The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. 2.


Wis, aged 100 years.
The Montana senate defeated a
woman suffrage bill.
Mrs. Charity Green (colored), aged
103 years, died at Omaha.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned for three weeks.
Sixty-four japanese coal miners
were killed by gas explosion.
A cyclone at Wilmington, Del, un-
rooted so houses and injured two men.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
their annual reception in honor of
congress.
Valentine Casagrande, miner,
killed his wife and himself at Lead
vile, Col.
Secretary Root has accepted the res
ignation of Naval Constructor Rich
mond P. Hobson.
Miles johnson (colored) was
hanged at Augusta, Ga, for assault
ing a white woman.
Thirty persons were drowned off
Duraborg reef by the wreck of the
French bark Van Stabel.
Mime. Adelina Patti signed the con-
tract calling for 60 concerts in America.
beginning November next.
Hardie Henderson, well-known
baseball player, was instantly killed
by the cars in Philadelphia.
Col. G.. r. Stormont has been ap-
pointed commandant of the Indiana
soldiers home at Lafayette.
Nearly all the large rivers in In
diana are on the rampage as the re-
suit of heavy rains and thaws.
Mary Ann Mills, the oldest woman
in Canada, died in Woodham in her
one hundred and fifteenth year.
A European war is threatened by the
Russo-Austrian concentration of
troops on the Roumania frontier.
Five men were killed in a railway
collision between two Rock Island
freight trains near Tecolate, n NJ
John Stark, a saloonkeeper, killed
his wife and himself at Rosedale,
Ind. Domestic trouble was the cause.
Cole Younger has been pardoned by
Minnesota authorities and will be al
lowed to return to his old home in Mis-
souri,.
Weekly trade reviews report car
and fuel famine felt by many indus
tries. Activity in building trades is
noted.
The Morocco pretender was de-
feated at the gates of Fee by the sui
tan's troops, and 1850 rebels were
killed.
The German government has decid-
ed to readmit the Jesuits, who since
1872 have been excluded from the
country.
Indicted coal men in Chicago are to
escape prosecution under the anti
trust law but must stand trial for
conspiracy.
Edwin Maxwell, of Clarksburg, w
Va, the oldest member of the state
legislature, died at Charlestown
aged rs years.
While gang of laborers was raz-
ing an old tannery building at Buff
falo, N. Y, the building collapsed and
three were killed.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from an automobile in a New
York street to a brokers' office in
the Waldorf hotel.
The car ordered the severe punish
ment of those Finlanders-14,79S men
in all-who failed to comply with their
military obligations IN 1902.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur has
been assigned to the department of
California and Maj. Gen. John C. Bates
will succeed him at Chicago.
William PAUL, of London, baritone
of the Castle Square opera company
fell from a sixth-story window of a
ST. Louis hotel and was killed.
San Francisco officials are urged
by commercial bodies of that city to
cooperate with United States officials
in stamping out the bubonic plague
j. III. w. Rumple, member of congress
from the Second district of Iowa, died
at ST. Luke's hospital in Chicago from
an affection of the throat, aged 81
years.
Secretary of War Root, in an address
at the New York Union League club, de-
clared failure has resulted from be-
slowing citizenship and equal rights on
negroes.