The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-01-01
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Weekly trade reviews report heavy
consumption of merchandise, growing
ease of money and fewer commercial
defaults.
Lee Crib (colored), convicted of the
murder of Emmett White, white
boy aged Is, was hanged at Douglass,
Ga.
The historic South Congreg ational
church in Salem, Mass, built in 1905, was
destroyed by fire.
Gen. John c. Black, of Chicago, sent his
acceptance to President Roosevelt of
his nomination as civil service commits
sioner
The invention of a telegraph system
that will send 5000 words a minute is
claimed by Patrick B. Delaney, OF New
York.
At Appleton, Wis, the first divorce
ever granted an Oneida Indian was given
to Joseph Metoxen, aged So, from Lena
Metoxen, aged II.
Three safeblowers robbed the Bank of
Kennard, Neb., of $4,000 and escaped
with stolen team.
Actor Wilbur Todd killed himself with
a property" revolver during perform
ance at Marion, Ind
Union pickets kept watch at funerals
in Chicago in order to make sure that
the last honors were denied the dead.
Rather than face cherries Christ
mas, Roscoe w. Derby, Cleveland CO.,
machinist, killed his wife and three chill
dren and committed suicide.
Frederic r. Coudert, of New York, the
famous American authority on interna-
tional law and orator, died from an at
tack of heart trouble at Washington,
aged II years.
Six persons were asphyxiated by il
Eliminating gas in San Francisco.
Frank M. Higgins, chief examiner
Of the civil service commission, in his
annual report says that during the
last fiscal year there were 112, 624 per-
sons examined for the classified SER
pointments made.
Secretary Shaw will suspend the re-
funding of government bonds after
December 81, the desired amount OF
s100,O0O,0O0 practically havflg been
reached.
Alderman John J. Brennan was SEN
fenced by Judge Gary in Chicago to
frauds.
Nine persons were killed and 81 in
jured by the wrecking of st. Louis
and San Francisco train at Godfrey
Kan.
A wage cut of ten per cent, an
nounced by the United States Steel cor
poration for the mills in the Pittsburg
district, will affect $4,000 men.
Later advices from the fire at the
Walden university near Nashville,
Tenn, say that 13 girls persisted in the
flames.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until January next.
Because of his jealousy, L. w. Horn,
living near Centerville, Ia, murdered
his wife at church door and then
killed himself.
Fire destroyed the main buildings OF
Hubinger Brothers starch factory at
Keokuk, Ia, the loss being estimated at
S25C,OO0.
The George E. White Lumber COM
ceiver's hands, with liabilities of $780,
0O0
Mrs. Sadie Siebold killed her five-year-
old daughter and herself in Chicago by
asphyxiation. Fear of illness was the
supposed cause.
The trials of men implicated in water
scandals in Grand Rapids, Mich, will
begin January II.
Fire destroyed the Travellers hotel al
Menominee, Mich, and James Beatty
persisted in the flames.
An operation having no parallel in the
surgical world was performed at hos
pital in Sioux City, Ia, by DR.. William
Jepson, who removed false tissue grown
on the bone of man with a broken neck,
replaced the bone, and the patient was
recovering.
Striking Chicago liverymen were
warned by Chief O'Neill that interior
ence with funerals must stop, and the
militia was promised by Gov. Yates ii
police are not enough.
~AN N<>pANoo pdShdSO SOhIdlhihS3 YAt""~
consigned by the Peoples bank, Of
Bloomington, ILL.,, to the bank at Elliott
was stolen.
Burglars blew open safe in the Towe,
Hill Qll.) bank and escaped with S., 00(
In cash.
James Gillespie is charged by the
grand jury at Rising Sun, Ind, with the
murder of his twin sister and three other
members of the family are held as con-
spirators.
The advisory board of the Amalga-
mated Steel Workers union in Pitts
burg announced that SO lodges had
voted to accept wage reduction of II
per cent.
New gifts totaling nearly 100000
were announced by President Harper
ut the University of Chicago convoca-
ticn, $1,S60,OoO coming from John D.
Rockefeller.