The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Sept. 81.

For the Week Ending Sept. 81.
Mrs. Ansenath Fish died at Embarrass.
| Wis, aged 101 years.
Returned miners say the seasons clean
up on the Klondike will be $25,OOO,OOO.
By the upsetting of a boat near Savan-
i nah, Ga, six negroes were drowned.
Nine fishing boats with two men in each
were lost in gale off Chatham. Mass.
| Since August IS last A persons have been
killed by the cars at crossings in Chicago.
/ National headquarters of the gold demo-
/ cratic party were opened at Indianapolis.
Thirty-six persons were killed and many
wounded in mine explosion In Bohemia.
The coupon chain letter system Of get
ting business has been barred from the
mails.
Connecticut democrats nominated Sam
uel L. Bronson, of New Haven. for gov
ernor.
In automobile races In Chicago q mile
was made in LOG and ten miles were made
| in 1902.
Belle Archer, noted as one Of the most
beautiful women on the stage, died at War
rem, Pa.
William F. Shepard killed his aged par
| ents at FoxborO, Mass. and then drowned
himself.
By the caving in of bank four men
working on new bridge near Osgood, Ind,
were killed.
The Howard MCGEE feud in Monroe coun-
ty. Tenn, was resumed and four persons
| were killed.
! While insane Fred Kane killed his wife
| and daughter near Sumpter, Ore. and then
shot himself.
Commemorative tablets were presented
to the battleships Kearsarge and Alabama
| at Portsmouth, N. II.
Democrats and populists fused in Mon
| fanQ fad ToSpnh X TOolp of
| Helena, for governor.
The Texas republicans (Green faction)
nominated state ticket headed by G. w.
Burkett for governor.
Fred E. Clark killed his wife and him.
self in Englewood, ILL.,, because Of financial
and domestic troubles.
Four Indians killed each other at Turtle
Mound, Fla, in fight, all wanting to mar
| ry the chiefs daughter.
The South Danvers national bank of Pea
body, Mass, in business rs years, has been
placed in a receivers hands.
The last Of the Balaklava survivors,
James A. White, is dead. He had lived
near Sandusky. o., since 1857.
Spring Lake, N. j., summer resort
near Sea Girt, was destroyed by fire
| Wednesday. Total loss. $3.50. 600
Glass chimney manufacturers have con-
ceded an advance of six per cent. in wages
and 14,700 men will resume work.
The Rock Island railroad has made a
| large appropriation to improve the SAM
tary conditions of its properties.
In a freight wreck on the Queen & Cres-
cent route at Sadieville, KY, five tramps
were killed and six badly injured.
Terminal stores in New York were
burned, the loss being S1,OO0,0O0 and five
| f1remen were overcome by smoke.
Andrew Van Bibber formerly a wealthy
manufacturer in Cincinnati, committed
suicide in Chicago by taking choral.
J. E. Achorn established a new bicycle
| road between New York and Albany, a dis
lance of $50 miles. His time was AS
Upon a vote now in progress by the Pres
| byterian churches of America a majority
are in favor of revision of the creed.
The inheritance tax on the Coils P.
| Huntington estate will be more than $780,
900, indicating total value of $5O,0OO,Ooc
Ex-Gov Roger Wolcott, of Massachu-
sets, has declined the post of ambassador
to Italy rendered him by President McKin-
ley.
During the last few months half dozen
Kansas banks have liquidated because
there was no longer any profit in the busl-
ness
w. ]. Walker, Of Albany, N. Y, was
elected president of the Wholesale Drug
gists' association at the annual meeting in
Chicago.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road will shortly unite into one system all
it's branch and leased lines in Iowa and
| Missouri.
The census bureau announces that the
population of Dubuque, Ia, is 36,29l, as
against 80, 81 in 1890, an increase OF 5,l90, or
1875 per cent
DR.. Lewis Albert Sayre, one of the most
noted physicians and surgeons of this
| country, died at his home in New York,
| aged so years.
/ William w. Kennedy, chief Of the Chi
cago police department during the great
fire. was found dead in his room In that
city Thursday.
| DR.. George l. Miller, an Omaha pioneer.
| famous as editor of the Omaha Herald and
as a democratic leader through the west,
has become raving maniac.
Col. Joseph H. Wood, civil war veteran
| and grand marshal of the grand army pa
| rade during the recent national encamp-
| ment in Chicago, died suddenly, aged 81
| years.
Wellington r. Burt has been nominated
for congress by the democrats of the
Eighth Michigan district and E. l.. Lee
gendre has been nominated in the Twelfth
district
N. Bertrand, Jr., sole proprietor of the
Bank of Walker, Mimi committed suicide
by shooting himself with rifle. The bank
| is in good condition and depositors will be
j paid in full.
James Ellis Tucker has sailed for Homo
| lulu on an important mission. He has
| been commissioned to revise the customs
law and service of the Hawaiian islands
so as to bring them up to the standard OF
those at home.
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