The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-08-04


Washington, Tenn, and then shot Car
sons two children.
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes sue
ceeds the late Walbridge A. Field as
chief justice of the supreme court of
Massachusetts.
Mrs. NJ. j. Mock, her son Joe and Cora
Smith, an orphan girl. were drowned at
Balls Bluff, Ga.
Stanley Hayes. a negro charged with
rape, was lynched near Brandon. Miss.
Assistant Postmaster +. L. Stocking,
of Tacoma, WASH, has been detailed as
deputy director general of posts for the
Philippines.
Brickmakers in all the union yards
in Chicago went on strike.
The city of Cleveland was practical
ly free from rioting as the result of the
presence of the militia. The storm CEN
ter of the street railway strike is now
in the suburb of Brooklyn, where en-
counters are frequent.
A perfect carnival of violence and
bloodshed is raging in Georgia and
Alabama. Murders, assaults on women
and shooting affairs are reported from
all directions, and at various places
troops are under arms to protect pris-
oners from the fury of mobs.
The war taxes collected during the
fiscal year ended June 80 amounted to
$102,9s3,5 2s.07, according to the figures
of the internal revenue bureau.
At Brownsville, Pa, the wife of
George Hackett, negro coal miner,
gave birth to seven children, six girls
and one boy.
monument to the memory of Justus
II. Rathbone, founder of the knights of
Pythias, was dedicated at Utica. n. Y.
An increase of 25 cents day has been
granted TO all molders employed in the
various foundries at Youngstown, o.
A meeting will be held in New York
August to organize new labor party.
A merchant of Seattle, Wash, was
robbed of $1,000 in a Chicago panel
house.
Adolph L. Luetgert, of Chicago, con-
victed February 8, 1898, of killing his
wife May l, 1897, and boiling her re-
mains in q vat in his sausage factory,
was found dead in his cell in Joliet pris-
on. Heart disease was the cause.
The complete statements of this ma
tons foreign trade for the fiscal year
ended June 30 shows that the total ex-
ports amounted to $1,227, 205, 410,
against S1,231, ass, $3.50 for the previous
fiscal year, and the imports were $685.
1864, against $616,049,65 the preced-
ing fiscal year.
The report that while insane Charles
Wolfangel killed his wife and two
daughters at Denmark, Ind. and then
killed himself, was fake.
The body of Robert G. Ingersoll was
cremated at the Fresh Pond L. ID Gre
matory.
Carlo Bendetti, of Paterson, n. j.,
who was known both in this country
and in Europe as a sword-swallower,
died at Morris Plains, N. j.
Three Mormon elders who have been
preaching their doctrines in Georgia
were mobbed by 80 masked men near
Newton factory, in Jasper county, and
it was rumored that they were lynched.
The Dominion line steamer New Eng
land made the run from England
to Boston in 6 days hours and 40 min
utes. This eclipses all previous rec
ords.
Gov. Foster, of Louisiana, has mott
fled the state department that three
of the five Italians who were lynched at
Tallulah were naturalized Americans,
and two were italian subjects.
James Jeffries, champion pugilist,
sailed from New York for Southamp-
ton, England.
The will of Sidney Hall. of Hartford,
Conn.,, leaves $11, 12O for the purpose of
combating the doctrine of the immor-
tally of the soul.
Aeronaut Thayer, of Niles, Mich, fell
200 feet and was instantly killed at
Streator, Ill.
1t is now estimated that the property
loss occasioned by the recent food in
Texas amounts to $1S,O0O,O0O.