The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July n.

For the Week Ending July n.
| Snow fell at Marshall. Mich. and vicin-
| lily.
| Michael Murphy died in Greencastle.
Ind, aged 104 years.
| Fire in the navy yard at Charlestown.
Mass. caused loss of 100000.
| Fire destroyed the wooden mill and near
| Iy all of the town of Salem. w. Va.
| Japan has consented to have American
| troops land there on the way to China
| The president has appointed Gen. George
Maginnis postmaster of Indianapolis. lnd
| Watercure ran mile and an eighth az
| Brighton Beach in Isl 1-5. worlds record.
| Admirers of late Rear Admiral Philip
| are arranging a memorial fund or sl0o,-
| 600.
Miss Bessie Anthony. or Evanston. ILL.,.
won the woman golf championship OF the
| west
The battleship Oregon will make tenn
porary repairs at Kure and hasten to
Taku.
Canton is in danger. Tartar troops and
| 'black flags" taking strong positions
! there.
| North Dakota democrats have nominated
| Nj. A Wippoimann. of Richland, for gov
ernor.
| Florida republicans have nominated j.
N Combs, of Franklin county. for gov
ernor.
| Policemen Sheehan and Mosher were dis.
charged from the Chicago force for high
| way robbery.
Gen. Chaffee, commander of the Amer
! lean forces in China, has been made a
major general.
The American Steel & Wire company an
nounces that it intends to treble its plant
| in Cleveland, o.
Fifteen horses were burned to death in
| the stables the Garden City box fac
| tory in Chicago.
Eugene Debs denies that he will with
draw as the presidential candidate of the
social democrats
Voter created a worlds record for mile
at Brighton Beach by running over a cir
| cular course in 13S
The American Steel and Wire company
announces that it intends to treble its
| plant in Cleveland, o.
| Proposal to withdraw the coored troops
| from Arizona is opposed by the settlers,
| who fear Indian outbreaks.
Because of the situation in China all ex-
| ports to that country of American cotton
| goods have practically ceased.
The organization of 234 national banks.
| with a total capital of So, Gas, 600. has been
! authorized since March a. 1900
Mount Azuma, near Bandaisan, Japan.
| broke into volcanic eruption and 200
persons were killed or injured.
Castle Crag tavern, a fashionable sum-
mer resort in Shasta county, Cal. was
burned, causing loss of 100000.
Secret service men made important
seizure of counterfeits and counterfeit
ing apparatus at Rutherford. N. ].
George Fisher, who shot and killed Sher-
iff Garrett, of Southwest City, Mo-, was rid
died with bullets while resisting arrest.
Idaho republicans nominated D. w.
Standred, OF Bannock, for governor, and
John T. Morrison, of Canyon. for congress.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commander of the
department of the lakes, has asked the
war department to assign him to duty in
China.
President Loubet, of France, has received
a message ostensibly from the emperor of
China asking his mediation in favor of the
empire.
Lightning struck church at Chatfield,
o., during g funeral One person was IA
tally and Is less seriously hurt among the
mourners.
Young W K. Vanderbilt made an auto
mobile record from Newport to Boston
and return, 160 miles, in three hours and
81 minutes.
Wilson W. Dunlap. of New York, rich
travelling preacher. was arrested for driv-
ing on the boulevards in Chicago with his
Gospel wagon.
At the opening of the Cape Colony par
lament Sir Alfred Miner, governor of
the colony. prophesied an early close of
The Boer war.
Twenty-Five steamships have been char
tered by the American and German gov
ernments to carry troops, stores and war
material to China
A commissary depot for American troops
in China has been established at Taku and
80 car loads of meats are to be shipped from
Chicago next Friday.
The national wall paper trust has been
dissolved by a majority of the stockholders
determining in favor of this step at meet
ing held in New York.
Capt. S. L. H. Slocum. United States mil
itary attache with the British army in
South Africa, returning to London, said
the Boer war was over.
The Fourth and Fifth regiments, ILL.,
nois national guard, have rendered their
services to the government as volun-
teers to serve in China
Charles Holmes, captain of the yacht
Idler, which capsized in Lake Ere and
caused the death of six persons, was ar
rested in Cleveland on the charge of man
slaughter.
The grand total of organized militiamen
in the several states and territories at
last report was LOG, 339. Those morgan
lied. but available for military duty ag-
gregated 10.343,152.
Col. Fred w. Fleming, of the Third Mis-
souri, regiment, now in encampment at
Springfield. Mo-, in a letter to Gov. Steph-
ems has authorized the latter to tender his
command to President Mckinley for serv-