The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-06-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June ?.

For the Week Ending June 2.
Robbers secured "a, 900 from the bank at
Jansen, Neb.
| Della Fox. the actress. has been commit
TED to an insane asylum.
Near Montgomery. W. Va. IL men died
from eating poisoned provisions.
| A senate committee has begun investiga-
ton of the postal frauds in Cuba.
| Gen. Elwell S. Otis is slated for COM
mand of the department of the lakes.
The Building Trades council at Kansas
City. Mo-. ordered 5000 men to go on strike.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in India.
killing hundreds of famine-stricken ma
| tives.
At Miles City. Mont. the Northern Pa
cihc express office was robbed of $1,000
package.
| The school census of Indiana shows a
population of 2.63S. 4S3. a decrease of 5497
| in year.
| The American Steel & Wire company has
closed down three of its principal mills at
| Cleveland, o.
At the opening Of the CHILEAN congress
| the president said Chilli was at peace with
all the world.
| Robert P. Burt, the oldest locomotive
engineer in America, died in Beloit, Wis.,.
aged 80 years.
| Samuel Cupples and Robert Bookings.
ton university.
Auditors investigating the Cuban treas
ury and customs department found no
trace of fraud.
Princess Aribert of Auhalt. granddaugh-
| ter of Queen Victoria. has arrived in New
York incognito.
Capt. Arlie Morrison, Frank Campbell and
William Medlar were killed by lightning
at st. Clair, Mich.
;ola
holds to the issue of sixteen to one in tho
| coming campaign.
A Philadelphia messenger boy has de-
| livered a message from American school
children to Kruger.
| Gen. Jose M. Hernandez. the revolution
airy leader in Venezuela, has been captured
| by government troops.
| Albert Francis Judd. chief justice of the
supreme court of Hawaii. died at his resi-
dence in Nuuanu Valley.
Engineer John Hines and Fireman Wom-
BILE were killed in the wreck of train 80
miles south of Waco. Tex.
A cyclone struck the western part Of
| Sebewa township, Mich, and did great
| damage to farm property.
Railroad crop reports point to a heavy
| harvest in Iowa, Nebraska, northern Mis-
| souri, and northern Kansas.
Michigan republicans will hold their
| state convention IN 1TdOQ NdplUS uHo
| q to nominate state officers.
| DR.. H. L. Mundy. aged As years, dentist,
was found dead In his office in Kansas City.
Mo. He had taken morphine.
The enumeration for the twelfth census
| began. and it is to be completed in 80 days.
| The cost will be over 100000.
The forty-fourth anniversary of the first
republican state convention held in Illinois
| was celebrated in Bloomington.
| Judge James Scammon died at Kansas
| City. He was one of the most prominent
| members of the bar in Missouri.
| Congress has appropriated $35, 600 for geo.
logical surveys in Alaska this year, and ono
| Of three parties has already sailed.
New Jersey democrats in convention
| avoided pledging delegates to Kansas City,
| but showed their sympathy with Bryan.
| The United States transport Sherman
| sailed from San Francisco for Manila
heavily laden with commissary supplies.
Harry E. Miles. % years old. was killed
and William E. Stafford was fatally in
| jured in bicycle race al Waltham, Mass.
| David Ward. pioneer capitalist. lumber
| man and owner of fortune of upward OF
| $4,000. 900, died at his home in Pontiac.
| Mich.
BY the death of Thomas E. Miaco in New
| York six theaters and a large fortune are
| left to his 15-year-old daughter Edna, his
sole heir.
Twenty-three foreign warships are at
Taku. and Russia owns nine of Them with
1900 soldiers aboard. Marines guard lega-
tons in Picking.
Rev. John c.. Lowrie, D D.. one of the
| foremost missionary workers in the Pres
byterian church, died at East Orange,
| N. j., aged so years.
Ex-Mayor John Steketee, of Grand Rap
| ids, Mich. and for many years vice consul
| for the Netherlands, of which country he
was a native. died suddenly.
Subscriptions are being received for a
| monument in Erie. Pa. to Capt. Charles
| V. Gridlcy commander of the flagship
| Olympia in Dewey's fleet at Manila.
The president has commuted to ten years
| the life sentence of Jefferson Harrison for
robbing. in $685. mail car in Alabama and
| threatening to kill the postal clerk.
A passenger train on the Green Bay 6
| Western road was wrecked near kewanec.
| Wis, by a washout. and Fireman Brown
| was killed and Engineer Riordan fatally
| injured.
| The navy department is arranging for
| fertilization of Dry Tortugas, Pearl Har-
| Dor, Pango Pango and Guam. With these.
| Alaska and Cavite America would domi.
nate the Pacific.
Lieut. Col. Webb C. Hayes. Thirty first
| volunteer infantry. son Of ex-PreSident
| Hayes. is no longer connected with the
| army. his resignation having been accept
| ed by the president.
Two children were dragged from a burn
| ing house on the truck farm of T. Steer
| Bicksloe, near Media. Pa. at night by their
eight-year-old brother. who. driven out
| by the flames. was unable to save his moth.
| or and baby.
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