The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-01-11
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| LATER.
Gov. Smith of Vermont has rendered
to b. +. Fifield the place in the United
States senate left vacant by the death
of Senator Morrill,. Mr.. Fiield has
not yet accepted, but will undoubtedly
do SO.
| The president has practically selected
William Potter of Philadelphia fo1
ambassador to Russia.
| A big boiler in Hewitt's shipyard at
Barkinghearst, England, exploded,
killing the superintendent, engineer
and eight men.
Lord Curzon has formally assumed
the viceroyalty of India.
At Denver, Colo, Mrs. Florence
Richie, member of the Frank Dan
iels theatrical company, tainted while
taking bath and was drowned.
The United States minister at Pekin,
China, Edwin H. Conger, acting upon
instructions from Washington, vigor-
ously protested against the extension
of the French. or any other powers
exclusive concession at Shanghai, but
he urged the extension of the existing
settlement on an international basis.
Senior Agoncillo, who is in as the
representative of the Filipino govern
ment, asks to be recognized by the
United States as such, and to be accord
ed the same rights as other diplomats.
His request is now in the hands of
Secretary Hay.
| By the following of improvised bar
racks at Columbus. O., two hundred
members of the Fourth Ohio volun-
teers, gathered there for muster out
were hurled from their improvised
beds at the Auditorium, at an early
hour, and twenty-three were injured,
quite number being seriously hurt,
although no fatalities are expected.
w. H. Packer of Cleveland has in
vented q ramie defbrator which, it is
said, is success in every particular,
and will, it is believed, revolutioniZe
the manufacture of fabrics.
Two bills have been introduced in
the North Carolina legislature requir-
ing railroads to run separate coaches
for white and colored passengers.
| Coal operators at Pana, Ill, are
bringing in Italians to take the place
of negro miners.
The Lima CO., paper mills were al
most totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
S125, 900.
The president has nominated Com
modore Albert Kuntz to be rear adj
miral.
| Augustus Kell of Pemlarville, O.,
was killed by an explosion Of gasoline
in his store.
music store in Milwaukee, knocked the
proprietor down, took $500 and escaped.
H. Wurster, night telegraph oper-
ator at Bingen, Pa, was found dead in
his office with his skull crushed. All
of the drawers had been rifed.
The tin plate combine has advanced
prices 25 cents per 100 pounds.
Admiral Dewey makes requisition for
additional gunboats and supplies that
| will be sent at once.
At Cincinnati, O., Ida Price was IA
tally burned by having coal oil thrown
over her clothing and then fred by
William Kennedy. He was arrested.
Twenty-Five Cuban generals met at
Marionao, Cuba, and agreed that it
was desirable for the Cuban army to
disband if money was furnished the
men to start in new life.
A big landslide occurred on the Can
adian Pacific, near Spence's Bridge, N.
| w, T., that completely changed the
course of the Fraser river. Many
houses were carried away, but no lives
lost.
The Hotel Richelieu, at Pittsburg,
| Pa, burned in the early hours of the
morning. Amos Lands, G. A. Waters
and Katherine Boyle were burned to
death.
1t was strongly intimated about the
capitol at Washington that President
Mckinley will not comply with the re-
quest of the senate in sending that
body copy of the instructions and all
correspondence between himself, the
state department and the American
peace commissioners &C Paris.
A freight train crashed into mixed
passenger train at Elk Valley, KY
killing an engineer, fireman, brakeman
and flagman. The wreck caught fire
and destroyed 100000 worth of prop
erty.
The postoffice at Glencoe, Mimi, was
robbed of $500 by burglars.
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