The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-20


The sultan wants American mission
aries withdrawn from Asia Minor.
LATER.
AS the result of the orchestra at
colored dance at Chicago refusing to
play until they were paid for services,
six men. including policeman, were
slashed with razors
The supreme court of Iowa decided
that certificates in fraternal insurance
| orders, like the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen, cannot be assigned.
The president has appointed Thomas
| B. Needles of Illinois, commissioner to
negotiate with the Cherokee, Choctavs
Chickasaw, Muscogee and Seminole
Indians, vice Alex Montgomery. re-
signed.
Secretary Alger is giving much at
| tention to the case of Private Ham
mond, whom, it is alleged, was rough
| ly treated at Fort Sherdin, near Chi
cago. recently.
The police of Chicago arrested four
| OF the most daring burglars in tho
country and secured $4,000 worth of
stolen property. The men under ar
rest are "Sheeny Joe" Rubinstein, the
leader and brains Of the gang; James
Williams, Harry Rogers and James
Flaherty.
At Chicago, the 18th, the thermome-
ter registered s. degrees in the shade,
while at Bismarck and Grand Forks,
N. D., heavy snow storm prevailed.
The falling of the ceiling in Robin
sons opera house, at Cincinnati, O.,
while play was in progress, caused
the death of three people. Five more
were dangerously, if not fatally
wounded, and 26 more or less injured
! The dead are: Miss Lucy Cohen, Mrs.
George Klee, and an unknown man.
The damage to the building was slight.
Miss Cisneros, who recently escaped
from prison at Havana, has renowned
all allegiance to Spain and declared
her intention to become a citizen of
the United States.
Mrs. Isaac Paul, wife of a farmer
near Garrett, Kas., was murdered by
robbers, who then searched the house
and secured S14O.
The coasting steamer Triton, from
Havana to Bahai, province of Pinar del
Rio, Cuba, was wrecked, and all but
two of the 200 passengers and crew
were drowned. The steamer also had
on board $50, 900 for payment of the
Spanish soldiers, which was lost.
The town of Windsor, N. S., was
devastated by fire. The area burned
is nearly mile square, and of the 400
or more buildings occupying the Sec
ton, barely half dozen remain. At
least 5000 people are homeless.
The feat of replacing an iron bridge
span 242 feet long, 25 feet wide and 80
feet in depth with one of the same di-
mansions of steel, was accomplished
in two minutes and thirty-two seconds.
In this space of time nearly 1,700 tons
of iron and steel were moved dis
lance of of 25 feet, and there was not
a slip nor hitch in the entire proceed
ings.
A new comet has been discovered by
C. D. Pernine at the Lick observatory.
San Jose, Cal.
John Beamon, of the Beamon house,
Fond du Lac, Wis, refused drinks to
VIM. Payne. a mulatto. Payne gasped
Beamon by the whiskers and cut his
throat with a razor, killing him in
stantly. In the excitement that fol-
lowed, Payne escaped.
A white man named Cole was
lynched near Wilmot, Ark. Cole had
committed murder, and the lynchers
were friends of the murdered man.
Gen. Weyler received telegram
from the government at Madrid, infor-
| ing him that he will be permitted to
EN- bark for Spain at any time and up
on any steamer he may prefer.
Chas A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, died at his home in New
York the 17th,. aged 70 years. Mr. Da-
mas death has been expected for sever
al hours, and his family and physicians
were at his bedside when the end
came. His condition has been such
for several months that the members
of his family had kept themselves in
constant readiness to 60 to his bedside
at any moment.
John f. Kennedy, who has been on
trial in the criminal court at Kansas
City, Mo-, charged with being the lea
der of the Chicago and Alton passen-
ger train robbery at Blue Cut, in De-
cember last, was acquitted.
The Japanese delegates to the COM
ing Behring Sea conference have ar
rived at Washington.
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