The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-10-26
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


FOR the week Ending Oct -.
The battleship Alabama has gone into
commission
FIorida.s orange crop this year is es-
timated at 1.ooa. 600 boxes.
The uprising in San Domingo is ended
and the rebels are scattered
Station H of the New York post office
was robbed of nearly $4,000.
| The increase In registration n Greater
New York over 1886 is $4,000
Jonas Strauss died at his home il Ken
oallville. Ind, aged loo years
The total registration in Chicago is z0l.-
f0s. an Increase Of p, 15S over 1896
Divide Berniche's four children were
burned 10 death at Holyoke. Mass
The annual report of the Pullman com
pany shows net earnings of $6.se5. z16
Mark Twain has arrived in New York
after nine years soJourn in Europe
John Nelson made new l5-mile bicycle
record in Chicago. his time being = :04 l-5.
Dwight D Reed. of New York. United
States vice consul 10 Spain. died in Madrid
Lord Curzon says 100000 deaths in India
have been due TO famine. but relief is in
sight
locomotive ran down loaded street
car il Indianapolis and Is passengers were
| injured
Lord Alverstone GSir Richard Wehster)
has been appointed lord chief justice OF
England
| Medical students broke up Dowie meet
| Ing in London and the Zionist was saved
| by flight
An immense field of coal near Cape Sa-
bine, on the Arctic coast of Alaska. was
discovered
Six persons were injured in passenger
| train collision the Vandalia road ar
| Verona. Ind
Maj NJ R. Peterson died in Cuba of yell
| low fever and an hour later his widow COM
ni1ted suicide.
The Union Pacific receiver paid s. O0a, 900
to unsecured claimants. practically CLOSING
| the receivership-
The Pennsylvania railroads system of
/ pensions for employees may be extended TO
its western lines
| Peter Armour, of Sandstone, MINI, while
! drunk cut his wife's throat and then fatal
| " wounded himself
| The state Of Indiana obtained Judgment
| for I'D against the Nandalia railroad
under an cid charter.
Three robbers held up q passenger on
/ the Baltimore & Ohio road az Athens, O..
| and robbed him Of 500.
| Ramon Reyes a Filipino, asked the privi-
lege OF registering at Omaha with the view
| Of voting for president
/ Count Zeppeiin's airship at height Of
1-3eo feet sailed successfully against the
/ wind al Frie6richshafen-
jefferson Jones and his wife and four
children were blown to atoms at Sells. Ark,
/ by dynamite explosion
| John Hughes, postmaster at Cambria
/ Pa, shot ard killed an unidentified burglar
who broke into the office.
/ At Jacksonville. Fla Mary Bailey q
negro woman, gave birth to five children,
| three boys and Iwo girls
| Superintendent Wainwright. of the naval
academy at Annapolis, Nd, issued an Of
| fetal order against haZing-
Jay A Hubben died at his home in
| Houghton. Mich. aged Il years He was .
congressman for ten years
/ Milry Dooson ecolored) was hanged By
4 a mob al Brusle Landing. La, fer shoot
| ing Conductor VIII Jordan
/ A party OF negroes viii soon go 10 Africa.
sent there by the German government, 10
| Introduce cotton raising there
| The Norwegian steamer CaIIan6a col
Iced with another steamer of lewasSInia
1 and - persons were drowned
! The London Times says that Sir Alfred
Miner win be appointed governor of the
former South African republics
Gen Fitzhugh Lee says Cuban politics
are mixed and the outcome Of the consu-
tutional convention is problem
The report Of the commissioner of the
general land once shows the government
| has 81, IL, $50 acres open TO settlement
Mrs Thsd6eus P Stanweod. CT Evanston.
| IL. has been elected president of the Illi-
uois Federation of Womeu's Clubs at Rock
ford.
Congressman John B. Corliss. of Detroit.
was renominated by reclamation by the
! First Michigan district republican couven-
| ton
| Archbishop Ireland says the pope is well
pleased with relations between American
government and church il Philippines and
Cuba
| A dynamite bomb was found under a
railway tunnel through which the car 5
train was TO pass A student was ar
| rested
The population Of the territory of Ari-
zona as officially announced is 122 2le.
against So $40 in 1890 This is an average Of
62-592 or 1913 per cent
The Pittenger Grand opera house. at Cen
| tralia. Ill, was completely destroyed by
fire Wednesday night, involving loss Of
! So 900; insurance 81, 0N.
Gen John W. Fisher died at Cheyenne.
| Wyo-, aged Sc years He was a civil war
veteran and chief justice of the territorial
supreme court from 1S71 to 1881
| Fratus Warheld. negro, was lyncheG at
Elkton, KY. by a mob for attempting to
| enter farmers home when the farmer 5
| wife ard little child were the only oecu-
| pants
The National Master Horseshoers, IN
session IN Milwaukee. Wis, passed law
creating national holiday for the trade.
the date being the first Saturday after
the second Monday of August each year.
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