The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-05-24
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.


DR.. Howard Ayres, president of the
University of Missouri, has accepted
the presidency of the Cincinnati CO.,
university.
Eighty United States engineers left
New York for the Philippine islands.
The Baptist church will celebrate the
anniversaries of it's missionary, educa-
cional and publication societies in a
series of meetings to be held at San
Francisco May "a to IS.
John Welch lost IS valuable dogs by
the burning of his kennels in Brighton,
Mass.
a pitched battle in the streets was
fought between Princeton On. j. stu
dents and members of Pawnee Bills
ly injured.
The Wheeling Steel & Iron company
at Wheeling, w. Va, has granted its
5000 employees an advance in wages of
ten per cent.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
26,02S, 900 bushels; corn, Is, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 7,6S5,OOO bushels; rye, s1S,-
900 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, will act as chair
man of a national committee to provide
a home in Washington for Admiral
Dewey.
A dispatch from Havana says that
Gen. Brooke has decided to permit the
n,1rnini,,o1itioC 70 Of
the arms surrendered by the Cubans
and that Gen. Gomez will forward the
payment of the soldiers by every means
at his command.
The New York council adopted q res
olution asking the board of estimate
to appropriate $150,0OO to pay for the
welcome to Admiral Dewey.
Rear Admiral Watson, who will sue
ceed Admiral Dewey in command of the
Asiatic squadron, sailed from San Fran
cisco for Manila.
The transport Mcpherson, with Gen.
Guy V. Henry, former military govern
or of Porto Rico, arrived in New York.
All the troops that were encamped
near Savannah, Ga, have been mustered
out of service.
Walter Frost, young boy, fell 100
feet from rocky bluff into the Tennes-
see river at Chattanooga and was not
drowned.
The national committee of the Dewey
home fund has issued an address to the
people of the United States suggesting
the purchase for Admiral Dewey of
home in Washington by funds raised
by popular subscription.
President Mckinley has decided, if
possible, to be in the west when the
volunteer troops return from the Phil
ippines.
The transport Centennial sailed from
San Francisco for the Philippines with
large cargo of commissary and quar-
termaster supplies.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale has re-
signed the pastorate of the South Con-
gregational church in Boston after
service of 43 years.
a cyclone struck schoolhouse at
Montpelier, o., and 25 children, together
with the teacher, were seriously in
jured.
Hartford and other places along the
Connecticut river experienced severe
earthquake shocks.
4 cyclone struck West Detroit, Mich,
and 40 houses and barns were unroofed,
fences were leveled and trees were
blown down.
4 tornado in Michigan did great dam
age at Hudson, Coldwater, Marshall
and Brant, but no lives were lost.
The corner stone of Iowa's new $780,
600 historical building was laid in Des
Moines.
Five lumber plants in Chicago were
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
COO.
At the encampment in Danville John
B. Inman, of Springfield, was elected
department commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Illinois.
Gov. Roosevelt has called a special
session of the New York legislature to
meet on the 22d inst.
The one hundred and eleventh annual
assembly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States began it's session
in Minneapolis.
The expenses of the last legislature
of Illinois were in round numbers $780,
600, trife less than those of the pre-
ceding assembly.
The Connecticut legislature defeated
measure providing for woman suf-
fraGe.