The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lake passenger steamer, was success
fully launched at Toledo, o.
Gen. Luke e. Wright, the newly APP
pointed ambassador to Japan, will sail
from Seattle for his new post on April
20.
Senator Tillman announces he will
make his campaign for reelection on
the South Carolina dispensary prob
lem.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $12,-
500 to the erection of a new science
building at Concordia college, Moor
head Mimi.
Maj. j. w. Hawkes., former commits
sioner Of immigration of Louisiana.
was run over by a street car and killed
in New Orleans.
The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
& st. Louis (Big Four railroad issued
general,order to. confiscate all coal in
transit on all it's lines.
A skip that was beng hoisted from
the bottom of the Ottawa mine, near
Norwood, Mich, fell, killing two
miners and injuring four.
Joesph A. Turney, note teller of the
National Bank of North America, was
arraigned in police court in New York
on the charge of stealing $4,000.
Charles c. Daigen, of West Farming
ton, O., who killed R. X. Lewis on
January 10, pleaded guilty to second
degree murder and was given a life
sentence.
An aged Indianian says he was
swindled in Chicago out of 1900
through a land and bond deal, and
caused the arrest of two men, one 81
years old.
While resisting arrest on minor
charge Robert Johnson (colored) was
shot and instantly killed by Marshal
Webster Roberts, also colored at Wyo-
ming, o.
Mrs. Storer denies that she used a
letter from the president to aid Arch
bishop Ireland. She did use a letter
by Mr.. Roosevelt when he was gov
ernor of New York
The Ohio general assembly has adj
journed until 1908, the terms of the
members having been extended as a
result of the biennial election amend
ment to three years.
The quarantine established against
sheep of various states by Wyoming
has been lifted Sheep entering that
state must be dipped, but other re-
strictions are removed.
Part of the plant of the Cornell Iron
works at Cold Spring, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire, and about 200 mer
were thrown out of work. The loss
will aggregate about 100000.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa-
dor to Washington, received dispatch
from st. Petersburg announcing that
rumors of probable anti-Jewish upris-
ings in Russia are unfounded.
The Ohio senate killed the primary
election bill, for this session, by refus-
ing to agree to the amendments pro-
posed by the house. This bill has ex-
cited interest all over the state.
The national encampment of the
United States war veterans will begin
October s in Washington and last
throughout the week The president
will address the veterans and review
the procession.
Walter Wood and Stuart Wood
members of the firm of r. d. Wood &
Co., iron manufacturers of Philadel-
phia, were found not guilty in the
United States court here of accepting
a rebate on shipment to Winnipeg.
Conservative estimates place the
number of seals already taken at $780,
000-the largest catch of the past 40
years. 1t is believed that the 100000
mark will have been passed before the
fishing season ends the latter part of
April.
The president has granted pardon
to John w. Pace, of Dodgeville, Ala,
who some time ago was convicted Of
peonage. The pardon was granted on
the ground that PAGES health is such
that if confined he would almost GER
tainly die.
Direct information from the trade
ports and centers of China is to the
effect that the boycott against goods
shipped from the United States is rap
idly dying out and that there is a
prospect of an early and full resump-
ton Of business.