The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-08-11

| wounded Captain Thomas L. Pollock
and seriously injured Michael Mullen
at the Soldiers Home, at Milwaukee.
| The shooting occurred while Captain
Pollock was attempting to arrest An
derson. Mullen was assisting in the
arrest. All are inmates of the home.
John Maxey, the negro rapist, was
hanged at Van Buren,, Ark. He main
tanned his innocence to the last, and
in speech on the gallows, he inoked
curse upon the people of Van Buren,
for the injustice they had done him.
Conductor j. NJ. Climinson, of the
| Seashore express, on the main line of
| the Pennsylvania railroad, was fatally
injured near Philadelphia in struggle
with five intoxicated soldiers, said to
be members of the new 2Sth regiment
of volunteers, now recruiting at Camp
| Meade.
Four masked burglars forced their
way into the farmhouse of DR.. Joseph
Parkinson near Wellsburg, w. Va,
and after blindfolding and binding the
inmates, who were all women, secur-
| ing government bonds valued at So 500
and a lot of silverware, and then drove
off.
| Late returns from the recent storm
in Florida make matters much worse
| than first reported. At Carrabelle only
nine houses remain out of a once beau
tiful and prosperous town. Communi-
cations from the mayor state that 200
| families are without homes or shelter
and many are destitute. In Mcintyre
| only two mill boilers mark the place
of the town. Lanark Inn, the famous
summer resort, was blown into the
gulf.
An unknown man was killed by
Ringing Brothers circus train near
Bessemer, Mich.
General Otis cables that the Mime
sofa regiment will leave Manila Aug.
8. The report that the Montana regi-
ment would sail was an error.
| General Lawton is to have command
of all the cavalry troops in the Phil
| ippines when the active campaign
| opens in the fall. The plan of cam
| paign contemplates larger use of
cavalry than in the last campaign.
Surrounded by hooting, jeering
! crowd of several hundred persons,
| William Waldorf Astor was burned in
efigy in Longacre Square, New York.
Charles Hager, living near Susque-
hanna, Pa, while temporarily insane,
murdered his three children by cut
| ting their Threats and then committed
| suicide by the same means.
Mayor j. G. Woodward, of Atlanta,
| Ga, has been asked to resign by the
| city council on account of continual
| drunkenness.
By an explosion of gas, the art gall
leries of Durand & Ruel, in New York,
| were wrecked. Paintings valued at
| or burned.
Andrew Deems, VIM. Lyman, Edw.
Garcony and Edw. Garry were drowned
by the capsizing of row boat near
| Baltimore, Nd.
The steamer City of Grand Rapids,
with 200 passengers aboard, sprang
| lead in Lake Michigan and narrowly
escaped laundering.
A gang plank of ferry boat at Bar
Harbor, Me-, gave way under a crowd
and fully 200 people were plunged into
| the water. Seventeen were killed.
AT Bridgeport, Conn.,, a crowded troll
| ly car leaped from trestle into pond
40 feet beneath and nearly 40 were
killed.
Street car traffic at Eau Claire, Wis,
was completely suspended, the COM
pany's employees being unable to with
stand the strikers who collected along
| the line, obstructing the cars.
After lying beneath wreckage for
nearly eight months the body of Annie
| Hanson who lost her life in the fire
which destroyed the Melrose fiat
building last December, in Chicago,
was found by employees of salvage
company who were working on the
ruins.
Jim Mite, the only surviving member
of the Dalton gang of outlaws has
been convicted at Henderson, Texas.
| of murder in conduction with the rob-
berry of the Longview bank and given
| a sentence in the penitentary.
Lloyd's agent at Manila cables that
| the insurgents at San Fernando have
| captured and burned the United States
steamer Saturnus.
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