The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-08

The University of Pennsylvania an
nounces gift of $25O,O00 for the cree
ton of a laboratory of physics. The
name of the donor, Philadelphian, is
withheld.
Tom LOTUS, of Dubuque, Ia, will be
the manager of the Chicago Baseball
club next year.
Peter Schmidt and Mrs. Gehri, his
sister, aged respectively 70 and 74years,
were found dead in their home near
Sanduslly, o., having been asphyxiated
by coal gas.
Secretary Root announces that his rec
concentrations as to the removal of
troops from Cuba had been approved
and that orders will be issued putting
them into effect.
Mrs. Hollebeck and her infant child
were burned to death in Kenosha, Wis.,,
by the overturning of lamp.
The great book publishing house of
j. B. Lippincott & Co. and several other
business buildings in Philadelphia were
destroyed by fire, the aggregate loss be-
ing over S3,0oO,oo0.
j. P. V. Gridley, son of the late Capt.
Charles V. Gridley, who commanded
Admiral Dewey's flagship at the battle
of Manila, has been designated for APP
pointment to a lieutenant in marine
corps by President Mckinley, and the
president and Admiral Dewey will pay
the necessary educational expenses of
the young man.
President McKinley's third annual
message to congress will contain 10000
words.
Warm weather has caused peach buds
in Michigan to develop to such an extent
that it is feared they will be killed by
cold this winter.
The First Tennessee regiment, that
did good work in the Philippines, was
given royal welcome at Nashville.
Eleven hunters were accidentally
killed during the Minnesota and Wis
consin deer season.
In the annual report of Willis L.
Moore, chief of the weather bureau, he
says that sufficient warning was given
of all destructive marine storms.
The annual report of Secretary Will
son summarizes an immense amount of
valuable work done by the agricultural
department during the last year.
The annual report of the general SUI
perintendent of the life saving service
states that during the past season prop
erty valued at $6,261, 900 was saved.
1908 persons were rescued from drown
ing and sc were lost.
A railroad train crashed into stage
at a crossing in Hazleton, Pa, killing
Miss Davidson, Miss Emma Goedecke
and Mrs. Paisley.
The transports Dolby Vostock and
Columbia sailed from San Francisco
for Manila with the Forty-second in
fantry on board.
Alexander Craig and his wife and two
children and Mrs. May Roe and Walter
Walbrook were killed by the cars at a
crossing in Paterson, N. j.
In Chicago the Wisconsin university
defeated the University of Michigan
and Chicago university defeated Brown
university in football games.
Thewholesale grocery house of Griggs,
Cooper & Co., in st. Paul. was burned,
the loss being 100000.
1t is announced that the advisory
committee of the house of representa-
tives will recommend that Mr.. Roberts,
of Utah, be prevented from taking the
oath of office and that his case be re-
ferred to the elections committee.
DR.. M. M. Latta, aged so years, a
pioneer and the oldest practitioner in
northern Indiana, was found dead in
his Office in Goshen.
The South Carolina industrial home
for negro boys and girls was dedicated
at Columbia.