The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-06-28
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Henry Bradley Plant, president of
the steamship line between Tampa,
Fla, and Havana, died at his home in
New York City the Odd.
Gen. Leonard Wood, the military
governor of Santiago, will return to
that Cuban province. He will not re-
main there, But at present he has no
intention of leaving the army to ac-
cept the presidency of the Washington
Traction company or any other corpo-
ration.
The passenger train on the B. c. r.
& N. railroad was wrecked on 1O-foot
embankment near Muscatine, 10. The
engineer, fireman and two passengers
were injured.
The supreme council of the United
Commercial Travellers of America be-
gan its annual session at Columbus, o.,
the 23d.
Joe Wolcott, the colored weller.
weight boxer, was given the decision
over Dan Creedon, the Australian mid
dleweight, at the end of hard fought
20-round bout before the New Broad
way Athletic club in New York.
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn
and Adjt. Gen. Corbin, assisted by
other war department officials, have
prepared detailed plans for raising adj
ditional troops for the Philippine cam
paign. AS near as can be learned now
there are three propositions to be sub
mitted to President Mckinley on his
return from New England
Three men killed, one fatally injured
and another seriously hurt, is the re-
suit of an explosion in the War Eagle
mine at Rossland, B. G.
Twenty years Imprisonment in the
i state penitentiary was the punishment
imposed by the jury at Hartville, Mo-,
in the case of 'Bill' jennings, other
wise Harry Glenn, another of the gang
which robbed a Kansas City, Fort Scott
Il Memphis express train at Macomb,
Mo-, on Jan. last. Jake Fegely and
John Kennedy had previously been
convicted
A heavy storm swept over Pine
Bluffs, Ark, and did great damage to
telephone and telegraph wires. Light
ming struck in several places, doing
great damage, much of which is not
reported definitely. On the James
Trulock place two men were killed.
They were William Patterson and Jim
| Jackson.
In Jersey City, N. j., man supposed
to be Antonio Macolate, a laborer, shot
and killed his wife, Farritta, and then
killed himself. The affair took place
on public street.
Fifteen hundred men of the Ameri-
can Car company at Jeffersonville, Ind,
struck, demanding weekly pay days,
| instead of every other week.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
San Francisco the oath for Manila. She
carried 1,042 armed men and "a officers.
The gold reserve in the U. S. treas
ury the gath was 1886, 2s7,727
Eight people were injured, one per-
haps fatally, in wreck on the Pitts
burg & Western railway at Renfrew,
Pa.
The boiler of the electric light plant
at Fair View, Ill, exploded, wrecking
the building. Frank Stevens, the en-
gineer, was dug from the debris IA
tally mangled. Peter Burger, who was
in the engine room at the time, escaped
with an assortment of slight bruises
Forty buildings in the village of st.
Thomas, Ont, were destroyed by fire.
William Galloway's terra Gotta works
at Philadelphia burned, causing loss
of 100000.
A cyclone partially wrecked the vii
lage of Bradley, Neb. Floyd A. Wal
worth was caught in the debris and
seriously hurt.
| The cruiser Newark arrived safely at
Valparaiso, Chile.
The stockyard strike, which at one
time threateded the entire packing
house district of Chicago has practi-
cally been settled by the packers
granting the increase of 25c a day in
wages demanding by the strikers.
Serious riots have broken out at
Ceccani, about 500 miles south of Rome,
| Italy on account of priest having ac-
communicated parishioner for pri-
vate quarrel. The man defies and ig-
nores the communication, and the
priest has ceased holding mass.
The trans-Caspian region of Asiatic
| Russia, which is under the administra-
ton of the governor general of the
Caucasus, is threatened with famine,
| owing to the prolonged drouth and a
plague of locusts.
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