The Ely miner., 1900-06-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June %

Jennings Tor governor.
A boiler in a sawmill near Eden, N. Y.
exploded, killing three men.
Count Mouravieff. Russian minister of
foreign affairs. died in St. Petersburg.
The big Union grain elevator in Kan
sas City was burned, the loss being $780,
600.
Sidney Spears was hanged at Sherman.
Tex. for the murder of his wife July 6,
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Canada has been awarded first prize for
Its display of timber at the Paris exposi-
ton.
Fire in one of the principal business
blocks in Pittsburgh, Pa, caused a loss of
$250,O
Merritt. United States army, has been
retired.
In fire at Buffalo, NJ Y, Mrs. G. Mi
landa and her three children were burned
to DEATH
The Commonwealth Mining company's
mill at Pearce, Arz, was burned, the
loss being s5OO.OOo.
Oliver Dalrymple says two-thirds of the
North Dakota wheat crop has been de-
stroyed by drought.
l.. II. Thompson, Judge of the Vermont
supreme court. died at his home at Iras-
burg, aged so years.
district nominated Willis Hazelwood, of
quincy, for congress.
The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union opened it's annual meeting
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
John III. Butler. one of the most prom
inent lawyers of Indiana, died in In
dianapolis, aged 81 years.
Kansas prohibitionists nominated a full
state ticket headed by Frank Holsinger,
OF Rosedale, for governor.
John A. Gallagher, state geologist. aged
5S, died at his home in Warrenburg Mo-,
or an operation for cancer.
AT Eldorado, Kan, Miss Jessie Morrison
killed Mrs Olin Castle with a razor and
then fatally wounded herself.
Census enumerators found in Leaven-
worth the oldest person in Kansas, Mrs.
klttie Williams, aged la wears.
Charles Fultz, of Quincy, ILL.,, has in
vented new match. Instead of wood he
uses the stems of prairie grass.
The statue of Washington, the gift to
Paris by the Daughters of the American
Revolution. arrived in that city.
South Dakota farmers, by digging a
short cut for the Missouri river at Rem
niger's Neck, changed its course.
A rainstorm in Indiana did great dam
age at Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Peru and
other towns in the Wabash valley.
Jasper Francis Cropsey, one of the old
est American portrait painters, died at
his home in Hastings. N. Y, aged rs.
Congressman j. A. T. Hull was renom-
mated by the republicans of the Seventh
Iowa district. There was no opposition.
The five hundredth anniversary of the
birth of John Gutenberg, the inventor of
movable type, was celebrated in Berlin.
At Galena, Kan. City Marshal Milford
0rl/n
trio shock from broken telephone wire.
Mrs Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary on
May % last, died at her home in Canton,
III.
Rev. John Philip Conradi died at his
home in Baltimore, Md, aged S5 years. He
was the pioneer of Lutheranism in Amer
lea.
Mrs. Beveridge, wife of Senator Albert
j. Beveridge, of Indiana, died at the
sanitarium in Dansville, N. Y, aged &c
years.
Perry Wagner. convict in the peni-
tentiary at Rusk, Tex, was hanged for
the murder of fellow convict last Oc-
tober.
Robert Lockhart, of Covington, Tenn,
and Miss Katherine Cline, of Patoka,
Ind. were married by long distance tele-
phone
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Madrid. refractory taxpayers are to be
jailed and opposition newspapers sup
pressed.
A monument Sn the memory of Samuel
Hahnemann. founder of the homeopathic
school of medicine. was dedicated in
Washington.
Harrison De Sylvia Pike, railway off,
c!al, killed his wife in San Francisco and
lien committed suicide. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
Joel Hunt, his wife and William
Barnes, negro farm tenants, were killed
near Corsicana, Tex, in a dispute over a
division of crops.
At the annual meeting in Des Moines,
Ia, of the National Music Teachers as
Sociation Arthur L. Manchester, of Cam.
den, N. j., was elected president.
Edgar o. Weeks (rep.) has been renom-
mated for congress in the Seventh Mich
igan district and Charles F. Cochran
(dem.) in the Fourth district of Missouri
Gov Roosevelt. who has returned to
his home at Oyster Bay, l.. l., will remain
there until June 20. when he goes to Okla
homa to attend a meeting of his regiment.
National republican headquarters will
be opened in New York and Chicago about
July 20. Henry C. Payne will be in charge
in Chicago and Joseph H. Manley in New
York. ,fstTiI U {
Joseph Gibson, of the Gibson house.
Cedar Falls, Ia, committed suicide by
taking poison. Grief over the death of
his wife is supposed to have been the
cause. &fFH#