The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-08
THE NEWS IN. BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. e

Wrecking saloon in Boston.
Two persons were killed in the burning Of
the Hotel Jefferson. New York.
| A boys scarf caught in a windmill at
ASHFORD, Wis, and he was choked to death.
The Indiana senate passed a bill ousting
any sheriff who yields prisoner to mob.
: Twenty imitators of Mrs. Nation de-
stroyed a saloon at South Sioux City. Neb.
Ten persons were injured by the ditch
ing OF train five miles east of Hardin, Col.
The report of the agricultural depart
ment says winter wheat is in good condl-
ton.
Andrade. former president of Venezuela.
has Joined a filibuster expedition to fight
Castro.
adopted clause providing for universal
suffrage.
Field Marshal Gourke. a famous Rus
sian soldier, died in st. Petersburg, aged
70 years.
w. c. Whitney, of New York. bought
Marcus Days famous stallion Hamburg
for $4,000.
fought IN Abyssinia, in which 1000 men
were killed.
The time for allotment of lands to In
dams in southern Oklahoma is extended
to August 6.
Definite announcement is made that Mrs.
Nation will visit Chicago, New York and
Philadelphia
The Michigan supreme court has sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the Inherit
ance tax law.
movement has begun in the Philippines
for republican party organization on
peace platform
Two American soldiers, convicted of rob-
bling Chinese, have been sentenced to 20
years in prison.
The president has proclaimed the new
extradition treaty between the United
States and Peru.
Deputy City Marshal Cliff Slaton and
Otto Ferguson were killed in a street duel
at Madisonville, KY.
Alexander Beaubien, the first white per-
SON born in Chicago, celebrated his sew
enty-first birthday.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was elected from ono
saloon in Topeka and found others bar
ricaded against her.
Mrs. Mary Palmer Banks, widow of Gen.
Nathaniel P. Banks, died at Waltham,
Mass, aged 80 years.
X. w. Wilcox, congressional delegate
from Hawaii, is accused of treason in Of
fering aid to Filipinos.
John Williams, a farmer, his wife and
child were killed by tree falling on their
home near Middlesboro, Ky.
The governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of cigarettes in the state.
In railway collision at Wallace juno
ton, Pa, Conductor Peter Donahue was
killed and 20 passengers injured.
Rev. Hans Valdez, the first Scandina-
Wan Baptist minister in America, died IN
NeWburg, Mimi, aged sc years.
Naval officers look for a war with Ger
many. Admiral Dewey is said to have pre-
dicted conflict within two years.
Secretary Long, in a letter to the house
naval committee, says there is no need for
investigation of hazing at Annapolis.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, of the
treasury department., says he is not
alarmed at a letter threatening his life.
The Italian government has been advised
OF the departure of an anarchist from the
United States to assassinate King Victor.
The Illinois legislature has passed a bill
appropriating $4,000 for a state building
at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo.
The plant of the Indianapolis Qnd.) Sun.
an evening paper, was Quilted by fire early
Tuesday. The loss is 10000; insurance,
$4,000.
France appears ready to disrupt the pow
ers' concert, rather than allow Germany
to share protectorate over Catholics in
China.
A speech on the death of Queen Victoria
by the president of the Austrian reichs-
rath was interrupted by cheers for the
Beers.
Wichita CKan.) saloon men have planned,
in the event of another raid by women, to
tie them hand and foot and turn them over
to the officers.
During the seven months of the present
fiscal year the government receipts exceed
ed those for the corresponding months last
year by SIC, 100000.
The war department has issued orders for
the transportation of $500 regular troops
to the Philippines to replace an equal num-
Der OF returning volunteers.
Helen Gould has given OG0 toward
the erection of new home for the naval
branch of the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION in Brooklyn, N. Y.
]. Provost Mason, an embezzling teller
of the Continental national bank, New
York, shot and killed himself few hours
before the time set for his trial.
The Virginia legislature has passed bill
to punish by death or Imprisonment for
life, III the discretion of the jury any per-
son in the state guilty of kidnapping.
Charles F. w. Nicely, the former chief
of the bureau of finance of the Cuban post
office department, who is charged with
embeZzling $36, 900, is in Jail in Havana.
The Hundred Year club, of New York.
has located the worlds oldest man in Izal
Rodofsky, Moscow. aged 1885, and the old
est woman in Mrs. Nancy Hollofield. lii
years old. of Battle Creek. Mich
letter found on DR.. Ada S. Herman.
arrested in Cincinnati with her husband
and son, is in the same handwriting as the
letter sent to Mrs. Cudahy offering to re-
veal the kidnaper of Edward Cudahy.