The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-06-07
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
Etical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
r~Sr DADNS
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

Tests made upon 25 cows in Chicago
showed that they were infected with
tuberculosis, and experts say danger
from milk is great.
n cyclone passed through the north
several buildings.
T. B. Robinson, of Oakland, Cal, who
has just returned from Copper river,
Alaska, says that so prospectors in that
section were missing.
Three laborers, Joseph and Lewis
Kavoer and John Mariner, fell off
steel trestle so feet high at Steuben-
vile, o., and were killed.
Fire in Madison, Wis, destroyed the
wholesale grocery establishment of
Gould, Wells and Blackburn.
President Mckinley has issued
amendments to the civil service rules
which release from the operations of
the rules about 1000 Offices.
Adrian Braun, aged SO, was put to
death by electricity in Sing Sing (N.
W prison for the murder of his wife.
A bill passed by the Texas legislature
provides for the teaching in the public
schools of course of humane treat
ment of animals.
Memorial daywa celebrated through
out the entire country and was also re-
membered by our troops in Cuba and
the Philippines.
Eighteen persons were injured, two
fatally, in a railway wreck at Seattle,
Wash.
Elisha Dyer was inaugurated gov
ernor of Rhode Island for the third time.
Gordon Wilson and Willis Ford, young
men of Coburg, Ont, were drowned by
their canoe capsizing.
After 60 years the Thomas Paine
monument in New Rochelle, n. Y, was
dedicated.
The unwilling of a bust of the late
Henry George took place in the rooms
of the Peoples club in New York.
The town of Highview, Ia, was prac-
ticaHy destroyed by wind and down
pour of rain.
Charles Browne and Frederick john
son were killed by a cyclone that passed
over North Tonawanda, n. Y.
Nine persons were injured, two fatal
ly, in a railway collisian 25 miles south
of Nashville, Tenn.
The post office department has issued
instructions directing that hereafter
newspapers shall be treated as letters
in making up the mail for Porto Rico.
Fire bugs destroyed the business por-
ton of Curtis, Neb.
The duke of ARGOS, SPANS new min
lister to the United States, arrived in
New York.
Everett B. Ryan, of Waltham, Mass,
broke the worlds bicycle record for
the amateur ten-mile paced race, riding
in 1850 As.
William Skinner and Arthur Pratt,
influential young business men of Fond
du Lac, Wis, were drowned in Lake
Winnebago by the upsetting of boat.
The widow of the late Senator STAN
bulk of her property, valued at $1O,OOo,-
600, to Stanford university.
The Colorado state board of agricul-
ture has elected Rev. Barton o. Ayles-
worth to the presidency of the state
agricultural college.
Kate Lee, aged Is, and Maud Ander-
son, aged II, were drowned in Prairie
lake near Tomahawk, Wis.,, by the cap
sizing of boat.
The report of the Nicaraguan canal
commission estimates the cost of the
canal at $11S,113,790.
Three men and three women were
drowned in the Maumee river at Toledo,
O.. by the upsetting of boat.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
24,192, 900 bushels; corn, 10, 730, 900 bush
els; oats, 7,814,000 bushels; rye, ESQ.,
900 bushels; barley, 1,455,000 bushels.