The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-24
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great loss of life.
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Martin Bartholomy and George
Roehl were fatally injured and Robert
Loren was severely beaten as the re-
suit OF an attack of twenty masked
men on the night shift of six miners at
the Kolb coal pit near Mascoutah, Ill.
Fire in London, England destroyed
60 warehouses filed with merchan-
disc causing loss of $500 900.
About five acres are burned over.
The appellate division of the sup
preme court of N. Y. handed down a
decision in the case case of John V.
Mcmahon against the city, the effect
of which decision is to uphold the law
which requires that the union rate of
wages shall be paid to mechanics,
workingmen and laborers employed by
the state or any municipal corporation.
An order was issued by the orphans
court at Washington, d. c. making
Mrs. John A. Logan guardian for
Miss Evangeline Cossio Y. Cisneros.
The court was very brief, but Miss
Cossio's appearance caused much
interest.
j. w. Harris, editor of the Times
Herald, and w. A. Harris brother, on
one side and Judge g. B. Gerald,
fought duel on, the streets of Waco,
Texas. The Harris brothers were
killed. Judge Gerald was seriously
wounded.
A train with 500 miners was wrecked
on the Chicago G. Indiana near Coal
Bluff, Ind, Two cars rolled down an
embankment into a ditch. Twenty
three men were m ore or less injured.
A boiler exploded in Artley's Wood
working factory at Carleton, Mich,
killing Edward Craft.
Heavy rains, snow and chinook
winds caused washouts that blocked
all railway traffic in western Montana
for over week.
An engine explosion in the saw mill
of John Woodward, at Alderman,
Miss, killed Frank Woodward, Jim
Hempill and Fayette Norloin.
Football games the Goth resulted as
follows: Yale 6. Princeton O; Pennsyl.
vania Is, Harvard 6.
New counterfeit ten-dollar bills on
the National bank of Los Angeles, Cal,
have been discovered.
The steamer Victoria, sent out by
the Norwegian government to search
for Prof. Andree, has returned without
finding any trace of him or his balloon.
The floor of the Cory Methodist
church at Cleveland, O., collapsed, pre-
|cipitating 500 colored worshipers to
the ground, distance of seven feet
A panic ensued. but only three persons
were hurt, and they not seriously.
Forty-eight men were arrested in the
swamps of Mississippi by United States
inspectors on the charge of violating
the alien labor contract laws.
Patrick Conway went to sleep in
foundry oven at Trenton, N. j. A FIRE
was started soon after, and he was
nearly roasted to death before rescued.
Fire among the warehouses of Mel
bourne, Australia, caused loss of
S., 900, 900.
Two very distinct shocks of earth.
quake were felt at Randsburg. CAL.
AuU ~ od"d w do OoaC'
Angel Paz. the Cuban insurgent, who
betrayed General Adulfo Castillo into
the hands of the Spanish troops, was
hung by the insurgents.
The powers threaten to make dem.
onstration in the Dardanelles.
The will of the late Henry George.
filed for probate in New York leaves
his entire estate consisting of the
home at Fort Hamilton. worth about
SIS, 900, and the copyright of his books
to his widow.
A masked negro attempted to hold
up street car in Kansas City, Mo-
The gripman. E. o. Prowett. threw
grip hook at the highwayman, who
Instantly shot the gripman in the groin.
Conductor G. w. Church came to his
comrades assistance and was shot in
the breast being seriously wounded.
The negro escaped.
All the British prisoners held in Cuba
have been released and all the Ameri-
cans and French prisoners will be set
at liberty in a few days.
Motorman Theodore r. Merrick was
was killed and Motorman w. E. Hor-
ner SO badly injured that he died in
he ad end collision on the Baltimore &
Northern railroad at Baltimore. Md.
The officials say Merrick disobeyed
orders.