The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-06-28
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.

DOMESTIC.
A gang of masked robbers raided the
receiving office of the Paramount Park
Transportation company near Philadel-
phia and stole $4,000.
Gen. George NJ. Randall has returned
to Havana from paying the Cuban SOL
diers. He says he paid almost $500
men.
The Illinois supreme court says that
all students in the state will be required
to read law three years before making
application to the supreme court for adj
mission to the bar.
Brig. Gen. Leonard Wood, military
governor of the province of Santiago,
arrived in New York.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
27,923, 900 bushels; corn, 1901 900 bush
els; oats, 1881, 900 bushels; rye, &c.,
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
Julius Grotzlle, aged "a; John Robin
son, aged is, and Minnie Schieffelbein,
aged Il, were drowned near Portage,
Wis, by the upsetting of boat
John Kennedy was convicted at
Ildl lNiliSs Aho., VI Iidlll IooDCiy anu
sentenced to II years in prison.
a cyclone swept through Oconto,
Wis. and vicinity, doing great damage.
During a storm a boating party at
Dunbar, Wis.,, was capsized and six
were drowned, four grown persons and
two children.
President Mckinley participated in
the commencement exercises at Mount
Holyoke college in South Hadley, Mass,
awarding the diplomas to the senior
class, among whom was his niece, Miss
Grace Mckinley, and accepting in a
brief address the degree of doctor of
civil laws conferred upon him by the
college.
A very severe earthquake shock was
felt at harrisburg, Va, and vicinity.
Henry Post, New York banker,
filed petition in bankruptcy with liza
bilities of $S,464.575.
a mob of 5000 persons attacked the
Holmden avenue car barns of the Cleve-
land CO., Electric Railway company
and destroyed valuable property.
John Raines and Madison Pratt, each
aged 10 years, fought duel with pistols
near Pulaski, Va, and both were killed.
A cloudburst at Mansfield, o., and vi
cinity damaged property to the extent
of 100000.
DR.. c. w. Super has been elected pres
ident of the Ohio university at Athens.
At Johnstown, Pa, the Cambria Steel
company has advanced the wages of its
$500 EMPLOYEES ten per cent.
1t is announced that Gen. Jospeh
Wheeler has been requested by Secre-
tary Alger to prepare himself to go to
the Philippines.
Daniel Patrick, negro who assault
ed Miss Bessie Ireland near Scranton,
Miss, was lynched by mob
The United States practice vessel
Chesapeake was launched from the
Bath (Me.) iron works yard and chris
tened by Miss Elise Bradford daughter
of Rear Admiral Bradford.
BY an accident in a mine at Rat
Portage, Ont, Charles Adams, Charles
Haas and John Howe were killed.
Maj. Thomas f. Fitzpatrick, superin-
tendent of the national cemetery in
Mound City, ILL.,, was shot and killed
by Michael Tobin, one of the en-
ployes.
The United States cruiser Philadel-
phia, Admiral Kautz in command, ar
rived in San Francisco from Apia,
Samoa.
At the annual commencement in
Providence, II. l., of Brown university
Rev. w. II. p. Faunce, of New York, was
installed as president.
AS result of the settlement of the
coal miners strike $4,000 Of the 10000
strikers in Missouri, Kansas, Indian ter
ritory and Arkansas will return to work
at once.
Charles NJ. Murphy rode mile on a
bicycle near Babylon. L. l., in 65 sec
onds, breaking all mile records. He was
paced by railroad locomotive.
Fred Gruelin, an aged man in Milwau-
kee, Wis.,. quarreled with his young
wife and shot her twice and then killed
himself. The woman may recover.
An incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness portion of Livermore Falls, Me.
Loss. 100000. Thirty families lost ev-
crything.
At an election in Rhode Island a prop
osition to change the constitution in ia
for of biennial elections was defeated.
Floods have caused great damage to
the mining towns of Murray City and
Coal Gate. in Ohio. the latter town be-
ing almost entirely destroyed.