The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-01-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Dec. %.

Edwin II. Brand, pioneer photographer OF
Chicago, is dead.
Mrs. Kittie Rice died at Mount Morris.
ILL.,. at the age of 103
Official reports show that there are 10000
lepers in the Philippines.
Frank Barr, aged 10 years, was killed in
boxing contest in Philadelphia.
John Laing celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth in Chicago.
An Indian ran amuck at Eufaula, Ind.
T., killing three men and wounding one.
The last Christmas in the nineteenth GEN.
fury was celebrated all over the country
Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor C. r. Hale,
of the Springfield diocese, died at Cairo, Ill.
Orders have been issued abolishing news
boys on all trains of the Erie railroad sys-
tenn.
Gustave Wolf. the last member of the
Bridgeport (Conn.) Suicide club. killed him.
self
Andrew McNeff celebrated at La Rue.
O.. the one hundredth anniversary of his
birth.
James Wood. the oldest man in New
Hampshire, died in Portsmouth, aged lO4
years.
A Chinese viceroy by treachery mas
sacred 1880 reformers in the province of
Pechiii.
w. D. Coleman, president of Liberia. re-
signed G. w. Gibson was elected to sue
coed him.
A son of Louis Tonhose. of Judd. Ia, has
been kidnapped and it is believed he is held
for ransom.
Michael Maloney, a farmer of Lenox
township, Pa, died at his home at the age
of 107 years.
University of Chicago psychologists as
sert that salt causes the heart to beat and
keeps up lie.
The American national bank of Balti-
more, Md, has been placed in the hands
of a receiver.
The twentieth century national Gospel
campaign has been officially inaugurated
in New York.
A direct line of steamers between Port
land, Ore, and Manila will be in operation
by February 26.
Director of the Mint Roberts says the de-
mand for pennies has been greater this year
than ever before.
All cities report that postal facilities
were never so taxed as during this years
holiday business.
j. B. Scarlet, aged 65 years, and daugh-
ter Minnie, aged q years, were killed by a
train at Colmar, Ill.
w. Irvine Shaw, recently appointed con-
sui general to Singapore. committed sui
eide in Philadelphia.
A lone robber held up stage in can
yon near Hot Springs Junction, Ariz., and
rif1ed the express box.
Mayor Patterson, of Bismarck, N. D..
was arrested by the sheriff on the charge
of permitting gambling.
Italian anarchists shot and seriously
wounded Chief of Police Brown at Barre,
VT. Six are under arrest.
Chairman Johnson and Secretary Walsh
will keep national democratic headquarters
in Chicago open till 1904.
Francesca Martinez Negrete & Sons,
bankers, failed at Guadaloupe, Mexico,
with liabilities of s., 100000.
Mrs. Margaret Cullagan, an inmate Of
the home for the aged in Chicago, was 100
years old Christmas day.
The sheriff of Ripley county. Ind, paid
81, 900 to Mrs. l.. c. Jenkins. whose husband
was lynched September IA, 1897.
Rev. Dr. Thomas Murphy, one of the
most eminent Presbyterian clergymen in
Philadelphia died of pneumonia
The Demorest branch of the w. c. T. L.
in New York denounced kissing as an in
toXicant, and therefore to be barred.
Roger T. Gill was named receiver of the
Old Town bank, one of the best-knoWn
banking institutions in Baltimore. Md.
An unchartered island near the Philip
pines is said to have been annexed by the
commander of an American gunboat.
John w. Tinsley shot and killed his wife
in Los Angeles, Call and then killed him
SELF Domestic trouble was the cause.
Alfred C. Harmsworth. a London pub
IlSu6T WHO dTTlNtQ Ill I've" IOlh, say
American newspapers are too frivolous.
Lord William George Armstrong, in
ventor of the Armstrong gun, died at his
home al Cragside, England, aged 81 years.
AT East Braintree, Mass, the torpedo
boat destroyer McDonough was launched
at the works of the Fort River Iron COM
pany.
Members of the Hyde Park Baptist
church in Chicago made a Christmas offer
ing of $50 255 to be used for the erection of
new church.
A lot of Christmas consignments were
destroyed when the Western Express Of
flee in Houghton, Mich, burned. Loss
about $4,000
DR.. J. H. Kellogg. superintendent of the
Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium, was
stabbed by an insane woman patient, but
may recover.
John Alexander Dowie received a COM
munication in London threatening his life
and warning him that vitriol was to be
thrown on him.
Mrs. May Teresa Josephine Schmidt, Of
Chicago, was sentenced to an indeterminate
guilty to the charge of killing her husband.
w. j. Bryan, speaking at a banquet in
Lincoln, Neb., said democracy must stick
to silver and fight Imperialism, but adj
mitted he might not again run for pres
ident.
AS the result of a fire caused by the eX-
poson of an alright stove the Providence
Methodist Episcopal church (colored) al st.
Joseph Mo-, was partially burned and the
pastor. Rev. j. L: Leonard. was fatally