The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending nee. /.

For the week Ending Dec. Il
The battleship Kentucky arrived at Smyr-
ma. Turkey.
The United States monitor Nevada was
launched at Bath, Me.
1t is said that Uruguay is about to sever
friendly relations with Brazil.
The official vote of California gives
Mckinley a plurality of 14.254.
Morris Shofnosky was killed in foot
ball game at Greensburg. Pa.
The Georgia legislature defeated a bill
prohibiting child labor in mills.
The Pennsylvania railroad will retire over
400 employees on pensions January l.
A Pittsburgh firm has contracted to ship
100000 tons of coal to Nantes. France
Isaac Woolf a Chicago clothier, gave TO-
900 newsboys Thanksgiving dinner.
John T. Morgan (dem) has been reelect-
ed United States senator from Alabama
A fat stock show opened In Chicago
with 100000 worth of animals on view.
A committee of Is has been appointed to
lead the crusade against vice in New York.
Robert E. A. Dorr. publisher of the Mail
and Express. died at his home in New York
Evangelist Sam Small was placed in Jail
at Havana. Cuba, on a charge of swim
ding.
Yale eleven won the football champion
ship by defeating Harvard rs to in New
Haven.
A French gunboat forced Chinese to pay
indemnity for missions destroyed at
Swallow.
Illinois has As cities with populations be- be-
tween 5000 and rs, 900 and IS between 1900
and 5000
Chief of Police John w. Campbell. of st.
Louis, Mo-. has accepted the post of chief OF
police of Manila.
The trotting stallion Axtel sold at auc-
ton in New York for $l4, 700 to Fred Moran
and w. p. Ijams.
In Newark. N. j.. Caleb Baldwin cele-
brated the one hundred and first anniver-
sary of his birth.
David Whitney, Jr., millionaire lumber
man and vessel owner. died at Detroit,
Mich. aged 70 years.
Secretary Long has ordered supplies sent
to natives of Guam who are starving as a
result of the typhoon.
Official reports show that the number Of
saloons in Manila has decreased 80 per cent
under American rule
James Coleman, engineer, and d. G.
Cook. mechanic, were killed by an explo-
sion in Davenport. Ia.
Miss Helen Gould has sent S. 900 worth
of Christmas presents to New York SOL
diers in the Philippines.
st. Petersburg dispatches insist the czar
was being slowly poisoned. The ruler is
gaining in strength daily.
Louis Gilmore, captain of the high school
football team at Lowell Mass. died OF in
juries received in a game.
Secretary Roots army reorganization
bill provides for a minimum strength of S.
924 and maximum of 96.7e6.
While fishing with dynamite in johnson
county, Tenn, Marion Snyder lost his arms
and both eyes by an explosion.
Pr0yiSiOOS for irnporfant changes in the
army bill are embodied in Secretary
Roots bill for reorganization.
The immigration bureau has allowed con-
tract laborers from Porto Rico to land
in the United States as citizens.
The corner stone of the new state capital
at Little Rock, Ark, was laid under the
auspices of the masonic fraternity.
Nome, Alaska. is now completely isolated
from the outer world by barrier of ice,
and will remain so seven months
Three boys and baby were killed and
Is or 20 lads injured by an explosion of
nitroglycerin at Wellsburg, w. Va.
Mrs Samuel Stevenson. sister of DR.
Dowie, died of pneumonia and was buried
at sea. She refused medical attention.
Preston Todd, aged %, was killed during
football game in Chicago, making the
fourth victim during the past season.
Gov Stickney signed a bill passed by
sale of cigarettes to minors in the state.
Two university students. Max Billing
helm and Max Eichtersheimer. left New
York on trip afoot around the world.
Rear Admiral Frederick v. McNair, rank
ing next in line to Admiral Dewey. died
of apoplexy at Washington. aged So years
Five highwaymen held up a crowded
| car in Chicago beat the conductor and
robbed Edward Wright. a passenger. OF
$317.
The celebrated November corn corne,
| engineered by George HI. Phillips came tC
an end in Chicago. Phillips cleared abou,
| $500, 600.
Andrew and Bridget Mckinley, a mar.
| ried couple aged about 60 years. were
| burned to death in their home in Newton
| township, Pa.
Joe Mulhatton. perhaps the most noted
writer of newspaper fakes In America.
| has been placed in the insane asylum al
| Phoenix, Ariz.
Miss Antoinette Finck. New York
| heiress, broke her engagement to wee
| Baron Won Stechow because he would no,
| live in America.
| Richard Novak, the 14-year-old boy who
stabbed and killed his companion. Albert
| Olson. of the same age, in Chicago, wa:
| found guilty of murder.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated
| throughout the country. The president at
| tended church and sat down to his dinner
| at seven o'clock in the evening.
| The census gives North Dakota popula
| ton of 319,146, increase 1876, 427; South Da
| keta 401.570, increase 72.762: Washington
SIS, 103 increase 16S,713 Oklahoma 1893 245
| increase 1856, All; New Mexico 1920. in
crease Att.