The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-26
LATER.


Robert G. Ingersell, the celebrt ted
agnostic, died the 21st at Dobbs Ferry,
N. Y, aged &c years. He died sudden
ly, without warning. Apoplexy was
the cause. Mr.. Ingersolps wife and
two daughters were with him when
he died.
A dynamite bomb was thrown onto
the roof of the street car barn at Cleve-
land, o., tearing a large hole and
wrecking one car. No one was injured.
A boiler exploded in the Zadocl1
Pa, killing Eli Whitehill, who was
blown distance of 200 yards.
United States Minister Harris gave
a banquet to Admiral Dewey at
Trieste, Austria.
Gov. Pingree severely censures the
president for his action in regard to
Secretary of War Alger.
An explosion on board the British
torpedo boat destroyer Bullfnch, dur
ing her trial, killed nine and injured
four of those on board. 1t was the
worst naval accident of this nature
that has occurred in the British navy
in 20 years. The victims were terribly
injured, steam and boiling water fill
ing the engine room.
The striking freight handlers at New
York were granted an increase of pay
and the strike was declared off.
Sir Thomas Upton has chartered an
CT int dc fn fnly
600 guests to America to see the yacht
races.
Several hundred newsboys in New
York struck and refused to sell the
Evening Journal or Evening World.
The entire business portion of Fay
cite, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
DIR. Hodges, a prominent physician
of Tallulah, La. quarreled with an
Italian and the latter wounded the
physician with shotgun. The
wounding of DR.. Hodges created an
intense excitement. A mob rounded
up the would-be assassin and five of
his friends, strung them all up to trees
and then filed their bodies with buck
shot. \
Captain James Locket was commits
stoned as colonel of what will be
known as the Eleventh United States
volunteer cavalry, part of which will
be recruited in the Philippines.
At Fairhaven, Wash, war broke out
between fifty japanese on the one
hand and $50 Chinese on the other.
The fight ragged internationally nearly
"a hours, knives, rocks and iron bars
being the weapons used. The total
list of casualties were ten Chinaman
and one Japanese injured.
The final draft of the reciprocity
treaty between France and the Uuited
States is made, with few minor de-
tails left open for final adjustment be-
fore the signing occurs. Both sides
now regard the signing of the treaty
as assured.
Returns from the primaries held in
Mississippi prove beyond question that
Governor McLaurin will be the next
United States senator from that state.
Three negroes were lynched near
Suffolk, Ca, for assaulting Mrs. j. E.
Ogletree.
The Buffalo and Minneapolis base
ball clubs were arrested at Buffalo,
N. Y. the 2Sd, for playing ball on the
Sabbath.
At Muscatine, To-, George Wright
shot and killed Mrs. Joseph Crippen
and then attempted to kill her hus-
band, but was overpowered.
The trolly strike in Cleveland, O., as
sumed such serious aspect that the
militia was called out. Several per-
sons were slightly injured with bull
let's. A street car loaded with passen-
gers was wrecked by nitro-glycerine
or gun cotton and six persons injured.
Mrs. f. c. Morten will probably die.
Elihu B. Root, of New York, has
been appointed secretary of war to
succeed Secretary Alger. Mr.. Root ac
cepts the post.
Frank Embree, the negro charged
with assaulting 14-year-old Miss
Dougerty near Benton. Howard county,
Missouri, few weeks ago, was taken
from the officers by mob at Steinmetz
and hanged to a tree.
One of the boilers of the Austrian
torpedo boat Adler exploded while the
island of Torcola, in the Adriatic sea,
killing lieutenant and four members
of the crew.
The C. ii & d elevator at Toledo, o.,
together with nearly 100000 bushels
of wheat was destroyed by fire.
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