The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-03-17

Western Packing & Provision COM
pany," just incorporated, is said to
have 81, 00o, 900 backing.
Kansas railways accused of changing
transportation conditions, favoring the
Standard Oil against Independent
shippers.
Attorney General Moody planned
fight on Chicago terminal lines for al
legged rebate practices.
Railroad officials of Chicago raise a
fund of $4,000 to entertain the visit
ing members of the international rail-
way congress next May.
Finger is grated from the hand of
one woman to that of another, the sue
cessful accomplishment of an opera
ton began 81 days ago being reached
in a Gotham hospital. 1t is the first
case of its kind in medical history.
w. j. Bryan lost the Bennett $4,000
case, the Connecticut supreme court
holding that the bequest was no part
of the will.
Russia, in preparation for a conflict
with England, is rushing a big army
to the frontier of India.
The new boys high school at Broad
and Green streets, Philadelphia, con-
sidered one of the finest structures OF
the Norman type in the country and
built and furnished at cost OF more
than $1,50O,00O, was damaged by fire
and water to the extent of about $780,
OOO.~
At Shrewsbury, mining village of
West Virginia, mine car loaded with
coal and carrying ten workmen who
were coming from the mine, dashed
1000 feet down the 45-foot incline, kill
ing four of the miners and injuring four
others.
W. J. White, chief inspector of emf
grafton agencies, who has just returned
to Ottawa Ont, from an extensive tour
of the United States. reports that fully
10000 settlers will enter the Dominion
from across the line this year, as against
46, 900 last year: ..
The report of the department of COM
merce and labor on the beef industry,
published last week, will have no effect
upon the investigation now being COM
Quoted by the department of justice to
ascertain whether the injunction issued
against the Beef combine" in Chicago
is being observed.
The National Republican Editorial as
ISOLATION met in Washington. Several
addresses were delivered. including one
by Vice President Fairbanks. William
S. Cappeller, of Mansfield, o., was elect
ed president for the ensuing year.
Romeo Gwynn, a negro, was lynched at
Tullahoma, Tenn, by unknown parties.
He was taken from the calaboose, where
he was held on a charge of larceny,
and hanged to tree near the center of
the town.
Eighteen indictments against James
O'Leary, of Chicago. and his associates
in the drainage district poolroom have
been voted by the Dupage grand jury
at Wheaton, Ill.
Kansas investigators find that the
Santa Fee paid back to shippers 81, 1875, 1852
in 1902 and believe most of it was re-
bates to Standard Oil.
The Delaware senate has passed bill
to abolish the pillory, which has been
in use in the state since 1717
The wholesale grocery house of Will
Hanson, Hallsell, Frazer company, was
destroyed by fire at Chickasaw, /. 4.
Loss. 100000.
member of the Thirty-first general as
sembly of Illinois, is dead He was 81
years old.
The will of former Mayor Edward
Cooper, under which Cooper Union will
receive 100000 was filed in New York
Editors in session in Washington sup
ported the suggestion that Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks head the republican
ticket in 1903.
A movement started in the Mississippi
valley to make the United States senate
more responsive to public opinion by the
adoption of the primary election sys-
tenn of choosing senator's bids fair to
assume formidable proportions.
Dan Shepherd, charged with murder,
was found guilty of manslaughter after
trial of three weeks at Fairfield, Ia
Shepherd was accused of having MUIR
dered an aged German.
Improved conditions mark the second
day of New York's street car strike, the
company claiming to have the situation
well in hand.
Wisconsin railroads cancelled orders
for improvements amounting to $40, 0O0,-
600 because of the attitude of Gov. La
Toilette and the public against corpor-
ations
The president nominated Roger s. G.
Boutell, of Chicago, son of Congressman
Boutell, as secretary of legation at The
Hague.
President Roosevelt, in second mes
sage to the senate, shows how the Santo
Domingo treaty would prove beneficial
to both nations
The Wisconsin legislature, by a vote
of rs to 1. passed a bill absolutely pro-
hibiting the sale or manufacture of Gig
arettes or cigarette paper.
George B. Cortelyou took the, oath as
postmaster general. Other members Of
the cabinet also qualified
The plant of the American Cereal com.
pany, the largest oatmeal mill in the
world, burned at Cedar Rapids, Ia. Loss