The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-05-26


be submitted to European conference.
which would probably meet in Paris.
LATER.
Four judges of election and one clerk
were arrested in st. Louis, Mo-, for
frauds perpetrated at the late school
election.
Cambridge university of England, by
a vote of 1,713 to 662, has rejected the
proposal to confer degrees upon women.
A man attempted to hold up and rob
car on the electric line at Tacoma,
Wash, but was foiled by Superintend-
ent Dame, who drew revolver and
killed the robber. Mr.. Dame was shot
In the arm and passenger in the leg
The duke of Tetuan, minister of for
eign affairs, has resigned as result of
an incident in the Spanish senate when
he became involved in quarrel with
Senator Comas.
The steamer Florida, of the Lacka-
wanna line, bound from Chicago to
Buffalo with grain and general mer-
chandise, was sent to the bottom of
Lake Huron by collision with the
steamer George W. Roby.
An explosion of gasoline at St Louis,
Mo-. killed Mrs. Ada Mohr, her IS
months-old baby, and Hugo Howard,
aged Is months. Four others were
badly burned In order to make the
fire burn faster in the cook stove, Mrs.
Mohr poured gasoline over the wood.
George Hobson, recorder for Hamil-
ton County, o., has been found nearly
$50, 900 short in his account.
A Cuban filibustering expedition left
Fernandina. Fla. about thirty Cubans
being taken out to sea and transferred
to steamer, presumably the Daunt-
less.
James French of Rockford ILL.,, has
been found guilty of numbering his
wife and sentenced to hang June II.
An installment of the $50. 900 approp-
rated by congress for the relief of suf-
fering Americans in Cuba has been re-
ceived by Consul General Lee per
treasury cable transfer and is now Oh
deposit with G. Lawton, Childs & Co..
the local American banking house.
There were 245 failures in the United
States for the week ending May Fl.
At Rossland, B. c., Cabel Daniels
shot and mortally wounded Blanche
Daniels, a handsome young woman in
the Sisters hospital, and then blew out
his own brains. Unrequited love was
the cause.
Miss Cordius Cole. of Bedford, Ia.
won the Evolutionary contest medal
at Hardin college, Mexico. Mo-, her
subject being ITO the Lions"
Five small boys were drowned in the
branch of the Chicago, Qll.,) river
known as Mud lake, while trying to
cross that stream on an improvised raft.
w. w. Hamilton established a new
worlds bicycle record at Denver, Col,
by making 25 miles hour, minute
and SO seconds, unpaced.
The duke of Tetuan, the Spanish
minister who rendered his resignation
after quarrel with Senior Comas, has
withdrawn his resignati on.
A battle occurred between mob of
ifs posse near Owensville, KY, in
which David Johnson was mortally
wounded and several others severely
injured.
While lying helplessly i'll with her
3-year old child asleep by her side Mrs.
Nellie Dawson was shot and killed by
her husband at Chicago.
An explosion in the Rossena furnace
at Newcastle, Pa, seriously injured
dozen more workmen.
John R. Rockefeller has issued an
edict against Sunday labor by the en-
ployes on his ore docks on the upper
and lower lakes.
Michael Kurdy was buried under at
least Is feet of sand by cavern at
Newcastle, Pa He was dead when
taken out. Peter Kismslzy was terri
bly, crushed, but will live.
Mrs. Catherine Mossway and her A.
year-old daughter suffocated to death
in fire that destroyed tenement
building in New York.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison led the
annual Sunday run of bicycle clubs in
Chicago the 23d. There were 5000 cy-
clists in the parade.
VIM. R. Ross, aged Is years. hanged
himself in his home at Stockton, N. j.
He was addicted to the use of cigarets
and had tried several times to break
himself of the habit, but failed.
A mob broke into the Jail at Lindale,
Texas, and killed Will James as he sat
in his cell. James was accused of be-
ing implicated In the murder of r. w.
Stewart.
A fight over cards at Snowden, Pa,
resulted in the murder of Albert Grier
by George Douglass, both colored.