The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03

Kuropatkin notified the czar that
some of his troops refuse to fight the
Japs.
Secretary Hay proposes conference
of powers TO determine whether China
has maintained neutrality.
The Japanc-a are preparing to invest
VladivostoK, the railroad having been
made ready to transport 10000 troops
from Dalny. Fortifications have been
thrown up across Korea in anticipation
of the movement.
Secretary of the Navy Morton made
an appeal to the naval committee for
more battleships.
A bill, inspired by the president, has
been introduced, compelling the courts
to notify labor unions before hearing
| injunction suits.
Russians fear trouble with England
over proclamation blaming Britons for
the revolution.
Poles threaten an uprising to secure
freedom from both Russia and Austria.
New York health authorities, alarm
ed by ten deaths on the steamer Vader-
land, sent the vessel and 900 steerage
passengers back to quarantine.
Liberal overnment in Ontario de-
feated after 50 years of supremacy by
large vote.
Emperor William of Germany can
celed his birthday celebrations because
son Eitel Frederick is i'll with pneu-
monia.
Gov. La Toilette, of Wisconsin, in
accepting election as United States SEN
ator, tells the legislature that unless
reform measures promised are enacted
into laws he will tender back the cleo
ton and allow the selection of another
man.
Senators, stirred by San Domingo af
fair, declared president and secretary
| of state usurped power,
A furious storm struck the eastern
coast and New York reports the sever
est condition it has ever experienced.
The cold wave was general throughout
the country and several deaths from
freezing were reported.
King Alfonso and Queen Christina
of Spain, were thrown out of an auto
mobile, she receiving a slight bruise.
A broken switch at Earl Park, Ind,
upset passenger train and injured Is
persons.
Chicago commercial organizations
adopted a petition for railway legisla
ton on the lines of President Roose-
velt's message.
The bodies of John X. Mackenzie and
DR.. Robert c. Coy, killed by Yaqui In
dams, have reached Chicago.
Miss Lillian Russell. the actress re-
fused an offer of $4,000 to appear with
| her company in the home of Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish, of New York, to amuse
| the guests, declaring she never will
play the clown for society.
Five firemen were injured while work
ing to extinguish flames which partial
ly destroyed the Hips Bay brewery in
New York city, Loss, $150,000.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was formally
adjudged bankrupt in the United
States district court at Cleveland, o. by
default. She failed to file an ansWer
within the legal time limit to Tie bank
ruptcy proceedings brought against her
some time ago.
Rev. Charles e. Woodcock, d. D., was
consecrated bishop in St Johns Pro-
testant Episcopal chr~"h, Detroit,
Mich. He was recently erected bishop
| of the diocese of Kentucky.
In powder explosion at the Victoria
coal mines in Madisonville, Ky, one
man was killed.
| 1t can be stated by authority that it
is and has been the purpose of the ad--
ministration, before taking any action
towards carrying out the agreement just
concluded with San Domingo, to submit
such agreement or protocol to the Unit
ed States senate for its approval.
Three men were killed and one fatal
ly injured in a boiler explosion that
wrecked the engine rooms of the Stand
ard Wheel company's plant at Terre
Haute, Ind.
The plant of the Valley Oil mills, at
Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed by fire,
entailing loss estimated at $150,0OO.
A bill absolutely prohibiting collegi-
ate football and making it felony has
been introduced in the Nebraska legis-
lature.
Ten deaths in the steerage of the Red
Star line steamer Vaderland were re-
ported when she arrived in New York
from Antwerp and Dover. Eight were
men between % and 80 years old, and
two were boys Is years. Bad weather
at sea brought on sea sickness, and they
failed to take food or medicine.
One man killed, seven seriously hurt
and seven others injured to some extent
as the result of a~wreck on the Ashe-
boro & Aberdeen railroad at Roy, N. G.
The wreck was caused by spreading OF
the rails.
At Cambridge, Mass, Charles l..
Tucker was found guilty of murder in
the first degree. He has been on trial for
stabbing Miss Mabel Page to death at
Auburndale, Mass, March 81, 1904.
Death in the electric chair in the state
prison in Charlestown is the penalty.
Both houses of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture elected Gov. La Toilette senator.
Mary Elwart and Mary Parsons, two
colored women, were burned to death at
Norfolk, Va, in a fire that was started
in their room by an overturned stove.
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