The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-02-05

John Mitchell was reelected president
| of the United Mine Workers at the In
dianpolis convention without opposi-
ton.
Three threaters in Chicago can COM
ply easily with the new amended ordi-
ance and probably will be open within q
week.
A minister, his wife and two children
were killed by passenger train at
Carry, Wis.
Alderman John J. Brennan's petition
in Chicago for release on a writ of ha-
beas corpus was denied and he was re-
turned to the bridewell to serve one
year.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. H. Cally and two of
their children were killed by North
western train near Crystal Lake, Ill.
Mayor Harrison, by order of Judge
Tuthill in habeas corpus proceedings,
was discharged from the custody of the
sheriff in Chicago.
Former Gov Taft of the Philippines
was enthusiastically welcomed on his
arrival at Washington and Secretary
Root formally greeted his successor.
Over so bodies have been recovered
from the mine at Cheswick, Pa, where
an explosion occurred.
Harry Behr was arrested in Louisville,
KY, charged with the murder OF Miss
Sarah c. Schafer, the Bedford Qnd.)
school teacher.
AT Bellingham, Wash, Frank A.
Gotch, of Humboldt, Ia, won the wrest-
ling match for the championship OF the
world with Tom Jenkins, of Cleve-
land. o.
President Harper in an address to Uni
versity of Chicago seniors declared that
the institution is not Baptist.
Thousands of cattle and sheep are dy-
ing in southern California as result OF
a drouth.
The number of bodies thus far res
cued from the Allegheny Coal company's
mines at Cheswick. Pa, total 103, and
so are still in the mine.
A collision of extra freights at Broken
Bow, Neb., caused the death OF three
trainmen and passenger.
Atlanta, Ga, had the heaviest snowfall
ever known.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a
dinner at the white house to the justices
of the United States supreme court.
Fire destroyed three lumber yards
at North Tonawanda, ~ Y, causing
total loss of $225,00O
The automobile championship of
America was won by Barney Oldfield at
Ormond. Fla, the time being 46 3-5.
The three children of Louis Cohen
were suffocated at New York in a fire in
a six-story tenement
A panic broke out in Havlin's thea
ter in ST. Louis, caused by cry of fire,
but cool action on the part of the en-
ployes prevented anyone being badly in
jured.
Secretary Shaw warns smokers not to
try to bring more than 800 cigarettes and
so cigars into American ports without
paying duty on them.
A circular temple costing $3.50, 600 will
be erected by Illinois in Vicksburg
(Miss.) military park in memory of Illi-
nois troops at the siege there.
Six more leaders of Chicago unions
have been indicted on riot charges.
Lake Michigan, for the first time since
1880, is frozen over from shore to shore.
The night of the 27th was the coolest
in the history of the upper peninsula of
Michigan, the thermometer registering
46 degrees below zero. Cattle were
found frozen stiff in the barns.
Four men were crushed TO death in a
new air shaft of the Briar Hill Coal COM
pany near Brownsville, Pa.
Four supervisors and three other per-
sons were arrested at Milwaukee, Wis,
for alleged boodling.
The New York city health department
will supply antitoxin 20 other cities
nee-:1g it, because of the trust"