The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-04-19
7HE 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.

Seven dead, a score wounded and the
city again under martial law is the re-
suit of an attempt to arrest a negro des-
perado who defied the officers at Pana,
III.
At the Hamilton clubs Appoma ttox
anniversary banquet in Chicago Gov.
Roosevelt, of New York, was the chief
speaker.
Brig. Gen. Henry C. Merriam has as
sumed command of the department of
the Missouri.
The official report of deaths in the
city of Havana for the month of March
shows an annual rate of AZ per 1000.
The private banking house of L. P.
Hummer & Mckenzie closed it's doors at
Alma, Wis, with liabilities of 100000.
George Wickerstrop, negro wanted
for murder, was killed near Gallon, Ala,
by posse who were in search of him.
Three children of Ole Peterson, of
Viborg, S. D., were poisoned fatally by
eating wild parsnips.
Mrs. Daisy O'Niell and Mrs. Kitty
Overy, who have had trouble with their
husbands, took poison together and
died in Omaha, Neb.
DR.. Nancy A. Guilford, charged with
the murder of Emma Gill, of Southing-
ton, Conn, plead guilty and was SEN
fenced to ten years in prison.
The condition of war which has eX-
listed between the United States and
Spain since April 81, 1898, terminated
on the 18th by the exchange in Wash
ington of notifications of the peace
treaty. Coincident with this President
Mckinley issued his proclamation de-
claring that the war was at an end and
the appointment of Bellamy Storer was
determined upon as United States min
lister to Spain.
The temporary superstructure of q
big bridge over the Harlem river in
New York collapsed, killing four men
and seriously injuring six.
An order has been prepared at the
war department for reorganization of
the army on peace basis.
The international League of Press
Clubs at it's ninth annual convention in
Baltimore adopted resolution in favor
OF movement for the purity OF the
press.
Rev. Jay C. Goodrich, of Madison, n.
j., has been appointed the first agent of
the American Bible society for the
Philippine islands.
William zimmerman was tarred and
feathered in Deerfeld, o., for assault
upon woman and driven from town.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Charles were found
dead in their home at Whitewater, Wis.
William K Vanderbilt's country
house, Idle Hour, at Oakdale, l.. l., was
totally destroyed by fire, the loss being
$250,00O.
Twelve hundred plumbers in Chicago
struck for: higher wages.
The Eighth Presbyterian church in
Chicago was destroyed by fire.
Now that peace has been formally de-
clared the 20 per cent. increase in the
pay of soldiers of the regular and vol
unteer armies will cease.
The hospital ship Missouri arrived
at Fort Monroe from Havana, bringing
212 sick soldiers.
Under the will Of Wallace G. Andrews,
who with his wife died in the fire that
$1,OO0,00O is left for founding school
for girls at Willoughby, o.
The election of commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic has
been postponed until the next encamp-
ment.
The Illinois legislature defeated a
bill for Greater Chicago"
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn
has directed that military prisoners in
various departments who cannot be
brought to trial in 30 days be dis
charged.