The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-08-18

The last troop stationed in Havana
left for Quemados, leaving only those
garrisoning Moro castle, Cabanas fort
ress and the outlying forts.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at Jasper, Fla, for attempting to as
sault a white woman.
Four firemen lost their lives in blaze
in Omaha, Neb.
At the national convention in Phila-
delphia of shoe manufacturers a gen.
eral advance of ten to twenty-five cents
in the price of shoes was agreed to.
The twenty-ninth annual convention
Of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America began in Chicago.
An American syndicate has pur-
chased for 100000 two islets, La
Cruza and La Ramon, off the coast of
Cuba, that contain immense quantities
of iron.
Mrs. Edward Ecllinger. aged %, killed
her husband and child near Canton, O.,
and then committed suicide. Domestic
trouble caused the deed.
Adolphus Brown (colored) was shot
and killed at Amite City, La, and Edgar
and Edward Barr severely logged by a
gang of armed men.
Goldie McConlley was shot dead and
her lover, George Bond, fatally wound
ed in the street in Denver, Col, by some
one unknown.
Ira j. Palmer and his wife were killed
by the cars at crossing in Toledo, o.
Gen. Brooke has been given instruc-
tons to prevent at all hazards any fill
clustering expedition in Jiminez' inter-
est leaving Cuba for San Domingo.
The report of Commissioner of Pen
sions Evans for the fiscal year ended
June 30 last shows total disbursements
of $13S,253, 923, leaving balance of ST.
S57,1SS in the treasury. The total num-
Der of pensionsers on the roll was 99i,-
$40, decrease of 2,195.
The house of Thomas Martin near
eraser, Va, was burned, and he and
three children persisted in the flames.
Two million bushels of wheat, worth
at least 100000, were lost in a hail
storm which partially destroyed the
crop on nearly 100000 acres of land in
North Dakota.
An electric storm of exceptional
severity did damage to the extent of
100000 in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Clara L. Baldwin, wife of Enos
Baldwin, of indianapolis, administered
strychnine in food to her husband and
two children, II and 10 years old re-
spectively, and then shot herself dead.
The poisoned persons may recover.
The street car strikers and their SYM
pathizers in Cleveland propose to boy
colt every man who attended the bust
ness mems meeting held for the pur-
pose of adopting measures to stamp
out the boycott.
w. B. Cleveland & Co., wholesale gro
GERS at Houston, Tex. failed for S441,-
OIL.
A Washington dispatch says that
Maj. Gen. Otis will remain in supreme
command of the Philippine islands, and
should he request to be relieved Maj.
Gen. Lawton will be assigned to duty
as his successor.
The yellow fever epidemic at Hamp-
ton, Va, is practically at an end
Alexander Mcdonald, of Dawson, king
of the Klondike, has failed for $6,OyJ,-
600.
Five negro children were burned to
death on McKowan's plantation, near
Jackson, La. The parents locked them
up in their house AID went to church.
The United States transport Morgan
City sailed from San Francisco for Ma
Mia with CTS recruits and supplies.
Sigurd Rudd, a tailor, aged %, and
Ida Olson, 20, were drowned at Mime
apolis by the capsizing of boat.