The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-20
LATER.

LATER.
Rear Admiral Sampson retired from
command of the North Atlantic squad.
ron the 18th. Rear Admiral Farqual
will command hereafter.
The Northwestern limited train from
Chicago was held up at Maple Park
ILL.,, and robbed by five masked men
Engineer Daniel White was shot anG
wounded in the breast because he re
fused to run his engine away from the
train.
An armored train escorting two T.
pound guns was destroyed by the Beers
south of Mafeking. Fifteen British
troops were killed. The Beers shelled
the train after it was derailed.
Three masked robbers entered the
bank at Sevierville, Tenn, and at
tempted to rob the vault, containing
considerable money. President Nc
Mahon threw his loose money into the
safe and seized gun. His first shot
killed the leader of the robbers, Pear
Thurfan. The assistant cashier, John
Marshall, rushed out of side door and
shot two of the robbers horses.
Two strong shocks of earthquake
were felt at Manila.
VIM. C. Van Horne was chosen presi,
dent of the Havana Traction company.
The object of the organization is to
build railroads in Cuba.
At Peoria, ILL.,, Harry Adalr placed a
shotgun against his wife's breast and
shot her to death. He then placed the
gun to his forehead and blew the tor
of his head off.
On a wager, w. r. Jones. of Dawson,
ILL.,, drove pony to a dog cart over
the country roads, a distance of thir-
teen miles, in S31I minutes.
Official dispatches from Batavia,
capital of the Netherlands Indies, con.
firms the report regarding the earth,
quake in the island of Coran. 1t oc-
CURED Sept. 80. Over 5000 were killed
Admiral George Dewey laid the
cornerstone of Dewey hall, which is to
be a part of Norwich, VT, university
the institution in which the admiral
received his earliest military training.
Maj. Cheathan with scouting party
encountered a force of rebels strongly
entrenched at Muntilupa. Maj. Chea.
them reports that he drove the rebels
from their position and that, in the
engagement three Americans were
killed and two were wounded.
James Morton, was assaulted by
three tramps in a box car at Stanwood,
In an2 of iuin fh,.on ch "a
wounds was thrown out besides the
track. Later he was found and given
care.
The president and retinue greeted
the returned South Dakota volunteers
at Aberdeen. Throughout the state
large crowds met the officials at the
stations.
R. d. Schultz, the millionaire SOAP
manufacturer of GAINESVILLE, o., died
suddenly of neuralgia of the heart.
At Boston, Admiral Dewey was pre-.
sented with magnificent jewel stud
ded watch.
A trust of all the calico factories in
England has been organized.
There was not pound of bituminous
coal in any of the yards or on any OF
the docks in Chicago the 14th. Coal
merchants say the situation is the
worst known in 20 years.
War in the Transvaal between the
English and the Beers was begun by
the natives. According to dispatches
the Beers have made several attacks
upon Mafeking, all of which have been
repulsed.
At meeting in Carnegie Hall, New
York, $6s,O0O was contributed to the
Christian Missionary alliance. Women
tore off their jewels and men their
coats and threw them to the collectors.
st. Mary's training school at Fehan'
vile, a suburb of Chicago, burned,
causing loss of $4,000
The Bridgeport line steamer Nut
meg State was burned in Long Island
Sound, off Sandy Point, L. l., at sun
rise the 18th and 10 persons were
burned to death or drowned. The
steamer carried 100 passengers only
three of whom met death.
A special from Eucharist says that
the sultan has drowned in the Bos-
phorus several young women of the
harem suspected of completely with
young members of the Turkish party.
The British war office, 1t now ap
pears, has cancelled the order fol
mules and stores from Jamaica, decid,
ing to place all orders in the United
| States.