The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-05-31
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

tornado in Texas did great damage
in Stephenville, Mount Pleasant and
Dublin, and killed several persons.
The Missouri legislature adjourned
sine die after a session of 1873 days.
The New York legislature met in spe-
cial session to amend the franchise tax
bill.
The Sherman, which sailed from San
Francisco for Manila, carried $4,000,000
in gold coin to pay the volunteers now
in the islands.
Burrell Douglas and Frank Douglas,
father and son, were killedin gambling
saloon in Chicago by George Allen, who
was also fatally wounded.
j. r. Garrison, of Washington, has
been appointed auditor for the island of
Porto Rico and has left for San Juan.
William Evans, his wife and little
result of runaway.
Brig. Gen. Christian d. Wolff, veter-
an of the Mexican and civil wars, died
in st. Louis, aged II years.
The transport Sheridan arrived in
San Francisco with IA invalid officers
and men from Manila:
William T. W. Ball, one of the best
known dramatic critics in Boston, and
his wife, who was 70 years of age, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas.
Tom Linton, a negro at Camp Creek,
Ga, was killed by masked men for cause
unknown.
The war department expects that by
the end of July not volunteer will be
left in the Philippines.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the ed was: Wheat,
25,46S, 900 bushels; corn, 16, 9S7, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, S27,-
900 bushels; barley, 1887, 900 bushels.
Millions of bushels of corn and oats
are being held for higher prices by
farmers in Iowa.
Reports from Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio predict that the winter wheat crop
this year will be the lightest that has
been raised since 1881.
The Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit asso-
citation in session in Chicago elected d.
Clifton Shears, of the Grand hotel in
Cincinnati, president.
At the celebration of the two hun
dred and fftieth anniversary of the
founding of Maiden, Mass, a reviewing
stand gave way and several persons
were badly injured.
Washington's peace jubilee began
with national salute, followed by a
great parade and fireworks in the even
ing.
Ben White and his sweetheart, Miss
nj, orron1 tN or,1 lifa fnUat her
because of parental opposition to their
union and shot themselves near Walnut
Grove, Mo.
S. Jackson Close, an aged merchant
and postmaster at Stanwich, Conn.,, was
attacked by robbers and fatally injured.
Rock assaying $50 gold to the ton
has been found in Central park, New
York.
The deaths in the army since the be-
ginning of the war with Spain have
been: In Cuba, 1899; in Porto Rico,
2S7; at Honolulu, As; in the Philippines,
COG; in the United States, 3,872. Total,
$500.
The celebration of the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the American Sunday
School union was held in Philadelphia.
Joel Till, prosperous farmer resid-
ing near Long Bridge, N. j., shot his
wife and then killed himself.
The supreme court of Indiana has de-
cided valid the law prohibiting Sunday
baseball in the state.
Outlaws Sam and Bill Martin were
killed by a sheriff's posse at Guthrie,
OF.
The largest stamp mill in the world
has been started by ID. 0. Mills ut the
Treadwell mine on Douglass island,
Alaska.
Cattle persisted by the hundreds as a
result of an unusual downpour OF rain
near FL Dorado, Kan.
The national Baptist anniversary
meetings began in San Francisco.
The features of the second day of the
national jubilee celebration in WASH
ington were the civic parade and re-
ception by the president.
Col. E. w. Cole, of Nashville, Tenn,
one of the best-known of the coal, iron
and railroad capitalists of the south,
dropped dead in the Fifth\Avenue hotel
in New York.
The Michigan legislature has passed
"a beet sugar bounty bill, providing a
bounty of one cent per pound.
A boiler exploded in Henry Myers
sawmill near Hinsdale, Ind, killing his
two sons and Perry Morrison.