The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-06-21
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
itical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

Scores of persons were killed-the
number may reach into the hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property destroyed by cy
clone that swept across the Mississippi
valley, practically annihilating the viii
lage of New Richmond, Wis, and caus-
ing great property loss also at Hudson,
Wis.,, and at Hastings, Mimi, and in the
section of country lying between.
James Lowe shot his wife fatally at
Neillsville. Wis, and then shot himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
The receipts of the Fitzsimmons-Jef-
fries fight at New York were So, 900, OF
which Fitzsimmons gets $4,000. the
club $4,000 and Jeffries $4,000.
Three boys, aged IL, IL and IA, con-
fessed to robbing the post office at
Peru. III.
L. o. Kragness, of San Francisco, has
broken the American 200-mile bicycle
road record by making a double century
around San Francisco bay in IL hours
and 81 minutes.
a passenger train on the Rock Island
road jumped the track near Geneseo,
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other persons were injured, two fatally.
Clyde Porter and Calvin S. Hart were
blown to atoms in an explosion in a tor
pedo factory in Marietta, o.
A dispatch received at Washington
announces the safe arrival of the cruiser
Newark at IIocanee island, Chill.
c. ~. Larson and his eight-year-old
son were drowned while attempting to
cross the river at La Crosse, Wis.
Four small children named Christen-
sen were drowned in the Platte river
while attempting to rescue one of their
number.
The supreme lodge, Ancient Order of
United Workmen, is in session at In
dianapolis.
Over 200 steamfitters in Cleveland, O.,
are on n strike for higher wages and
for uniform scale for Cleveland work
men.
Holman Sheffield, a hermit aged 60,
living near Toledo, o., was found dead.
Robbery was evidently the motive of
his murderers.
Two negroes were lynched at Dun
melon, Fla, by mob of their own color
for shooting colored man.
The town of Herman, Neb., was en-
tirely destroyed by tornado. The
town had 500 people and 800 houses.
Not house was left standing, and it is
estimated that 20 are killed and 40 or
so badly hurt.
1t is now estimated that the loss of
life in the storm at New Richmond,
Wis, is about 100, while nearly 200
buildings were destroyed and loss
entailed of over $500OOO The entire
business portion of the city is devas-
tated. Reports from other points in the
stricken district tell of serious dam
age and many deaths.
Mrs. Maggie Neal, of Des Moines, Ia,
and farmer named Eossler are dead
and four others are very seriously ill
from drinking wood alcoholNat Il picnic
near Mingo, Ia.
a plan has been arranged whereby
the American fighting force in the Phil
ippines will be increased toss, 900 men,
all regulars, by the beginning of the
dry season.
Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, an artist
of some distinction, is dead at New
York city, aged 40 years.
Rudyard Kipling, his father, wife,
son and daughter sailed from New York
for Europe.
Colorado gold will be represented at
the Paris exposition by ST 100000 mug
get miniature of Pixies peak.
George S. Burroughs has given in his
resignation us president Of Wabash
(Ind.) college, to take effect on Octo-
Der /.
At Los Angeles, CAL, Earl Hanchette
killed his wife and committed suicide
by shooting.