The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July Il


John Billingsley. aged log, died at Lou
don. Ky.
Mexico has reelected Diaz president for
The president has appointed 40 West
Point cadets.
John L. Thomas died in Racine. Wis.
aged Jos years.
The worlds Christian Endeavor confer
ence opened in London.
West Virginia republicans nominated
Albert B. White for governor.
Italy will send 1000 men with 22o guns
to join the allied army In China.
Nebraska prohibitionists named L. o.
Jones as candidate for governor
1t is announced that by October l
only 1000 troops will be in Cuba
Hot, dry weather is causing great loss
to cattlemen in southern Arizona.
Extreme cold weather and heavy snow
storms prevailed throughout Austria
The United States and Germany have
entered into a reciprocity arrangement.
Mrs. Laura Grant May. famous artist.
killed herself with poison in Bloomfield,
n. J.
King Oscar has offered rewards for
news of Andree's balloon polar expedi-
ton.
Tramps tried to capture a Big -Four
worsted
North Dakota republicans have nom
mated F. B. Fancher. of Stutsman. for
governor
The yield of wheat in Minnesota and
North and South Dakota is estimated at
140, 000, 900 bushels.
John Jennings (colored) was lynched
by a mob at Cresswell. Ala. for the muir
der of L. Martin.
4as,
will have an army of 100 900 in China be-
fore next September.
Returned gold seekers say lawlessness.
suffering, disease and death are features
of life at Cape Nome.
Indianapolis has been selected as head.
quarters of the middle-of-the-road popu-
list national committee.
Messrs. Bryan and Stevenson will be
officially notified of their nomination at
Indianapolis on August s.
The transport Hancock reached San
Francisco from Manila with 101 general
passengers and 547 soldiers.
Lewis G. Tewksbury. a New York
broker and Spectator. is missing. 1t is
said he owes from $780, 900 to $500, 900.
Mrs. Mary Lee. aged 80 years and 10
months, and believed to have been the
oldest woman in Ohio. died at Warren.
John Chapman and liver Lawson rode
a mile on a tandem bicycle in Salt Lake
City in 1:4711, breaking the worlds record.
PopuHsts- an. democrats fused in South
Dakota and nominated ticket headed
| by B. H. Lem, of Sioux Falls. for gov
ernor.
The commercial treaty between the
United States and Italy has been ap-
| proved by the Italian chamber of dep
| uties.
Charles r westervleit, treasurer of the
Dime savings bank at Newark, n. J..
was said to be $40, 900 short in his ac-
! counts.
The middle-of-the-road populists of
North Dakota have put full state ticket
| in the field, headed by c. G. Major for
| governor.
Late reports from Red Lake. Mimi.
| say that the Blanket Indians are con-
gregating in large numbers and an OUT
| break is feared.
Rear Admiral Remey has arrived at
| Chefoo and relieved Rear Admiral kempf
/ of supreme command of American naval
| forces in Chinese waters.
Senior Silvela. the Spanish premier. says
that no Spanish war vessels will go to
! China, Spain having no interests to de.
| fend in the extreme orient.
DR.. Francis E. Clark, of the Christian
| Endeavorers, just arrived in London
| from China, said that northern China
had been hotbed OF lnSurrectlon All
| spring.
j. NJ. Green. Of Trenton. N. J.. was
| chosen president of the National Educa-
| tional association. The next place OF
meeting was left to the executive COM
| mittee.
The republicans have nominated Wal
| ter Reeves for congress in the Eleventh
| Illinois district, John F. Lacey in the
Sixth Iowa and Henry o. Smith in the
| Second Michigan.
| Congressional nominations: Indiana,
| Thirteenth district, c. c. Bowers (dem. /:
| Illinois, Fourteenth district. Jesse Black.
| Jr. (rep): Michigan. Eleventh district.
| A. B. Darragh trep.).
Hon. E. H. Estee. justice of the United
| States district court of Hawaii. has APP
| pointed Walter B. Hailing, of Portland,
| Me. nephew of Senator Perkins. of Call
/ ifornia, clerk of his court
At the National Educational associa-
| ton meeting at Charleston. s c.. it was
| urged that the bureau of education be
| given direct charge of schools in Alaska,
| China, Porto Rico and the Philippines.