The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-10

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vate car near Wickliffe. Ky.
Foreign bank statements show larger
demand for money, which has caused re-
cent gold shipments.
| Adjt Gen. Bell, of Colorado, in his re-
| port, scores lawlessness among the min.
| ers of the state
Statement just compiled by the FL
deity & Casualty company, of New
York, shows that $1o,000,000 was en-
bezzled in the United States during
| 1904.
Establishment of the school of jour-
nalism at Columbia university, endowed
by Joseph Pulitzer, il delayed until the
death of the donor.
Pressure by the president for action
on railroad rates and the tariff and the
indisposition of republican leaders in
| congress to respond has revived talk Of
an extra session in the spring or fall.
Favored children Of Charles Lockhart
decide to let disinherited daughter share
equally in his estate of $3.50, 000, 900, Of
fering her $3O,00O,0O0.
Representatives of the United States
took control of Santo Domingo customs
receipts.
Bishop Hare, of the Episcopal church,
accuses the government of diverting In
dian trust funds TO aid Roman Catholic
misSion>schOols.
The United States supreme court
crushed the beef trust by saying it is
in restraint of trade and made Judge
inf
President Roosevelt, in an address
before the Union League club, Of Phila-
delphia, declared national control of
railroad rates and all other phases Of
interstate commerce is Of vital impOr-
lance to the country. The amendment
OF the constitution, II necessary to
bring about the reform, was urged.
Minister Bowen recommends to the
president that he be recalled and Dip
lomatic relations with Venezuela be sew
cred, and that force be used to bring
President Castro to terms.
The interstate commerce commission
has taken the first steps to file suit
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad for violation of rebate law.
President Eliot, of Harvard. in his an
nual report, denounces football with
out reserve and says it is menace to
rational academy life.
The Illinois house ordered thorough
inquiry into the charges of graft made
by Representative Comerford, of Chi
cago. committee was appointed to
hear evidence
Victor Roland OShea was found
guilty in Chicago of manslaughter TO:
having killed his young wife.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, com
muted to life imprisonment the death
sentence imposed on George A. Smith,
of Churcaville, aged IS. Smith was con-
victed on circumstantial evidence of the
murder of his wife in 1897.
An unknown donor has given 81 ,100,-
900 to Union theological seminary, in
Guiding property near the Riverside
drive. New York, which will be utilized
as new site for the institution
Three wives aided in securing the in
dictment of Johann Hoch in Chicago on
charges of bigamy.
Ten women out of Is in a sleighing
party were killed on a grade crossing
near Airport, N. Y, when a train
crashed into the vehicle.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness January 81, 1905, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
$9S9,929 .619. which is an increase for
the month of $4,3S0,29S
Six persons were injured. four prob
ably fatally, at Grand Rapids, Mich,
when Grand Rapids & Indiana north
bound passenger train crashed into a
street car.
Fifteen stores were destroyed by fire
at Stafford, Kan. Total loss $4,000.
The town was saved by a sacrifice
made by ]. L. Ball who permitted
back fire to be started in his building
on which no insurance was carried.
Rev. James Henry Darlington. D. D..
rector of Christ church, Brooklyn. was
elected bishop of the diocese of Har-
riSburg, Pa, on the thirteenth ballot.
Chicago and the northwest has been
swept by the fiercest cold wave of the
winter, and the mercury dropped to As
below zero at Redfield, S. D.
An official proclamation conveys the
heartfelt sympathies of the emperor, the
empress and the dowager empress OF
Russia to the families of those killed in
the street fighting of January %. They
have placed $4,000 at~the disposal of the
governor general, Trepoff, for the aid of
the families Of the sufferers
While coasting at Bloomington, H.,
big sled loaded with children struck
a dray and all C. the children were
thrown under the horses, which tramp
led the life out of one ond injured four
others.
Chicago faces an egg famine due to
the cold spell. Prices are going up.
Nicholas Heinrichsen, a carpenter,
aged So, at Danvers, H., was killed by
falling tree.
BY paying $24.S0O,OOO cash the Nor
gan syndicate has bought control of the
Chicago City railway
The report that Secretary of the Ma
Wy Morton will leave the cabinet and
became president of the Sante Fe is
denied.
Mrs. Jochil Ingwersen, of Clinton,
Ia, and her six-year-old child, died of
black diphtheria. Six other children