The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
Tn Illinois President Roosevelt was

In ILLINOIS ITeSluSuG INooSS'Sio was
given warm greetings at Freeport,
Rockford, Rochelle, Aurora, Joliet,
Dwight, Pontiac, Lexington and
Bloomington, passing the night at the
last named city.
Bids have been opened at the navy
department for three battleships, to
be the most powerful in the navy.
The latest reports place the number
of known dead by the recent tornado
at Gainesville, Ga, at ITO. and the IN
jured at 300.
A Mississippi river excursion steamer
was crushed against bridge pier at
Hannibal, Mo-, and four children were
drowned.
Conductor Clements and four ne
groes were killed in wreck due to
washout near Columbia, S. C.
Louisville men are promoting
strike insurance company, which it is
proposed shall write risks protecting
employers against labor troubles.
All the low country between Warsaw
and Quincy, ILL.,, is under water. The
loss is $750,000.
At Paterson. n. j., bronze statue
of Garrett A. Hobart, late vice presi-
dent, erected in his honor by friends,
has been unveiled.
The new state capitol building at
Jackson. Miss. erected at cost OF
81 900, 900, was formally dedicated.
Thieves blew open the safe of the
Gold Stabeck bank at Vesta, Mimi, and
secured So, 500 in currency and $4,000
in notes.
The law passed by the last congress
requiring all naturalization offices to
make special inquiry regarding anar-
chistic views which may be held by APP
plicants for citizenship has gone into
effect
Four hundred members of the Chi
cago Blacksmiths' union have beensus-
pended by the international officials for
breaking a contract with employers
and going on strike.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
Eastern Illinois train by placing tie
on the Vermillion river bridge.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of May was $16,-
366, 500, against $14,S66,0 900 in May, 1902.
Forest fires are doing immense dam
age in all portions of Maine.
The rivers are falling in Missouri and
Kansas and the worst of the flood is
over except at ST. Louis and vicinity.
President Roosevelt on the 4th dedi-
Gated new state armory and spoke to
colored soldiers at the tomb of Lincoln
in Springfield, assisted in defeating a
university at Decatur, spoke at Dan
vile, and then left Illinois for Indian
apolis, where he<made the final speech
of his western trip, leaving at 800 p. m.
for Washington.
Nine persons were killed and three
injured by head-on collision of two
Santa Fe railroad passenger train near
Stilwell, Kan.
Samuel Mitchell (white), who led the
mob that lynched Thomas Gilyard a
negro, at Joplin, Mo-, recently, has
been sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment
At Greenville, Miss, John Dennis, a
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tempted criminal assault upon we'll
known young lady.
John L. Miller, of Lincoln, Neb., and
Miss Frances Moore, of Davenport, Ia,
students at the University of Chicago,
were accidentally drowned in Jackson
park lagoon.
The federal grand jury heard testi-
mony in Washington in the case of A.
w. Machen, former superintendent of
free delivery, who is accused of accept
ing brides of $4,000.
The Mississippi river food broke all
records at Keokuk, Ia. The Sny, Hunt
and Indian Grove levees broke and
100000 acres were submerged.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks and
New England are rapidly spreading
and timber worth millions of dollars is
being destroyed, with summer camps
and resorts.
Several large hotels and restaurants
were tied up in Chicago because of a
strike of walters and cooks.
Cowboys killed E. M. Berry and his
three sons at st. Francis, Kan, in a
quarrel over land.
Seventy-one persons are now known
to have lost their lives in the food at
Topeka, Kan.
A new counterfeit, Photographic
reproduction of the $50 issue of the
National state bank of Metropolis, ILL.,,
has been discovered
All New England is praying for rain
to check the forest fires that are
sweeping from Maine to Connecticut.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
S. E. Pettee, inventor of the machine