The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the weekEnalnrxo

For the Week Ending Nov. 10.
Gen Butler arrived in England from
South Africa.
The gunboat vicksburg sailed from Bos-
1 ton for Manila.
Mrs. David Morse died In Roselle. n. J..
aged l04 years.
Charity Jane Robinson died in Fond du
Lac, Wis. aged l02 years.
Fire wiped out Is stores and the Courier
newspaper office al Houma, La
| New York city will erect monument to
the memory of heroes of the Maine
The Georgia legislature reelected O. o.
Bacon (dem.) United States senator
The torpedo boat destroyer Lawrence
| was launched at Weymouth. Mass
John A Blacks bank at Barboursville.
4 KY. was robbed by burglars of over 5000
Maj. Gen. Otis has arrived in Chicago IL
| take command of the department of the
] lakes.
4 Edwin o. Gillet, aged II, died at his home
/ in Chicago from injuries received in foot
ball game.
| Secret service officials arrested four wom-
| en- engaged in making counterfeit money in
Philadelphia.
G. M Harding killed his wife and himself
at Reynoldsville. Pa. Domestic trouble
/ was the cause.
The rebellion in Colombia gains ground
1
/ ing overthrown.
Joseph Freitag piano polisher. killed
his wife and himself in New York. Jeal-
1 ousy was the cause.
Massachusetts has 2.SO5, GAG inhabitants:
increase. 25.2 per cent. Maine has 694. 4sS:
increase. five per cent
Lit Majors (colored) was hanged by a
mob near Coahoma, Mis-, for killing j. L
/ Holcomb, a white man.
i In a railway collision af Relleyue n
4 Conductor John Oatman and Engineer
Henry Hall were killed.
A treaty conveying two additional islands
1 in the Philippines from Spain TO The United
States has been signed
In fight over politics at Caseyville. Ind.
| Wallace Graves was killed and eight
/ other men were wounded.
The Island Paper company mills at Car
thage, n. Y. were almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $3.50 900.
The Office of the Observation-Disclosures
| Express, The Oldest established paper in
Albany, n. Y, was destroyed by fire.
The nine months strike of the $500
cigarmakers in New York ended by the
men resuming work on the old terms.
In prize fight at Detroit, Mich, Mi
/ chael Goldman received blow from
Bernard Carroll that caused his death
Gov. Tanner has issued a proclamation
| designating Thursday, November %. as a
day of public thanksgiving and praise in
/ Illinois.
The steamer City of Vienna was sunk in
4 the English channel by collision with an
unknown vessel and l9 Of her crew were
/ drowned.
Elbridge 7. Gerry has resigned the presi-
dency of the New York Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty 10 Children, which he
founded q years ago.
City Marshal Newman killed Monroe
/
| to arrest him, but Jones shot Newman
| fatally before he died.
American soldiers prevented Russians
/ from tearing down a British flag in China.
i Friction among troops of different nations
was causing frequent shootings.
Filipinos are pleased with the work Of
] the civil commission and the fact that
| they are given an opportunity to express
their views on proposed measures
F. M. Smith (white), aged SO, was hanged
| at Nacogdoches, Tex, for the murder of
! Mrs. Waters, a kinswoman, in July There
was no known cause for the murder
Peter Vogler, a wealthy farmer living l2
miles northwest of Kewanee, ILL.,, had both
/ arms caught In a corn fodder ShredGing
| machine. Amputation was necessary.
| Loren Wolcott, aged 100 years, 6 months
| and 10 days, died at his home in Sparta,
| Wis. IT had been his ambition to live long
enough to learn the result of the elections.
/ Mike DAILY, young man from North
/ La Crosse, Wis, was sentenced to two years
| in the penitentiary Friday for the theft
/ of $150 from the person Of a sawmin en-
| ploye.
| Legislation by the Philippine commission
| appropriating S2.0O0,0O0 for roads and
| bridges is intended to facilitate the pacifi-
| cation of the islands and give worthy ma
| tives employment.
A semiofficial statement from Nome
| bankers gives the gold output of THAT dis
| trict as So DOC, 600 for the past season, as
! compared with s. 000, 900 for 1899. Most Of
| the gold was from a few claims on Anvil
creek.
One man was killed, five others probably
4 fatally injured and 20 others more or less
! seriously injured in an explosion of gas at
4 the Buck Mountain (Pa.) colliery Friday
| about two miles from here. The dead man
| was James Griffith.
1 Secretary Root requested the state de-
| partment to call Great Britain's attention
| to the fact that insurgent military opera
! tons in the Philippines are being directed
from Hong-Kong. and to ask the British
| government to break up the junta.
The bodies of Nels B. Nelson and Frank
| Ref. hghthousekeepers at Cape Flattery
/ light on the Washington coast, who at
! tempted 10 go ashore in a small boat DUR
| ing the storm of October p, have been
! found on the Vancouver island beach.
| Frank W. Funk was hanged at the dis
| trict Jail at Washington for the murder
| of William Brooks on June %, 1898. He
| robbed his victim of all his savings, about
s., 900. and also murderously assaulted the
| latter's wife. His victims were aged peo-