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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
Death of a Noted Dwarf.

Beloit, Wis.,, May S.-Paui Robinson,
a noted dwarf, died Monday, aged 20
years. He was scarcely four feet tall,
but was dignified, respected and ca
pabie man as farmer and broker and
was regarded wealthy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
Banks Closed.

Cedar Springs, Mich, May IA
Frank Fuller's private banks at Rock
ford and in this place have been closed
on a trust mortgage for $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
THE DEAD.

Patrick Sexton, 100 Dayton ave-
nue., st. Paul.
nue., st. Paul.
John n. Lange, a farmer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
.PDPUuST LEADERS NAMED
Convention in Sioux Falls Nomi-
mates Bryan for President and
Towne for Second Place.
MIDDLE.oF- THE-ROADERS AT CINCINNATI
Select wharton Barker for Their
thus Donnelly for Vice President
brief Synopsis of the Two Plat
forms That Were Adopted.

Sioux Falls. S. D., May 1.-THE popu-
list national convention made it's NOM
nations on Thursday. Its ticket is:
For president, William j. Bryan, of
Nebraska; for vice president, Charles
a. Towne. of Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
CHARLES A. TOWNE.

notes to be replaced with full legal tender
government paper money and it's volume
so controlled as to maintain at all times
a stable money market and stable price
level"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
KILLED BYL|GHTN|NG
Three Persons Stricken to Death in.
a Clyclonic Storm at the
Twin Cities.
FANNIE MULLEN KILLED AT PRAYER

The st. Lulke's Catholic Church was Struck
while the Congregation were at THEN.
Evening Devotions. Prominent CT
gar Merchant was Killed by an Over
turned Sidewalk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18

st. Paul, Mimi, May 14.-The storm,
which swept over the northwesterp
portion of the city last night was Oh
cyclonic proportions.
Patrick Sexton of the firm of Sexton &,
Co., wholesale cigar dealers at 313 jack
son street, st. Paul, with his three chill
dren, was at Lake Como in the afternoon.
They were driving down Dale street. near
the Great Northern bridge, and were right
in the path Of the storm. The wind lifted.
the sidewalk on the west side Of the street
and threw it against the carriage, which
was overturned. Mr.. Sexton was struck
on the side Of the head and instantly
killed. His daughter, Mary, was very
badly bruised and Patrick Jr., slightly
hurt. Mr.. Sections death is particularly
pathetic, for his wife is very Ill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-05-18
Killed While Mt Prayer.

hlAC az EaS
While kneeling at the altar at St. Luke's.
Catholic church, Fannie Mullen was in
stantly killed. The wind dislodged the
chimney. which crashed through the roof,
struck Miss Mullen and carried her, with
the mass of brick, through the floor and
into the basement. The lights were ex-
tinguished and in the panic which followed
several persons were injured.
John NJ LANCE, farmer, aged 6S years.
residing two and one-half miles from St.
Paul on the Saltwater road, was instantly
killed by lightning. The bolt struck hims
on the chest.
The greatest damage was done to prop
erty along University avenue, where, for
half mile, the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange company's poles and wires were
thrown down. Car No. GIG. with Con-
ductor Parlius and Motorman Strom, with
forty-two passengers aboard, had just
reached St. Adams street on it's way to.
st. Paul when a pole, broken in the mid
| die, struck the car near the front end.
| Lightning also struck the car and broke.
all the windows. The passengers rushed
1
| refused to allow the gates to be opened,
| for the reason that at the rear there was a
mass of heavily charged live wires. When
| the panic subsidized the passengers made
their exit from the car from the front
| end. Men were at once put to work, and.
with great difficulty and danger, the live
/ wires were cut, but not until after there
been grand display of fireworks for
| blocks.
| Sidewalks Torn Up.
All through the Midway district, par
ticularly on Dale street and Fairview ave-
rue and on University from Dale TO Lex
| ington, sidewalks were torn up and scat
| tered around the neighborhood.
| Buildings in various parts suffered from
the high wind and lightning shattered
chimneys Valuable glass was smashed
| in different parts of the city. and great
deal of miscellaneous damage was done
A heavy rain fell during the tempest.
! The day was hct and sultry. The clouds
gathered in the west shortly after o'clock,
but the storm did not break until nearly
| 8. Heavy hail accompanied the wind AND
rain.
In Minneapolis there was heavy thun-
der storm, but with comparatively little
wind The storm was local in character,
for no farther west than HOPKINS there
were but few drops of rain. Railroads
reported no trouble.
Wires in a TanGie.
The storm paralyzed telephone COM
munication between Minneapolis and st.
Paul, and for long time it was with diff
Guilty that the Northwestern Telephone.
company was able to keep even two lines
working. Connections with st. Paul were:
finally made by way Of Gladstone, Mich.
The street railway company ran its regu-
lar interurban cars as far as Lexington
avenue, and passengers were obliged to-
walk distance of four blocks and them
take stub line car to ST. Paul. The
company put men at work clearing away
the wreck and cars will be running
through as usual this morning. The Como
line was not affected
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LANCE, a farmer.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
SIMPSONS PRIZE MONEY SUIT.
Secretary Long Files n FOiuminous
Report Concerning 1t.

In compliance with an order OF the
Supreme Court of the District, made
March 20 last. Secretary Long yesterday
filed with the clerk of the court report
in the case of Rear Admiral William T.
Sampson and others. against the war YES
sci Infanta Maria Teresa. While the yes
sci was being brought to the United
States she was lost in storm.
The report contains extracts Of the tes-
timony on the subject offered before the
Court of Enquiry, consisting of extracts
from the log-b book of the United States
steamship Vulcan. Entries relative to
the administration of naval discipline
and weather conditions prior to the
departure of the Vulcan from Guantanamo
Bay. in company with the Infanta Marie
Teresa are omitted. a copy Of the record
Of the testimony heard before the court
convened at the navy yard. Norfolk. Va,
November %. 1898. to enquire into the
circumstances connected with the aban
DOM emit of the Infanta Marie Teresa is
included.
The report filed Is voluminous. consist
ing of about 1000 typewriter pages of
Testimony 1t also contains the original
reports of Lieutenant Commander Harris
and Lieut. George p. Blow. the review and
recommendation of the Judge Advocate
General of the Navy, and the action of the
Secretary of the Navy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.
A Dele sntion of sioux Indians Among
the Presidents Callers.

Representative Ray of New York. Chair
I'm OF the House Committee on judiciary,
called on the President yesterday in re-
gard to Spanish War claims. Mr.. Ray
had been opposed to the appointment OF a
commission to settle them. but is coming
TO the opinion that a commission. after
all. may afford the best n cans of affording
a just settlement of the debts. Mr.. Ray
urged upon the President the appointment
of George H Brown. of Binghamton, to
the position of Federal Attorney in the
new district OF northern New York.
j. Members of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cav
airy Lancers' Association and friends to
the number of 1873 called upon the Presi-
dent yesterday and were received in the
East Room Of the White House. The party
originated in Philadelphia and had been
here since Saturday. They left at 81
o'clock yesterday afternoon by special
train over the Baltimore and Ohio Railway
for Philadelphia
Representative Cannon. Chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee. who
called on the President yesterday morn
ing. expressed the opinion that the Con-
gressional session may end early In June.
THE House will be through with its
business by the first OF the month"; he
sqid cit rests now with the Senate to say
when an adjournment will be possible
A party OF Yankton Sioux called on the
President yesterday morning 10 pay the
respects of their tribe to the Great Father
The party. which was under the escort OF
Representative Gamble. of South Dakota.
is in the city completing the ratification
OF the treaty transferring the famous
Pipestone district in South Dakota to the
nation for use as national park. The
price to be paid Is 100000 and. as there
are ZOO Indians among the Yankton Sioux.
they will get per capita distribution OF
about $50.
Representative Southland. of Ohio. called
on the President yesterday morning to
vrse the appointment of Col j. c. Bonner
to the collectorship OF customs at Toledo.
Mr.. Bonner is credited with being endorsed
by Senators Foraker and Hanna
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
The lion. Webster Davis in Action.

(fTom the New YORK SUM-
Mr. Davis oratorical methods were remarkable
Beginning in a low. piaintive, almost wailing,
voice. Mr.. Davis leaped in successive hops, skips,
and bounds to such heights OF oratorical pas
sion that the audience for a few moments seemed
in doubt Just what it ought to do about it. The
speaker threw his head back until his face was
turned straight up toward the zenith; his hands,
held up TO the level OF each side Of his head
shook with a curious gesture until they were
mere blurs while his head swung from side to
side with rapidity and force that it seemed
must result in some physical damage. .
Mr. DAVIS began his peroration with the uplifted
face the fercely shaking hands and head OF the
other impassioned passages, but he went on
and on it developed into sort OF general invoca-
ton and then into queer wailing sort OF PRAYER
prolonged through quavering sentence after SEN
tence. Then it became sing-song sound OF chant
which gradually took on more and more OF
rhyme and rhythm until it dawned upon the
hearers that Mr.. Davis was not reCitng verses to
close with but was singing them to a tune Il
was not jolly tune-rather melancholy one
but ii was a tune clearly defined and uninistaka-
bic. The words not understandable At
last the orator, in a kind of running stagger,
reached his chair and collapsed into it, his face
pale and his breast heaving 1t was oratory. and
the audience knew it now, and howled itself
hoarse in approval of Kansas Citys former mayor
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08

upon the Administration that the position
it is placed in is rather ridiculous. as
viewed from Europe The Turkish Govern
ment has notified us that the American
claims will be considered = connection
with those of other nations. which, by the
way, are much larger and equally deserv-
ing of settlement. Nobody supposes that
Turkey expects to or ever will pay any
OF them. Then what? VIII Mr.. Mckinley
shut up the American legation at stamboul
AND give Ali Ferrouh Bey his walking
papers? That would certainly illustrate the
feelings of the Administration, and, for the
moment might give greet satisfaction to
preachers and camp meetings through
out the Union. But it would undoubtedly
lead to the expulsion of American mis-
sIonaries, of which there are numbers
scattered over the Turkish Empire; while
the societies they represent have good
deal of valuable property which might be
appropriated, in other words. conhscated,
to the advantage of the faithful pashas
who happen to be in the neighborhood OF
its existence.
II it be objected that the Turks would
never dare put such an affront upon
sister MosIem power because it would be
followed by the bombardment of Smyrna
or some other place, the answer is that
such a movement would probably result
in the massacre instead of the expulsion
of the missionaries. Finally. recourse
either to diplomatic or naval menace Wouid
be extremely apt to have wriike 'onse-
quences in our Mohammedan possessions
Even that would not mark the limit OF our
domestic endorsements. were we 10 Kan
out with Abdul Hamid. We have interests
other than religious which deserve the at
tention of our authorities. Missionaries
do not form the only commodity exported
from this country to Turkey. We send
them TO put our many forms OF Chris
tianity in competition with their Koran
We also send large consignments OF some
thing else which the Turks take to more
kindly. When the Prophet forbade his
followers to look upon the wine when it
is red, he forgot to say anything about
New England rum. TIE Sultan himself is
said to like a drop of fiery Medford after
the divan. and his people, or many OF
them. are similarly minded. 1t would
never do to give him an excuse for pro-
hibiting the importation of that neces-
sary of life. The whole New England dele
gation-barring the Maine contingent
would be down on the Presidents head IN
the wiuking of an eye. We know 1t, be-
cause we remember the influence of rum
or, the Porto Rican legislation.
The easiest way for the Administration
to gee.put of the scrape is to apologies.
and let bygones be bygones- If tie
Sublime Porte is willing to meet US hall
way and resume the fraternal relations
which ought to subsist between powers
so largely of one faith, the White House,
the State Department, the military com
missioner at the Court of Jolo. the mis-
sionaries, and the rum trust should be
unitedly grateful.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
RETIREMENTs IN THE NAVY.
Advocate General Lemly's Inter-
probation of the Personnel Act.


probation of the Personnel Act.
Capt S. C. Lemly. the Judge Advocate
General of the Navy, has prepared an opin-
ion that under the terms of the Personnel
act officers cannot be retired on their own
application according to the order Of their
rank, but that only the number of annual
retirements fixed for each grade by the
act can be made. Shortly after the enact
ment OF the Personnel law Captain Lemly
rendered an opinion of Similar import Re-
Gently the correctness of this was ques-
toned
II was held that. as Re law contem-
plated a certain number of retirements
each year 10 cause a regular flow of pro-
motion. the proper method to pursue was
to retire the senior officer in relative rank
and so on down the list of applications
until the number of retirements authorized
by the law had been made. For example,
the law provides that thirteen captains
and commanders must be retired each year.
According TO Captain Lemly's opinion.
only that number can be~retired, and the
applications of the next grade must then
be considered. even if more than thirteen
captains and commanders have applied.
The opposing contention was that, il, say.
twenty Captains and commanders applied.
all these must be retired before the april
cations of those of the next lower grade,
lieutenant commander. should be consid-
cred. From lower grades. such as that OF
junior lieutenant few if any applications
for retirement will come.
The effect of Captain Lemly's opinion. IL
1t is sustained by the Secretary OF the Navy,
may be to cause the retirement by selection
of the specified number of officers in these
lower grades who must be retired each
year. This would happen if the number OF
applications for retirement from the grade
OF junior lieutenant was less than eleven.
as the law provides that forty retirements
must be made each year. and Captain
Lemly holds that only twenty-nine above
the grade of junior lieutenant can be
made.
The personnel law provides that when
the number of applicants for retirement
in any one grade does not reach the num-
Der fixed by the law. the President may
place a sufficient number on the retired
list with the rank and three-fourths the
sea pay of the next higher grade to cause
the vacancies contemplated by the act
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08

From the st. Paul Despatch)
The eyer-sweling numbers of cur migratory
races must find new lmds to occupy in the com
ing century. To our north the limit of cuitivable
soil is limited Across thc>Pacifc there is
population now From the Rio Grande south to
the Horn lies an immense country, dominated by
the descendants OF the spaniard conquerors, aho
never yet touched a land but tc curse it with OPP
preston and robbery They comparatively
few in numbers and their Republics are sorry
farces prolific in rebellions only. 1t is inevitable
that the progressive races, seeking outlets for
their increasing numbers. Will not let that fair
land lie failow in the incompetent hands of the
J,t;ns The movement into Argentina is but an
indication OF a movement that is bound to grow
CRAFTY. On our side there is already marked
Increase Of Americans into Mexico and Central
America. Our capital is going there into rail
was. mines. and lumber The fertility Of the
soil Will soon attract the farmer. Long before
the years shall, have checked on the twentieth
century all America will be Americanzed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
THE NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Plans of the Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey. and Georgia Agreed Upon.


The Naval Board on Construction has
finally agreed on the detailed plans Of the
battleships Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Georgia. and the specifications will be laid
before the Secretary of the Navy today for
his approval. There was no change in the
plans since the last meeting. and the
circular will embody the features OF the
new vessels which have been described in
The Times. At the last meeting there was
some 'alk about changing the main batter
les. and it was believed that new sugges-
lions as to the arrangement of the arma-
ment would be made by members of the
board before its report was handed to the
Secretry.
-Four Of the five members have, how
ever, subscribed to the plans previously
Incorporated in the circular of specifica-
lions. It is expected that Rear Admiral
Bradford will make a minority report in
which he will advocate the ms tailation OF
the superimposed turrets. The majority
adopted a main battery of four 12-inch
rifles "A the ordinary turrets and eight
S-ipah rides in the four ordinary turrets.
two on each beam. The rest of the main
ba ,tery will consist of twelve 6-inch guns,
six Tn each broadside Fourteen pound
ers. corresponding to 3-inch rifles, will
be the largest guns in the secondary bat
terry.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
SCENE AT A BAPTISM.
A Woman Candidate Resists Total
Enumeration.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 7.-At
Burns Point. Milford, nine miles from this
city. 1900 persons witnessed the baptism
of four members of the First Baptist
Church. OF Bridgeport. yesterday after
noon. Extra trolley cars were run from
the nearby towns to accommodate the
thrOng that desired to see the ceremonies.
The four candidates for immersion IN
the cold waters of Long Island Sound were
Viola Homes. Alberta Biggs. Bell Herbert.
and Frederick johnson. The clergyman
was the Rev. James A. Bosnian.
Three of the candidates went through
the ceremony without iinching. but when
Miss Biggs was led into the water by 7ha
minister there was trouble and the mGlti-
tude locked on in establishment when she
stoutly protested against having her head
put under. She is only fourteen years old.
but weighs over ECO pounds. The minister.
who weighs not over $50 pounds petitioned
and exhorted. but the stout young miss
would not consent to total immersion and
the struggle to get her TO 90 under COM
pletely ended in victory for Hiss Biggs.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
WORK OF THE SIGNAL CORPS.
The Gable Line Completed From
Cebu to Eeyte.

Gen. A. W. Greely Chief of the Signal
Corps. has received a despatch from Col
onel Allen at Manila saying that the
Signal Corps has succeeded in laying the
caole line connecting the islands of Cebu
and Leyte in the southern part of the
archipelago. Leyte is an island immed-
lately south of Samar and MORT. of Min
danao. Cebu is to the west OF Leyte.
Both islands are large producers of hemp.
The Signal Corps has also completed the
construction of telegraph line northward
from Manila to Apart, on the extreme
northern coast OF Luzon. Dur ng Spanish
occupancy of the Philippines this land line
existed. but was destroyed by the insur-
gents. It's reconstruction will enable the
garrison along the line from Manila to
Appari to keep in touch with both points.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08
CRUSHED IN AN ELEVATOR.
4 Baltimore Hat Cutter Meets With q
Shocking Death.

BALTIMORE. May samuel Berlin,
an expert hat cutter. met horrible death
today by being crushed in an elevator in
the hat and cap factory of Feldman C
Rohnick. Berlin had gone out to lunch,
and was returning to his cutting machine
He jumped on the elevator at TIE first
floor and pulled the rope n order to make
the lift ascend.
He was laughing and joking with some
friends on the ground floor sad looked over
to see them. He was uanindful of the
fact that on the fourth fioo- - IRE was q
heavy beam which SURF i the en-
closure through which the = Tor passed.
Perlin's head struck this heam and was
bent down. His body Wa pulled over
by the shock and his held. * and chest
were ground to a pull as the elevator
assembled.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08

Mr. McKinley's good cousin" and
brother Mohammedan suzerain, Abdul
Hamid. is understood to now regard the af-
fair of the Armenian missionary claims as
a closed incident. He has graciously is
sued an trade permitting the missionaries
20 rebuild their station and plant at Har-
put, and he has despatched an admiral to
tho United States with instructions of
some sort. Just what sort is left open to
conjecture. Perhaps they are to negotiate
for the Sampson patent method of winning
victories at a safe and remote distance. In
any event, the Sultan is cheerfully conf
dent that ne has done all that could be re-
quired OF him. He has heard that the mis-
sionary conference in New York has ad-
1ourned. and he is under the impression
that the row was made for the benefit OF
that body; so he does not look for further
trouble.
We do not. perhaps. exaggerate In say
ing that the Emperor President and his
Foreign Minister also wish they could look
upon the affair with Turkey altogether in
the past tense. For them the situation is
as painful as to others 1t appears humor-
Gus. They have erected an eminence-we
would scoru TO say that they had put up a
biuf-from which they have threatened
tas Sublime Porte with severance of dipio-
matte relations. even limiting at that awful
thing. an ultimatum. The latter. of course,
they never intended: but un3er the advice
of estimable cierics who have visited the
Ottoman Empire. they thought 1t safe to
hold out the idea. They Ind been told that
the minute IT was abso-1-i n Constan-
iinopIe. the money would be eabied over
regardless OF tolls
Apparently 1t has Just begun to dawn
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-08

General Shafter has reported to the War
Department by telegraph the departure
from San Francisco of a part of the in
valid battalion of the Fourteenth Infantry
recently brought from the Philippines.
The men composing this battalion we're
invalided home because of their physical
condition. and at the Preside it was found
necessary to keep in the hospitals many
of the sick. The detachment which left
San Francisco is under orders to go to
Fort Wayne, Mich. 1t consists of five
officers, 225 men. ami one medical officer.