The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-28
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Fer the Week Ending Dec. Fl.
Carl Becker. German historical painter.
died. aged so.
The Bank of Cashion, Okla. was robbed
of IS, 400 by burglars.
Mrs. Katherine Spaith, aged los years.
died at Lancaster. Pa.
Gold & Co.'S bank at Albee, s. D., was
| robbed of 81, 500 by burglars.
H. K. Wieser bank teller at York.
Pa, is said to be $4,000 short
The city council passed resolution pro-
hibiting prize fights in Chicago.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the state treasury at Lincoln, Neb.
A collision between freight trains at
South Milwaukee. Wis.,. killed three men.
| Three tramps were killed in the wreck
of a Big Four freight train near Muncie,
Ind.
East Tennessee, Virginia and North Caro-
lima We're shaken by an earthquake Mon
day.
Oficial returns of the November election
give Mckinley 7.22o,7N votes; Bryan.
| 6,S57, 49,.
A medical board in Cuba has discov-
cred that yellow fever is spread by mos
| Quitoes.
| Secretary of the Navy John D. Long has
| purchased site for residence at Colorado
| Springs. Col.
| David H. Nichols, lieutenant governor of
Colorado from 1898 to 1895, died near Boulder,
| aged "a years.
Lord Salisbury in speech in London
| took a gloomy view of the situation in
| South Africa.
| The safe of Dicks & Sally, at Sally, s. c..
! was blown open with dynamite and robbed
| of 81 900 in cash.
Farmers near Waukegan, ILL.,, who sold
| Dowie land for Zion City colony are mi
grating to- Utah.
Spain wants to sell to the United States
Cagayan island and other islands of the
] Philippine group.
Oswald Ottendorfer, proprietor of the
| Stats Zeitung, died at his-home in New
York, aged IA years.
Joseph Huffman shot and killed Thomas
] Meeham, rival coal dealer, and then killed
himself in Chicago.
A negro named Lewis was hanged by
| a mob at Gullport, Miss, for the murder
of w. E. Richardson.
| Report of the engineers submitted to
congress favors 14-foot channel from Lake
Michigan to ST. Louis.
Albert Metzeger, at Hopewell, Pa, lead
! ing double life shot and killed an actress
/ and committed suicide.
Robert Z. Nelson, 40 years old, at one
time worlds champion on the old hlgn
| bicycle, died in Boston.
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, signalized the
close of his term by unique dinner in the
state house at Lansing.
| Mrs. Alice d. Baker, a widow. was mys-
| teriously killed at Rock Island, ILL.,, dur
/ ing romp with a boy.
James P. Bellinger, of Alton, Ill. who
killed Mrs. Hattie Watson, has been con-
victed of manslaughter.
John Addison Porter, former private sec
rotary to President Mckinley, died at Pom
fret Conn.,, aged "A years.
President Dolphin, of the Order of Rail-
way Telegraphers, says the strike will
| continue on the Santa Fe.
| Impressive watchnight services in Meth
| odist churches throughout the country will
mark the end of the century.
A dispatch to London paper says Ger
mans shot go Chinese soldiers and took
| 200 prisoners in Lung Ching.
Senator Proctor of Vermont, has bought
| the Carrara quarries in Italy and will con-
| troll the worlds marble output
| Congress will not legislate on insular af-
fairs until the supreme court has passed
on the constitutional questions.
Bob Fitzsimmons definitely notified
| Champion James J. Jeffries that he never
would enter the prize ring again.
| The Crane Manufacturing company of
| Chicago is to divide 100000 among its
| 5000 employees as Christmas gift.
Fire destroyed the big plant of the Brown
| Hosting and Conveying Machine company
| in Cleveland o., the loss being $50O0OO.
| The official vote of Minnesota shows a
| plurality of 1850 for Mckinley and 2,2o4
| for Van SAINT, republican, for governor.
F. C. Burns, a wealthy ranchman, and
| Staunch Burns and Woody Litchfeld were
| killed by a landslide near Chadron. Neb.
Mirage resulting from unusual atmos-
| pheric conditions caused the Michigan
shore to be seen in Chicago Thursday.
Secretary of War Root has approved
| the selection of two farms near Des
| Moines Ia, as the site for a new army
post.
The body of Thomas Edmunson. farm
er, was found hanging a wire fence
near Mason City, La. Murder is sus-
| pected.
After a separation of two years John
| Snyder, a butcher in La Sale. Ill. went to
| Chicago and fatally shot his wife and killed
| himself.
| feated for reelection in the Twelfth Ohio
| district by a narrow margin, has given
| notice of contest.
| Marvin Kuhns, the fugitive convict
| from the Ohio penitentiary, is said to be
| enjoying his liberty among his old neigh
| bors in Noble county, Ind.
The residence of Mrs David Hewitt at
| Bradford, Pa, was destroyed by fire and
| she and her mother, Mrs. Margaret
O'Keefe aged Sc wears. were burned to