The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July =.

For the Week Ending July z.
The Middlebury Vt.) college held its
centennial celebration.
The governments surplus for the fiscal
year Just ended was SS1 ,229, IT.
Mrs. Sarah Place celebrated her one hum
dredth birthday In Lebanon, Ind.
The French government will erect an
embassy building in Washington.
Eighteen business houses at Prairie
Depot, o.. were destroyed by fire.
The czar of Russia has issued an order
abolishing Punishment to Siberia.
Twenty st. Louis street railway strik-
ers have been indicted for murder.
Sebastian Miller. aged rs, committed sui
eide on his wifes grave in Quincy. Ill.
President Mckinley delivered Fourth
of July address to the people of Canton.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin announces
he will not be candidate for reelection.
Seventy-six Chicago couples crossed the
lake to st. Joseph, Mich, and got mar
ried.
Fourth of July celebrations throughout
the country killed So and injured 2,767
people.
Paris gave the Boer ENJOYS a warm
greeting on their return from their Amer
lean visit.
Americans and Frenchmen Joined in
| unwilling in Paris a monument to George
Washington.
Fire in the Standard Oil companys
plant at Constable Hook. N. j.. caused a
loss of 81 100000.
The funeral services of William B. Cur
tbs, the father of American athletics, took
place in New York
Nathan L. Baker killed his daughter
and himself at Richmond, Ind. No cause
known for the crime.
In storm off Behring sea coast the
sloop Seattle, with seven men, capsized,
and all were drowned.
Mrs. Maggie T. Lehnis, a widow of Is,
| killed her baby boy and herself in Cincin-
natl while respondent.
The st. Louis grand jury accuses the
| police of that city with completely in the
lawlessnesS of the strike
In a wreck on the. Montana Central
| railroad IL miles from Butte, two persons
| were killed and SO injured.
American tourists in Edinburgh cele-
brated the Fourth by dedicating the
statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The Carnegie company is said to have
| forced all steel companies to agree on
| a permanent basis of prices.
The sultan has promised to pay $780,
0c0 indemnity in settlement of American
| missionary claims in 80 days.
A fund of $1S,546 has been collected for
Mrs. Guy v. Henry. widow of Gen. Guy v.
f, Henry, of the United States army.
Antonio Soso and Jose Vasquez. two
prominent Mexican cattlemen, killed each
| other in quarrel near Tucson, Ariz.
The tug Marion Teller foundered in
Lake st. Clair. near Port Huron. Mich
| and three of the crew were drowned.
All the union miners in Alabama, about
| 10000 in number, suspended work pend
| ing the settlement of the wage dispute.
Six men were killed and scores Of per-
sons injured by the explosion of an inn
| mense oil tank at Parkersburg. w. Va.
| Noble Prentice editor of the Kansas
| City (Mo.) Star, died at La Harpe, ILL.,,
from stroke of paralysis. aged 81 years.
| Fire destroyed the Cataract house, the
leading hotel in Sioux Falls. S. D., and
other property. the total loss being $780,
| 600.
| In fit of jealousy c. A. Martin, of
| Pendleton. Ore. shot and killed Miss
Leah Coleman and then fatally shot him
| self.
John Roe, an 1S-year-old negro, was
| lynched near Columbia, Ala, for an at
| tempted assault. His body was shot to
! pieces.
The Lafayette statue, gift of Amer
| lean children. was presented to France by
Mr.. Peck and accepted by President
| Loubet
Rufus T. Wright poisoned his wife of
three days at Columbia. S. c., and then
! poisoned himself. No cause is known for
| the deed.
The socialistic labor party in Wiscon-
sin nominated a state ticket headed by
Frank R. Wilkens. of Milwaukee, for
| governor.
Emil Markenberg, an experienced
| aeronaut, fell 500 feet in full view of a
crowd at Santa Ana. Cal. and was crushed
| to death.
| The deep waterways commissions re-
port favors 2O-foot channel from the
| lakes to the ocean, which would cost
| $3.50, 1S3, 1856
Thomas Dixon and his wife were taken
| from their home after midnight at Bloom
| ington. Ind, and whipped by dozen
masked men.
The coinage at the minis during the
| past fiscal year was valued At Sal, 301, =
| $780, an increase of S4,446, 2S3 over the
previous year.
| Noah Blickenstaff and two of his chill
dren were killed and his wife and another
| child fatally injured at railway crossing
| near Flora, Ind.
| BY the sinking of a skiff at Lake Charles,
La, Mrs. G. j. Phelps, her mother. Mrs.
Amanda Johnson, and her brother. Albert
Johnson, were drowned.
The branch factory Of the Standard
Wheel company was burned at Sandusky.
| O., the loss being 100000. and two men
| persisted in the flames.
In Illinois the United Christian party
| nominated Rev. John Cordingly, of Chi
cago, for governor. and in Iowa named
| E. w. Sage, of Washington, for secretary
| of state.
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