The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-10-09
The Farmers and Mechanics bank at

The Farmers and Mechanics bank at
Byron, Neb, was robbed of $4,000.
The report of the United States treas
urer shows that on June 80 last the to-
tai net revenue for the fiscal year was
$3.50, 396,674, an increase of $3S, 1888, 4S9
over the year preceding, and the total
expenditures $500, 9,007, an increase
of $35, ,034; the monetary stock of
the country was $2,6SS, 1861 and the
increase of money in circulation was
s121, 740,252.
Presidents Gompers and President
Mitchell of the Federation of Labor
propose to use all their influence to
avert war on Roosevelt by organized
labor.
Chicago building permits decreased
35 per cent. in nine months and value
of structures s12,O0O,OO0 because of
strikes.
Five persons were killed and three
injured near Philadelphia by a train
which struck their wagon.
Mayor Harry H. Devereaux, of
Springfield, Ill.,, has been indicted for
alleged malfeasance in refusing to sup
press gambling.
BY collision between passenger
train and an electric car near the Haw-
thorne track in Chicago six persons
were killed and nine injured, making
total of So fatalities in Chicago for
September on steam and street rail-
ways.
William Foulke. aged 80 years, killed
his wife, aged 81 years, and himself
near Allentown, Pa
wage increase aggregating $4,000
600 will be demanded by the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen because
Of increased size of trains and engines
At the opening of the fall term of the
University of Chicago over 2,400 stu
dents were present -
The Chicago-New York auto tour is
finished, and is the most remarkable
long distance run in America, 1877
miles being covered in rs hours.
A mob lynched Walter Davis (col-
oredD at Marshall, Tex, for the murder
of Constable Hayes.
The public debt statement issued on
the list shows that the debt decreased
$6,171,s12 during the month of Sep
TENDER. Cash in the treasury, $780,
ALL Total debt, less cash in treas
ury, 1917, 752,545.
Willis, Frederick M. and Burton Van
Wormer (brothers) were put to death
in 1512 minutes in the electric chair
at the prison in Dannemora, N. Y,
for the murder of their uncle, Peter A.
Hallenbeck, at Greendale, on Christ
mas eve, 1901.
Mayor Seth Low, of New York, ad-
dressed civic mass meeting in the Audi
torium in Chicago and expressed the
wish that all the cities of the land might
be the source of inspiration for the per-
petuity of the republic.
During the month of September, 1903,
the total coinage of United States coins
was $2,626,371.
An American record of 1:05k for 51s
furlongs was set by MCGEE, Edward Cor
rigan's three-year-old, at the Harlem
race track in Chicago.
The amount of national bank notes in
circulation September 80 was s420,426,-
535, an increase for the year of $50 ,432,-
937.
The government receipts in September
were S44 1865, S1S, and the expenditures
$38, 430 1863, leaving surplus for the
month of Sc $4,000
At Oxford, o., deputy sheriff stood
off mob as it was lynching Louis Spivey
and cut the victim from a tree to which he
had been strung. The marshal, in at
tempting to arrest drunken man, pre-
cipitated riot in which four men were
fatally wounded.
During the past nine months there
were SIG business failures in the
United States, with liabilities of $101,-
$685., against S,676 failures and $685.
407 400 liabilities in the first nine months
of 1902.