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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
WILL NOT HANG.
Death Sentences of Men In Transvaal Are
COMMITTED.

Death Sentences of Men In Transvaal Are
COMMITTED.
Pretoria, April 29.-Five of the lead
ers of the national reform committee
who pleaded guilty of high treason
Monday, including John Hays Ham
mond. the American mining engineer,
were condemned to death at Tuesday
forenoon's sitting of the court.
Washington. April 3O.--Secretary Oh
ney Wednesday morning received the
following cablegram dated Wednesday
from Vice Consul Knight at Cape Town,
relative to John Hays Hammond.
Have been informed that sentence of
death is committed. Further particulars
will be wired"
Secretary Olney has been in telegraphic
communication with the British foreign
office with regard to securing the most
favorable treatment of Hammond by
the Boer authorities. This line of
action is made necessary by the fact that
the United States government has no
diplomatic officer near the South
African republic, it's only representa-
tives being consular agent at Jo-
hannesburg and vice consul at Cape
Town. Vice Consul Knight wired that
he would send further particulars of
the communication of the death sentence
but did not do so for the reason, I'M
doubtedly, that the clemency granted
was indefinite and did not indicate how
far the Communication went.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Josephus Hopewood was nominated
for governor at the prohibition conven-
ton IL Nashville, Tenn, and national
delegates to Pittsburgh were elected.
The first state convention in Illinois
held in Springfield and nominated Mrs.
Mary Turner Carried, of Jacksonville,
for trustee of the state university.
In convention at Springfield the
Illinois republicans nominated John r.
Tanner, of Clay county, for governor,
and w. A. Northcott, of Bond county,
for lieutenant governor, and then adj
journed for the day.
At Montpelier, VT, the republican
state convention adopted resolution
expressing a preference for Maj. Nc
Kinley as presidential candidate. The
platform opposes silver agitation and
favors protection and reciprocity.
Georgia republicans met at Atlanta
and adopted platform reaffirming the
principles of the republican party and
elected delegates to the national con-
vention who favor Mckinley.
Michigan democrats in convention at
DetTOlC tlcCCeu ucleSutcS 10 the udtIOu-
al convention and adopted platform
favoring the gold standard.
The Mississippi democrats in conven-
ton at Jackson adopted platform de-
claring for tariff for revenue only and
for free coinage of silver and selected
delegates to the national convention
who indorse such views.
The democratic state convention at
Allentown, Pa, Endorsed eX-Gov. Rob
ert +. Pattinson's candidacy for the
presidential nomination and declared
against the free coinage of silver. John
Nj. Broden and Benjamin F. Potts were
nominated for congressman at large.
The Third district prohibitionists of
Maine nominated DR.. w. S. Thompson,
of Augusta. for congress.
The republicans of the Fifth district
of Michigan renominated William A.
Smith for congress.
The Maine prohibitionists in state
convention ut Waterville nominated
Rev. A. S. Laid. of Calias. for governor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Opening of the Great Gathering of
Churchmen at Cleveland.
Cleveland, O., May AT nine o'clock
a. M. Friday, Bishop Bowman called
to order the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in the Cen
trail armory. The session will last for
one month. After brief devotional ex-
ercises the roll was called and the dele
gates were seated. There are accredited
to the conference four women delegates.
One of the hottest fights in the history
of the general conference is expected
over the admission of the ladies.
In the evening a general reception
was held in the conference hall. Bishop
Foss opened the meeting with prayer.
Mayor Mckisson then welcomed the
delegates on the part of the city of
Cleveland. Horace Benton, Esq, eN-
tended welcome on behalf of the COM
mittee of arrangements, and Rev. C.
w. Thwing, ID. D., president of the
Western Reserve university, spoke words
of greeting for the sister churches. Rev.
DIR. Gilbert, of the First Methodist
church, voiced the welcome of the Cleve-
land Methodists. Responses were made
by delegates as follows: For the lay
men, by Gen. j. f. Rushing, of Tren-
ton, N. j., and for the ministry, by
Bishop Fowler, of Minneapolis. A choice
musical programme was interpreted
between the addresses.
At the night session of the conference
the principal subject discussed was the
negro claim to representation in the
episcopacy. Although no official ac-
ton was taken, it may be stated with
certainty that an assistant bishop to
Bishop Taylor, of Africa, will be APP
pointed from the African M. E. church,
and that in addition to his duties in
Africa, he will have partial jurisdiction
in the southern states of the union.
This will be the preparatory step to the
elevation of a colored clergyman to q
full seat in the episcopacy. 1t is not
probable that this elevation will be
made until the next conference.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
A bomb exploded in the palace of
Gen. Weyler in Havana and wrecked
part of the building. Insurgents were
charged with the deed.
The house of Jean Louis Mercer was
destroyed by fire at Magpie, Can, and
his wife, son and daughter persisted in
the flames.
The Spanish gunboat Mensagera cap
tured and took into Havana the Amer
lean schooner Competitor of Key West,
Fla, loaded with arms and ammunition,
believed to be intended for the insur-
gents.
Advices from Pretoria say that the
sentence of death had been taken off
the four prisoners, Hammond, Rhodes,
Farrar and Phillips. 1t was undecided
what punishment would be substituted.
In collision at Woo Sung, China,
between the steamers New Cwang and
On Wo the latter sank and over 200 per-
sons, mostly Chinese, were drowned.
An explosion by which 100 persons
were believed to have persisted occurred
in a colliery at Micklefield, Yorkshire.
The Canadian government has adopt
ed an order eNempting American ves-
sells from entry and clearance charges
at Canadian ports.
Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter
of Queen Victoria and widow of Prince
Henry of Battenburg, has been appoint
ed governor of the Isle of Wight, the
office previously held by her husband.
While Nazir-Ed-Din, the shah of Per-
STA, was entering the inner court of the
shrine of Shah Abdul Aim, six miles
south Of Teheran, he was shot and al
most instantly killed by an assassin,
who was arrested.
The distress owing to the drouth in
the northwest province of East India
was unexampled. twas estimated that
100000 persons were employed on re-
lief work.
Fifteen hundred houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Taleishi, Japan
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
Horsewhipped on the Stage.

Columbus, O., May I'm the third act
of Othello, by Louis James company
at the High street theater Friday night,
James leading man, Guy Lindsey, was
horsewhipped on the stage in full view
of the audience by a woman who leaped
ct that moment from one of the boxes,
whip in hand. At the station house
later she gave her name as Georgia
Kimball and said her home was in St.
Louis.
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DOMESTIC.

Further advices say that II persons
lost their lives in the recent cyclone
in Clay county, Kan.
Navigation on the St. Lawrence river
was resumed.
Lucky Davis, Louis Davis, Rufus
Buck, Mamoi July, Sam Sampson and
Ed Wilkey were sentenced to be hanged
at Fort Smith, Ark. on July for crimes
against women committed in the In
dian territory.
A passenger train on the Illinois Cen
trail was ditched by washout half
mile east of Raymond, Ia, and IA per-
sons were injured, some seriously.
The monthly report of the condition
of crops throughout the country was
favorable.
The 22d annual encampment of the
Iowa department, G. A. R., met in Cedar
Rapids with 10000 old soldiers in at
tendance.
William Paul was hung in the state
prison at Columbus, O., for the muir
der of his father-in-law, Jacob Hockey,
in September, 1894.
Forest fires were doing immense dam
age in Crawford and Clark counties in
Indiana.
The village of Epiphany, N. D., was
completely destroyed by cyclone, not
a building being left standing. and
three persons were fatally and Is more
or less seriously injured.
William Scarborough, Joseph Heidel-
branch, Mrs. Lucinda Williamson and
Charles Cranberry were killed by
cloudburst at Waldo, o.
A destructive cyclone passed over Sec
tons of Boone, Audrain and Monroe
counties in Missouri.
Miss Florence Pullman, daughter of
George NJ. Pullman, was married in
Chicago to Frank Orren Lowden, ,of
Hubbard, la.
Acyclone did great damage in Chicka-
saw, Butler and Bremen counties in
Iowa, many houses and barns being
wrecked. No lives were lost.
Gov. Hastings refused to grant re-
spite to H. H. Holmes, who is to he
hanged in Philadelphia on May for
the murder of Benjamin f. Pitzel.
Another incendiary fire at Cripple
Creek, COL. destroyed nearly every
building in the place, the loss being over
$1,500,000. Several persons lost their
lives, many were injured and thou
sands were homeless and destitute.
At Seattle, Wash, Albert Rieuliff shot
and killed his wife and then committed
suicide. Jealousy was the cause.
The abandoned factory of the Denver
Hardware Manufacturing company was
burned at Denver, the loss being
100000.
Bill Taylor was hanged at Carrollton,
Mo-, for the murder of the Meeks family
in Linn county on May 10, 1894.
By the sinking of the steamer Wyan-
dotte off Newport News eight persons
lost their lives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Proceedings OF the First Session.
The whole of the session of the senate on
the 2Sth was occupied in the considera-
ton of the naval appropriation bill. The
house passed the general pension bill by a
vote of 1S7 to "a and the bankruptcy bill was
discussed.
In the senate on the 29th ult. resolu-
tons were adopted accepting from the
state of Wisconsin the statue of James
Marquette. The naval appropriation Dill
was then taken up and the remainder Of
the session was given up to political
speeches. The house spent the day II
further discussion of the bankruptcy bill.
The naval appropriation bill was further
discussed in the senate on the S0th ult. A
bill was favorably reported to protect free
labor from convict competition by confin-
ing the sale of goods manufactured by con-
Wet labor to the state where produced.
Senator Hill introduced bill in relation to
contemptS of United States courts, the
bill defining direct contempts to be those
committed during the sitting of court
or judge in chambers in its or his pres
ence; all other contempts are indirect. In
The house the general debate on the bank
ruptcy bill was concluded. A bill was in
PRODUCED to provide for the purchase Of
the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in
Kentucky and to erect on the site ma
tional soldiers home, to be known as the
Lincoln Soldiers Home"
in the United States senate on the LIST
during the discussion of the naval appro-
priation bill Senator Tillman Is. Co. made
bitter attack on the president and Sec
rotary Of the treasury and was replied to by
Senator Hill IN. ". Senator Butler IN.
CD Introduced bill to make the Mexican
silver dollar, the Japanese yen and The
trade dollar equal in value 20 the standard
dollar of tine United States. -. The house
devoted the major portion Of the day to
debate on the bankruptcy bill. A bill to
provide for delegate in congress from the
territory of Alaska was defeated, A to 60.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
SHAH SHOT.
An Assassin Takes the Life of Persin's
Ruler.

Washington, May 2.-Secretary Olney
at three p. m. Friday received the fol-
lowing cable message from United
States Minister Alex Mcdonald at Te-
heran:
''Teheran, Persia, May ], 1S96.-To Oh
ney, Secretary of State, Washington:
Shah, visiting shrine near city to-day
for devotion, on entering inner sanctuary
was shot by assassin disguised as wom-
an, bullet entering region of heart Ex-
pired In few minutes. Regicide revolu-
tionary fanatic. Great distress. but city
quiet"
Shortly after the receipt of the news
Of the assassination, Secretary Olney
sent cable message to Minister Nc
Donald, saying that the president di,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
Died of Exposure.

Imperial, Neb., April 3o.-During the
wind and rainstorm Tuesday night Miss
Leota Brown, aged 20, who had gone
to drive some cattle in, persisted from
exposure within a quarter of mile
of her home.
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LATER.


The fast mail on the Northern Pa
cific collided the I'd with stock train
near Livingston, Mont, killing Engi-
neer James Tanning. The wreck was
caused by the failure of the air to work
the brakes on the stock train.
The big paint factory of w. A. Fuller
& Co., at San Francisco, was burned
the I'd. Loss, $500. 600.
After five days debate, the house
passed the Henderson bill to establish
a uniform system of bankruptcy, by a
vote of 1877 to 81.
A strike of the 900 employees of tho
Milwaukee wis. Electric Railway and
Light company was inaugurated the
night of the 3D..
Edwin F. Uhl, the United States am
bassador to Germany, appointed upon
the death of Theodore Runyon, had his
first audience with the emperor the Sd.
Will Rendy was captured by sher-
IFS posse in Jasper county, Texas, the
Sd, and hung up and shot to death.
The sheriff and two deputies were
wounded before Rendy yielded.
1t was rumored in London, the I'd,
that the assassination of the Shah of
Persia was brought about by the ma
chlnations of his eldest son, Massoud
Mirzia, governor of Ishpahan. The
latter was born in 1910, while the new
shah, second son of the deceased mon
arch, was born in 1853; but the latter
is an offspring of wife of high rank,
and was thus chosen to succeed his
father, in place of Massoud, his elder
brother.
According to cablegram from Mana
qua, Nicaragua, the I'd, the rebellion
which has ragged in that country for the
past four months has been brought to
an end by the surrender, the I'd, of
the rebel forces whose quarters were
at Leon.
With simple services the remains of
w. o. Gresham, President Cleveland's
secretary of state, was laid at rest N
Arlington cemetery. the nations bury
ing ground, late the I'd.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Standing of Leading Clubs for the Week
Ended April 80.
The following tables show the num-
Der of games won and lost and the per.
centage of the clubs of the leading base
ball organizations. National league:
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The Illinois republicans in conven-
ton at Springfield nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, John II.
Tanner; lieutenant governor, w. ~.
Northcott; secretary of state, James
A. Rose; state auditor, j. S. McCul-
Tough; state treasurer, Henry L. Hertz;
attorney general, L. C. Aiken. The del
egates at large to St Louis are Richard
}. Oglesby. X. w. Patterson, Joseph w.
Fifer and William Penn Nixon, and
they were instructed to vote for Nc
Kinley for president. The platform
declares for the gold standard, protec-
ton OF home industries, reciprocity,
and condemns the administration of
Gov. Altgeld.
DIR. II. c. Nicholson, who invented the
quadruplex telegraph instruments, died
at his home in Nicholson, KY, aged "a
years.
Catherine Judd, known as "Aunty"
Judd, died in Bridgeport. Conn.,. aged
102 years.
Presidential preferences of the dele
gates so far elected to the republican
national convention are given as fol-
lows: Mckinley, 439; Reed, 1903; Nor
ton, SO; Quay, 40; Allison, 35; Bradley,
16; unpledged, 81; total, 752.
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27
PERSONAL MENTION.
JottIngs About Individuals andTheir
 Actions.

Nose Drachman has gone to Tucson on a couple of days business visit.
 Mrs. Curry of Fairbanks is in the city and stopping at The Commercial.
 Judge B. w. Wells came down from Prescott yesterday morning and is stopping at The Ford.
 R. L. Long, the absTactor, yesterday morning returned from a two months visit to Pennsylvania.
 A. J. Barton, the tonsorial artist, has returned from Prescott, where he went to enjoy weeks sleep.
 E. Grant Randall and sister, Daisy, will return this afternoon from a visit to Flagstaff and Prescott.
 Mrs. 2. F. Kellner and daughters will leave for Los Angeles to attend Mir. Kellner, who is very i'll.
 Charles Collins has returned from a r.ounta.n "trip and has resumed hand ling the ribbons on one of De Witt s hacks.
 Miss Lillian Ackleman is acting as stenographer for the M. & P. railroad company during the absence of Miss Hutchinson. b..
 Superintendent Harwood Hall and wife of the Indian school and Secre- tary Barney Alexander and wife have returned from a trip to. California.
 H. P. Anewalt, the chief clerk in the general offices of the s. F., P. & P. at Prescott, has been called to Kansas City by the sudden illness of his fath- CT. ..,
 Frank M. King, chief clerk of the Nogales customs house, came in yester- day on a visit of a couple of days. Frank is always welcome in Phoenix, for he has many personal friends
 Senor Don Martin Arce, Mexican consul at this city, left last night for Mexico. Senor Don Leon Vargos Ma varro, late of the City of Mexico, has been appointed consul and assumed charge of the office several days ago.
 Mrs. Longstreth, wife of the genial electrician of the street railway, will leave for Los Angeles this morning with her sister, Miss Lillian O'Rourke. They will reside there and will be joined by MT. Longstreth in a couple of months.
 Judge M. H. Williams returns to Los Angeles tonight for another brief stay on account of his health. Neri Osborne will look after the judges business during his absence In case of pressing business Mir. Williams can return in twenty -four hours if notified by telegraph. .-.
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27
Provoked a Speech.

A good story is told of the way in which a New England senator was once aroused to make astirring speech. At the outset of his political career he had been known as remarkably clever ''orator of the stump" and later on, in the lower house of the legislature, he made brilliant name for himself. But when he became senator he ceased talking, much to the regret of his friends and admirers. Finally the liquor law came up for discussion, and the wife of friend of the senator, who was much interested in it's passage, was greatly disappointed to see that the brilliant man had no apparent in tention of joining in the discussion. She sat dove and wrote a few words on a sheet of paper, which she inclosed ir an envelope and sent by {. messenger to the senator. 'Do speak! Even Ba- laam's ass spoke once!" This brought the senator to his feet and elicited one of the best speeches he ever made.
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27
THE MORALES OUTBREAK.
Why the Captured Men Were Dis
 charged by the Court.

Nogales, Ariz., Aug. "A, 1896. To the Editor of The Republican:
 The last of the persons arrested on the United States side as participants in the alleged revolutionary move ment which caused the fight at No gales, Sonora, had their hearing this morning before Court Commissioner Taylor. Those heard this morning were Manuel Mesa and Andres Con- zales. They were defended by Judge Eb Williams as were those examined heretofore.
 The arrests of the suspects on this side of the line were made under sec tion 52S6, R. S., which reads as fol- lows:
 Every person who, within the ter ritory or jurisdiction of the United States, begins or sets on foot, or pro vides or prepares the means for any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, dis trict or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27

winter many thousands of dollars will exchange hands in land transactions.
 Revenge is a sweet morsel, so thinks Mir. Redewill. 1t will be remembered that Sam Snead had Redewill arrested several days ago for riding on the sidewalk. On that occasion RedeWill paid small fine. Yesterday an Op- portunity of, revenge presented itself. Snead was breaking a morse on the street and Redewill, who has had one eye on Snead for several days saw the act. He hunted up Justice Johnstone and tried to have a warrant sworn out for Snead's arrest. The justice told him that he had no jurisdiction i'm the premises and referred him to the city authorities The warrant has not yet been issued, but will be as soon as the city attorney looks up the statutes.
 Last night very quiet wedding took place at the residence of the brides parents. The principals were Fred J. Feldman of Ell Paso, and Miss Marie B. Kelso of this city. The groom is we'll known young business man of Fl Paso and the bride is the accomplished daughter of Judge Kelso, the mining man. The couple left last night for Ell Paso where they will live.
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27

guilty of a fhigh misdemeanor, and shall be fined mot exceeding three thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than three years"
 The evidence against those tried this morning was substantially the same as tIlra,t produced against the others, i. e., bedng found ieWith arms vhasving the same name as that found -on4.ther list taken from the body of one of the dead Yauifis. For the defense the only evidence offered in each case was proof that some ofnthe prisoners were at Tubac and others at Harshaw on the morning of the 12th inst, the day of the outbreak, at an hour than ren- dered it impossible for them to have been at Nogales, Sonora, on that morn ing.
 Judge Williams held the point that as, under the statute quoted above, the men could be guilty only when proved to have participated in an ex- pedition organized in the United States, that the proof of such organization having been made in the United States was the essential feature of the case and that mo evidence had been prod duced to prove such organization. and that great care should be exercised before admitting a proposition, which would involve the liability of the United States to Mexico for an indem- nifty.
 Q. T1hat if such organization had been made or even if it were presumed, that it devolved on the prosecution to show the relation of the men charged with it, or any participants therein, and that no such proof had been made. and that in the absence of such proof the men were entitled to be discharged without giving any evidence.
 8. That to fully satisfy the court and the public of the innocence of the men, proof had been given in each case of clear alibi. z-z.tsI. 50. ..Hr-t:< -@1 I think, with Judge Williams, that we should go slow in assisting to prove that a military expedition was set on foot against Mexico in the United States by Santa Teresa or any other Santa, because while we all desire the welfare of our sister state of Sonora while we rejoice in her progress, and are ready at all times to aid her by all lawful means, our first duty is to ourselves, and, if any expedition was set on loot i'm the United States against Mexico, it is time enough for us to know it when Mexico has proved it in an action for indemnity for the de struction of her property, and the murder of her citizens by such expedi- tion. 1t was because of, this feature being involved that Judge Williams refused to act as advisor of the Mexi- can authorities, and defended without compensation the several prisoners. 5- "J. H."
Arizona republican., 1896-08-27
A King at Golf.

Khama, the South African monarch, who has been visiting his friends at the British court, attempted little game of golf. It was near London, and when the "driver" was handed to the dusky chief he remarked that it would make a nicish knobkerrie.i Suiting his action to his words he seized the driver" and whirled it round his head just failing to brain caddie, who was fool enough to stand near. After knocking up a lot of turf Khama drove the golf ball at least r yards into bunker He did the IS