The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-19
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.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

The will. of Robert C. Billings, the
wealthy Boston merchant, leaves ST.
1000 to charity.
Forest fires in the mountains west of
Anaconda, Mont, destroyed thousands
of acres of valuable timber.
The thirty-eighth annual convention
of the National Educational association
opened in Los Angeles, CAL, with 12,-
900 teachers present.
The Distillery Company of America,
with an authorized capital of $125, 000,-
600, was incorporated in Trenton, N.
j., to manufacture and deal in whisky.
Fire in a tenement building in New
York resulted in one death and in fatal
injuries to four persons.
The loss to the cotton crop in Texas
by the flood is placed at S5,OOO,OOO.
Mrs. Emma Smith, 60 years of age, of
birmingham, Ala, who has been
searching 25 years for her baby boy,
stolen by kidnapers, found him in
Cleveland, o.
Elias Hatfield, the noted desperate
and son of the leader of the Hatfield
Mccoy feud that cost 141 lives, surren-
dered to Gov. Atkinson, of West Vir-
ginia.
Inquiry at the banks of Omaha, Neb.,
and of Council Bluffs, Ia, reveals the
prevalence of a famine of paper cur
rency.
An order has been issued by the pres
ident extending privileges and pro-
% ha 70 ha
shipping of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines.
AT Crawford, Miss, Shields Irwin and
L. A. Tarleton shot each other to death.
By direction of the president the new
military post near Spokane, Wash, has
been named Fort Wright, in honor of
Gen. George Wright.
Charles E. Gibbs, Al years of age, shot
and killed himself in Washington. He
was at one time proprietor of the
Ebbitt house.
Albert Smith, middle-aged negro,
was hanged in the county Jail at Harris
burg, Pa, for wife murder.
Bud Brake was shot to death by a
mob at Corning. Ark, for completely in
a murder.
The navy department has dispatched
to Admiral Dewey the medal awarded
to him by act of congress to commemo-
rate the battle of Manila bay.
The war department announces that
the customs receipts at the port of Ha-
vana for June were $1,012.S9
Henry Singletery, a member of the
c1ot1 tod
while going from his store to his home
in Lacross.
Gen. Joseph E. Wheeler left Washing
ton en- route to the Philippine islands.
Fire in the Ritter Coney manufacture
ing plant in Allegheny, Pa, caused a
loss of $15O,OOO.
The president has appointed Col. AL
bert E. Bates paymaster general of the
army to succeed Gen. Asa p. Carey, re-
tired.
During the last fiscal year 314,611 i'm,
migrants arrived in this country, an in
crease of nearly 100000 over the pre-
ceding year.
Consolidation of the wrought steel,
iron and tube industries of the coun-
try was effected in New York with a
capital of $S0,O00,0O0.
L. M. Crawford, manager of the Craw-
ford opera house, filed a petition in
bankruptcy in Topeka, Kan, with liza
bilities of $44S,1S0.
The United States transports New
port and Ohio, bearing the Oregon vol
unteer regiment from Manila, arrived
at San Francisco.
Frank Tepley, well-to-do farmer
near Stanton, Neb., killed his wife and
then committed suicide. Family trouble
was the cause.