The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending Aug. 81. =
Mime. Seals, an Indian woman. died In
Madison, Ind. aged I03years- III
Iowa middle-of- the-road populists will
place state ticket In the field.
The Kentucky legislature met In extra
session TO pass new election law
Mayor James G. Woodward, OF Atlanta.
Ga, was impeached for intoxication-
The Rogers locomotive works at Pater-
son. n. J., are going out of business. Ell
Peapack Smith family held reunion at
Peapaek. N. J.. and $500 were present E
The German press sees no hope for eff
fective measures against the anarchists
A negro was lynched at Forest City. n.
c., for the murder of a white man named
Flack-
John L Sullivan was given rousing
beneit by the Twentieth Century club in
New York
The battleship Wisconsin will be ready
for her official trial trip about the 18th OF
September.
Sons of Veterans have raised $500. and
will erect college ip memory of the grand
army men,
The twenty-third annual meeting of the
American Bar association began in Sara
toga. y. Y.
Jerome c. Kearby. of Houston, has de-
clined the populist nomination for gov
ernor of Texas.
Hiram Sharpe. who killed his wife last
December in Dekalb county, was hanged
in Decatur. Ala
The will of the late Archbishop Hennessy,
of Dubuque. Ia, leaves 81, 100000 to relatives
and church societies.
In the Third Iowa district the demo-
Gratis have nominated W. n. Birdsall, OF
Waterloo, for congress.
Three wemen and two men killed them
selves in Chicago Thursday and another
woman attempted suicide
John R. Rogers was nominated for gov
ernor of Washington by the fusionists in
union convention in Seattle.
Ogden H. Fethers, of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
was elected supreme chancellor of the
grand lodge, Knights of Pythias.
The United States transports bearing the
Cuban teachers who attended the Harvard
summer school arrived at Havana
Home rule for cities was advocated at
the meeting in Milwaukee of the American
Society of Municipal Improvement.
Wisconsin democrats have nominated f.
A Partlow for congress in the Tenth dis
trict and y. E. Morgan in the Eighth
The steamship Senator brings the report
to Seattle of the drowning of Capt Gilley,
60 years old, noted Alaskan explorer
Census returns give Boston population
y
and San Francisco 342 .7S2, gain of 4s. 7S5-
The American Society of Municipal I'M
provements in session in Milwaukee elect
ed Robert E McMath. of St Louis, presi-
dent.
An anarchist has been arrested at Car
rara, Italy, on suspicion of having con-
spired to assasSinate King Victor Emman-
uel III.
The cruiser Montgomery, of Admiral
Cab Irr NIB orrix- ar Va w
York, will go out of commission for exte n
sive repairs.
Thomas J. Powers, commissioner OF
banking for Pennsylvania, was killed by
falling from a train in the outskirts OF
Philadelphia.
Rev Dr. Francis S. McCabe, Presbyte-
rian clergyman well known throughout the
west. died at his home in Topeka Kan.
aged q years.
Mrs. Mary McGill was killed in Mary
vile, Mo-, by the shock Of the news that
her son, James McGill, had died suddenly
at Jetmore, Kan
The North Atlantic squadron (the Kear-
sarge, Kentucky. Massachusetts, Indiana
and the Texas sailed from Boston FOR
Trial Station, Ala
Mary Sellers, of Lancaster England, won
the title of Bride of the Umbria" by be-
ing married on that liner to William Phil
lips, of Rhode Island
The Prussian cabinet has resolved to
grant modified railroad tariff for foreign
coal in order to facilitate the importation
of coal from the United States.
The state department announces that w.
Irwin Shaw, United States consul at Bar
ranquilla, Colombia, who was reported TO
have died of yellow fever, is alive and
we'll
More than score of missionaries, wom-
en- and children who escaped from China
at the beginning of the Boxer outbreak, ar
rived in San Francisco on the steamer
China
William Andrews, one of the wealthiest
and most influential bankers in central
Iowa, was accidentally killed in Marshall
town by falling and striking his head on
the pavement.
The steamship Ohio arrived at Seattle
from Nome with go passengers and treas
ure estimated at s., 600 900. About one-third
of the gold came from Nome. The klondike
contributed the balance.
R. Philip Gormully of Chicago, presi-
dent and treasurer of the Gormully &
Jeffery Manufacturing company, died in
Montreal Mr.. Gormully was pioneer in
the manufacture of bicycles