The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-09-02
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Court decided for the teachers in
their suit against the Chicago board of
education for $45 each, the amount cut
from each teachers salary in the last
six months of 1900, holding that the
school board had no right to make the
reduction without sufficient notice.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was convicted
a second time in San Francisco of kill
ing Mrs. ]. P. Dunning with poisoned
candy sent in the mail, and sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
NJ. L. Turner, president of the West
ern national bank, of Oklahoma City,
secured the 100000 new Philippine
bonds, his bid being 101.41.
The Pennsylvania railroad made a
sweeping reduction in time of machin-
lists, men to get two days each week.
A hurricane in South Dakota killed
two people and fatally injured four
The Chicago packing house strike is
in its sixth week; statistics show big
loss in wages to strikers; employers
probably lost more; plants steadily in
creasing output.
By the capsizing of a small catboat
off Boston light three persons lost their
lives
Earl Kaiser broke the worlds auto
mobile record at Cleveland, O., at the
Chenille track, making the last mile
of a five-mile race in 81 seconds.
One man was shot and instantly
killed and seven were badly wounded
in riot at Joseph Letters mining
camp at Zeigler, ILL.,, between strikers
and the armed federal guards.
Two men are dead and third is
missing as the result of a row over
alleged claim jumping on Marble creek,
near ST. Maries, Idaho.
Two Norfolk & Western freight
trains collided near Portsmouth, o.
Twenty-Five cars were wrecked and
one engine. Two tramps were killed
and buried under the wreckage. En-
gineer Staten was fatally and Conduc-
tor Hensley seriously hurt.
Failure of an attempt to blow up the
big reservoir at st. Mary's, o., prevents
duplication of the Johnstown horror.
Many passengers were injured in
Burlington collision in Nebraska and
Rock Island accident near Trenton, Mo.
The weekly crop report says abundant
rains have relieved the drought in parts
of the central valleys and corn has made
good progress.
Washington banks have filed a petit
ton asking that Thomas E. Waggaman,
trad IF ha OF o1i ;,o
posed to be millionaire, be declared a
bankrupt.
War on impure food imports is to be
extended by the Washington authorities,
who will place chemists at the principal
ports as an additional safeguard. Ger
man sausages are likely to be excluded
Mrs. Florence Maybric landed in New
York and issued statement thanking
her friends for their efforts in her be-
half.
Booker T. Washington was asked by
labor leaders to use his influence toward
inducing negroes to cease working as
strike breakers at the Chicago stock
yards.
After fatally shooting his wife, Fred
Miller, aged rs years, of Cincinnati, O.,
turned the weapon upon himself, dying
of the wound.
Mrs. Caroline Boies Ely, well-known
writer, is dead at her home at New York.
She was 70 years old.
AS result of numerous complaints
on the part of the travelling public, a Wig
orous crusade has been instituted against
ticket brokers at st. Louis, with the re-
suit that IA have been arrested on a
charge of selling nontransferable tick
cts
Prof Anton Drasche, a member of the
Austrian sanitary council, celebrated for
his Investigations into the disease of
cholera, is dead
George Boyce, his wife Ida and their
six-months-old baby were found dead
in a New York tenement house. The po-
lice believe that the man killed his wife
and child and then himself.
The pension list for the year showed
decrease in number of names for the
first time in history and over a million
OF appropriation was turned back.
Fire caused by lime results in $50, 600
damage to Armour & Co.'S glue plant
at Chicago.
Philip Weinseimer, the indicted New
York labor leader, will emulate Sam
Parks by leading the labor day parade
John Redmond, the Irish leader OF
parliament. arrived in New York.
Judge Fox, of Indiana, wants laws
revised so that four years will be re-
quired to obtain an absolute divorce.
In head-on collision between two
Frisco trains near Sarcoxie, Mo-, II
persons were hurt and both engines
demolished.
Men deported from Cripple Creek De-
titioned President Roosevelt to inter
vene in their behalf and filed charges
of conspiracy against the mine owners
and strike breakers.
A new system of pneumatic tubes
was opened at Chicago in the presence
of federal representatives and many
business men.