The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-26
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.

AS the result of renewal of the
HowardBaker feud in Manchester, KY,
five men were killed and three wounded.
Five masked robbers broke into the
home of Daniel Miller, a wealthy farm
er near Mansfield, o., and stole more
than $1,000.
The Germania bank of ST. Paul closed
its doors with liabilities of $4,000.
Residents of American Falls, Idaho,
were driven from their homes to the
mountains by mosquitoes.
Henri Fournier, the noted long-dis-
lance bicycle rider, was run down by
team in New York and killed.
At a cabinet meeting in Washington
it was decided to ignore the complaint
of the newspaper correspondents in
Manila against Gen. Otis. 1t was init
mated that very encouraging news had
been received from the Philippines and
that the situation was much better than
had been generally believed.
James L. Onderdonk, a resident of
Evanston, Ill.,, and former lieutenant
governor of Idaho, died in the Klondike,
aged As years.
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street railways was given final
uietus by the common council.
Striking street railway men in
Brooklyn, n. Y, blew up with dyna-
mite a building owned by the Rapid
Transit company, and surrounding
property was badly damaged by the
explosion.
In a railway collision at Haverhill,
o., Engineer George Sloan, Fireman
George Egbert and Flagman Perfinger
were killed and several passengers
were injured.
The Ramsey street car barns of the
Twin City Electric railway were
burned in ST. Paul, the loss being
$125,OOO.
society, arrived in New York from Ha-
vana. She says Red Cross affairs in
Cuba are in excellent condition.
Thomas McDougal, famous Cincin-
natl lawyer, was found dead in his bed
at his summer house near South Sa-
lem, o.
The casting plant at the Addyston
PlpC SlCCl LII
was Quilted by fire, the loss being $780,
900.
Fire destroyed the Grace hotel in Mil
waukee and II firemen were injured,
of whom four may die.
Twelve members of the steamer Elk
expedition to Kotzebue sound in Alas
ka died on the way.
A. w. Blades and his wife and eight
children while en- route to Minnesota
in an cmigrant wagon were drowned in
northwestern Iowa by a cloudburst.
a large party of scientists left Omaha
for Laramie on a 40-days' exploration
of the fossil fields of Wyoming.
William A. S. Graham, eX-school
agent and secretary of the board of ed
ucation in Chicago, is self-confessed
defaulter to the extent of $34,500 and Il
fugitive from justice.
The Pressed Steel Car company has
made a contract with the Carnegie
Steel company in Pittsburgh for the
delivery of 1000 tons of steel plates per
day for ten years at a cost Of $150,000,-
600. This is the largest private contract
ever made.
A national convention of the United
Christian party will be held at Chicago
December "a, 1899, to nominate a presi
Dental candidate.
George NJ. Valentine, cashier of the
suspended Middlesex county bank at
Perth Amboy, n. j., was sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary for mis-
appropriating 100000.
S. II. Hawkins, an aeronaut, was killed
in O balloon ascension at Cleveland, o.,
by falling 800 feet.
While drilling for oil near Conover's
pond, north of Terre Haute, Ind, w. II.
Palmer struck rich deposit of pure
rock salt of very high quality.
A severe drought since May 1 has
greatly damaged growing crops in Ten
nessee and Kentucky.
Gen. Russell A. Alger called upon
President Mckinley and handed him
his resignation as secretary of war, to
take effect at the pleasure of the presi-
dent.
Bicycle manufacturers controlling Sc
plants have finally succeeded in form
Jug a combine with a capital of $4O,-
100000.
The president and Mrs Mckinley will
leave Washington about August 1 for
Lake Champlain, where, if the change
proves beneficial to Mrs. Mckinley, an
sndetirite stay will be made.