The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-22
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
itical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

Charles F. Gillett's private bank at
Lagrange, H., closed it's doors with liza
bilities of $1,000.
The circuit court in Cleveland has dis
barred Judge Frank E. Dellenbaugh
and Senator Vernon III. Burke for I'M
professional conduct.
The administration has decided to
take a census of the island of Cuba as
complete and careful as that taken in
the United States.
In an official letter to President Nc
Kinley Rear Admiral Sampson asks that
the naval promotions, which were de-
feated in the senate, be again an
nounced, with his name omitted.
Postmaster-General Charles Emory
Smith left Washington for hurried
trip of three or four days in Cuba.
The war department has decided to
acquire such tracts in the Hawaiian
islands as may be necessary for military
purposes.
Cubans generally are indignant over
the action Of the assembly in, removing
Gen. Gomez from command of the
army, and from all over the island eX
pressions of loyalty to Gomez and faith
in his motives are made.
AS the United States senate now
promises to stand when the. next ses-
sion begins in December, 1899, the re-
publicans will hold majority of 16
clear.
Robert S. Lewis was hanged in At
lanta, Ga, for the murder of Charles
Haynes, on gallows built by Lewis two
years ago.
An order has been issued by the war
department increasing the age limit
for enlistment from 80 to 35 years.
The youngest age at which man can
enlist is IS years.
The sovereign camp, Woodmen of
the World, is holding it's biennial ses-
sion in Memphis, Tenn.
It is now practically certain that ten
freight steamships have been lost en-
the Atlantic in recent storms, involving
the sacrifice of over 800 lives and ST.
100000 of capital.
Gen. Gomez, in discussing the stand
taken by the Cuban assembly, said in
Havana that he could recognize only
one power in the island-that of the
United States-and that in his opinion
the assembly was only trying to get
more money out of the United States.
President Mckinley has instructed
Gen. Brooke to disperse and dispose of
the assembly should it's members adj
vocate acts of violence.
In the Minnesota legislature a bill
was passed which absolutely prohibits
the practice of the boycott in any of
it's forms.
It is announced at the war depart
ment that the remains of all the SOL
der dead brought back from Cuba will
be sent for interment to any place
which the relatives of the victims may
designate.
Officers in Boston broke up the big
gest gang of counterfeiters at present
operating in this country and arrested
eight men, a woman and girl.
August Becker confessed that he
killed his wife with Ratchet in their
home in Chicago. cut her body into
small pieces, boiled them in Kettle
until they were almost disintegrated.
burned the mass of flesh in a stove and
buried the bones in the prairie near
his house.
Safe-blowers secured 5000 by blow
ing open the Blackburn (Mo.) bank
safe.
War department advices say that the
work of recruiting the army up to the
Sail force of $4,000 men, allowed by
Jaw. will be finished within 80 days.
Baron Curt e. Won Biedenfeld, the
first foreign nobleman ever brought to
trial in Chicago criminal court, was
declared not guilty of the murder OF
Constable Charles A. Mcdonald.