The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-01-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. IL.

The Minnesota legislature convened in
st. Paul.
Paul Kruger was said to be seriously
i'll at The Hague.
A police force of 300 mericans is to
be organized in Manila.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
cases of grip in New York city.
Mrs. Mary B. Smith died at Los An
geles, Cal, at the age of LOG years.
The Sixty-second general assembly of
Indiana convened at Indianapolis.
Mrs. Cyrus Taylor, of Brazil, Ind, came
to life after being pronounced dead.
Theodore Roosevelt has been given the
freedom of Colorado to hunt for game.
Fire along the river front in South
Brooklyn, N. Y, caused a loss of 100000.
A man hunting near Atlanta, Ga. dis
covered large cave of excellent rock
salt.
Secretary Gage says he would like to
abandon coinage of silver If 1t could be
done.
Frank Brill, of Chicago, won the ma
tional contest in the city for individual
bowlers.
Six hundred and fifty-two of the Thir-
ty-seventh infantry sailed from Manila
for home.
DIR. George j. Smith, the oldest survey
or and civil engineer in Nebraska, died
at Omaha.
Measures to punish kidnapping and
lynching were introduced in the Illinois
legislature.
The one hundred and twenty-fifth ses-
sion of the New Jersey legislature opened
in Trenton.
Thomas Chidester, aged nine years,
shot and killed his sister, aged IA, near
Marietta, o.
Frank WEIGH, pugilist, died at Easton,
Pa, from the effects of a fight at Phil
lipsburg, N. j.
Emanuel De Souza, pioneer Portu-
guese resident, died in Springfield, ILL.,.
aged LOG years.
American, Canadian and English iron
interests have practically united to push
trade in Europe.
Former officers of the Salvation Army
are organizing body to be called Chris
tan Comrades"
Elizabeth Parigin celebrated her one
hundred and fourth birthday at her home
in Richmond, Ind.
w. H. Redman, speaker of the Iowa
house in 1888. died at Newton. He was a
civil war veteran.
John G. Fea, founder of Berea college
and famous abolitionist, died at Berea,
Ky, aged IS years.
| Ex-Mayor John P. Hopkins, of Chicago.
| has been elected chairman of the state
| democratic committee.
| COMMANDER JOnn w. QudCkenDuSlls
| United States navy, retired, died at his
| residence in Washington.
Congressman Frank G. Clarke, of the
| Second New Hampshire district, died at
| Peterboro, aged 81 years.
The Russian minister of finance says
Russia and America have been agreed
all through the Chinese trouble.
John J. Sadler, convicted of the muir
der of Stewart McCune on July 5, 1899.
| WAS hanged aft Greensboro Pa
The police records show decrease of
| so per cent. in arrests since the closing OF
| saloons at midnight in Chicago.
| Edward Bockus, chief editorial writer
of the Boston Herald for 20 years, was
| killed by the cars at Dorchester.
Willis Kent, who killed his brother on
| an Alton train at Girard. ILL.,. has been
sentenced to 80 years imprisonment.
Charles L. Benedict, judge of the east
ern district of New York for 30 years.
died in New York city of pneumonia.
Handy Westbroook. a negro, was
| hanged at Marion, Ark, for the murder
of his stepdaughter on October %, 1899.
| The will of Andree has been made pub
| lie, in which he tells how he expected
| to perish in his arctic exploring trip.
| The Daughters of 1776 and 1912 raised
| flag at the unfinished Jackson monu-
ment on the battlefield of New Orleans.
The Nebraska senate passed a resolu-
| ton extending sympathy to the Beers in
their struggle to maintain independence.
| Mrs. Philip H. Kennedy. of Kansas
| City. shot her husband dead because he
| sought an annulment of their marriage.
A Montreal paper declares the United
| States will wreck the British empire I'M
less English insults of French Canadians
ceases.
Louise Schaefer. teacher in the pub
| lie schools in New York, narrowly eS-
capped being buried alive while in a
| trance.
Jemes Kelly (colored) was hanged in
| Charleston. S. c., for the murder of Will
| lis Bonneau. a miser, whom he first
| robbed.
The taking of the Canadian census will
begin Monday. April /. All persons living
! at midnight Sunday. March 81 will be
| counted.
| Henry e. Burnham, of Manchester, has
| been nominated to succeed w. E. Chand-
| Ter as United States senator from New
| Hampshire
Sevante Anderson, a Swede, shot and
| mother and five-year-old boy at Jamaica
| Plains. Mass.
Gov La Toilette read his own message
| to the Wisconsin legislature and recon-
mended revision of the election, taxa
| ton and antitrust laws
| Official statistics of the foreign trade Of
| the port of New York for the calendar
| year of 1900 show an increase in the ag-
| gregate movement of merchandise to the
| extent of over SCI, 000, 900.