The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-08-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending August 4

Fire completely wiped out the village of
Sopp's Arm, N. F.
President Mckinley has returned to Can
ton, o., from Washington.
The police throughout Germany were ar
resting anarchist suspects.
A large part of the business section of
Convoy. o., was destroyed by fire.
The population of Milwaukee, Wis. is
!S53l5, gain of S0,S47 in ten years.
The whole of the Tintic mining district
In Utah was shaken by an earthquake.
The town of Gilman, Col. was burned.
making homeless upward of 200 people.
Crop reports from the western grain belt
indicate that the harvest will be large.
w. Irwin Shaw. United States consul at
Barranquilla, Colombia, died of cholera.
The Chicago police raided nine alleged
bucket shops and arrested nearly 400 in
mates.
Cora and Ruby Townsend, twin sisters.
and Pearl Flack were drowned near Saltil-
10. Tex.
James Byrd 40 years old, was hanged at
Greenville, Miss, for the murder of his
mistress.
Middle-of-the-road populists in Iowa will
hold their state convention in Des Moines
August %.
Robert Dunlap, head of the big hat man.
ufacturing firm, is dead at Monmouth
Beach, N. ].
Amos B. Smith (colored) was hanged at
Baltimore, Md, for killing Sadie James.
his mistress.
Nikola Tesla has discovered an electric
cure for consumption which meets remark
able success.
A mail pouch in transit from the gen.
eral post Office to substation in New York
was robbed of $4,000.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt estimates
the cost of the South African war as ap-
proximately $400, 100000.
Smokers of cigarettes will not be en-
ployed henceforth in the packing house Of
Swift & Co., in Chicago.
A cloudburst flooded canyons and valleys
and caused disaster along the banks of
many rivers in Arizona.
President Mckinley and the king of Port
ugal exchanged congratulatory messages
over the new direct cable.
Johnny Nelson, Chicago cyclist. defeat
ed Jimmy Michael in 20-mile race in Bos-
ton by five yards. Time. SS:031-5.
North German Lloyd steamers running to
New York have been chartered by Ger
many to convey troops to China.
The wife and two children of j. A. Nor
ris died from eating toadstools in mis-
take for mushrooms near Harvey, Ill.
The census office Thursday announced
the population of Louisville, KY, at 2O4. 73l.
an increase of 49, COZ over the census of 1890.
A big rise in the price OF brooms is said
to have resulted from the action of COM
bination controlling the broomcorn supply.
Statistics compiled by the Railway Age
show that Is companies control 147, 900 miles
Of railroad in the United States and Canada.
Receipts of Klondike gold at Pacific coast
points so far this season are about So. 500, :
900, against s7,69O.OOO at the same time last
year.
Over 5000 Roumanian Jews are en- route
to Canada. The majority are penniless.
Their ultimate destination is the United
States.
John McCurdy, an old resident of Chi
cago and well known in business, musical
and masonic circles, died at his home, aged
sc years.
Col. John Mason Loomis. civil war vet
eran, and for so years a leading lumber
merchant of Chicago, died al the age of
Is years.
One million dollars is the amount secured
by F. L. Swazey, the absconding Kansas
City cattleman, before he started for South
America.
Secretary of War Root has ordered an
election of delegates in Cuba and named
November the date of the constitu-
tional convention.
The census Office Tuesday morning made
public the population of the city of Gin
cinnati, o. 1t is 1902, an increase over
the last census of 1884
Col. Henry C. Cochrane, commandant Of
the marine barracks at Boston. has been
ordered to China to take command of the
marine forces in that country.
Indiana democrats nominated Alfred D.
Owens for congress in the First district
and the prohibitionists nominated Nathan
Johnson In the Eleventh district
Extra precautions have been taken to
preserve President Mckinley from at
lacks of cranks and criminals. He was not
consulted about the arrangements.