The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

over 100000 were announced.
Industries in Western Pennsylvania
and eastern Ohio are paralyzed by rea-
son of the prolonged drought. There
is much suffering and scores of towns
and villages in the district are at the
mercy of flames, there being an utter lack
of water.
Mrs. William Astor. of New York, has
broken all precedents by issuing 1,20O
invitations to her great ball in January.
An order to mobilize reserves in seven
districts will add 100000 men to Kuro-
patkin's army in the far east.
James Britt was given the decision
over Battling Nelson in 2Orounds of hard
fighting at San Francisco.
Nan Patterson withstood a severe
cross examination, her story OF the
shooting Of Caesar" Young remaining
practically mistaken.
Kingdom Gould, son of George j.
Gould, fired four shots at sophomores OF
Columbia university who chased him
up Broadway in New York city, seeking
to haze him. No one was hit.
The governor of Viatka reports seri-
Gus outbreak of Siberian plague in fac
tories in the districts of Viatka and Slo-
bodskoi, which are preparing fur coats
for the troops in Manchuria.
Ina quarrel growing out of SNOWFALL
ing bout in New York between the chill
dren of Felipe Scilaboro and Joseph Saw
erino, Saverino was shot to death and
Scilaboro was stabbed so badly that he
died later.
At Carbon mining town in Adams
county, Ia, two men blew the safe in the
store of r. S. Marlette and got away
with $4,000 which had been deposited
| there for safety by stock buyers.
BY an explosion and the burning of
| 100000 gallons of petroleum on Stand
ard Oil company's barge at sea off Long
| death.
Plans are forming for the establish
ment of an exhibition of American
manufactures in Paris, France.
| Four more have been added to the list
of six dead, and two are reported dying
from the effects of wood alcohol poison
ing at the mouth Of Big Sandy river in
Kentucky.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until January for the Christ
mast holidays.
King Alfonso has signed decree au-
thorizing Senior Ojeda, the Spanish min
lister at Washington, to sign the arbitra-
ton treaty with America.
The factory of the Passumpic Fiber
company and the flour mill of E. T. & H.
K Ide G. Co., in the village of Passumpic,
VT, were completely destroyed by fire,
involving a financial loss estimated at
$4,000.
It is estimated that when Christmas
day has passed it will be found that Chi
cagoans have spent total Of SO 900, 600
for Yuletide presents.
The Rothschilds, of Paris, are said
to be forming $1OO, 600, QUO pool to con-
troll Mexico's mining output and the
worlds silver
An orthodox Jewish society in New
York, warned parents against permit
ting children to celebrate Christmas.
President Harper, of the University
!, of Chicago, angered by newspaper
guesses at Rockefeller's Christmas gift
issues statement in which he says only
SEAS, 900 has been received.
A 12-story hotel, to be built on the
site of the Morrison block, in Chicago
t under the terms of the 1O3-year lease
: must perpetuate the name Of the Chicago
pioneer. The land, which cost SCI in
5 1888, now rents for $4,000 year.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that the title to McKissick's island
belongs to Nebraska and not to Missouri
The cars fete day was marked by dis
e turbances in Moscow and other places
} and he has abandoned his proposed triI
to southern Russia to bid farewell tt
Y troops.
| Attorneys for H. H. Rogers warn TIT
: distributors of Everybody's Magazine
e against the circulation of the publica
ton, saying the "Frenzied Finance
4 story of T. w. Lawson is libelous.
e Clergymen in Chicago and other cite
e take exception to Dr. Lyman Abbott
e address in Harvard, in which he ex
pressed nonbelief in God as person
S dlity.
r Nan Patterson, on the witness stand
J. denied that she killed Caesar Youn
!. and contradicted on all important point
n the testimony given for the state.
The United States supreme court in
t, decision holds that railroads shout
t comply with safety appliance law b
l. equipping all cars with automatic cou
l. piers.
e President Roosevelt will keep Secre
taries Shaw, Hitchcock and Wilson i
Y the cabinet with others. Cortelyou
t. displacement of Wynne is the onl
= change to be made after March 4.
Mormon witnesses in the Smoot in
"a quiry admitted they would obey the pre-:
l. ident of the church before they would th
g law.
Ernest Terah Hooley, leader of Ems
t. lish high finance, who amassed $50, 00O
& 600 in stock deals and lost it, was az
is quilted of fraud in a London court. A
accomplice was given one year.
d. Rev. Luther H. Trowbridge, of Detroi
is for 80 years editor and proprietor of tt
be Christian Herald of that city, is dead
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