The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-05-10
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.

More than $50 persons were left
homeless by fire in the Polish district
in Chicago.
Fire in Sebastopol, CAL, destroyed
Chinatown, consuming about so
houses.
Samuel Powell, umpire in game OF
ball at Lowndesboro, Ala, was instant
ly killed by Frank Mccoy, one of the
players, because of decision.
Nearly one-third of Brule county, in
South Dakota, has been burned over
by prairie fires, many buildings lost and
much stock burned.
a cyclone cut path a quarter of a
mile wide in Cassopolis, Mich, wreck
ing many buildings, and in the vicinity
barns were destroyed and stock killed.
Addison Johnson, of Port Chester, n.
Y, is the new warden of Sing Sing
prison.
A consolidation of many of the great
steel trusts into one company, with a
capitalization of $1,OOO,OOO,OOO, is under
way.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington from his trip to Philadel-
phia and New York.
Dewey day" was celebrated through
out the country by exercises commence
rating the victory at Manila and by the
flying of flags on all school buildings.
~ consolidation of the peanut trade
of the coui-ry under the control of a
single company with capital of $5,000,-
COO is about to be effected.
Gov. Stephens, of Missouri, has signed
the bill prohibiting the employment of
nonresidents as deputy sheriffs, deputy
constables or as police officers.
The government receipts for the ten
months of the present fiscal year were
$424,O56,014, against $40, $780, $50 for the
same period in the last fiscal year. The
expenditures were $3.50, ASH, 400, which
include the payment of $20,0OO,000 to
Spain.
Albert j. Hopkins, of Aurora, repre-
senting the Eighth district of Illinois,
was named by a caucus of republican
congressman in Chicago as the Illinois
candidate for the speakership.
Troops occupy Wardner, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account OF riots
caused by striking miners.
Admiral SIMPSONS North Allan tic
squadron returned to New York from
it's cruise in the West Indies.
The Alabama legislature met in spe-
cial session in Montgomery to settle the
question of constitutional convention.
The circuit court of appeals in st.
Louis says that trusts operating as cor
porations in Missouri cannot collect ac-
counts from their debtors.
The National American Woman's
Suffrage association in session in Grand
Rapids, Mich, reelected Susan B.. An
thony president.
President Mckinley has approved
parcels post convention between this
government and Venezuela, to take eff
feet July next.
immigration into the port of New
York has been unusually great this
spring, averaging over 1000 persons a
day.
Col. Frederick Funston, of the Twen-
ticth Kansas volunteers, has been made
Il brigadier general.
The third annual convention of the
States began in Cincinnati.
James j. Smith, well-to-do farmer
living near Dernadotte, ILL.,, shot his di-
vorced wife and then killed himself.
jealousy was the cause.
Rear Admiral Il. Stewart, paymaster
general of the navy, has retired and Fay
Inspector Ii. G. Colby succeeds him.
Pamphlets issued by Edward Atkin-
son, of Boston, have been barred from
the mails going to the Philippines as
reasonable.
Keokuk, chief of the Sac and Fox In
dams, died in Guthrie, o. r., of small
pox.
The bodies of 252 of the soldier dead
brought from the battlefelds of Cuba
and Porto Rico were inferred at Airing
ton cemetery, near Washington, with
military honors.
Mrs. III. A. Hassall killed Mrs. William
Hickman in Stockton, Cal, and then
killed herself. The former was in
fatuated with the latter and fear of
separation caused the deed.
At the banquet in Detroit of the Sons
of the Revolution Secretary of War
AIger, Gen. Joe Wheeler, Gen. Merritt
and Senator Chauncey Depew were the
guests OF honor.
The latest estimates of the Klondike
gold yield this season range from $l2,-
100000 to $2O,o0O,O0O.