The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-10-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending sept. ~
Archbishop Keane was Installed In Office
at Dubuque, Ia.
The torpedo boat O'Brien was launched
at Elizabeth. N. J..
Archie Kinsauls was hanged at Char
lotte, N. c.. for murder.
Fire destroyed property in the City of
Mexico valued at 1.O0O.0 900.
Felix Marchand. premier of Quebec. died
In Montreal. aged IS years.
The torpedo boat destroyer Decatur was
launched at Richmond. Va.
Yale opened its two hundredth college
year at New Haven. Conn.
Many lives were lost and much property
destroyed in a storm at Nome.
Revolution against President Jiminez Is
under way in Santo Domingo.
The Chicago university has offered free
tuition to ten Porto K;cal boys.
Mai. Gen. Otis was entertained at dinner
by Lafayette post. G.. A R.. New York.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles was elected COM
mander in chief of Spanish war veterans.
billiard Warren was hanged at Wood
bury, Tenn, for the murder of FL Evans.
In a train wreck at Springfield. Ill. En-
gineer Ryan and Fireman Hall were killed.
The Abbot trotted a mile in 2:0SA at Terre
Haude. Ind. setting a new worlds mark.
Cresceus took the great stallion race at
NoSS", "AaATA6 PNASS WV
The census shows that the population OF
Memphis. Tenn. Q02. S20). is doubled since
1890.
The republicans of the Tenth Iowa dis
trict have nominated ]. P. Conner for con-
gress.
Four hundred thousand immigrants came
to the United States during the year ended
June so.
In a jealous rage Joseph Stoup fatally
1 wQi1nded hiS Uifa aud KILLED himself In
Chicago.
Adlai E. Stevenson issued a letter ac-
cepting the populist nomination for vice
president.
Fire destroyed the Iron Mountain rail-
way shops at Barring Cross. Ark. the loss
being $500. 001.
The National Association of Postmasters
at Peoria elected F. E. Dickinson. of De-
troit, president.
Charles A. Collier. ex-mayor of Atlanta.
Ga, died Friday from the effects of a
pistol shot wound.
The Michigan commission merchant IL
cense law has been declared void by the
state supreme court.
Three of Kruger's cabinet have sailed
from Lourenzo Marques for Europe with a
large amount of bar gold.
Great Northern railway officials estimate
that $4,000 fasteners will immigrate to the
northwest early next year.
Adam Giles and his wife and daughter
were murdered by Joseph Smalls, a negro.
in Beaufort county n. c.
In session in Kansas City the United
Typothetae elected as president George E.
Matthews. of Buffalo. n. Y.
Great Britain has notified Holland that
transportation of Boer archives or bullion
will be a breach of neutrality.
Vast fields of pure anthracite coal has
been found in the Cascade mountain dis
trict in the state of Washington.
Mexico's congress declared the result Of
the presidential election. Gen. Porfirio
Diaz was unanimously reelected
The month of September closes with a
better outlook in the industrial world than
was apparent a week or ten days ago.
Ohio democrats have nominated John
B.. Peaslee for congress in the First dis
trict and Henry Keller in the Second
Neganigifig, a five-year-old boy. has been
chosen chief of the Chippewas On the Lac
du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin
The Canadian government will cooper
ate with the United States in excluding
Objectionable immigrants from this coun-
try.
Gen. Woodford, ex-minister to Spain.
was married Wednesday in New York to
Miss Isabel Hanson. formerly his secre-
tary.
Lord Roberts at Pretoria reviewed the
Canadian troops on the eve Of their de-
parture and complimented them upon their
services.
The first football fatality of the season
recorded was received by l.. A. Pierson, of
Lake Forest university, dying of injuries
sustained Wednesday.
Capt. Frederick Dent Sharp. U. S. A,
retired, cousin Of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
died in Kansas City from an overdose of
bromide, taken to relieve pain.
The tenth biennial reunion of Crocker's
Iowa brigade, consisting of the Eleventh,
Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth reg
imentS, was held in Keokuk Ia
Frank Shepard, law book publisher, and
well known throughout the United States
as the originator of the shepard Annota-
tions," died in Chicago, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Conger, in a diary sent to a relative
In Des Moines, describes the narrowing
during the 60-day siege of the legations in
Peking.
Solomon City, at the mouth of Solomon
river. was devastated by the recent storm
ON the coast of Alaska. All buildings were
either swept away by the waves or were
wrecked by the WING The town had a
population Of 200. all of whom are desti-
tute and homeless.
A fast freight train crashed into a switch
engine on the Detroit. Grand Haven &
Milwaukee railroad at Durand, Mich, kill
ing Engineer Thomas HamIin. of Detroit.
and Fireman John Linden. of Ionia- Sam
uel Beck. brakeman. was slightly injured.
Twerty-four loaded cars were burned and
both engines were demolished.