The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-04-26
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.


By the breaking of a boom at Mari
nette, Wis, 100000 feet of logs were
swept away.
Nine firemen were badly injured at a
fire in Denver, Col. The property loss
was small.
The cruiser Chicago sailed from
Brooklyn on cruise of $4,000 miles un-
der command of Rear Admiral Howl
son.
In the Pennsylvania legislature the
house bribery investigation committee
recommended the prosecution of nine
men for corrupt practices.
The United States supreme court has
upset the Michigan law requiring rail-
way companies to sell ,000-mile tickets,
good for two years, for $50 each.
Gen. Guy V. Henry, commanding in
Porto Rico, said to member of the
Porto Rican commission that he did not
'.believe in thrusting Americans into all
the offices; believe in colonizing."
The cruiser Raleigh has been ordered
to Philadelphia, where she will remain
to take part in the unwilling of the
Grant monument and the celebration of
dewey day. on May 1.
The secretary of War issued orders
for the reorganization of the military
departments in Cuba. The number of
departments is reduced from seven to
five.
Mary Twohy, aged As; Charles Mona
CHAN, aged 40, and man named Ham
ilton were smothered to death in fire
in Chicago.
Penniiess and hopeless of the future,
Georgiana Dworschall, widow, aged
&c years, shot and killed her two chill
dren and herself at Duluth, Mimi.
w. w. Rockwell, minister to Greece,
has resigned. and Arthur Sherburn
Hardy, of New Hampshire, succeeds
him.
The engine of the Wild River Lumber
company railway blew up near Bethel,
Me-, killing Engineer Harry Belmont,
Fireman E. P. johnson and Brakeman
e. Lamoe.
John N. Irwin, of Iowa, formerly gov
ernor of Idaho, has been appointed min
lister to Portugal.
The engine of stone train on the
Bedford Qnd.) Belt railway jumped the
track, killing Charles Meinzer, the en-
gineer, and d. J. Menaugh.
In fit OF jealousy Frank Yeager
killed man named Powell at Bonnie
Terre, Mo-, and fatally shot his wife and
himself.
The fishing schooner Eliza, of Bev-
erly, Mass, struck on Rose and Crown
shoal and II of the crew were lost.
Gen. Gomez has issued a proclama-
ton to the Cuban people and the Cuban
army in which he says he accepts the
commission as representative of the
Cuban army near the American govern
ment for the purpose of disbanding the
army.
Gordon Mckay sent 100000 to his
divorced wife on the eve of her marrige
in Washington to Albert Won Breuning.
Will Hardin, who murdered Hugh
Patterson at Clinton, Ark, December
10, 1897, was shot to death by mob
William p. Lord, ex-governor of Ore
gon, has been appointed minister to
Persia.
Bob Blank (colored) was hanged at
ing Tennie Bailey, aged IL years.
At Everbaugh, W. Va, Eliza Matthews
killed his six-year-old son and then
committed suicide.
Advices from Washington say there
is to be no cessation of active HOSTILE
ties against the Filipinos. Gen. Otis
reports that the insurgents are great
ly scattered, and that the losses by de-
sertions and death are large. The war
department will increase Gen. Otis reg
ular force to $4,000 men, to take the
place of the volunteers who will be
brought home.
Three little girls lost their lives by
the burning of the orphans home at
Berne, Ind.
One of the most famous counterfeit
ing gangs in the country has been cap
tured in Philadelphia.
1t is reported that Thomas Bracket
Reed has become the head of the law
firm of Simpson, Thacher & Barnum,
and it is understood that he will soon
resign his seat in congress and remove
to New York city.
Fire destroyed the large department
store of Ever & Co., in Newcastle, Pa.
Loss, $15O,O0O.
The large tannery and yards Of the
United States Leather company were
destroyed by fire at Lincoln, Me. Loss,
$4,000.