The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-05-03
THE WEEKS NEWS
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.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.


The board of inquiry concerning beef
furnished the army held it's last open
session in Washington and is preparing
it's report.
The New York legislature has passed
an antitrust bill.
A trust to control the copper output
of the country has been formed with
capital of $5OO,OOO,0OO.
The jury in the Windsor hotel fire in
quest in New York brought in a verdict
that the fire was caused by accident.
Edward Waldo, an instrument maker
in Camden, N. j., stabbed to death his
wife ard eight-year-old daughter and
then cut his own throat.
In a quarrel near Williamsport, N. D.,
James Caldwell killed his brother
Joseph and then took poison and died.
At Lancaster, Pa, an examination of
the books of w. M. Jacobs, cigar manu-
facturer, showed that he had defrauded
the government out of $125, 900 with bo-
gus revenue stamps.
A party of six returning Klondikers,
one of whom is said to have been bring
ing out considerable treasure, were
drowned near Fifty Mile, Alaska.
Charles Williams (colored) was shot
to death in the city Jail in Galena, Kan,
by mob of negroes. Williams was
charged with killing Laura Canafrax,
negress.
Adam Peshta, Hungarian violinist,
said on the witness standin Wilkesbarre,
Pa, that he had 20 wives.
Gov. Poynter has appointed Lieut.. Col.
Cation to be colonel of the First Ne
braska in place of Col. Stotsenberg.
killed in battle near Manila.
Two violent earthquake shocks were
felt at Fort Bragg, Cal.
An Italian killed a man and woman
at Kanapolis, Kan, and while endeavor-
ing to escape plunged headlong into
shaft at the salt works, 1000 feet.
Acting Commander in Chief of the G..
A. r. w. C. Jackson has issued a general
order directing commanders of posts
to have President Lincoln's Gettysburg
address made feature of Memorial day
exercises.
The annual meeting of the national
chiefs of police will be held in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, May o.
The rise of the Missouri river at
Omaha has resulted in driving 600 peo-
pie from their homes and nearly the
total submergence of bottom lands ter
ritory six miles long and two miles
wide
Rather than stand trial on the charge
ofincendiarism Reuben Frantz, young
fo Of fnu Sh
SELF
The ninth international fourteenth
nationaD Sunday school convention
met in Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Jane Tettaton, widow, and her
four children, two boys and two girls,
ranging in age from to IL years, were
found murdered in their home near
Maiden, Mo-, and j. H. Tettaton, step
son. was charged with the crime.
The Michigan supreme court has de-
clared invalid the principal portion of
the equal taxation bill passed by the
present session of the legislature.
Colored miners were arriving in
large numbers to take the places of
striking white miners in the district
about Des Moines, Ia.
The canals of New York have been
opened for navigation, the earliest open
ing in IA years.
The American National Red Cross So
ciety, through its president, Miss Clara
Barton. has appealed to the people of
the United States for assistance in its
relief work in Cuba and the Philippines.
Freddie Limp, aged IA. who in u fit of
anger killed playmate in Washington,
Ind. has been sent to a reformatory I'M
til of age.
1t was discovered that counterfeit sill
yer dollars were being made in the state
peniteniiary at Canon City, Col.