The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-01
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. %.

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Fire caused the loss of 100000 at Attain
ia, Ca
| Pope. Leo has. been on the pontificaf
| throne "a years.
| The Citizens bank at Lacygne, Kan,
The business portion of Woodruff, Wis.
was wiped out by fire.
A six-year-old girl at Stephenson, Mich,
| killed her baby sister,
! John Hoefer and his wife died of starva-
| ton in Milwaukee, Wis.
Gen. Otis has assumed charge of the, de-
| partment of the Dakotas.
Imitators of Carrie Nation smashed win
dows in three Chicago saloons.
| Ehe Spanish cabinet reports that tran
quillity again prevails in Madrid.
Twenty-eight Russian students have been
! sentenced to service in the army
/ Washington's birthday was generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
Thomas Robinson died at Rock Falls,
| Ill, aged 100 years and one month :
Consuls for Italy and Uruguay at Manila
| are accused of aiding the insurgents.
The new state normal school building at
| Duluth. Mimi, was destroyed by fire
!. Two new British cruisers. the largest of
their class were launched in the Clyde.
j. d. Rockefeller promised to give an
| other $250,000 present to Brown university.
| Southern manufacturers Of fertilizers
! have formed a trust, with So, 900 900 cap
ital.
Chaos rules in the province of Pechili
| CHINA, and thousands are starving in Pc
| king.
| Five Italians were caught on a railroad
| bridge at Sharon, Pa, by train ana
killed.
The building of the Milwaukee (Wis.)
| Herold and the entire plant was destroyed
| by fire.
| ]. G. A. Lieshman, United States minis
| ter to Switzerland has been transferred to
Turkey.
A class of 70 cadets was graduated from
West Point and wiz soon go into active
! service.
The revolt in Venezuela is growing and
several British steamers have been de-
| stroyed.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is
| said to have abdicated in favor of his son,
| Don Jaime.
Gov. Odell has signed the bill providing
for single-headed police commission in
New York city.
Hugo c. Schultze, banished from Ger
many for criticising Bismarck, died in pow
| erty in Chicago.
| Salvatore di Giovanni, prominent in ltal-
| ian circles, was ambushed and killed in an
| alley in Chicago.
Silk thread manufacturers of the United
| States are said to have consolidated with
| SIP, coo, 900 capital.
| EX-United States Senator Stephen M.
White died at his residence in Los Angeles,
Cal, aged As years.
| 1t is reported that a general Arab ris-
| iyo has in
| Turkish authority.
The National Buttermakers' convention
awarded a silk banner to Kansas for the
| highest state average.
! The Cuban charter has been signed by
all the delegates to the convention except
| ex-President Cisneros.
Col. M. c. Murphy, president of the
health board, has been appointed chief
of police of New York.
A. B. Leicester, of Manhattan. Kan. has
| been commissioned as captain in the Brit
| ish South African army.
Maj. Gen. Otis has issued an order for re-
| cruits to the Twenty-ninth regular infan'
| try for service in Manila.
| j. E. German, mayor of Kenosha, Wis.
| was married to Miss Maria Rosa MoelleI
| after courtship of 20 years.
| A. NJ. Hartle died at Marseilles, o., and
! shortly after the funeral his widow. who
was Frustrated by grief. died.
A gift of $500, 600 for an architects build
| ing at Hartford university was made public
| at the New York alumni dinner.
Capt Robley D. Evans, of the navy, was
! presented with a jeweled sword by the
| chamber of commerce of Des Moines. Ia.
George B. Harris has been elected to the
| presidency of the Chicago Burlington &
! Quincy, to succeed c. E. Perkins. resigned.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes
| has decided that shipments and sales OF
| domestic liquors as imported goods are il
| legal.
The old cadets at Kenyon military acad-
envy in Ohio have signed a pledge against
| any form of hazing or annoying a fellow
| cadet.
Pat Grove in a letter to E. A. Cudahy
| declared his innocence Of the kidnapping OF
| the latters son, and offered to give him
self up.
| Indians of White Rock agency have
| been excited by prophet. who promises to
| give them possession of the old hunting
| grounds.
| The American Newspaper Publishers as
| ISOLATION in session in New York elected
| as president S. H. Kaufman. of the Wash
| ington Star.
The Delaware legislature passed bill
| providing penalty of death or imprison-
| ment for life at the discretion of the court
| for kidnapping.
| Harvard college observatory announced
| that a new star observed February % is
| the brightest one discovered in three GEN.
| turtles. 1t is in the constellation Perseus.
| DR.. Mayo G.. Smith, the companion of
| Mark Twain and the inspiration of the
| noveist's doctor in "Innocents Abroad"
| died at Colorado Springs, Col. aged IS
| years.