insular affairs, sent the first
government commercial cable message
over the new Pacific cable line to Manila.
John Crowley, aged 16, cried himself
to death in New York upon hearing of
the death by accident of his uncle.
The Colorado river broke through the
levee near Yuma, Ariz., and flooded
large fertile valley
Shamrock III. sailed over the 30-mile
windward and leeward course off Sandy
Hook in 2 hours So minutes and 81 Sec
onds, making a new record.
E. l. Hammond and L. L. Whitman,
Of Pasadena, CAL, left for trip to New
York in an automobile
According to an opinion by Attorney
General Knox, Secretary Wilson may
seize and confiscate adulterated import
ed food products.
David Schaud, who shot and killed
Mrs. Ida Becker and Policeman Cyrus
Shaeffer, was hanged in the jail yard
at Lebanon, Pa.
has been discovered in Routt county,
Col, and the fields are believed to be
as extensive as those of Pennsylvania.
Cato Garrett, a negro who stabbed
Harry Stout to death, was hanged by
mob near the scene of his crime at
Vicksburg, Miss.
j. Marshall Funck, city solicitor of
Lebanon, Pa, and one of the best
known lawyers in that section, COM
mitted suicide in his office by hanging
himself
The governments weekly crop report
shows most favorable weather of the
season and corn greatly improved and
growing fast
William O'Connor was electrocuted
at Clinton, N. Y, prison for. the MUIR
der of Matthew Wilson, at Cobleskir,
in November, 1900.
A B. Young, Pittsburg attorney,
murdered his wife and committed sui
Tide at Washington (Pa) hotel.
The United States battleship Kear-
sarge broke all ocean records for speed
in the battleship class in it's voyage to
Kiel, making the distance of 3,345 miles
from New York to the Needles at the
average speed of 1852 miles an hour.
The first election in the United States
for Cecil Rhodes scholarships will take
place between February and May, 1904,
qualifying examination to be held in
each state and territory.
Twenty-four persons were killed
near Charlottesville, Va, by a head
on collision between a passenger and
freight train, and 13 others were in
jured.
A big slump in cotton on the New
York market is said to have wiped out
100000 of the paper profits of the
New Orleans bull clique.
The United States, Great Britain and
Japan are maintaining an Independent
attitude concerning Manchuria pending
the conference of Russian officials at
Port Arthur.
In Brooklyn, NJ Y, M. J. Sheridan,
of the Pastime Athletic club, hurled
the discus 1873 feet, breaking the
worlds record (his OWN by five feet
two inches.
Representatives of all creeds and call
ings have signed petition to the car
requesting that he lead the way to re-
ligious liberty
President Eliot, of Harvard, in an
address to the National Educational as
ISOLATION in Boston, declared prepara-
tory training for professions should
end at 81 years.