The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending Nov. "A.
The torpedo boat Blakely was launched
at Boston,
The official vote of Arkansas gives Bryan
plurality of36,442.
The official vote of New Hampshire gives
Mckinley plurality of $1,000.
The census gives South Carolina pop
ulation of 1.S40,3l6, gain of 1S9.167.
The official vote for president in Ala
bama gives Bryan plurality of S7,496.
Five people were killed near Santa Bar
bara. Cal, by the upsetting of a stage.
The official vote of the state of Pennsyl-
vania gives Mckinley plurality of 252. no.
The secretary of the interior will ask
congress for s25O.00O for irrigation surveys.
The past seasons Klondike output of gold
is placed at s20.00O0O0. against ST. 900 in
1899
Charlemagne Tower. American ambassa-
dor to Russia, denies a report that he will
resign.
Trinity college. Catholic school for wom-
en-. was dedicated at Washington D. c..
Thursday.
Gold democrats in New York have de-
cided to fight Tammany in the municipal
campaign.
Sixteen families were driven from their
beds by a fire in the University building
in Chicago.
Frank B. Noyes. of the Washington Star.
has been elected president of the Assocl-
ated Press.
| For the fourth consecutive time Mrs.
| Henry wager gave birth to twins in Syra-
| cuse. N. Y.
| Rear Admiral Roger N. Stembel. retired.
| died of pneumonia in New York. aged near
| ly 80 years.
| William Simms (colored). who killed his
wife at Dunbar. Pa. on August 16. 1899,
| was hanged.
| The Colombian rebels are reported to
have captured the principal seaports OF
| the republic.
tracts involving $16.376.70O for armor plate
| for war craft
| Gov. j. c. w. Beckham, of Kentucky.
was married to Miss Jean Raphael Fuqua
at Greensboro.
| The irrigation congress sent a message
to the president urging the preservation
of the forests.
The state board of transportation of Me-
braska has been abolished by the supreme
court as Illegal.
DR.. Bob" Acton Harvard's famous foot
ball player. died in New York of an over
dose of morphine.
Ambassador Choate has asked the Brit
ish foreign office to put the Filipino junta
out of Hong Kong.
Homeopathic physicians will appeal to
congress to get places in the medical corps
in the army and navy
Capt. Edward T. Strong has been placed
on the retired list of the navy with the
rank of rear admiral
Miss Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati.
o.. and the duke of Manchester were mar
ried privately in London.
The estimates of the department of agri-
culture for appropriations for the next fiS-
cal year aggregate $4,659. $50.
Storm caused numerous disasters on the
great lakes, several vessels being sunk,
driven ashore or badly crippled.
The Union Pacific railroad has adopted
the plan of putting armed guards on trains
that carry large sums of money.
Drs. Stiles and Howard. Of the govern
ment service. say mosquitoes cause malaria
and advise the killing of the pests.
Capt. w. M. Meredith. of Chicago, has
been appointed chief of the bureau of en-
craving and printing in Washington.
Frederick W. Royce. widely known as
inventor. electrician and veteran telegraph
operator. dropped dead in Washington.
Robert c.. Briskell, ex-chief justice Of
Alabama and one. of the most prominent
jurists in the south died at Huntsville, Ala.
Miss Frances Cunningham was awarded
$40, 900 damages for injuries received in Chi
cago by falling from an Illinois Central
train.
The Pere Marquette (Mich.) railroad will
put carrier pigeons on its lake vessels to
carry news of delay ashore during winter
navigation
The Illinois Federation of Labor resolved
not to accept in future any unions which
are not in good standing with the American
Federation of Labor.
The annual report of ex-President San
ford B. Dole. governor of Hawaii, says the
total valuation of real and personal prop
erty in Hawaii is S97. 491, 5S4.
Henry w. Phillips. the first minister to
the United States from the new South
American republic of Acre, registered at
Denver, Col. from Arieopolis.
w. F. Mellick, wealthy cattleman. be-
! came violently insane. as result of being
sandbagged in Chicago. He was sent to an
asylum al Morris Plains. N. j.
Arthur Kinney. who was a gunner on the
Marblehead when the Spanish cable was
cut at Cardenas. committed suicide at
Waverly. N. Y. while temporarily unbal-
anced.
A detail of company G, Iowa national
guard, was called to Abba, Ia. to assist
in preventing the lynching of Alva Booker.
negro charged with attacking Mrs. Sarah
Howell.