The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-01-05
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and P0-
Iitical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.


VIII Burdy, James Philpot and Bob
Gregory were killed in a saloon row at
Manchester, Ky.
Mrs. Mary Anderson committed sui
eide by asphyxiation in Chicago and
also suffocated her two young step
children.
The wholesale grocery house of Lewis
Hubbard & Co. was burned at Charles
ton. w. Va, the loss being $4,000.
Fire which destroyed the Arcade
building at Detroit, Mich, caused dam
age amounting to $125,00O.
Jacob Straye: and wife were cremated
in fire which destroyed their home
near Scottdale. Pa.
Edward j. Radcliffe, the actor, found
guilty of striking his wife. was SEN
fenced in New York to six months in the
penitentiary.
A revised estimate of the cotton crop
of 1s97-9S places it at 1O,257, 900 bales.
Patrick Kelley, of Louisville, KY, who
for over a year has been dumb. sudden
ly recovered his speech during fit of
anger.
Joseph Hopkins, a negro who MUIR
dered two white farmers at Glendore.
Miss, was lynched by mob.
Mrs. Nancy Browdy, aged 46, of Butte,
Mont, and her mother, aged rs, were
burned to death in New Haven, Pa.
The Universities of Michigan, Chi
cago, Illinois, Wisconsin and the North
western university have organized the
Western intercollegiate Baseball
league.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says it
will be impossible for the United States
to remain complacent should European
nations undertake the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of China.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
American Historical association began
in Cleveland. o.
Several icebergs in Lake Michigan
about 100 feet high and rs feet in diam
eter were an unusual spectacle seen at
Waukegan, Ill.
On a wager of $50 F. L. Mackay ate
100 raw oysters in eight minutes in
New York
Eighty per cent. of the edge tool man
ufacturers in the United States have
consolidated their interests.
Fire in the Great Northern hotel in
Chicago burned the great aeolian or
gan. valued at $4,000.
The First Reformed Presbyterian
church of New York city celebrated its
one hundredth anniversary.
President Mckinley has approved the
bill prohibiting the killing of fur seals
in the waters of the North Pacific
ocean"
James J. Corbett has challenged Rob
ert Fitzsimmons to fight for purse of
$4,000 and the worlds championship.
Fire destroyed the plant of the +. C.
Austin Manufacturing company in Chi
cago, the loss being 100000, and Frank
Suffer persisted in the flames.
James Kirkley, treasurer of Benton
county, was murdered in his office at
Fowler, Ind, by unknown persons.
From reports on file in Washington
it is shown that 100000 Cubans are to-
day in the direst distress and that 600,-
600 reconcentrados have died since jan
uary, 1897.
By the will of Charles Contoit. filed
at New York, $1,5OO,0OO is bequeathed
to religious organization
The output of gold in Colorado this
year is $22,0O0,000, against SIG 500, 900 in
the year 1896.
o. Fl. Maybr, agent for the Southern
Express company at Brunswick. Ca.
is said to have decamped with $4,000
belonging to the company.
Fifteen persons were injured in two
railroad wrecks in and near Chicago.
The postal savings bank idea is not
a popular one in New York banking
circles.