The Ely miner., 1899-05-17
THB WEEKS NEWS
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.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

Plow manufacturers met in Chicago
and formed trust to be capitalized at
$65,OOO,OOO and to include the principal
plants in the United States.
Maj. l.. c. Overman, U. S. A., retired,
was instantly killed by fall at his sum-
mer home in Nantucket, Mass.
The sales for week in the print
cloth market at Fall River, Mass, broke
all records, the number of pieces eX-
ceeding 100000, which is 100000 more
than the record.
Brig. Gen. George w. Davis, who
succeeds Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry as
military governor of Porto Rico, ar
rived in San Juan, and Gen. Henry
sailed for the United States.
A report from Gen. Lope Recio, civil
governor of Puerto Principe, states that
during the war 10 towns in that prov
ince were completely destroyed.
The family of George Humphreys,
composed doffourpersons,w were drowned
by the sudden overflow of a branch OF
the Brazos river near Benjamin, Tex.
The duke of ARGOS will present his
credentials to the president as minister
of Spain early in June, and Beiamy
Storer will be received by the queen re-
gent of Spain at the same time.
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn
says the Chinese exclusion act does not
apply to our insular possessions.
Capt. John A. Logan, United States
volunteers, has been appointed ad-
jutant general of the department Of the
gulf.
The schooner Loyal, which sailed
from Seattle one year ago for Kotzebue
sound, Alaska, with IL persons on
board. is lost.
The sixth annual convention of the
Police Chiefs Association of the United
States began in Chattanooga, Tenn.
An experiment at Sandy Hook with
gun cotton shells shows that they can
be safely used in war as engines of de-
struction.
In dispute over bill at Okolona,
Miss, DR.. William Murphy and his son
and Charles d. Clarke and his son were
killed.
An order has been issued creating
the military district of Alaska, with
headquarters at Pyramid Harbor.
The eighty-seventh annual COM
mencement of the Princeton theolog-
ical seminary was held in Princeton,
n j.
The will of the late Edward Y. Perry,
of Hanover, Mass, leaves the greater
portion of his estate of $1,OOO,OOO as
trust fund for the benefit of the poor.
Great Britain and this country will
act together at the cars disarmament
conference in urging the adoption Of
scheme of arbitration of international
disputes.
Ten native Filipinos under contract
to exhibit in dime museum in New
York were forbidden to land in San
Francisco.
The new Ward line steamer Havana
made the trip from Havana to New
York in two days and 20 hours, the fast
est time on record. Fifteen hundred
soldiers were on board.
All the post offices and school houses
in the island of Porto Rico will soon be
flying United States flags.
Alex Vollrath, of Sheboygan, Wis.
ana IL. IL. ElNerS, Oh DdlCllnoTe, NIL,
students at Mission House college in
Elkhart Lake, Wis.,, were drowned by
the upsetting of boat.
DR.. L. p. Bagwell and his three chill
dren and an aged woman housekeeper
were burned to death in a fire that con-
sumed their home at Spring Place, Ga.
A break in the Erie canal flooded
Spencerport, N. Y, doing great dam
age, and a number of farms north OF
the village were submerged.
A seat on the stock exchange in New
York was sold for $4,000, the highest
SUN ever paid.