The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-19
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LATER
The day for the execution of Lew.
Kelihan, the Sherburn (Minn.) bank
robber and murderer, is set for Aug.
20. There is no proba bility of inter-
vention by the board of pardons or the
| supreme court.
L. b. Youtsey was arrested at Gin
cinnati, O., for misappropriating funds
while cashier of the Newport National
bank.
A terrible railway disaster befell a
Russian military train between Rock
enhof and Eliva. Sixteen cars were
smashed, two officers and nearly 100
soldiers were killed, and 60 injured.
Stephen R. Mallory was elected U. S.
senator from Florida.
A Southern Pacific train was held up
at Lezier, Tex, by three men and the
Wells-Fargo safe blown open and all
the contents taken.
The court house at Lexington, KY,
was completely destroyed by fire. A
number of valuable paintings were de-
stroyed, also the Hart statue, woman
Lexington $4,000.
w. B. Bradbury, San Francisco,
CAL, millionaire. was sentenced to "a
hours Imprisonment for violating the
city ordinance prohibiting splitting on
the floors of the street cars
Serious trouble has occurred between
revenue officers and smugglers off the
coast of Newfoundland.
The new U. s. gunboat Nashville
covered the 60-mile course on her Off
cial trip in hours and 35 minutes, win
ming large bonus for her builders.
Judge Gibbons. of Chicago, has de-
cided that the American Tobacco Com
pany. (the cigaret trust is an illegal
corporation and prohibited its agents
carrying on the business in Illinois.
E. S. Dreyer & Co., private bankers
at Chicago have been indicted for re-
ceiving deposits after they were in
solvent.
Seventy houses in the best part of
Dorogobush, in the province of Smo-
government buildings, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
A boiler explosion in grist mill near
Glasgow, KY, instantly killed j. Brown
and Simon kirkpatrick, who were
waiting for grists. Virgil Bendly was
fatally injured and three others Sc
verely hurt.
Gov. Black, of New York, has signed
the civil service bill recently passed by
the legislature of that state.
During the past week definite un-
|derstanding was perfected by which
the cabinets of Germany, France and
Russia will soon reach the solution of
the Egyptian and Transvaal questions,
and this will be done Systematically in
an anti British sense.
General Weyler has decided against
the exchange of bank bills by the gov
eminent for silver coin and the result
was panic in Cuba. Prices for bread,
milk, etc., doubled in few days. The
government scrip Is 30 per cent below
lpar.
John E. Doehring, ex-city treasurer
of Belleville, ILL.,, hanged himself with
clothes line in the smokehouse at his
home in that city. The body was
found by one of the members of the
family and cut down just as life was
extinct. His accounts as treasurer are
all right, but he had overdrawn his
salary $500 and couldn't settle.
| For the first time in the history of
the city, Toronto, Can, has street car
service on Sunday.
r. IN
at Huntington, w. Va, was partially
wrecked by dynamite bomb. 1t being
late at night, no one was hurt.
The porte has replied officially to the
note of the powers and declines to agree
to an armistice until the following con-
ditions are accepted: The annexation
of Thessaly, an indemnity of 100000
900 and abolition of the capitulation
The porte proposes that plenipoten-
tiaries of the powers should meet at
Pharsalos to discuss the terms of peace
and declares that if these conditions
are declined, the Turkish army will
continue to advance.
The Brotherhood of Tailors in New
York, with a membership of $4,000,
have decided to strike.
passenger train on the Santa Fe
road went through trestle near Ard
more. l. T. Fifteen passengers were
hurt, some fatally.
Frank Machemer, of Philadelphia. an
insane lad of 10 years, cut the throat of
Mabel Kurtz, the 7-year old daughter
of Adolph Kurtze. in the cellar of the
little girls home.
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