The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-20
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person, is believed to be one of the
| robbers of the Chicago post office.
The president has nominated c. H.
Darling, of Vermont, for assistant Sec
rotary of the navy.
The national capital has another
crime mystery in a fatal assault upon
Mrs. Gilbert, fashionable dress
maker.
The Federation of Labor convention
at Scranton, Pa, adopted resolution
declaring for Chinese exclusion. :
1t is announced at New York that DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler will succeed
Seth Low as presidentof Columbia uni
versity.
The main building of the Worcester
CO., university has been burned, caus-
ing a loss of $25O,OO0.
The Omaha Loan & Trust company
has gone into the hands of a receiver
with liza abilities of $5,OO0,0O0.
Ewald Eichorn, farmer near Du-
quoin, Ia, was blindfolded, bound hand
and foot and beaten to death by rob-
bers.
A confidence man at the Houston
(Tex.) carnival killed two policemen
who sought to arrest him, and was in
turn slain.
Nine. Nordica has taken steps to
prosecute a claim against the govern
ment for 100000 of which an an
cestor was despoiled by French pri-
vateers.
Fire destroyed block of business
houses, II in number, at Sweetwater,
Tex.
The state department is planning
to send young men to China to study
the language and act as interpreters
for consuls.
Henry Demond, student at the
state university in Tacoma, Wash,
starved to death while seeking an ed
ucation.
The Pennsylvania Railway company
will build tunnel under the Hudson
river to secure entrance to New
York.
The Red Cross society at it's annual
meeting in Washington reelected Miss
Clara Barton president.
The bonds of George B. Cortelyou
and Judge William R. Hay as admin
istrators of the estate of the late Pres
ident William Mckinley have been filed
at Canton, O.
E. L. Powell, of Wilson, N. c., man
ager of the brokerage business of Muir
ply G. Co., of New York, is said to be
short $4,000.
Special Commissioner Rockhill's re-
port on the results of his work in con-
nection with the Chinese negotiations
in Picking has been submitted to con-
gress.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur has
been ordered to Denver to assume
command of the department of Col
orado.
The eighty-third anniversary of the
admission of Illinois into the union as
a state was celebrated in Springfield.
The Wanatah Gnd.) bank closed it's
doors. with liabilities of $4,000. De-
positors will be paid in full.
The corn crop of Illinois this year
was 1S3,792, 200 bushels, the smallest
since 1890.
William B. Leeds, of New York, has
been elected president of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad.
Three children of Tunis Pons were
drowned at Pompton Lake, N. j. while
skating.
The president has reappointed Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Charles
A. Prouty, of Vermont.
Seven men have been arrested at To-
ledo, O., charged with robbing Ohio
post offices.
Near Kokomo, Ind, "a train struck
wagon load of young people and one
was killed and three seriously injured.
The good offices of the United States
have been rendered to Argentina and
Chill to adjust their quarrel about
frontiers and fortified tions along the
straits of Magellan.
William Allen (colored) was hanged
at Uniontown, Pa, for numbering
Hiram Mcmillan.
The twenty-frst annual meeting of
the National Civil Service Reform
league began in Boston.
Miss Emma King, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who permitted herself to be inoculated
with bovine tuberculosis germs, devel-
oped the disease.