The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. g.

Chicago Is flooded with counterfeit sil-
yer dollars
The equalized value of property in Illinois
IS $500, 75S ISL.
The first Porto Rican legislature met
and organized.
George Fitzgerald. 10l years old. died
at Glenmore, Wis.
The official vote In Kentucky gives Bry-
an plurality of $685.
The state of Montana is out of debt for
the first time in its history. a.
Mrs Anna Allen died In Adrian. Mich.
aged 100 years and 10 months.
Harvard men won the annual debate
with Yale at Cambridge, Mass.
The islands of HUNTER and Kimatara. in
the Pacific, were annexed to France.
Queen Victoria is reported to have failed
rapidly in the last two or three weeks.
President Mckinley entertained the del
egates to the w. c. T. u convention.
A Russian report says 100000 Christians
have been massacred by Boxers in China.
A flood in the river Tiber caused a loss
of T,500,000 to property in the city OF
Rome.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee took command OF
the department of the Missouri at
Omaha.
The Ohio Federation of Labor conven-
ganization.
Thirty coal boats. containing 600. 900 BUSH
els of coal. sank In the river near Hunting
ton. w. Va
President Kruger arrived at The Hague
and was given a rousing reception by the
Hollanders.
Mrs. Abbey Sage Richardson. of New
York, author and literary critic. died In
Rome, aged g.
Theodore wallert pleaded guilty to muir
dering his wife and four stepchildren at
Arlington. MINI.
A New York packing firm paid s2.145. or
$3.50 pound. for a steer at the fat stock
show in Chicago.
Dan Long. negro. was lynched near
Ivanhoe, Va, by mob for criminaliy as
saulting Mrs. Fisher.
William B. Dunton was convicted in
Chicago of embezzling $l5500 from the
Union national bank.
The isthmian canal commission re-
ported to congress in favor of building
the Nicaragua canal
The Alabama legislature passed a bill
calling for a constitutional convention to
restrict the negro vote.
Navigation on the great lakes has closed
after one of the most prosperous ship
ping seasons ever known.
George Arthur Pearson, who murdered
Miss Annie Griffin, his sweetheart. was
hanged at Hamilton. Ont.
The bureau of statistics in Washington
submitted figures showing an enormous
lake traffic in past season.
H. M Hanna brother of the senator gave
a Cleveland hospital Northern Pacific pre-
ferred stock valued at $50. 000
Lord Roberts speech at Durham indicates
the beginning of conciiatory policy by
Great Britain toward the Beers.
The British government has not formally
notified the powers of its annexation of the
Transvaal and Orange Free State.
A gale of 70 miles an hour wrecked many
ships along the New England coast. Five
sailors are known to be drowned
Twenty persons were killed and many
wounded in collision of passenger and
freight trains near Jimulco. Mexico.
J. ]. Axtell, ex-parson, barber and pugi-
list, was knocked out in 43 seconds by Kid
O'Hara, of Detroit, at Pontiac, Mich.
Gov. Stickney signed a bill passed by
the Vermont legislature prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes to minors in the state.
A gigantic international combination Of
all big warship-building concerns is being
engineered by Cramp & Co.. of Philadel-
phia.
from Barnstable, Mass. his birthplace,
business openings in his Chicago packing
plant.
Judge Ewing, of Cleveland. o.. is draw
ing up measure for presentation to the
next Ohio legislature to prohibit football
playing.
Joseph Chamberlain told parliament that
civil rule would soon be established In South
Africa republics with Sir Alfred Miner as
governor.
Holland and Portugal have quarreled
over the question of the Dutch consul at
ministers.
AT the end of the fiscal year there were
on the pension roll of the United States
993, 225 names. net increase of 2.0l0 over the
fiscal year 1899.
employed at the Illinois Steel companys
mills in South Chicago. were killed by the
fall of a scaffold. ff
Russian consuls in Turkey report a
dreadful condition of affairs in Armenia.
and state that hundreds of Armenians are
daily being killed.
One thousand one hundred acres of land
in Nassau county. Long Island. has been
purchased by the Boer refugee aid COM
mittee to establish a burgher colony.
Funeral services over the remains of Col.
e. s. Liscum, killed at Tientsin. China,
were held at San Francisco Wednesday,
after which the body was shipped to WASH
ington. D. c.
Kang Yu Wei. "a Cantonese reformer, says
the Chinese people hate the dowager en-
press and blame her for the calamities of
the nation. The emperor's restoration il
the only plan for peace.