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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Bank Clerk Goes Wrong.

New York, April 18.-Reports of de-
ralcation by an employe of the Chem
ical national bank, one of the largest
financial institutions here, have been
cleared up by statement from Cashier
Francis Halpin. 1t is to the effect that
q trusted man, whom he names, disap-
peared ten days ago after faithfully
serving the bank for % years, and that
investigation of his accounts discloses
the fact that they are "out of proof to
the extent of $22,53S97 The missing
man was a clerk in the check depart
ment
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
MORGAN motion
lost IN SENATE
EFFORT OF SENATOR TO HAVE
RESOLUTION RECALLED FROM
THE COMMITTEE FAILS.
CHARGES COLLEAGUES
WITH DISCOURTESY
Wants Information Relative to Con-
tract of United States with New
Panama Canal Company - House
Session.

Washington, April 1S.-When the SEN
ate met Saturday Senator Morgan called
up and addressed the senate on his res
olution for the discharge of the commit
tee on interoceanic canals from the
consideration of the resolution calling
on the attorney general for information
relative to the contract of the United
States with the new Panama Canal COM
pany for the transfer of the Panama
canal. He contended that the passage
of the resolution was more important
since the passage of the bill for the gov
eminent of the canal zone than it was
before
He accused the committee of lack of
courtesy in failing to consider his reso-
luton, and said that there was no re-
course left but to ask the senate to take
the matter out of the hands of the COM
mittee.
Senator German made a plea for IA
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
CHECK TO TRADE PROGRESS
BACKWARD SPRING HAS BAD Eff
Feet ON CONDITIONS.
Only Cause of Complaint at Many
Points-Hope That Situation
May Soon Improve.

New York, April 1S-R G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
"Tardy spring weather following an I'M
usually severe winter makes it difficult
to restore satisfactory trade conditions,
but it is encouraging to find at many
points this unreasonable weather the
only cause of complaint, and there is al
ways hope that the early losses may be
made up at least in large measure, when
thermal conditions become normal. La
Dor controversies are still an adverse
factor. Railway earnings in the first
than last year. No definite check to
progress in the iron and steel industry
is discerned, although it lacks uniform
ity and in some departments it is difficult
to find encouraging signs. Floods at the
west have made it impossible to begin
much proposed structural work, and
aside from supplies for repair shops the
railways are still operating on moder
ate scale.
Failures this week number 225 in the
United States, against PIP last year,
and 16 in Canada, compared with 16 a
year ago."
Bradstreet's says: TRADE is still ir-
regular, with unseasonably cool wealth
er the chief, but not the only drawback.
In some sections, notably the south and
portions of the east and west, brighter
weather has helped trade and incidental
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22

Mrs. Joseph B. Hall, proprietor of the
Catskill Recorder, one of the oldest
newspapers in the United States, died at
Catskill of apoplexy, aged u years. She
was the mother of Ruth and Violette
Hall, the novelists.
The battle over the division of the
property Of the Northern Securities COM
pany, begun in the federal courts in st.
Paul, is one of the greatest fights by
prominent corporation lawyers ever
waged in the country.
Twenty-Five men were instantly
killed on the United States battleship
Missouri at target practice off Pensa-
cola, Fla, by an explosion of powder
in one of the turrets. Hasty firing is
believed by naval officers to have been
the cause of the explosion.
Payment OF service pensions as re-
Gently ordered is opposed by the mi
nority of the house committee on APP
preparations, which reports against
allowing $1,500,000 asked by the pen
sion bureau.
Striking brass workers are suspect
ed of starting fire which destroyed
the plant of the White Manufacturing
company, Chicago, causing loss of
$4,000.
The seasol- of the National and
American baseball leagues has opened.
Senator Dietrich has been exon
Grated from all blame in connection
with post Office patronage in Nebraska
by a special committee of the senate
which made an investigation of his
indictment
Albert A. Ames, former mayor of
Minneapolis, was arrested on an in
dictment charging him with accepting
bride December Is, 1901. He pleaded
not guilty and his case was set for
trial May 2.
Later and more accurate reports of
the catastrophe to the United States
battleship Missouri while at target
practice off Pensacola, Wednesday.
give the total number of dead as 80, of
whom five were ships officers.
The battleship Missouri and the 6J0
plosion by the heroism of a gunner's
mate, who, seeing the flames threaten
ing the powder magazine below decks,
jumped into the magazine and closed
the door. The dead now number 80.
Rena Johnson, the 12-year--old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles John
son, residents of Sioux Falls, S. D., is
dead as the result of a chunk of bologna
lodging in her windpipe,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Soldiers Die on Transport.

San Francisco, April 1S.-Capt. H. l..
Roosevelt, of the United States marine
corps, who has been on duty with the
Asiatic squadron, arrived on the trans
port Sheridan. There were four deaths
during Sheridan's trip across the Pacific.
Acting Hospital Steward E. Haddox, Jr.,
died of tuberculosis; Charles L. Rice, a
clerk in the medical department, from
an abscess of the brain; Private Edward
Dougherty, of company D, Twenty-third
infantry, of heart disease, and Albert M.
Proctor, of company X, Seventh infan-
try, of dysentery
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Charles L. Tucker was arraigned at
Waltham, Mass, and formally charged
with the murder of Miss Mabel Page at
West Newton. He pleaded not guilty,
and the case was continued until April
81.
At East st. Louis, ILL.,, Congressman
Rodenberg was unanimously nominated
to succeed himself by the Twenty-sec-
ond district republican congressional
convention.
The report of the Mccall committee on
the Bristow charges clears every mem
Der of the house of all suggestion of
wrongdoing and takes parting fling
at Bristow.
The New York republican state con-
vention Endorsed Roosevelt and in
structed delegates at large to use all hon
orable means to secure his renomina-
tion
Adj. Gen. Bell has taken back his
threat to put Judge Stevens in Jail at
Telluride, Col, for criticising the gov
ernor and military, and says the court
is exempt while enforcing the law.
Members of congress are excited
over the senate's decision to investi-
gate the post Office department. The
president declines to interfere.
In the Fourth Michigan district re-
publican convention Congressman Ed
ward L. Hamilton, of Niles, was re-
nominated by reclamation.
Congressman Amos L. Allen, of Al
fred, was renominated by the First
Maine district republican convention.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Frances Power Cobbe, the authoress,
is dead. She was born in 1922.
Commerce between the United States
and Japan has had remarkable in
crease within the past 20 years.
The wife of silk worker in Pater-
son, N. j., has sued for divorce because
her husband persists in smoking pipe
in her presence.
Mrs. John Bowman, aged %, residing
near Red Bridge, Ind, swallowed rat
poison through mistake and died in
great agony.
Sir Henry Irving, on arriving in Lon
don from the United States, denied that
he said he would make only one more
"trip to the United States because of the
treatment received from the critics.
The Pacific Steel company, of San
Diego, CAL, has purchased 10000 acres
lof Alaskan coal land 70 miles west of
Mount st. Elias. The price was ST.
100000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
issued an order from Philadelphia to let
no woman wearing red skirt come near
the tracks because fast trains have been
tagged by them.
Austin Smith, of Clinton, N. Y, is the
Oldest living college graduate in this
country. He celebrated his one hun
dredth birthday recently. He gradu-
ated from Hamilton college in 1926.
Members of Grace Protestant Episco-
pal church in Brooklyn broke the collec-
|tion record in the "city of churches" by
contributing 100000 as an Easter offer
ling toward an endowment fund.
Advices from Nome, Alaska, state that
the spring cleanup of gold on the Nome
peninsula will be greatly in excess of
any previous season, conservative esti-
mates placing it at 81 100000.
Mayor Wells, of st. Louis, announced
that he would be personally responsible
for any deficiency in the $4O,O 900 pledged
to secure the democratic convention.
The fund now totals $4,000.
Secretary Taft and Gov. Wright, of
the Philippines, are attempting to de-
wise some plan for settling the church
dispute over the ownership of lands in
the Philippines.
The st. Louis worlds fair manage
ment has prepared a special programme
for the week of May 1921, when will be
held the meetings of more than thirty
state district press associations, the Ma
tional Editorial association and the
worlds press parliament.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
DOMESTIC.

William G. Greene, the copper mag
nate, caused the arrest in New York of
an Arizonian, who threatened to kill
him if he did not pay 100000.
A plan is under consideration in the
cabinet for the president to meet the
crisis in Chinese immigration affairs
by issuing an executive order excluding
celestials until new treaty is made.
The high school building at Gales
burg, ILL.,, burned. Loss, 100000. John
Slater, fireman, was killed by fall
ing wall.
Gen Juan j. Jiminez, the Dominican
rebel leader, who fled from the victorious
forces of President Morales, has ar
rived in New York Jiminez refused to
make any statement concerning his in
tended movements in this country.
The gross postal receipts at the so
largest post Offices in the United States
for March, 1904, as compared with
March, 1903, aggregated Sc, S,301, net
increase of Ii per cent.
o. S. Kelly, millionaire manufacturer,
died at Springfield, O., aged 50.
James w. Hinkley, former chairman
of the New York democratic state COM
mittee, died suddenly at his home in
Poughkeepsie of apoplexy.
The eighth annual convention of the
National Association of Clothiers is in
session in Philadelphia. About 100 dele
gates are in attendance
United States Senator Quay is report
ed to be ill in Atlantic City. No one is
allowed to see him. The senator, it is
said, must have absolute rest, and be
free for the present from all care. He
is II years old.
A federal judge at Ouray, Col.
stirred to anger by the ignoring of a
habeas corpus writ, ordered the arrest
OF two officers and limited that Gov.
Peabody and the national guard were
the real rebels, instead of the miners.
The original merger suit, filed by the
state of Minnesota, has been remanded
to the courts of that state by the United
States supreme court.
Clyde Ore, 35 years old, who halls from
Wisconsin, shot and killed Addie Bios
som, % years old, at Batavia, N. Y, and
then killed himself. Baked by the girls
parents in his intent to wed her, he
sought revenge.
In Minneapolis, Mimi, the flour mills
will close down for an indefinite period
the latter part Of this week as protest
against what the millers consider rail-
road discrimination forcing them out of
competitive markets.
The Edward Hines Lumber company,
of Chicago, has purchased SO, 0OO, 600 feet
of lumber from the N. Ludington COM
pany, Marinette, Wis, comprising the
products of two mills for a year. The
consideration was nearly 81 ZOO 900.
The tug Frank Garfield ran aground
On the outer bar at Point Sable, Lake
Michigan, and sunk. Three lives were
lost.
Knights of Columbus presented a
check for $4,000 to Cardinal Gibbons to
endow a chair of secular history at the
Catholic university in Washington.
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MinasaSOH .Joarnaf.'

vorable consideration of the resolution.
saying that it was only fair that the
country should be informed as to the
details of the transaction.
Before vote could be taken Senator
Hale presented a partial report of the
conference committee on the naval ap-
preparation bill The report was agreed
to and further conference requested.
A roll call was ordered on Senator
Morgan's motion and it was lost; ayes,
II; noes, 38; party vote.
House.
Washington, April 18.-On converting
the house Saturday began the consider
alton of legislation affecting the District
of Columbia, Ia bills being on the calen-
dar.
Among the bills passed was one to in
corporate "The American Cross of
Honor"
One Million for the Mississippi.
Washington April 1S.-The senate
committee on commerce Saturday con-
sidered the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill and it is expected the committee
will be ready to report on Monday.
Among the amendments approved by
the committee is that which authorizes
the making of contracts during 1905, for
the improvement of the Mississippi riv-
err to the extent of 100000 out of the
appropriation made for 1906. No new
items of Improvement were favored by
the committee, but new surveys which
already have been acted upon favorably
by the senate in the form of resolutions
were approved.
Favorably Reported.
Washington, April Ex-senator Frye
Saturday reported favorably from the
committee on commerce bill provid-
ing for the appointment of commits
sion, to consist of five senators and five
representatives, to investigate the mer-
chant marine and American commerce.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
FOREIGN.

Gen. Kouropatkin is to be provided
with an army of 100000 with which to
prosecute the war with Japan.
Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will hoist
his flag as commander of the formida-
BILE Russian Baltic squadron early in
July and will sail Immediately for Port
Arthur with six battleships, six cruisers
and two transports.
Pope Plus x. officiated at mass in
celebration of the thirteenth centennial
of st. Gregory the Great (who died in
604 A. d.. The immense basilica of ST.
Peters, in Rome, was filled, more than
900 persons being present.
Russia demands the withdrawal of
the Chinese troops from the Man.
churian frontier to within a fve-mile
limit of the great wall.
Premier Maura, of Spain, was attacked
and wounded at Barcelona by would be
assassin, armed with dagger, while
leaving the palace of the council general
Senior Maura's wound is not serious.
A report comes from Chefoo that Port
Arthur again is under bombardment.
A report to st. Petersburg from Gen.
Kouropatkin says Russian sharpshoot-
ers drowned or shot to death so Japanese
scouts on the Yalu river, and that the
mikado's flag has been lowered at Wiju
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Teazer grounded during maneuvers at
Portsmouth. The crew was saved. The
craft may be total wreck.
The Japanese drove back company
Of Russian sharpshooters who at
tempted to cross the first stream of the
Yalu west of Win, killing 20 of them
The japanese fleet bombarded Port
Arthur in the early morning, and part
of the fleet met the Russian cruiser
Bayan outside the harbor and inflicted
damage, although the vessel managed
to make port.
The Russian battleship Petropavlovsil
was sunk off Port Arthur by mine or
torpedo, and 800 of her crew, including
Vice Admiral Makaroff, were drowned
Grand Duke Cyril, in line to the Rus
sian throne, escaped death, but is re-
ported seriously injured. The Russian
fleet was being driven back by the jap
anese squadron when the Petropavlovsk
was sunk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
THE MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, April 16.
WHEAT-Dull and weak. Cash. No l.
Northern, 96cfas1.00; May, 92d92Ac; July,
S61s@SS1kc; September, S15s@S4c.
CORN-Quet and sold off. Cash, No. 2,
53%@53Ac; May, 511atd5213c; July, 495s@50Ac.
OATS-Ruled easier. Cash, No. 2, 800
3s1kc; May, 37ssd3SAc; July, 37ss93SAc.
BUTTER-Market ruling quiet and feel
ing easy. Creameries, per H., 1920;
diaries, 121sd21c.
EGGS-Feeling firm and quotably I'M
changed. Fresh eggs, at mark, new cases
returned, 16a16Ac per dozen; prime firsts,
tic.
LIVE POULTRY - Steady and un-
changed. Turkeys, per h., lie; chickens,
fowls. 120121bc; ducks, 12Q1212c.
POTATOES-Feeling firm, Burbanks,
good to choice, per bu., s115Q1.16; Rurals,
good to choice, $115G1. 16.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Walked Off Moving Train

Bloomington, ILL.,, April 16.-Albert
White, well-known- central Illinois edu-
Gator and principal of the public schools
at Odell, received a skull fracture and
other injuries which are pronounced
fatal, by walking off Chicago & Alton
train near his home in Odell, presum-
ably while asleep. He was brought to
a hospital in Bloomington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Escaped Convict Kills Himself.

New York, April 1S.-Ray Fahey, one
of the leaders of the Folsom prison out
break, has killed himself after a des-
perate battle with pursuing posse, &C
cording to an American special from
Hanford, Cal. Fahey was one of the IA
who broke Jail in Folsom last July He is
the second of the fugitives to take his
own life after finding it impossible to
get away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
FOUR YEARS. SENTENCE.
Thomas F. McGarry, Prominent Mich
igan Attorney, to Be Punished
for Water Deal Fraud.

Allegan, Mich, April 1S.-Thomas F.
McGarry, prominent attorney who
was convicted of bribing Former City
Attorney Liant X. Salisbury and turning
over to him the Doodle fund in the Lake
Michigan water deal, was Saturday SEN
fenced to four years in the state reform
atory at Ionia. McGarry's conviction
was recently affirmed by the state SUI
preme court He is the first of the men
arrested as a result of the water deal to
receive a prison sentence
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

House Briefly Told.
In the senate on the 9th Senator
Spooner replied to the attacks on the
post Office department. He defended
the course of the postmaster general,
and also defended the president against
attacks made on him. The bill for the
aid of the Lewis and Clark expedition
was passed, as was the Philippine
shipping bill. In the house the resolu-
ton directing an inquiry into the legal
ity of the recent executive order relat-
ing to pensions for age disability was
laid on the table by a voc of 1O3 to 100.
In the senate on the 18th the day was
spent in discussion of the bill to create
commission to investigate the post OF
flee department. The house passed the
bill reported by the committee on rivers
and harbors appropriating $3,OOO,OOC
for the restoration or maintenance of
channels, or of other river and harbor
Improvements.
In the senate on the 18th the post office
appropriation bill was passed and the
bill providing a form of government for
the Panama canal zone was taken up. In
the house the race question was again de-
batedfollowing charge by Mr.. Scott that
Grover Cleveland invited Fred Douglass
to a wedding reception. A letter from
Mr.. Cleveland was read denying that he
granted any social favors to negroes
while he was president.
In the senate on the 18th considera-
ton of the bill for government of the
Panama canal zone was taken up. In
an hour PIG pension bills were passed.
The house devoted the day to consider
alton of the Cooper bill amending the
law relating to the Philippine islands.
In the senate on the 14th the COM
mittee on appropriations reported the
sundry civil bill. 1t carries $50, 1922
400. The senate devoted the entire
day to consideration of the bill for
the government of the Panama canal
zone. The house passed the Philip
pine bill, and began consideration of
the general deficiency bill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
svmpathetic Strike Threatened.

ST. Louis, April 18.-Announcement
was made Saturday that on May the
truck drivers union affiliated with the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, will go out on sympathetic strike
in support of the strike of the hackmen
instituted January 1. The truck drivers
union includes about 1,400 men, en-
ployed by about $50 companies in st.
Louis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Makes Good Record

San Francisco, April 18.-The gum
boat Petrol, under command of Capt.
Tappan, has arrived in port from Pana-
ma While there the Petrol had tar
get practice, making a record of 1.34
hits per gun per minute on target with
her old style six-inch gun, or gravity re-
turn guns, the showing being probably
the best in the navy, considering the
guns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Fail to Discover Assailant.

st. Louis, April 1S.-The inquest into
the cause of the death of Charles O'Brien,
editor of the American Celt, who died
at the city hospital apparently from in
juries received in an assault, was con-
Guided Saturday The coroner's jury
returned a verdict declaring the cause
of O'Brien's death to be unexplained.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Accident Makes Men Idle.

Joliet, ILL.,, April 18-Between 1000
and 1900 employees of the Illinois Steel
company were thrown out of work Sat
urday for an indefinite period by the COL
lapse of the roughing engine in the billet
mill. The shutdown affects the billet
mill, converter and rod mills. The loss
will be $4,000. No person was hurt.
The cause of the break is not deter
mined. The huge machine is total
wreck
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Fierce Blizzard in New York State

Glens Falls, N. Y, April 1S.-The
whole Adirondacks country is in the
grasp of a blizzard which for severity
has not been equaled during the past
winter. From ten to fifteen inches of
snow fell during the night. The country
roads are blocked and traffic on steam
and electric lines in this section is de-
layed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
River Boatman Dead.

La Crosse, Wis, April 1S.-Capt. v. A.
Bigelow, one of the pioneer steamboat
men of the upper Mississippi and for
mer owner of Jessie B., Warsaw,
Eclipse and other boats, is dead, aged
60 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Italian Plotters Arrested.

Marseilles, April 1S.-Michael Giovan-
nj and two other Italians have been ar
rested here in connection with a sup
posed plot to kill President Loubet dur
ing his coming visit to Italy.
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New York, April is.

FLOUR-Barely steady.
WHEAT-Opened steady, but soon broke.
May, 945s@95c; July, 9O7sd91Ac; September.
s5h@S5s4c; December, SsasQS51ac.
RYE-Quet. No. western, SIC to arrive
prompt
July, 5asc.
OATS-Nominal.
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Convicted of Fraud

Raleigh, N. c., April 1S.-In the fed
eral court at Greensboro, N c., A. j.
Davis, rectifying gauger, was con-
victed of false returns whereby the gov
eminent was defrauded out of SEC, 600 in
less than four months.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
old-Time Democrat Dead.

New York, April 1S.-Henry Hobart
Porter, for many years commissioner
of charities and corrections, is dead at
his home on Long Island. He was a
close friend of Samuel ]. Tilden, and, up
to the time of his retirement, took an
active part in democratic politics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-22
Mrs. Anna Marizba Fitch Dead.

Los Angeles, CAL, April IS. = Mrs.
Anna Marizba Fitch, wife of Former
Congressman Thomas H. Fitch, and an
authoress of considerable fame three
decades ago, is dead at her home in this
city.