The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April Fl.

The seventy fourth general assembly of
Ohio adjourned sine die.
Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, the
artist, is dead in London.
A big cement plant near La Sale, ILL.,,
was burned; loss, $250,000.
The Blackstone national bank of Boston
has gone into liquidation.
During the fiscal year just ended 36,OOO
Italians have landed in this country.
The New York democratic state conven-
ton will be held in New York city June B.
Elmer Harris, II years old, fell dead in
Hamilton, O., at the end of a boxing bout.
The steamer Jesse Spalding is the first
to pass the Straits of Mackinac this sea-
son.
Francis T. Lossier (dem.) was elected to
congress from the Fourth Virginia DIS
triCt.
The signal corps has 1851 miles of wire
in operation and 160 telegraph ofhces In
Luzon.
Harry Williams was hanged at Toronto,
Ont. for the murder of ]. c. Varcoe,
grocer.
j. H. Raymond resigned as president Of
the University of West Virginia because OF
politics.
Sidney Powers shot and killed his di-
vorced wife in Elgin, ILL.,, and then killed
himself.
The National league and American
baseball season opened throughout the
country.
North Carolina populists in convention
at Raleigh nominated Cyrus Thompson for
governor.
New Jersey republicans elected delegates
to the national convention favorable to
Mckinley.
The democrats of the Twenty-first ILL
nois district have nominated Fred j. Kern
for congress.
N. ]. Haines, founder of the piano firm
of Haines Bros, New York, died suddenly,
aged 76 years.
During the present decade the United
States has produced half of the world s
copper supply.
The war department is taking steps to
aid the families of officers and men who
fail to support them.
Homer Crawford, a negro, was hanged
in Hawkinsville, Ca, for the murder of
Johnson Pate (colored).
Engineer George Crane and Fireman
Frank Reynolds were killed in railway
wreck near Aurora, Ind.
The president has appointed Frank w.
Hackett, of New Hampshire, to be assist
ant secretary of the navy.
Fire in lumber yards in Brooklyn. N. Y.
caused loss of $500 900 and ]. c. Donald
son and boy were killed.
James r. Willard. a Chicago broker, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy. He owes
$S45, 900 and has not dollar.
The distress from famine among the peo-
pie of India is spreading, and $500, 600 per-
sons are now receiving relief.
The Alaskan winter was the coolest on
record. The temperature ranged from Il
to So degrees below at Dawson.
Riley Powell (colored) was hanged at
Cairo, ILL.,, for the murder of Elmo Erie at
Charleston, Mo-, in October, 1899.
A company of the Seventh United States
infantry, stationed at Columbus, O., has
been ordered to Alaska to protect miners.
w. w. Heard (dem.) was elected govern
or of Louisiana in the first election held
| under the new law DISTINGUISHING the
negro.
President Patton, of Princeton univer
sity, says if the Presbyterian creed Is
| changed or revised it will be the doom oil
the church.
Letters in the hands of the government
show that the Filipinos had plan to gain
SPANS assistance to crush the American
troops in Iloilo.
At Tazewell, w. Va, John Peters (col-
ored), who assaulted Miss Katie Richie, a
white girl 16 years of age, after brutally
beating her, has been lynched.
The heirs of Philip Francis Renault have
organized in Texas, claiming title, under
a French grant, to about 5000 600, 600 WORTH
of property in Wisconsin and Illinois.
The supreme court of Indiana has de
cided that shares in national banks mus
be taxed at their marketable value, with
out regard to debts which holders may
owe.
The republicans have nominated Edwin
Wright for congress in the Fourth Ohio
district, Colon Melville in the Seventeenth
and John J. Esch in the Seventh Wiscon'
| sin district.
Hon. Sullivan M. Cutcheon. ex-speaker
of the Michigan house of representatives
and prominent in local business circles,
died at his residence in Detroit, Mich,
early in the morning, aged 67 years
George R. Angel, president of the City
savings bank Of Detroit, Mich, and OF
the Michigan Bankers association, eX-
pired suddenly at his breakfast table, the
result of an attack of heart disease.
The republican state convention of Yer
mont pronounced in favor of the single
gold standard, Endorsed McKinley's ad-
ministration and nominated uninStructeo
delegates to the Philadelphia convention
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed church
burned at Muskegon, Mich. Nicholas
Carey driver of hook and ladder truck
was killed by the falling of the rear wall
| and Ben Peterson, who, with Carey, was
on a ladder. was seriously injured.
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Many Japanese Come.