The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-17
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
For the week Ending May IL.

Evan Williams, ex-governor OF Nevada,
died in San Francisco.
Justice King, Of the Ontario supreme
court, died at Ottawa.
The cup defender Constitution was
launched at Bristol. R. l.
Harvard trustees voted to make Presi-
Gent Mckinley an LII. d.
Jackson Harris (colored), aged 100 years,
died at Terre Haute, Ind.
The village of Kendall, n. Y, was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Three men were burned to death in
boarding house fire at Ottawa, Ont
Seats collapsed in a circus at Oil city,
Pa, badly injurng dozen persons
Gen. Weyler ordered instant shooting of
all engaging in disorders in Barcelona.
Maryland's corrected census figures re-
duce the population of the state to l,1SSO44,
Engineer Monk and Fireman Addison
were killed in railway wreck near Jop'
lin, Mo.
New Jersey prohibtionists have NOM
mated Joel w. Brown. Of Jersey CITY, fot
governor.
Prof ]. H. George, of Montreal, has been
elected president of the Chicago theological
seminary.
The Twenty-ninth infantry, United
States volunteers, was mustered out at San
FRANCISCO.
Five men were fatally injured by an ex-
plosiOn Of powder in a mine at Wilkes
barre. Pa.
Cardinal Martineili was invested with
| the red berretta by Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore.
Policemen Sheehan and Mosher were
found guilty in Chicago Of robbing Hugh
McDougall.
In Mrs Mary E. Owens Chicago has the
only patrolman in the world doing daily
| police duty.
Washington advices say the educational
| qualification for suffrage is growing II
| public favor.
The schooner Fostoria sank in st. Clai'
| river after a collision with ice. Two sailors
were drowned.
Ex-Treasurer Ladd, of Cuba. says the
| revenues of the island are not equal tc
| the expenditures.
| Col. E. F. Taggart, of Akron has been
| elected commander of the G. A r., de-
| partment of Ohio.
Prof. r. G.. Moulton told junior students
at the University of Chicago that fiction
was truer than fact
All factories of the National Starch
| company have been ordered closed because
| of the corner in corn.
Expulsion of Italians from lola, Kan,
| in labor fight is TO be investigated by
the Italian government.
Former President Grover Cleveland made
StUO,UUU ny Liz Shy lOChtt llIShl VI A>Oi eASA
| Pacific stock in New York.
John NJ. Carroll, who was a member OF
| the Forty congress, died at johns
| town, n. Y, aged IS years.
The Thirty-second infantry. United
States volunteers, has been mustered out
| of service at San Francisco.
| Joseph Hush, living near Mshawaka
| Ind, celebrated his one hundred anc
| eighth birthday anniversary.
&c C,,l1o
| ton to the United States, fearing disaster
| if they lose American markets.
T. S. McClndy, in fit of insanity shot
| and killed Howard Baker and then killed
himself at Boone's Ferry. Ore. ~
Henry Johnson negro, was lynched
| at Valdosta, Ga. He had fired at young
| white man, but did not hit him.
Efforts are to be made, at the next ses-
| sion of congress to give the interstate
commerce committee more power.
A decision of the comptroller of the
| treasury will make it easier hereafter to
keep out Objectionable immigrants.
Charles Foster, of Fostora, O.. former
secretary of the treasury, filed a petition
in bankruptcy with STU, eos liabilities.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
plans to spend millions in improving the
northern division of the Omaha road.
The thirty-third annual convention of
the National Woman's Suffrage associa.
ton will convene in Minneapolis May 80
E. w. Methever, who murdered Dor
othy Mckee at Long Beach, CAL, in July,
1899, was hanged at San Quentin prison.
Three thousand farm districts are now
served by rural mail carriers at a cost Of
So, $1,000 a year. More routes are pro-
jected.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, the American arctic
explorer says he has the best equipped eX-
petition that ever started in search of the
north pole.
Scott r. Wellington was arrested in
Chicago, charged with proposing marriage
to over a score of women and obtaining
their jewelry.
Mayor Frank Moores, of Omaha, says a
majority of the residents do not favor Sun
day observance, and that hereafter every
thing will be run wide open"
Andrew Carnegie doubled his recent gift
of $32 500 to the Iron and Steel Institute of
London. In an address the donor declared
England must adopt American methods.
|. Prof. Nichols. of Dartmouth college. in
experiments with especially constructed in
struments at Yerkes observatory, diScov-
ers and measures the heat radiated by the
stars
Miss Helen Gould, overcome by the strain
of her extensive charitable work, has
been ordered to take Il long rest and is be-
lieved to be suffering from nervous pros
tration
The seizure of William O'Bren's paper.
The Irish People. for libelous attack on
King Edward was resented in the house of
commons by John Dillon, who declared it
scheme to destroy opposition papers.
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