The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. 20.

J. D. Rockefeller will give Oberlin (O.)
college $500, 900.
Gold in paying quantities has been
found under Pixies peak.
The Commoner, w. j. Bryan's paper.
was issued at Lincoln Neb.
Mrs. Catherine Wieckoreck died in st.
Joseph, Mo-, at the age of los years.
Kansas women horsewhipped Mrs. Car
RE Nation in the streets of Enterprise.
China, in her reply to the joint note.
seeks to evade the chief issues presented.
Gen. Lee has sent troops to quell the
spreading Indian revolt in Indian terri
tory
John H. Thomas, aged Y, millionaire
manufacturer. dropped dead at Spring
field, o.
The Wisconsin assembly passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and
cigarette paper.
Queen Victoria died the richest woman
IN the world. her estate being placed at
about $l5O00O.O 900.
The wife of Thomas Gains gave birth
to two boys and two girls at her home
near Nashville, Ill.
George W. West, one of the best-known
drivers of harness horses on the American
turf, died in Chicago.
Adam Volk, for years proprietor of the
leading hotel at Perrysburg O., fell down.
stairs and was killed.
The queen of Spain was shot at by an
unknown assassin while boating in the
royal park in Madrid.
A bill prescribing capital punishment
for kidnapping has been introduced in
the Virginia legislature.
Baron Wilhelm Karl Won Rothschild,
head of the great banking firm. died at
Frankfort, aged 70 years.
An attempt was made to blow up the
First Methodist church in Richland Cen
ter, Wis, with dynamite.
Otto Ottendorfer late editor of the New
York Stats Zeitung, left $225, 900 to char
liable and public institutions.
A bill has been introduced in the Illi-
nois house to stop the manufacture and
sale of cigarettes in the state.
Firt destroyed the Grand opera house
and other adjoining buildings in Cincin-
NATL causing loss of 100000.
The Indiana senate passed a bill MAX
ing electrocution the mode of inf1cting
the death penalty in the state.
Mrs Carrie Nation wrecked a saloon at
Enterprise, Kan. and her eye was black
ened by the saloonkeeper's wife.
Hon. Robert C. Bell, one of the most
prominent attorneys in northern Indiana,
died at his home in Fort Wayne.
James P. Sterrett former chief justice
or the supreme court of Pennsylvania,
died in Philadelphia. aged Is years.
George Ramsay died at Rock Island.
ILL.,, aged 102 years. He was one of the
first settlers of Rock Island county.
The press of Austria says Queen Vic
toria's great work was the saving of the
British empire from republicaniSm.
Alaska adviceS report another strike
of gold at the head of the Euskokwin,
causing a big stampede from Nome.
Registrar Howe. of Brooklyn. will give
his surplus fees. $5O,OOO for an equestrian
statue of Washington for Brooklyn.
Albert Moore was arrested at Clifton
City, Mo-. charged with kidnapping the
nine-year-old son of Mrs. Ella Bunch.
John Bowling, a Chicago coal dealer.
lost five members of his family. his home
and failed in business in two months.
A young negro accused of attacking a
white woman at Doylens. La, was shot
to death by a mob while being taken to
Jail.
The Jacksonville (Fla) city council
passed an ordinance levying special
prohibitory tax of $500 on all divine
healers.
Mrs. Lille Rich. a sympathizer of Mrs.
Carrie Nation, sued Wichita saloon
keeper for $4,000 for selling liquor to her
minor sons.
The congressional committee investigat-
ing hazing at West Point heard the last
witness. a former cadet. who said men
were tortured.
A clause in Oswald Ottendorfer's will
bars union employees from a share in $50,
900 left to the force of the New York
StaatS-Zeitung.
Trainers of the Cuban constitution re-
fused to strike the mention of God out
of the preamble. though fight for that
end was made.
More than 20 small saloon keepers in
Chicago have been driven out of busi-
ness by midnight closing and prompt col
lection of licenses.
George Shillinger a farmer at East
Alton. Ill, who refused to be black
mailed by ''invincibles," was shot at
through window.
Gen. John P. C. Shanks died at his
home in Portland. Ind. aged Is years.
He was a civil war veteran and a men,
Der of congress for ten years.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
bills prohibiting the sale or importation
OF cigarettes in the state and prohibit
ing the coeducation of the races.
In Denver. Col. Claude Hider. 10 years
of age. in a fit of jealousy shot Mrs.
Emma Douglas. a divorced woman. and
Harry r. Haley, and then killed himself.
Queen Victoria summoned the prince of
Wales and the kaiser to her bedside and
besought them. as they loved her. to
avoid war and maintain peace.