The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-01-26
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The most severe snow storm in years
visited Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Missouri the ED and 23d. In Chicago,
street car traffic was suspended and
telegraph, telephone and electric light
wires were blown down. In Iowa 16
inches of snow fell and all trains were
delayed from to 10 hours.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, the noted
divine, and Mrs. Collier were married
the Esd, at Allegheny City. Pa.
Mrs. Seth Coffman. living near AL
bany, Ind, forced laudanum down her
infants throat, causing its death. She
then cut her own throat with kitchen
knife.
Anti-Jewish riots occurred recently
at Algiers. The mob invaded the Jew
ish quarter and pillaged the shops in
the Rue Babazoun, driving the Jewish
merchants out into the streets. A
squadron of chasseurs was ordered to
the scene and charged tho mob with
drawn swords, but the mob reformed
further on, cheering for the army.
Russia is about to present note to
Turkey demanding payment of the
whole balance of the indemnity Of the
Russo Turkish war, amounting to 92s,-
100000, with view of making the sui
tan more docile in the settlement of
the Cretan question.
A fire totally destroyed the building
and contents of f. A. Walsh, manufac-
turer of tinware and timers material,
at Milwaukee, Wis. Loss, $500, 900.
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Griggs, of New Jersey, as attorney
general.
Owing to free fight in the French
chamber of deputies the 23d, the ses-
sion was suspended. The trouble in
the chamber was the outcome of dis
cussion of the postponed Interpolation
of the government by ex-Minister
c vaignac. of the subject of the semi.
official note issued on Jan. II, in which
the government declined to make
public the confession made by ex-Cap-
tain Alfred Dreyfus to Captain LIE
Brun-Renaud, the officer who mad
charge of him when he was court
martialled.
The German missionary troubles in
China are becoming widespread and
are leading to new complications be-
tween the two governments. The
Professionals as we'll as the Catholics
have been attacked.
DIR. Nansen has cancelled all of his
lecture engagements and will return tc
Norway at once.
John M. Scott, ex-justice of the su.
preme court of Illinois, died from the
effects of a carbuncle. He was Is
years old.
Oscar Funts, a train employe of the
Great Northern railway, while work.
ing on a rotary snow plow near Sum.
NIT, Mont, fell into the funnel of the
machine and was ground to death.
The issues of the New York World
and New York Journal of Jan. 16 were
seized by the government officials at
Havana.
The U. 8. treasury the 21st had
gold reserve of S163, 1925 22.
Gov. Bushnell of Chic is very ill from
diabetes, and the physicians announce
his recovery doubtful.
Arrangements have been made tc
send detachment of the government
Yakon relief expedition from Seattle
on the steamer Signal, which sails for
Skaguay about Feb. 5.
The Masonic Mutual Benefit society
of Indiana has filed a deed of assign.
ment.
At English, Ind, five bridges over
Little River were swept away. Fifty
persons were on one bridge when il
went down, and it was with difficulty
they were saved.
Gen. Castellanos has taken posses.
sion of the village of Esperanza, in the
Sierra de Cubitas, where the Cuban in.
surgent government had its head.
quarters. During the stubborn resis.
tance made by the insurgents their
government officials escaped.
One hundred fshermen's huts on the
ice in Lake Erie, off Put-in-Bay, O.,
were swept away. Two hundred men
women and children narrowly escaped
drowning by the ice breaking up and
carrying them out into the lake and by
the huts catching fire. They were
rescued after long and terrible fight
with the elements.
A cage with so miners fell down the
shaft of the Eeperance mine at Was.
mes, Belgium, and the occupants dashed
to pieces.
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