The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-08-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Binding Aug. IS

For the Week Ending Aug. IS.
Seattle CWash.) will have a worlds fail
IN 1904.
IGrasshoppers stopped train near Ores.
sey, Mich. N -
Two hundred persons were drowned In
foods In Japan. h.t
The entire town Of Columbia, B. c., was
destroyed by fire.
Smithfeld ILL.,, was almost wiped out by
fire caused by robbers.
William Steinitz. the noted chess player,
died in New York Monday.
European governments are planning for
the suppression of anarchists.
A hailstorm destroyed 10000 acres Of
wheat near st. Thomas, N. D..
President Mckinley and wife arrived
In Washington from Canton, o.
Since March IA there has been gain OF
$0,000.O00 in bank-note circulation.
The national bank at Somerset, KY, or.
ganized June % last, closed its doors.
A storm in eastern Illinois damaged the
broom corn crop to the extent of 100000.
New York democrats will hold their state
convention in Saratoga Springs Septem.
Der II.
A boy 10 years old, arrested in Leipsic
was commissioned to kill King Albert OF
Saxony.
James J. Hill says the year ended June
30, 1900, was the banner year for all west.
ern railroads.
John G. Hawley, well-known and wide
ly-quoted authority on criminal law, died
in Detroit Mich.
Confederate veterans of the south are
opposed to Gen. Gordon attending the G.
A. r. encampment.
Henry Lippert, aged 60, ex-chief of the
fire department, dropped dead at his
home in Milwaukee
Blanche Fearing, of Chicago, the only
blind woman lawyer in America, died al
Eureka Springs. Ark.
The three free employment agencies liz
Chicago have found work for over 320N
people within the year.
The International Typographical union
in session in Milwaukee declared against
indiscriminate boycotts.
Members of the Atkins and Howard fam.
lilies in Elliott county. KY. fought, and two
of the latter were killed.
Armed men and soldiers patrol the
streets of Liberty City, Ga, in anticipation
of an outbreak by negroes.
uncle Dam Whipple, of Traverse City
Mich, the oldest G.. A. r. man, will attend
the encampment in Chicago.
Live stock agents of western railroads
say shipments of cattle from ranches will
be unusually heavy this fall.
rev. Joseph y. t1dTrIS, OIL mdTlOH, ILL.,,
has been named for lieutenant governor
on the prohibition state ticket.
Maj. Frederick E. Prime, during the civil
war chief engineer in Grants Mississippi
campaign, died at Litchfield, Conn.
Emperor. Francis Joseph's seventeen
birthday was celebrated in Vienna by
display of flags and an illumination.
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, has called
an extra session of the legislature for
August % to modify the Goebel law.
Charles Stickles, the oldest active railway
engineer in the United States, died at his
home in Oneonta, N. Y, aged Is years.
George Griffin and his third wife were ar.
rested near Wilson. N. j., on the charge OF
starving Grifin's four children to death.
! Overthrow the sultan and stop the
massacres in Armenia" is the demand made
by the Anglo-American society in London
Alfred ,Mulkin, an aged resident OF
Rockford, ILL.,, who was in Chicago seek
ing his runaway wife, was robbed of
$780,
Eugene v. Debs was Endorsed by the
Typographical union at Milwaukee as the
socialistic democratic presidential candi.
date.
Henry j. O'Neill, the barley king" OF
Chicago, files a petition in bankruptcy,
scheduling debts of 100000 and assets OF
IS, 900. @
Mrs. U. S. Grant cannot attend the grand
army encampment owing to advanced age
and the nervous strain incident to the
event.
A desperate attempt to wreck a Penn.
sylvania express train near Atlantic City
failed, the 200 passengers having narrow
escape.
Crickets have invaded Kalamazoo, Mich.
and business is practically at standstill.
The insects swarm in houses, stores and
restaurants and elsewhere.
Washington republicans in convention
at Tacoma nominated J. M. Frink, of
King, for. governor, and w. l.. Jones and
F.. w. Cushman for congressman.
Next to France, the United States leads
the world in the number of honors won at
the exposition. The American exhibitors
have been awarded $500 grand prizes.
Count Boni de Castellane is financially
embarrassed. His beautiful summer
place, Chateau de Marais, is to be sold
at auction. 1t is said in Paris that his
wife, Jay Gould's youngest daughter,
declines to give him more money.