The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-03-29
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 Second Illinois and the One Hun
dred and Sixty-frst Indiana regiments
have been ordered from Havana to be
mustered out. Including these two
regiments, IL have now been ordered
home.
1t is reported that the location CT the
keyboard by which the United States
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor February Is, 1898, had been
found in a gunroom of the Fuerza
prison.
Mrs. Martha Place, who murdered
her young stepdaughter in Brooklyn,
was executed at Sing Sing prison. She
was the first woman to die in the cleo
trio chair in the state of New York.
President Mckinley and party ar
rived at Jekyl island, near Brunswick,
Ca, and on the pier to welcome them
was Speaker Reed.
Commissioner Wilson, of the internal
revenue bureau. says that agents of eX-
press companies selling express money
orders are not brokers and are not sub
iect to the special tax of $50 per an
mum.
John Moore was arrested at Hutch
inson, Kan, on the charge of murder
ing his five little children and then set
ting the house on fire. His wife was
away at the time.
Judge Christian Kohlsaat took the
oath of Office in Chicago and entered
upon his new duties in the United
CtofaS ri oo,rt for tho ,ortbarp
district of Illinois.
Company l., Fifth infantry, Peoria,
which has been doing military duty in
Pana, Ill, for the last three months,
has been recalled by the governor.
Two men were killed and a captain of
the state rangers was wounded in a
fight with Mexicans over smallpox at
Laredo, Tex.
The United States supreme court has
taken recess for two weeks.
The $2O,OO0OOO which the United
States is to pay Spain under the peace
treaty will become available as soon
as the notifications are exchanged be-
tween Secretary Hay and Ambassador
Cambon.
The transport Cleveland sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 1900
tons of supplies for the American
troops.
Mai. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was the
guest of the Merchants club at ban
quet in Boston.
The japanese cruiser Chitose, the
first war vessel built in San Francisco
for a foreign power, sailed for the
orient.
Funeral services over the body of Jo
seph Medill, late editor of the Tribune,
were held at Chicago.
Fire broke up the meeting of the
ladies' board of the Knights of the Mac
eabees in Omaha and in the rush for
safety Mrs Thomas Taylor and Mrs.
Anna Schamel were killed and Is other
women were injured.
Gov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, has APP
proved the resolution passed by the leg
islature designating May 1, 1899, as
dewey day" and a legal holiday.
A boiler explosion in Seattle, Wash,
killed Daniel w. Jacobs, Chicago sales
man, and fatally injured two other men.
An official inquiry shows that the
total force of the Cuban army includ
ing commissioned officers, is 1920.
John T. Shayne, prominent Chicago
business man, was shot perhaps fatally
in restaurant by Harry H. Hammond.
The cause was bad blood between Ham
mond and Shayne over the divorced
wife Of Hammond, who was with
Shayne at the time.
For the eight months of the present
fiscal year the total receipts from in
teinal revenue sources were SITS, 1885,
6S4, an increase compared with the
same period in 1898 of SOS, 200 ,05S.
Count Marian de Zaremba, Polish
nobleman, has been sentenced to three
years in prison for grand larceny at
New York.
Secretary Alger has determined to
maintain summer camps forthe United
States troops in the southern states.
General Duckett, negro who muir
cred James Stockton, a planter, was
lynched by mob at TeXarkana, Ark.
Gerald Lapiner, the Chicago child
who was stolen from the sidewalk near
his home last Decoration day, has been
found. alive and unha fmed, in the hands
of an insane man and woman in Paines-
vile, o
A report from Guantanamo that For
mer Secretary John Sherman had died
on the steamship Paris proves TO be
untrue. Mr.. Sherman is better.