The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-06-14
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.

DOMESTIC
The First bank of Skaguay, Alaska,
closed it's doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
Isaac Reck and daughter. Mrs. Mary
j. Cope, while standing on a crossing
at Alliance, o., were run down by an
engine and killed.
The Cocheco On. H. sayings bank and
the Cocheco national bank closed their
doors owing to a defalcation.
Lightning struck the state industrial
school building in Lansing, Mich, and
it was destroyed.
Frank Thomson, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, died at his sub
urban home near Philadelphia, aged IS
years.
At meeting in Chicago of manufac-
turers of farm implements it was de-
cided to make a general raise in the
price of all implements.
Brig. Gen. Charles King, who has ar
rived at San Francisco from service in
the Philippines, has been honorably
discharged from the volunteer army.
Harry Jones, aged 20, and Andrew
Haines, aged 26, were struck by train
near Newark, O., and both were killed.
Gov. Savers, of Texas, has issued a
call for a convention of the governors
and attorney-generals of the several
states to consider antitrust legislation
10 meet in ST. Louis September 20.
L. G. Hastings, assistant treasurer of
the Rock Island railway, committed
suicide in Topeka, Kan. Sickness was
the cause.
A tornado in Michigan did great dam
age at Benton Harbor, Galesburg, ST.
Clair, Eaton Rapids and Niles.
Ruth Jepson, Florence Spies and Hell
lene Jack, young women students of
McKendree college, were drowned in
Silver creek, near Lebanon, ILL.,, while
bathing.
The deal which had for its purpose
the consolidation of the leading street
car works of the country has fallen
through.
In a quarrel Jim Herrick and John
Hinkle killed each other at Stricken,
Ark, and a younger brother of each
man took up the battle and fought I'M
til both were mortally wounded.
The board of trade of Portsmouth,
Va, has made to the navy department
a request that the former Spanish cruis-
er, Reina Mercedes, be presented to the
queen regent of Spain as an evidence of
good will on the part of the United
States
Robert Snyder, Jacob Shafer and Am
mon Beers were smothered to death in
OF Il ota OF Por1irc-
vile, Pa.
The German insurance bank of Lou
isville, Ky, was victimized out of S.
900 by two young men.
Congressman Sherman, Of New York,
has withdrawn from the race for the
speakership, leaving David 3. Hender-
son, of Iowa, practically clear field.
Chief of Police Peter A. Claire, of
Hamilton, O., and his daughter were
killed by the cars and Mrs. Claire was
fatally injured.
In a farewell manifesto Gen. Gomez
says there is no longer need of soldiers,
but men for the maintenance of peace
and order, which are the basis of Cuba's
future welfare.
The White Pass railway will be COM
pleted to Lake Bennett by July /, when
the schedule time from Puget Sound
ports to Dawson will be eight days.
The military department of Texas
has been reestablished with Col. Cham
bers McKibben in command.
The Modern Woodmen of America
met in annual convention in Kansas
City, Mo.
Investigation shows that the beer
drank in this country is almost univer
sally mingled with salicylic acid, which
is dangerous to health.
The two children of Mrs. Carl Dett-
loft, aged one and three years, were
run over by freight train and killed
at Poplar Grove, Ill.
Lightning struck an oil car on train
near Holly, Mich, and nine cars were
burned and five tramps were cremated.
Peter Kindred, who killed Andrew y.
Alley at Mercer, Pa, February 5, 1898,
was hanged at Princeton, Mo.
Martin Meier, aged CT, a wealthy and
eccentric recluse, was found murdered
in his home in Chicago.
Freeman Cochran, who killed George
Scarborough in 1897, was hanged at
Bethany, Mo.
Trusts received stunning blow in
Indiana when the supreme court unani-
mously held that existing laws were
sufficient to protect the public.