The Ely miner., 1900-08-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending July %.


lage of Buckley, Wash.
The Peruvian government has adopted
the single gold standard
United States, following France. forbids
shipment of arms to China.
A constitutional convention will be held
In Havana, Cuba. November s.
A brief but fierce storm cost many
lives and did great damage in England.
Miss Bessie Anthony. of Evanston. ILL.,.
won the woman golf championship of the
west
The severe drought in the New Eng
land states has been broken by copious
rains.
Iowa republicans decided to hold their
state convention in Des Moines on Aug
ust l.
The Massachusetts, republican state
convention will be held in Boston Oc-
tober T.
Mrs. Thomas Wheeler celebrated her
one hundredth birthday at her home near
Villisca. Ia
Edward Bowen, of Lincoln Neb.. has ar
rived in Paris on his trip around the world
on bicycle.
A hailstorm damaged crops in North
Dakota over a territory comprising 100
square miles,
A gigantic plot to release prisoners from
the western penitentiary in Allegheny, Pa,
was discovered.
American soldiers killed 80 Filipinos in
northern Mindanao for the murder of one
Of their number.
Charles Hale Hoyt. the famous author.
actor and manager, has been declared
insane in New York.
An official dispatch received at the state
department tells of the collapse of the
revolution in Panama.
Ttxran R,,o ,b1 >11ff -
kill the governor of Santiago, San Domin-
go, have been arrested.
Bartholomew Ruello, an Italian, the
king of silver dollar counterfeiters, was
caught in PHILADELPHIA.
Nathaniel c. Bordwine, a soldier of the
Blackhawk war, died in Lewiston, ILL.,,
at the age of 101 years.
c. D. Sheldon has been renominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Twelfth district of Michigan.
The United States transport Warren.
from Manila, reached San Francisco
with number of discharged men.
Four hundred persons were poisoned
by eating ice cream at an Evansville
Qnd) church social. All will recover
Jack Hillsman (colored) was hanged by
a mob near Knoxville, Ca, for assault
ing the young daughter of planter.
Advces received at Kingston, Jamaica.
announce the denomination for a fourth
term of President Zelaya of Nicaragua.
EX-Congressman Jerry Simpson fought a
mob of 200 men, who assailed him while he
was speaking at race track in Fort Scott,
Kan.
Henry B. Metcalf of Pawtucket. r. l.,
was officially notified of his nomination
for vice president on the prohibition
ticket.
The National Woman's Relief Corps
will hold its eighteenth annual conven-
ton in Chicago during the G. A. R.
encampment.
The democrats have nominated John w.
Leonard for congress in the Eighth Illi-
nois district and Frank A. Horner in the
Fifth Indiana district.
Sergt. Ed Jackson, writing to his father
in Wichita, Kan, from the Philippines,
says the soldiers there generally believe
that Aguinaldo is dead.
The United States League of Building
and Loan Associations in session in In
dianapolis, Ind, elected ]. w. Bailey, OF
Somerville, Mass, president
Mary Yardley. spinster, los years old,
whose life extended through the admins
tration of every president of the United
States, died in Chicago Thursday.
The new liner Deutschland made a
record run from New York to Plymouth,
in 5 days, IA hours, minutes, handi-
capped by fog. Her speed averaged %
knots.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow in his report on Cuban postal
affairs says Nicely, Rathbone, Rich and
others were in collusion and are en-
beZzlers.
Congressional nominations: Iowa, Elev-
enth district, Lot Thomas (rep) renom-
mated: Illinois, Seventeenth district, B.
F. Caldwell (dem) renominated: Indiana,
Tenth district, John Ross (dem.).