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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Judge David S. Gooding died at Green
field, Ind, aged 80. He was United States
marshal for the District of Columbia
under President Andrew Johnson.
Ex-Mayor William r. Grace, of New
York city, died of pneumonia, aged u
years. He was noted as philanthropist.
Mayor David S. Rose has been for a
fourth time nominated to head the Mil
waukee democratic city ticket
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in Columbus May II.
Missouri republicans in convention at
Kansas City instructed their delegates
at large for Roosevelt.
Chapman Freeman, who represented
the First district of Philadelphia in con-
gress from 1874 to 1878, died in Stanford,
Pa, aged "A years.
Republicans of the Fourteenth Illi-
nois district renominated Benjamin F.
Marsh, of Hancock. for congress.
Up to date 1874 delegates pledged to
Roosevelt have been chosen to attend the
national convention in Chicago.
Gen. Thomas A. Morris, of Indianap-
oiio, SAC OioSSt iifAh6 81 oouoIC VI w SoI
Point, died in San Diego, CAL, aged 81
years.
The Fourth Nebraska district republi-
cans have renominated E. H. Hinshaw
for congress.
The republicans of the Twelfth Indiana
district nominated Lieut.. Gov. Newton
w. Gilbert for congress.
A. ]. Colborn, Jr., former national
president of the Patriotic Order of Sons
of America, died at his home in Scran-
ton, Pa, aged AZ years.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles wants the ma
tional prohibition convention, set for
June 20 at Indianapolis, postponed un-
til conventions have been held by the
republican and democratic parties.
Republicans of the Second Indiana
district have nominated John c. Cheney,
of Sullivan, for congress.
New Jersey democrats will hold their
state convention in Trenton on April IL.
George E. Yewell, one of the last sur
vivors of the Greedy arctic relief expedi-
ton, died in Baltimore.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
FOREIGN.

A report was published in Toxic that
the Japanese now occupy Port Arthur,
having attacked the town by land and
sea. Six hundred Russians were reported
killed and wounded in an engagement
at Chyong Syong.
Henry Norman. London Journalist and
member of parliament, declares the pres
ent war is the beginning of struggle to
control China.
The house of commons rejected a vote
Of censure on the British ministry by a
vote of 299 to 224.
Russians fear that China will join
forces with Japan If the latter wins the
first big land engagement.
A report comes from Paris that Japan,
China and Korea have signed treaty
forming triple alliance against Russia.
The japanese squadron, of about 20
ships, made double attack on Port Ar
thur, finally retiring without any
material damage being done on either
side. The Japanese army is reported
to be strongly intrenched at Anju and
across the entire Korean peninsula.
The japanese stopped Brig. Gen. Henry
T. Allen, United States military observer
with the Japanese army at Ping Yang, re-
questing him not to proceed nearer their
outposts.
Former President Bonilla, of Hondoras
has been sentenced to be shot to death
for taking part in a plot against the
present government of that country.
The London cancer hospital has aban-
doned entirely the radium treatment, an
nouncing that it has no curative proper
ties.
A letter written from Labrador con-
firms the death of Leonidas Hubbard, ex-
plorer, from starvation, and tells of in
tense suffering of his party.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
LAT Err.


In the senate on the l5th resolution
was adopted to consider whether an
amendment to the rules concerning i'm
parchment is desirable. In the house
the post Office appropriation bill was
further considered.
Prairie fires which have ragged in
Holt, Rock and Wheeler counties, in
Nebraska. for two days were threaten
ing a number of small towns.
The worst blizzard of the season
ragged at Bismarck, N. d., and snow
drifts from three to six feet deep
stopped business.
Refusals of miners in joint confer
ence at Des Moines to arbitrate ques-
tons affecting the wage scale may
cause strike of 10000 men.
Forty of the largest factories in
Grand Rapids, Mich, were obliged to
close because of a flood, and thousands
of men were out of work.
Engineer Edward French and Brake
man Frank E. Young, of Jackson, were
scalded to death in a freight wreck
near Niles, Mich.
A Russian officer was sentenced to
penal servitude 25 years for selling
military secrets to Japan.
Conservative estimates of the dam
age caused by the flooded rivers and
creeks of lower Michigan place the
property loss at more than $1,000,000.
Two lives have been lost.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany's freight station at Twenty-ninth
and Market streets, West Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire, entailing loss
estimated at $4,000.
The empress dowager has negatived
la proposal made by Gen. Yuan Shi
Kai and Gen. Ma that China conclude
an open alliance with Japan in view
|of Russia's repeated violations of Chi
nese territory.
In the ranching country around Med
icine Hat and Moosejaw, Manitoba, 40
per cent of the cattle have been lost
in the snow and will likely perish.
Jimmy" Britt was awarded decis-
ion over Young Corbett' in their San
Francisco fight after they had battled
full 20 rounds Britt rallied in the last
three rounds and won out.
The house committee on judiciary,
in recommending the Impeachment OF
Judge Charles Swayne, charged him
with being harsh. tyrannical. oppres-
sive and unjust in his decisions. and
hints at corruption.
Representatives of 200 educational
institutions of the middle states met in
Chicago and recommended drastic rules
to purify intercollegiate athletics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
DEADLY RACE WAR
IN THE south
NINE NEGROES LYNCHED AS A
RESULT AT ST. CHARLES,
ARKANSAS.
FEARED TWO OTHERS
MAY MEET SAME FATE
Authorities Are Apparently Powerless
to Uphold the Law-Defance of
Officers Is Given as Cause of the
Tragedies.

De Witt, Ark, March ga race war
mas been in progress at st. Charles, near
here, for several days. Five negroes who
mad been arrested as result of the race
troubles were taken from the guards
by crowd of men and shot to death.
Inc flve victims were James Smith,
Charley Smith, Mac Baldwin, Abe
Bailey, Garrett Flood. Two more ne
groes implicated have been captured and
1t is thought they will be lynched. With
the lynching of these five the news.
heretofore suppressed, became public
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01

that four other blacks have been
lynched. The authorities apparently
are powerless to uphold the law.
The trouble grew out of quarrel be-
tween a white man named Searcy, his
brother and two negroes, Henry and
Walker Griffin. The negroes attacked
the white men, and afterward knocked
down Deputy Sheriff Kirkpatrick when
he sought to arrest them. The negroes
then gathered and defied the officers,
declaring that mo white man could ar
rest them" Their demonstrations
aroused the fears of the citizens Of st.
Charles, and they telephoned to this
place for posse to come and protect the
town.
P. A. Douglass, deputy sheriff, went
out with five men Wednesday morn
ing Constable L. C. McNeeley went
forward with posse to capture the Grit
fin negroes. The constable met three
negroes-Randall Flood, Will Baldwin
and Will Madison-in the road. The ne
groes attempted to draw their pistols,
but the posse fired, killing all three Of
them.
Thursday 16 men left this place for the
scene of the trouble. Large crowds
gathered in from Roe, Ethel and Claren-
don. During the day, while the sheriff's
posse was searching for the Griffin ne
groes, they were fired upon by negro
named Aaron Sinton from ambush.
Three of the posse were hit, but the shot
used were small and no serious damage
resulted. The posse returned the fire
and the negro was shot down. Several
other shots were fired into him, killing
him instantly.
Five other negroes, Jim Smith, Charles
Smith, Mach Baldwin, Abe Bailey and
Garrett Flood, who were the negroes
that had defied the officers, were arrest
ed, and Thursday night crowd OF men
took them away from the guards and
shot them to death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
DOMESTIC.

The supreme court of the United States
has adjourned for two weeks.
At Temple, Tex, w. E. Chandler killed
exchange where the woman was en-
ployed
Christian Householder, a boarding
house keeper in Brooklyn. N. Y. shot
and killed his four-year-old son, fatally
wounded his wife and then committed
suicide. Jealousy was the cause.
A piece of iron cornice fell from the
top of a building at Indianapolis, Ind,
and killed Worth Wright, real estate
man.
United States Senator Burton, of Kan
sas, was placed on trial at st. Louis,
charged with unlawfully receiving money
from the Rialto company.
The new plan for the Northern Sc
curities company is announced as stock
dividend of 80 per cent through the dis
tribution of the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern stocks held by the
merger.
Eugene Cary, prominent insurance
man of Chicago, dropped dead while at
a banquet in st. Louis.
Martial law has been declared in the
Trinidad coal mining district in COL
orado as a consequence of the miners
strike
The cashier having embeZzled $105,-
600, the Orange Growers national bank
closed its doors at Riverside, Cal.
At Beloit, Wis.,, damage of more than
$250,000 has been done by Rock river
overlooking its banks.
Secretary Hitchcock announces that
relentless war will be carried on against
all persons guilty of land frauds.
Three boys, none 10 years old, con-
fessed to burning the Holden school in
Chicago because they disliked physical
culture study after classes
Seven hundred bindery girls in Chicago
went on strike and every bookbinding
office in the city may be tied up.
President Roosevelt, in letter of in
struction to the Panama canal commits
sioners, directs that the work be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible and with
all the economy consistent with thor
Receivers for the business of D. ]. Sui
fy, the fallen cotton king, were appoint
ed in New York
Three negroes were killed in a battle
between blacks and whites at st.
Charles, Ark.
A state good roads convention will be
held in Springfield, H., May 8.
Andrew Isgrigg, Arthur Everhart and
Edward Hert, young men of Jefferson
vile, Ind, were drowned in the Ohio
river.
Orders have been issued in Keokuk.
Ia, to open the United States Des Moines
Rapids canal for navigation on April 1.
Thirty-three shoe manufacturers in
Lynn, Mass, locked out their men be-
cause of a proposed strike.
Aften ten days of civil control San
Miguel county, COL, has been placed
nnder martial law again to prevent armed
bands of strikers from destroying prop
erty.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK.
Blaze on Broadway Causes Loss Esti-
mated at $500, OO0-No
Lives Lost.

New York, March 2S.-All Wall street
and the downtown section of New York
were thrown into unusual excitement
Saturday by fire which started in the
building at 81 Broadway, occupied by
the Morris European and American Ex-
press company. The flames spread to
the adjoining building, occupied by the
Adams Express company, but the fire
was brought under control shortly after
one o'clock, nearly two hours after its
start, and at that time the loss was esti-
mated by an underwater at $500, 900, but
nothing could be learned regarding the
insurance.
So far as known only one person, a
fireman, was injured during the progress
of the fires, and his hurts were not of a
very serious nature.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
STRUCK BY A TRAIN.
While Walking on Tracks at Suter
Station, Pa, Three Per-
sons Are Killed.

Connellsville, Pa, March %. - Three
people were run down and killed Fri
day night at Suter station, four miles
west of West Newton, by the Duquesne
limited on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road. The dead are: John Mccormick,
aged "a years, of Braddock avenue and
Fifth street, Braddock; Miss Donahoe.
aged 20 years, of Gratztown; Miss Coop
er, aged IS, of Gratztown. The accident
occurred about 7:15 o'clock, and the
three victims were walking the tracks,
and stepped from one track to escape a
train Immediately in front of the linn
tied. All the bodies were horribly
mangled.
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near the city. Knoll was rescued later
The bodies have not been recovered
Thre is swift current, and the river
is mile wide. Both Lally and
Downing were prominent Eight hun
dred feet of Lake Erie & Western rail-
road track has been washed out. Ali
bridges are in danger The loss will
reach 100000. Reuben Miller, aged
ten, was drowned at Huntington His
body has not been recovered.
Wabash River Rising.
Vincennes, Ind, March 2S.-The Wa
bash river Saturday was 10 feet, and
rising at the rate of three inches an
hour. 1t is expected the record depth
will be reached. Over 200 houses have
are surrounded. Hundreds of people
are coming in from the lowlands
Levees have broken and factories have
closed down. White river is rising
rapidly, and is causing great damage
The Evansville & Terre Haute road
has annulled all trains. The B. & o.
Southwestern has run no trains for 20
hours. The Indianapolis & Vincennes
road is closed to traffic, and the Big
-Four is running a few trains. The
rainfall has been over six inches in 20
hours.
In Ohio.
Cincinnati, March 2S-The heaviest
transforms in years prevailed through
out Ohio friday night, and floods are
causing damage along all the tribu-
taries of the ohio river in this state.
At Hamilton the Big Miami rose Is feet
in four hours, rendering over 200 fam
lilies homeless. The reservoir north of
Hamilton broke. flooding paper mills
and tying up railway and traction
lines. At Washington, Ind, there was
a rainfall of seven and one-half inches
within "a hours, and every part of the
country along White river is flooded.
The property loss is $4,000
Springfield, O., March 2S.-The worst
flood in Springfields history saturday
threw 1000 men out of work,
drove rs families from their homes and
completely stopped street car traffic
In Wisconsin.
ports of Thursday nights severe rain
and windstorm in southeastern Wis
consin are coming in, and indicate a
great deal of damage was wrought. In
Racine county the damage is estimated
at $4,000. In the city of Burlington,
west of Racine, the large brick smoke
stacks at the malthouse toppled over,
and the dam in the center of the city
was carried away.
The damage from the severe wind and
rainstorm in the vicinity of Burlington
will reach 10000. Bridges crossing Fox
river were swept away. the western
part of the city was fioodc l, 20 families
were taken out of their homes in wagons
or boats, others fed for their lives:
barns by the score were wrecked, horses
and cattle killed by the dozen; houses
moved from foundations. windows
broken; windmills blown to pieces,
farmhouses surrounded by water and
families isolated
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
Another Cut in Storage Rates.

New York, March 2S.-Another cut
has been made in west bound steerage
rates, this time by lines carrying Hun
garian immigrants of New York. The
rates are reduced by five continental
steamer lines, in one instance from $34
to $24.50. These companies apparently
are aiming at the Cunard, which has
invaded the Mediterranean field and will
establish line next month, with, 1t is
stated, the cooperation of the Austrian
authorities
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
Six Killed by Falling Cage.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, March 28.-At least
six men are thought to have lost their
lives by the falling of cage in the shaft
of the Dorrance colliery Saturday. Two
bodies have been taken from the debris
at the bottom of the shaft. The engi
neer states that there were six or eight
men in the cage when it was lowered,
and Superintendent Zerbe, who is in
charge of the rescuers, is of the opinion
that not one escaped.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
Two Killed.

New York, March 27.-Two men have
been killed and two severely injured by
the overturning of caboose on
branch of the Erie railroad, near Pc
quannock, N. ]. The caboose caught fire
and it was with difficulty that the in
iured men were rescued.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
Sets Date for Execution.

Chicago, March 28.-Judge Kersten
Saturday overruled the appeal of the
car barn bandits, Neidermier. Van Dyne
and Marx, for new trial, and set the
date of their execution for April %.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
Damage by Storm.


Eight persons were injured, and ex-
traordinary damage done to city and
suburban property by storm which
swept over Louisville.
The storm was centered over the CEN
trail Mississippi, and Ohio valleys. LII
Louisville the wind attained velocity
of 60 miles, and the rain fell in tor
rents, accompanied by heavenly pyro-
technics terrifying to the timid. The
entire city was for time flooded,
Third avenue, near the Confederate
monument being three feet deep in wa
ter. Street car service was suspend
ed for several hours, and on one or two
lines it remains at standstill.
Record of Storm and Flood.
Chicago, March g. - The record of
food and wind in the middle west is as
follows: Dead, s.; injured, As; estimat-
ed damage to property, 100000;
states affected by floods, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana:
states affected by blizzard and lorna
North and South Da-
kota, Arkansas and Missouri.
Low Temperature Helps Situation.
Detroit, Mich, March 28.-The tenn
perature all over lower Michigan has
fallen to several degrees below freez-
ing, and the slight freeze has checked
the bitches, little creeks and small
streams that have been pouring floods
of water into the rivers and causing the
most serious floods in many years.
Grand Rapids reports that the Grand
river is still rising, but it is believed
that the crest of the flood in the other
swollen streams of the state has been
reached. The drop in temperature is
causing considerable suffering among
occupants of flooded homes in many
places, but thus far there has been no
extreme suffering or deaths reported
from exposure.
Two lives have been lost, those of
an unknown Armenian, who was stand
ing on a bridge at Lansing when it
q boy who was drowned in flooded
street at Owosso. Reports from many
places tell of a steady downpour Of
rain, with no sign of let-up.
Bridges Swept Away.
From Kalamazoo comes the report
that every bridge for so miles along the
Kalamazoo river has been swept away.
In Kalamazoo 5000 people have been
thrown out of work. Houses in that
city have been swept from their foun-
dations, and portions of the tracks of
the Lake Shore Michigan Traction COM
pany and the Chicago, Kalamazoo & Sag
inaw railroads have been washed away.
At Owosso the water is three feet deep
around houses where it was never
known to reach before. Much damage
had been done at Jackson. At Saginaw
the river is open, but filled with float
ing ice. A new $4,000 foot bridge went
out and other bridges were saved by the
use of dynamite.
Loss at Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids, Mich, March 2S.-
There is no indication from any point
on the Grand River nearer than jack
son that the fall in temperature has
lessened the food. Steady rises are
reported from all nearby points. The
basement of the municipal lighting
plant has been flooded, and it is out
of commission The total loss here
to date is estimated at $1,000,000 and
5000 men are out of work.
Three Drowned in Indiana.
Portland, Ind, March 2S.-John
Lalley and Otis Downing were drowned
Saturday while making an effort to res
cue David Knoll, an aged farmer, who
had driven off the levee with his team
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-01
STORM IS0LATES
entire south
GALE SWEEPS COUNTRY PAR
ALYZING TELEGRAPHIC
COM -UNICATION.
COLD WEATHER CHECKS
MICHIGAN FLOODS
Bridges Swept Away by Raging Wa
ters-Loss at Grand Rapids EST
mated at $1,000, ooo-Three Per-
sons Drowned in Indiana.

Louisville, KY, March 2S.-Seldom, if
ever, since the civil war has the en-
tire south been so completely isolated
from the north as Saturday. Commu
nlcation was absolutely cut off by
every telegraph route available to the
Western Union company. In vain
were efforts made to find an ingreSS
Destruction or paralysis of telegraph
facilities by storm was so widespread
and unparalleled that not a wire was
working south through Richmond
Nashville, Memphis, or any of the
great centers of electrical control on
either side of the Alleghanies from the
Atlantic westward far beyond the Mis-
sissippi. The absence of intelligence
from the south was keenly felt in COM
mercial circles on account of the crit
ical situation in the cotton trade, as a
result of the semi-panicky conditions
growing out of the sensational govern
ment report Friday on crop conditions,
following SO closely after the upheaval
resulting from the suspension of the
cotton king, Sully. Newspaper offices
were hardly less interested in another
feature, expecting startling develop
ments in the Arkansas race war, which
last night had made a record of the
wholesale lynching of nine people,
with more lynchings in prospect.
Anxiety was also felt as to the in
evitable rumor of great loss of life and
property damage as direct result Of
a storm of such extraordinary nature.
By great exertion a circuit was finally
established south from Louisville, pen
etrating the vast territory which had
been SO thoroughly for many weary
hours shut off from the rest of the
world
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-24

Last Saturday John Pohl living
four miles north Of town met with a
very serious and painful accident
while grabbing. The day before he
had set double charge of dynamite
to blast stump and when the blast
went off he supposed that both charges
had exploded. He paid no further
attention to the matter and the next
day went at work at the stump to dig
it out, and while working with pick
about the stump the other charge of
dynamite was discharged and Mr..
Pohl was struck in the face by a lot
of the powder and dirt. His face was
badly lacerated and presented hor-
rible appearance when he came to
town for treatment. Dr.. Armitage
attended to the mans injuries, after
which he returned home.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-24

The Winnebago City Press-News OF
last week contained an account of the
installation of Rev. James Steenson
as pastor of the Presbyterian church
at that place. Accompanying the &C
count of the service are cuts OF Mr..
SteensOn, the church of which he is
pastor and also the manse. The
Press-News says of Mr.. Steenson:
HE is an able man, and although but
a few months a resident of our little
city he has already won for himself a
warm place in the hearts of the mem
bers and congregation of his own
church and our citizens generally.n
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-24
Not Her Glass.

"There,' said the stock farm owner,
pointing to an animal in the field,
'there, sir, is mare that could trot
her mile in three minutes, we're it not
for one thing"
"Indeed!''
eyes, she was four years old last
spring, is in very good condition,
looks well, and is a frst-rate mare.
and she could go mile in three min.
utes were it not for one thing.''
"What is it?'' was the query.
"That mare" insisted the owner,
sis in every way good mare, I work
her three or four days week. She
trots fair and square, and yet there is
one thing that prevents her fromgoing
a mile in three minutes.'' N
''What in the name of thunder is it:
cried the friend, impatiently.
"Well, /" replied the other, quietly,
"the distance is too great for the
time. Philadelphia Leader.