The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Ninth regiment sailed from Manila
for Taku.
Boer ENJOYS sailed from New York Thurs
DAY for Havre.
Forest fires were doing great damage In
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Alabama republicans have nominated
John A. Steele for governor.
The democrats of Arkansas have NOM
mated Jeff Davis for governor.
Vermont republicans nominated W. W.
Stickney, of Ludlow, for governor.
Transforms laid waste much of Spain
and drowned thousands of persons.
American silk exhibit won gold medal
over French exhibit at Paris exposition.
The republicans of Maine have nominat-
ed John F. Hill. of Augusta, for governor.
James H. Merrill. 81 years old. mayor of
Oshkosh, Wis, died suddenly in New
York.
Bob Davis, a negro desperado, was
hanged by a mob at Mulberry. Fla, for
murder.
The Baltimore & Ohio road will establish
automobile cab service for passengers in
Chicago.
Pickpockets stole s55,o0o worth of nego-
table bonds from Harry K. Dufield in
Chicago.
William and Rose Ruby, aged % and 10.
loosa, Ia.
Martin J. Russell editor of the Chicago
Chronicle, died at Mackinac island, Mich.
aged So years.
JEFF Gilmore shot and killed three per-
sons in a quarrel over a game of cards
at Granite. Kan.
The Christian Endeavor convention in
London will be attended by 10, 900 delegates.
5000 from America.
Maj. Schaefer, a retired army officer.
committed suicide in the cemetery at
New Prague. MINI.
Damage of s12500O was wrought by fires
in the packing house and the lumber yard
districts In Chicago.
Treaties with European countries will
postpone until 1908 the exclusion of canned
meat from Germany.
Francis T. Wheeler, inventor of the first
machine for the manufacture of paper
bags, died in Chicago.
The schooner Everett was wrecked on
st. Lawrence island and five of her crew
of six starved to death.
Every street in Mobile, Ala, was SUBJ
merged by a cloudburst, in some places
to depth of five feet
Five persons were killed and great dam.
age was done to property by cyclone
| in Beaver county, Okla.
William Nahrwald, barber, killed his
| wife and himself in Fort Wayne, Ind Nc
cause is known for the deed.
A fund of slS,546 has been collected fol
Mrs. Guy V. Henry, widow of Gen. Guy "
Henry, of the United States army.
The Worlds Women's Christian Tenn
perance union in session in Edinburgh
reelected Lady Somerset president
The Indiana supreme court decided I,
| unlawful to pump natural gas from wells
nSQ6
Andrew Dekas, 1O3 years old, a veteran
| of three European wars of the early por
| ton of the century, died in Chicago.
Gus Rubin, of Akron. O.. knocked ou
| Tom Sharkey the noted sailor-pugilist, ii
the fifteenth round at Coney Island, n.
Congressman j. A. T. Hull was renom
| mated by the republicans of the Seventh
| Iowa district. There was no opposition
! Solomon Scruggs and Philip Hilpot. com
mercial travellers, fought with pistols il
| saloon in New York and both were killed
| John Thomas, negro who attempted
an assault on Mrs. Keene, widow liv
| ing near O'Brien, Fla, was hanged by {
mob.
James II. Eckels says business condi
| tons are better than admitted, farmer.
| are prosperous, and trade will continu
good
Louis M Stein, a South Bend 0nd.
merchant, was slugged and robbed o
81, 900 while waiting for street car il
Chicago.
President Mckinley will be officially in
| formed of his nomination for president o.
the United States at his home in Canton
O., on July II.
In Boston Rev. Francis F. Clark has beer
reelected president of the United Society
of Christian Endeaver, which now has 3,
500, 900 members.
The federal court issued an injunction
at st. Louis restraining the Street Rail
way Mems union from interfering witt
the running of mail cars.
The department of state is advised By
Minister Powell, at Port-au-Prince, tina
he has been informed that the government
of Hayti has adopted the gold standard
and that the unit of value is the American
gold dollar.
The Ohio supreme court handed dowr
a decision adverse to the Toledo centen
NAL project The court holds that tn
$500, 900, which the centennial board seeks
is not available. The decision will prob
ably kill the centennial movement
The secretary of the navy has author
lied the following names for the new
battleships and cruisers: Battleships. Vir
ginia and Rhode Island. Armored cruis
ers, Maryland, Colorado and South Da
kota. Protected cruisers, ST. Louis, Mil
waukee and Charleston.
Say Andree Is Safe.
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