The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-08-04
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Secretary Long sent telegraphic or
ders to the cruiser New Orleans, at
Newport, directing that she proceed
at once to San Domingo. At the same
time an order was sent to the gunboat
Machias, at st. Thomas, to leave for
San Domingo.
Gen. Wood reports that the yellow
fever epidemic at Santiago is over, and
| that the health among the troops excel
| lent.
A car returning from Euclid Beach
Park to Cleveland was blown up by
dynamite. The front truck was de-
molished and the floor of the car shat
tered. There We're no passengers on
board and the motorman and conduc-
tor escaped without injury.
Guzmon Blanco, ex-president of
Venezuela, is dead.
James M. Darlington, alias Darling
ton, was hanged at Fort Worth, Texas.
Darlington was the leader of band
who, on the night of July 81. 1898,
robbed Santa Fee railroad train, near
Sagfnaward, killed Fireman Whittak-
er and Engineer Williams.
Ten thousand men were thrown out
of employment and work stopped on
200 buildings in the course of erection
| in Chicago during the second dav of
| the strike of the union brickmakers
of Cook county. The tie-ups
came first on the smaller jobs, were
! the contractors had not taken the pre-
caution to increase their supply of
bricks in anticipation Of the strike.
Four men were crushed to death,
seven seriously hurt and number
slightly injured in the wreck of con-
struction train near Halifax, N. S.
Four negroes. Cornelius Gardner,
John Myers, Charles James and Joseph
Bryan, were hanged in the Jail yard at
Baltimore, Nd, the first three for
criminally assaulting little Annie Bal
ley, and Bryan for the murder of Mary
Pack, a woman with whom he had
lived.
The quartermaster at Chickamauga
Park, Tenn, started a shipment of 4S3
horses and mules for the army in the
Philippines. via San Francisco, in COM
pIlduCe Will tu OTucT from C1c war
department.
Failures for the week ending the
2Sth have been ISL in the United
States, against 225 last year and 20 in
Canada, against 26 last year.
A furious rain and wind storm swept
Plymouth county, Iowa, fattening the
grain in wide swath for 80 miles. At
Akron the bridge over the Sioux river
was blown out.
A passenger train on the Erie rail
road was wrecked near Lackawaxon,
N. Y, by a landslide. Stephen Out
water, engineer, and Fred Sells, fire
man, were killed. Twenty-Five pas
sengers were injured.
McDuffee, at New Bedford, Mass,
made mile on a bicycle in the open
in lbs, breaking the worlds record.
The United States cricketers defeat
ed the Canadians at Winnipeg.
The United States transport Han
cock, having on board the soldiers of
the First Nebraska regiment of volun-
teers, has arrived at San Francisco.
| Fire in New York destroyed FIVE
story building, and a dozen firemen
were injured or overcome by smoke.
H. H. Mcconnell and his wife, an
aged couple near Cottage Grove, Tenn,
were killed by lightning. Both had
their clothing burned off.
The strike of the messenger boys at
Philadelphia is over, the boys return
ing to work.
Ed Joyce was instantly killed and
Ed Callahan mortally injured in a fight
in John Stanahan's saloon, in South
Omaha, Neb.
The Brotherhood of Boilermakers
and Iron Shipbuilders of New York
have decided to strike.
The international peace conference
met for its final sitting at The Hague,
the goth, when it was announced that
16 states had signed the arbitration
convention; Is the other two convcn-
tions; II the declaration prohibiting
the throwing of projectiles or explo-
sives from balloons; IL the declaration
prohibiting the use of asphyxiating
gas, and Is the declaration prohibiting
the use of expansive bullets.
Alatan T. Atkinson, an editor on
the Honolulu Star, has been designat-
ed by Census Director Merriam as
as special agent in charge of the CEN
sus in Hawaii.