The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-01
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portion Of the village of Clifton, Ill.
Fred Spoor shot and killed his wife at
indianapolis and then shot himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Joseph Mitchell (colored), an Illinois
Central brakeman, was hanged by a
mob al Rives, Tenn. for showing white
boy off moving train.
In a tenement house fire in Kansas
City, Mo-, Mrs. Henry .Ruyter and Bud
Payne were suffocated.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
road was held up near Belen, N. M, by
two men who robbed the express car.
Dasey, Seller and Russell, riding a
triplet, broke the worlds bicycle record
for one mile at Denver, Col, the time be-
ing LAG Is.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country were all
favorable.
The thirty-second annual encamp-
ment of the Wisconsin G. A. r. opened
at Appleton.
The United States Supreme court an
nounces the final adjournment of the
COURT lOI Tic Ol lIlC olSC iIot'
OF the 5000 Kansas volunteers mus
tered into service fully 600 are school
teachers.
William H. Slayton's suit to recover
$4,000 from Mrs. Hetty Green for legal
services has been discontinued.
George Francis Train, Jr., who
claims to be son of "the sage of Mad
ison square" attempted suicide at Co.
ney Island by taking laudanum. He
will recover.
Gov. Tanner has decided upon June
21 as Illinois day at the Trans-Missis-
sippi exposition in Omaha.
Two American girls and a Mexican
girl were drowned near Cuero, Tex,
while bathing in the Guadalupe river.
The Mennonites of Newton, Kan, will
hold weekly prayer meetings to invoke
divine intervention in the present war,
with the result that it shall cease.
John M. Douglass, convicted of muir
dering his wife, was sentenced in Og-
den, Utah, to Imprisonment for life.
Gen. T. S. Clarkson, of Omaha, past
grand commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has been appointed
general manager of the Trans-Missis-
sippi exposition.
The senicentennial anniversary of
Prof. Joseph Emerson's connection
with Beloit (Wis.) college was celebrat-
ed. He was one of the first two pro-
fessors of the institution.
Ebert Harris (colored) was whipped
to death by a mob at Iva, S. c.. He was
charged with burning the railroad de-
pot.
A reign of terror prevailed in Key
West because of tough characters as
sembled there and the citizens asked
for martial law.
Alfred Lamble killed his wife and
then committed suicide at San Diego.
Cal. Jealousy and drink were the causes
of the crime.
The Massachusetts legislature passed
bill forbidding the printing on United
States flags of the names of any but
state militia and grand army veteran
organizations.
DR.. John G. Ferguson, a prominent
dentist, and William NJ. Smith, switch
man on the Missouri Pacific road, killed
each other in ST. Louis in a duel over a
girl.
Bailey Decker (colored) fatally shos
his white wife at Tottenville, Staten Isl,
and, and then killed himself
Dick Oliver, young negro, was
lynched near Donaldsonville, Ga, for
attempted assault upon white woman,
The population of Chicago, according
to the forthcoming issue of the new city
directory, is approximately 1,SSO,000.