The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-06-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May rs


Mrs. Langtry. the actress, sailed from
New York for Europe
| The business portion of Lake View. Ore.
was destroyed by fire.
| Three big fires in Chicago Wednesday
caused total loss of $148, 900.
| Frankfort, KY, is free from soldiers for
the first time since January 80.
! Fire destroyed nearly the entire busi-
| ness portion of Shipshewana. Ind.
| Senator Foraker will nominate Mckinley
at the republican national convention.
| South Dakota republicans have NOM
| mated Charles N. Herreid for governor.
| Queen Victoria's eighty-first birthday
was celebrated throughout the British en-
pire.
Cholera continues in India. Curzon re-
| ports 5.607,00 famine sufferers receiving
relief.
| The queen regent of Spain has signed
the postal convention with the United
| States.
| Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka.
Kan, author of I'm His Steps" sailed for
Europe.
Herbert Moves, a prominent Cleveland
| (O.) business man, was fatally shot by two
footpads
P. M. Arthur has been reelected grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
cratic convention were instructed to vote
| for Bryan.
Ex-senator Quay, of Pennsylvania. has
announced his candidacy for reelection to
the senate.
| Engineer Frank Shaw and Fireman Har-
ry Wetzell were killed in train wreck at
| Oakland, Cal.
Diplomats in China demand that the gov
! eminent suppress the Boxers" who are
gaining strength.
James M. Lynch, of Syracuse. n. Y, has
| been elected president of the International
| Typographical union.
| Thirty states were represented at the
| opening in Chicago of the annual conven-
| ton Of the American Anti-Saloon league.
Senator Hanna says statements that he
| intends to resign Craftsmanship of republic
| an national committee are unauthorized.
| The Louisiana legislature elected ex-Gov.
| Murphy j. Foster to the United States SEN
| ate and reelected Samuel Douglas McEn-
| cry.
Rousseau o. Crump, Of West Bay City.
| was renominated for congress by the re-
| publicans of the Tenth district of Mich
| igan.
Thomas S. Timpson. general eastern
| agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan South
| ern railway, died at Buffalo, N. Y, aged So
years.
The Chinese minister at Washington has
| asked the president to withdraw the or
| der excluding his countrymen from the
Philippines
John S. Shook was nominated on the
ninety-second ballot at Defiance as demo-
| cratic candidate for congress from the
| Fifth Ohio district.
Jonas G. Clark, founder of Clark univer-
| sity in Worcester, Mass, died there, aged
| IS years His gifts to Clark university ag-
| gregate nearly $3000,000
The will of the late Benjamin H. Howell.
! the Brooklyn IN. W sugar merchant, dis
| poses of an estate valued a $1,500,0 G0 and
| gives $4,000 to charities.
| President Mckinley will ride on horse
back in the G. A. r. parade in Chicago
| in August, having accepted place on the
staff of Commander Shaw.
AT the meeting in Detroit of the Wom-
ems Baptist Home Mission society Mrs.
j. N. Grouse, of Chicago, was for the twen-
| ty-third time elected president.
The director of posts of the Philippine
| islands reports that with all expenses paid
there will be a profit of over $4,000 for
the IL months from May l, 1899.
Charles W. Nicely was rearrested in New
York on the charge of conversion of $4,000
| of government funds while financial agent
| of the post office department in Cuba
Nathaniel P. Hill. formerly United
| States senator from Colorado. died in
| Denver Tuesday of general debility re-
sulting from stomach trouble. He was
| 6S years DID,
The engine attached to the west-bound
| fast mail train on the Lake Shore road
went into ditch at Westf1eld n. Y. and
! Engineer Reagan and his fireman, William
Leighbody, were killed.
The banking house of Nielsen & Co.. of
| Pentwater, Mich. failed to open its doors.
| The liabilities are unofficially estimated at
| $4,000 to 100000. 1t is impossible at this
| time to form an estimate of the'assets.
Fritz Meyer was put to death in the cleo
trio chair at Sing Sing IN. " prison at
Cos o'clock Monday morning for the muir
| der of Policeman Frederick Smith in New
| York city on the night of October q 1897.
| The secretary of war has directed Lieut..
! Col. Webb c. Hayes, Thirty-first volun-
! teer infantry, upon his arrival at San
| Francisco to proceed to his home at Cleve-
| land for honorable discharge from the
| service.
| The department of state warns the
| public against the swindling advertise
| ment and other publications of schemers
| relating to pretended estates in England
! and cautions the people against remit
| ting money in view of such advertise
| ments to any strangers under any cir
| cumStanceS