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

The Standard Rope and Irvine COM
pany, of New York, a s12 900, 900 cordage
firm, has failed.
Navy department is drawing a Gordon
of warships around Santo Domingo to
prepare for trouble.
Stephen Sparr, of Chicago, found
guilty of swearing over telephone at
the girl operator, was fined $40 and costs.
Secretary Hays call for a conference
of the powers is regarded as a check
mate to Russian designs on Chinas in
tegrity.
Result of the Hungarian election over
throws the liberal party after SO years
OF power and may cause trouble with
Austria.
The American Federation of Women's
clubs has decided to join the pure food
crusade as a result Of the revelations at
the St.-Louis fair.
Negotiations have been begun looking
to a settlement of the union machinists'
strike, which has been in progress in
Chicago since May "a, 1904.
The cabinet has decided on organiz-
ing board of army and navy officers to
revise American fighting methods in &C
cordance with the lessons of the eastern
war.
In the French chamber of deputies a
hostile demonstration was made, with
cries OF Down with the czar!" at a
reference to the Franco-Russian alli-
ance
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03

Sometimes it was entered in cases
marked silk dresses, the case plain
deal box lined with tin; but there was
also a double lining, and between the
Innings a large amount of explosives
packed.
Irish dynamiters, as well as the Rus
sian, were organized SO Thoroughly
each class of conspirators was kept in
closest touch with the actions of its
individual government, and yet the af-
fairs of the plotters were carried on
with such absolute secrecy it was al
most impossible for the police to find
out anything of import concerning
them. In Europe, Paris was the head
quarters of the dynamiters, and over
in America, which calls herself the
worlds asylum, the dynamiters ripen-
ed their plots and got their material.
In looking over English periodical lit
erature Of the time of the prevalence
of dynamite, outrages in London, we
find the tone of the editors very CEN
sorous of their neighbor France and
their far-away relative THE States"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
To Improve Barley.

With view of improving the barley
of the northwest, samples of several
varieties of foreign barleys have been
brought here by j. j. B. Ortiz, a Min
neapolis bareley dealer. These barleys,
under the direction of D. G. Fairchild,
agricultural explorer for the bureau OF
plant industry, department of agrl-
culture, having been successfully grown
in Wisconsin as test of their adapta-
bility to this soil. Up to this time Wis
consin barley has had better stand
ing in the trade. 1t is planned to in
troduce the new samples in Minnesota
and the Dakotas this spring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Saved the Children.

The small children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Deverey of st. Paul were saved from
being burned to death by the timely
arrival of Frederick label, uncle of the
children.
The children, three sand four years
old, were left at the home alone, their
father having gone to work, and their
mother shopping. A woodboX stand
ing close to the stove, which had been
overheated, caught fire, and the flames
soon filed the room.
The children, panic stricken, wrap
ped themselves in bed clothing and hid
under the bed. Mr. label, who lives
in the next fat smelled smoke and in
vestigated. He broke in the door of
the Deverey fiat and rescued the child
rem, who had been rendered uncon-
cious by the smoke. The fire was ex-
.inguisued with loss of $50.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
USES ITS CARGO FOR FUEL
Overdue Steamer San Jacinto Arrives
at Philadelphia-Damaged
by Heavy Seas.

Philadelphia, Jan. 30.-The steam
ship San Jacinto, from Galveston, jan
uary IS, via Key West, for New York,
arrived at the Delaware breakwater
saturday. The vessel should have ar
rived at New York, January 25.
The San Jacinto put into the break
water for coal, water and stores. The
vessel ran into the recent severe storm
when off the capes and was driven
many miles out of her course. While
endeaVoring to reach the breakwater
the San Jacinto's coal supply gave out
and for two days it was necessary to
use the cargo for fuel. The vessel is
badly damaged around the deckhouse
from being buffeted by the heavy
seas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The Best Kernals.

Experiments conducted at the Min
nesota agricultural school have proved
that seed corn taken from the middle
of the ear is better than that taken
from the tip or the butt of the same
ear, because the former terminates
faster, grows more rapidly and is like
ly to give heavier yield.
So as to give uniform results twenty
five seeds were taken from the three
parts of each ear and were planted at
uniform depth in sterilized sand which
contained no plant food. They were
allowed to grow twenty days. or the
seed selected, 6s per cent from the tips
and So per cent from the middles and
butts terminated. The total growth
of the tips was 377.5 centimeters and
the average growth per plant was 81. 2
centimeters; butts, total growth, 443.5
centimeters, average growth per plant,
20 centimeters; middles, total growth,
491 centimeters, average growth per
plant, 20. 0 centimeters, showing gain
of 30 per cent for seads from the mid
die of cobs over the tips and eleven per
cent over the butts.
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PAUL I. OF RUSSIA.

the blinds of the window, and on the
day OF the procession in commemora-
ton Of the kings accession, the gun
barrels were charged with powder, four
balls rammed in each, the touch-holes
connected by a powder chain. AS the
king came opposite the window, Fies-
chi opened his blind and lighted the
train of powder. On unthinking peo-
pie opened up a rain of lead, 40 fell,
dead or wounded. In some miraculous
way the king escaped.
Twenty-three years later Paris was
again the scene Of attempted regicide,
and again the ruler escaped. 1t was in
the reign of Napoleon III. that Orsini
and two accomplices threw the famous
Orsini bombs, things planned with
fiendiSh cunning. They were little
iron cases, the shape of a pear, the
larger end made heavy so as to fall
foremost when the bomb was thrown
from the hand. Each shell had on the
larger end % nipples, the size suitable
for an ordinary percussion cap. The
shells were filled with the most violent
explosive obtainable, and Orsini and
two companions, armed with these, sta
toned themselves in group along the
route the emperor and empress were
to take. Suddenly the quiet of the
progress was broken by three dreadful
explosions, and when the smoke cleared
away it was found that the imperial
carriage was shattered, horse killed
and two footmen wounded. NAPOLEON
and the empress were unharmed.
When presently deadly dynamite
came into use, the Internal machine
took on different construction, and the
plotters were called dynamiters. A
reign Of terror ensued, especially in
England and Russia. England. per-
haps because of the small personal part
In government taken by the English
ruler, had been singularly free from the
regicidal fury affecting some of the
continental nations; but when the dy-
namiters began operations she came in
for her full share of attention from
these worthless. London bridge tbe
Tower and house Of commons were i'm
perilled, the city of London lived on
the very brink of a volcano. The dy-
Mantle conspiracy was set on foot
along in 1878, and though most rigor-
Gus means were taken to prevent the
dynamiters from getting their explo-
siVes into England, the plotters were
remarkably successful in the matter.
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for harboring characters so dangerous
to the peace of England.
In reviewing the above and other
deeds Of violence, one notices how Oft
en- the theater has been connected with
plot or with actual assassination. It
was at Ford's theater Lincoln was shot
In Drury Lane theater, London, in 1900
George III. was fired upon by man
standing but a short distance from the
royal box. The English king escaped
and the culprit, who proved to be a
lunatic, was put into confinement and
kept there until his death, 40 years
later. 1t was in an opera house that
Gustayus III, of Sweden, in 1892 was
assassinated, the assassin during a
mask ball firing the. shot that caused
the death Of the king. Napoleon, the
consul, you remember was on his way
to the opera when st. Regent set fire
to the gunpowder; and Napoleon III.
also was driving to the theater when
the Orsini bombs were thrown.
The year following the attempt on
Bonaparte, unhappy Paul l., of Russia,
fell victim to the state affairs in his
land, that "absolutism tempered by as
sassination." Paul's father, Peter, the
Third, had come to his death by assas-
sination (1762); and a successor, Alex
ander, the Second, a car jealous in
promoting reforms, for years lived
over a mine, and at last (1S8D was
horribly mutilated and slain by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite bomb thrown at
his feet by murderous nihilist.
Earlysin the century Russian aris-
tocracy had been menaced by the de
cemberists," who aimed at dethroning
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03

led in singing, Ninety and Nine came
the clear tones of the singer. Every
bar rang as clearly in the ear of the
miserable farmer as the bell chime Of
a neighboring church. Two miles away,
it is said by truthful chroniclers, Mr..
Sankey sang as if he had an intuition
that his tones were needed across the
valley. When the last Jingle of the
voice had died on Farmer Caldwesl's
ear, the hard-thinking unbeliever arose
from the garden bench. He thought Of
his wife and children over there On
the Moody and Sankey side and he
prayed.
mine years later, while dying On
couch in Bonar hall-he had been
faithful employee of the school the
money of Moody and Sankey had
founded-Farmer Caldwell reused him
self and, calling to his wife who was
attending him, said: 4 heard singing.
Open the window, mother
He truly did hear singing Mr..
Sankey, standing at the side of Mr..
Moody, was singing Ninety and Nine
as finale to corner stone laying for
the new church. AS the singers voice
ceased Farmer Caldwell closed his eyes,
muttered something about Great Shep-
herd and His flock and died"
Mr.. Sankey never profited by the
royalties that were gathered for his
hymns. Possessing a competence, left
to him by his father in Newcastle, Pa,
Mr.. Sankey made many fortunate in
vestments and for time held a fed
eral position. This he left "to follow
Moody" Quite fortunate in the pos
session of sufficient funds for his every
need, the family Of the physically
broken man is doing every thing in
human power to assist nature in bring
ing back the former robustness. There
is no hope for the return of Mr.. San
keys sight.
Mr.. Sankey sang before the royalty
Of nearly every country in Europe, at
the request of the crowned heads.
Queen Victoria went unattended, ex-
cept by one woman, to hear his voice.
Yet to-day only hoarse whisper comes
from his throat. Theatrical promoters
offered him large sums several years
ago for stage engagements. He feared
so much that his voice would be used
in stage life that three years ago he
caused to be destroyed some phono-
graphic records he had made. He
loved good, wholesome story-could
tell one and laugh SO that the tears
rolled down his cheeks. He sang vari-
Gus little popular songs that he wrote
himself, but never in public. But it
was the proud boast of this great char
acter that his richest possession-his
voice-had never brought him one pen
ny of financial profit. He had conse-
Grated its volumne, sweetness, tone and
simplicity to the work of his God.
y. g. WESTLAKE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03

the car (Nicholas ID and setting up a
constitutional government; some of the
extremists preaching salvation could
come only by sweeping from the earth
all the members of the royal family,
the nobility and the priests, and after
this wholesale radiance was accom-
plished, dividing the land among the
needy. The Decemberists were dealt
with summarily, sentences executed Of
death, Siberian Punishment and exile:
but after their repulse there sprang up
on Russian soil another class of pro-
testers, in the seventies nihilism
threatening the established order Of
things. Among the ranks of the nihi-
lists were many men and women of
high rank and cultivation, men and
women moved by the suffering of the
ignorant masses to devote to the cause
of their relief superior talent and
strength. And they, as we'll as the less
educated, of the body to which they
had joined themselves, stood for armed
organization, throwing of bombs. vic.
lence, assassination.
NORMAN CUTTING.
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to scores of thousands that he might de-

to scores of thousands that he might de-
part this life singing that old hymn
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from EmanuePS veins
will not be realized unless some power
rolls away the mists that shattered
health have BANKED before his mind.
That was the first hymn Mr.. Sankey
ever sang with Mr.. Moody. He has said
that while a revenue collector in Penn
sylvania he visited Y. M. G. A. conven-
ton in Indianapolis and heard Moody
for the first time. When the evangelist,
who was later his colleague in the vine
yards of soul-saving effort, called for
the hymn, Mr.. Sankey, from his place in
the rear of the hall, joined in the sing
ing. At that moment there was awak-
ened in him realization Of grand pos
session-the power of his voice.
He never cultivated this voice. Critics
said it was not complete voice, but mil
lions who heard it subsequently failed
to define it's sweetness. They knew he
could sing-felt the effect of it-while
ms hall in which he sang his hymns ever
could hold the crowds that sought adj
mission. Until two years ago all the
strength Of that voice was put into a
song. Mr.. Sankey said then that he
had a range wider than that which cap
tivated millions abroad on the famous
trip with Moody. But to-day it is
doubtful if Mr. Sankey could sing
loud enough to attract the attention of
one of his faithful nurses. Two of the
latter are in attendance on him.
who has not heard Of the eloquent
address at Northfield, Mass, of Miss
Fannie Crosby, who, turning her sight
less eyes to Heaven, with prayer that
she had chosen the right moment for
launching the glorious words of Saved
by Grace?'" asked a firm friend of Mr.
Sankey. "Mr. Sankey had those words
set to music by George G. Stebbins.
Playing his own accompaniment, he
often sang the hymn for immense crowds
gathered to hear him. And now Mr..
Sankey is blind. The eyes that found
the little bit of poetry of Miss E. C.
Clephane from which came the inspired
Ninety and Nine have closed on the
world. If any fieeting visions of those
triumphant days when Mr.. Sankey was
making and singing Gospel hymns in
the churches and halls of the world,
comes to the sweet singer, they are as
quickly buried in the recesses of his
brain as are the memories of his earlier
life. Taciturn as an Indian, grim and
silent as a man crushed with deep
sorrow, Mr.. Sankey gives no sign that
his mind cares to unfold the past"
Mortified, so indelibly associated
with Moody and Sankey, is deeply inter-
ested in the remaining unit of this once
powerful evangelical team. But not
even the best informed person in the
schools on the banks of the Connecticut
may tell of the whereabouts Of Mr..
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IUMEEENMl II Il recent attempt 10 UlOn
:: :: J: !: :; ):
A the Internal machine placed
by him on the steamer Umbria some
time ago, and also the mysterious &C
cident at the winter palace in st. re
tersburg, sets the reader to wondering
concerning past powder plots and plot
terS.
A writer in the Leisure Hour says
that the attempt on the life or Napo-
leon Bonaparte lin 1900, when he was
under the title of first consult may be
considered the commencement OF the
era Of assassination by Internal ma
chimes. 1t took place as Napoleon was
driving in his carriage on the way to
tie opera. Two conspirators were sta
toned without the Tuilleries, and the
moment the consul's carriage came in
sight they were to run and give warn
ing to a third, one st. Regent, who had
charge of cart in which was a barrel
OF gunpowder, charged with grapeshot
and so packed as to scatter when set
off death and destruction in every d.
rection. But Napoleon, for whom 1t
was intended, did not become its VIC
tim. It is thought his coachman was
tipsy, and that he drove his horses so
reckIessly they must have outstripped
the two men. st. Regent saw the car
riage and applied the match as soon as
possible, but it was not accurately
timed and the consuls carriage was be-
yord the danger line when the awful
explosion took place. The fronts of
40 houses were completely wrecked, SO
persons were wounded, among them st.
Regent, and 20 killed.
In 1885 Paris was the scene Of anoth-
er attempt to assassinate ruler, this
time Louis Philippe the intended vic
tim The machinery this time was
more complicated than the gunpowder
and grapeshot Of st. Regent. In room
facing on a thoroughfare along which
Louis was accustomed to drive, the as
sassin Fieschi fitted up a machine that
well deserved the name of Internal; it
consisted Of % gun barrels spread out
on stout frame, like the ribs of
fan, and SO set that fire from their
nuzzles would rake the street below.
The machine was placed just behind
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
News Notes.

The Minnesota good roads associa-
tons meet in st. Paul
NJ. D. Lovelaud, SO East Isabel
street, st. Paul, was killed on the Chi
cago Great Western railway at St.
Paul.
The Duluth Sc Iron Range road will
build four miles of new side tracks in
its yards at Two Harbors.
The semi-centennial anniversary of
the founding of the first Presbyterian
church at Red Wing, was celebrated
there.
The announcement is made by the
federal government that homesteaders
who can prove actual residence on
land prior to June 80, 1902, will be al
lowed to make entry on claims in
township Ell, range II. This land is in
Lake county, forty-eight miles north
of Two Harbors, and twelve miles
north of Ely.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
A New Bird to Hunt.

The state game and fish commission
decided to introduce new fowl into
the reserves of the state-the ring-necll
pheasant. This bird is cross between
the Chinese and English pheasant, and
is found in the states east of Minneso-
ia. 1t was voted not to expend ex-
ceeding $500 in bringing the bird to
the state. .....
The commission at the new state
capitol reelected it officers, as follows:
President, Uri L. Lamprey of st. Paul;
first vice president, H. G.. Smith of Wi
mono; second vice president, William
Bird of Fairmont; secretary, D. w.
Meeker of Moorhead; executive agent,
S +. Fullerton of st. Paul.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Favors Reduction of Dutv

Washington, Jan. 3O.-Secretary Taft
made an argument Saturday before the
house committee on ways and means
In favor of the Curtis bill reducing
the duty on sugar and tobacco from
the Philippines. He contended that as
the Philippines. belong to the United
States, thereby imposing a sacred
trust on this government, it is our
duty to establish and maintain the
best possible conditions there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Turned BURGLAR.

The village of Mountain Iron on the
Mesaba range furnished the unique
news of a guardian of the peace and
property of the community turning
burglar while on duty.
James Welsh, the night Waterman
is now in the county Jail in Duluth,
awaiting the action of the grand jury
on charge of having broken into An.
drew Anderson's saloon and helping
himself to 500 in cash and $50 worth
of jewelry. Under the statue relating
to such cases Welsh cannot obtain bail
An officer of the law charged with a
crime cannot be admitted to liberty
under bond.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Eleven Injured in Explosion

Wellsyille, O., Jan. 30.-Eleven men
were injured, two of them very serious
ly, as result Of the explosion of an
air drum in the shops Of the Cleveland
e Pittsburg railroad here Saturday.
The building was partially wrecked.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Live Stock.

Chicago, Jan. %.
CATTLE-Choice to fancy steers, $3.50
600; fair to choice export shipping steers,
$4.9OQ5.25; medium beef steers, S.. 60@4 80
inferior and plain steers, $3.O0a315; good to
fancy cows and heifers, $3.75G4.5O; fair to
good cows and heifers, $S00a3.6O; fair to
choice feeders, $S.O0G4.15; fair to good
stockers, $220Q2.75; good cutting and fair
beef cows, $225a3. 10; calves, common to
fancy, $3.0097.00.
HOGS-Good to choice heavy shipping,
S465Q4.S0; fair to choice butcher weights,
$4.65@4.S21a; medium to good heavy pack
ing, $4.5OQ4.60; plain to good heavy mixed,
$4.60Q4.70; assorted light shipping, $4,000
40; good to choice, $47O94S5; fair to
choice pigs, $4.25d450
Omaha, Neb., Jan. %.
CATTLE-Market unchanged. Native
steers, $3.5Oa5.50; COWS and heifers, So 700
5.25; Gamers, 81 50@25O; stockers and feed
ers, $2.50d4.0O; calves; $2.50Q5.5O; bulls and
stays, $2.O0935O.
HOGS-Market 10c lower. Heavy, $3.50
40; mixed. s4.50d4. SO; light, $44O94 So; pigs,
$375Q4.25; bulk of sales $2.50a455.
SHEEP-Market steady. Western year.
lings, s5.5O9625; wethers, s5.00a540; ewes,
$425q5.25; lambs. $6.25972a
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Mining Expert Dead.

Ballston, N. Y, Jan. 30.-Charles H.
Cady, a well-known metallurgist and
iron mining expert, died here Saturday.
after several months illness of Bright's
disease. He was Go years old.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Gave Rockefeller Situation.

Cleveland, o., Jan, 3O-Henry Boul-
ton, aged 76 years Snce foreman over
John d. Rockefeller, died at Lake Side
hospital Of b.o2d n aspniGg 1t was
while fore7t shop that
he hired RI sfelle IS carpenter.
Boulton later declined Rockefeller's
advice to join him in the formation of
the Standard Oil company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
Old Stock Exchange Man Dies,

New York, Jan. 30.-Wayland Trask,
one Of the oldest members Of the New
York stock exchange, died Saturday.
Mr.. Trask had been a member Of the ex-
change since 1869.
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a OMEWHERE in Southland,


A broken man, physically-a mere
shadow Of the formerly robust and pro-
digiously energetic 260-pound frame that
seemed to be tireless-this wonderful
man is shielded from the worlds view
by loving friends. His sightless eyes
may never glow again with the light
that charmed the multitudes in two hem
ispheres. The thin, drawn and enact
ated features could not be taken for
those whose rudy fullness bespoke the
vigorous hymn singer. If weighted in
the finest balance, Ira D. Sankey to-day
would not tip the beam bit over 80
pounds.
What a contrast to the days when his
immense chest swelled beneath the
tight-fitting Prince Albert! The lung
power of Sankey in his prime puzzled
the critics. So broken in health that it
seems as if the slightest harsh tone
might snap the life chord, the great
evangelist appears an almost pathetic
character.
His one great wish, so often expressed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-03
THE MARKETS..
Grain, Provisions. Etc.

,..... Chicago, Jan. %.
FLOUR-Firm. Spring wheat, special
brands, $6.40Q6.60; Minnesota, hard winter
patent jute, S5.4Od5.5O; Minnesota, hard
spring, straight, export bags, $4S0a49O;
clear, export bags, $S70q3.9O.
WHEAT-Tame. May. T15k@116
CORN-Rules weak. May, 447s945Ac.
oATS-steady. May. SO4@S1sc.
RYE-Ruled firm. January, 75c; May,
7Sc; cash, No. 2, S1l4aS2l5c f. o. b.
BARLEY-Ruled steady to firm Malt
ing grades ranged 40q50c; feed, 3663Sc;
screenings, 2543S1ac.
BUTTER-Firm. Creameries, per pound,
19Q31c; dairy, 15d26c.
EGGS-Strong. Fresh eggs, at mark,
new cases included, 2Oq26c per dozen; prime
firsts, Csc; extras soc.
TATOES-Steady. Car lots, on track,
per bu, S0a35c.
LIVE POULTRY-Steady. Turkeys, per
h., 13c; chickens, fowls, per doz, $1,000 800.