The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-04-12
THE NEWS, In BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April g.

For the Week Ending April g.
The present condition of the. cereal
crops indicate a splendid yield.
| By a vote of Is to II the Wisconsin
senate killed the anti-cigarette BILL
Almost the entire business portion OF
Augusta, Mont. was destroyed by fire.
Michigan university defeated Chicago
| university in their annual debate in Chi
| cago.
The present condition of the cereal
crops in the country indicates splendid
yield.
Missionaries are preparing to reorgan-
ize their work in outlying Chinese dis
tricts.
Illinois is to get 25 commissions in the
| army list authorized by the law recently
passed.
Almost the entire business portion of
| the little town of Lehigh. Ia. was swept
away by fire.
Turkey has agreed to settle the long
| standing American claims, and payment is
| expected soon ID
| The war department will promote army
officers who helped Gen. Funston to cap
| ture Aguinal6o.
The famous temple Hommongi at Ike
| gami, Japan, was burned. 1t was erected
! in the year 275.
The Minnesota legislature passed law
providing for nomination of candidates
| by primary election.
A hymn book in which Polish indc-
| pendence is advocated has been sup
| pressed by Germany.
| Miss Rose P. Duffey. aged 10. deputy
| postmaster at Parnell, Ia. is charged
! with embeZZling 81, 600.
| The war department is advised by Gen.
| Macarthur that the Manila commissary
| frauds are unimportant.
British parliamentary committee
| recommended annual allowance of
| So, 900 for King Edwrad.
| Two women at Newkirk, Okla, fought
| a duel with revolvers at 20 PAGES, one
| of them being shot twice.
The silver service for the battleship
| Illinois has been completed 1t consists
| of ten pieces and cost 5000.
+ The new White Star steamer Celtic.
| the largest vessel ever built was sue
cessfully launched at Belfast.
Municipal elections are to be held
| throughout Cuba on June l. Fifteen days
| will be allowed for registration.
| One of the Detroit (Mich) plants OF
| the American Radiator company was
! burned, causing a loss of $4,000.
Mrs. Opheiia Meyer, aged IS years.
threw herself in front of a train at
| Celino. o.. and was cut to pieces.
| Gen. George T. Anderson. the famous
at Admission, Ala, aged n years.
Two brothers. George and James Todd,
| were killed by the explosion of boiler
| in a sawmll near Ketterman, Mo.
| A movement has been inaugurated in In
| dianapolis to,erect a suitable monument TO
the memory of Benjamin Harrison.
The Wisconsin senate has defeated a.
| proposed constitutional amendment per-
hitting the use of voting machines.
| S,1it In no limited
| court at New Orleans to stop the shipment
Of mules to the British in South Africa.
E. C. Griffith, of Rhole Island, won the
| grand American handicap in the shoot
off of the ties at Interstate Park, l.. l.
The Kiowa, Comanche Apache and
| Wichita reservations in Oklahoma will
be opened for settlement on August g.
AT Parkersburg. w. Va, Mrs Morris,
while insane held the head of her baby
in the fire until it was burned to death.
| Gen. Cassius M. Clay with a rifle pre-
vented deputy sheriffs' from levying on
| furniture in his house at Whitehall, Ky.
BY the terms of a bill passed by the
house at Springfield kidnapping for ram
som is made capital offense in Illinois.
| The Vanderbilts have acquired control
| of the Delaware & Hudson road. which
| will be merged into the New York Gen.
trail.
| In two days 1000 immigrants from Eu-
rope passed through Chicago route
to homes in Minnesota and North Da-
| kota.
Valet Jones confessed the cold-blooded
| murder of aged Millionaire Rice in New
York, charging Lawyer Patrick as insti-
| gator
| Republican leaders in Washington
| started movement to discourage the
| formation of large industrial combina-
| lions.
Mrs William Carroll was burned to
| death at Lincoln, ILL.,. by a lamp eXplo-
| sion, and her husband was fatally
| burned.
For the first time in the history of Ha-
vana, Cuba, the month of April begins
| without a single case of yellow fever in
| the city. 49,.
John Gulick killed his mother, aged 6a
years. and his brother, aged q, at Klein s
Grove. Pa. and escaped Cause for the
| crime unknown.
Marrying Pastor Mecse, of Auburn.
| Ind, reached his fifteen hundredth we'd
| ding by officiating at his grandsons mar
i riage in Chicago.
! The largest irrigation canal in the world
| was opened and the waters of the Colorado
| river were turned in at the head Gates
| below Yuma. Ariz.
! The mayor and aldermen of Kansas City.
| Kan, were forced by threats of hanging to
| pledge themselves to defeat a street rail-
| way franchise ordinance.
| Civil officers are said to have located
| the S722 900 stolen by Capt. Oberlin M.
| Carter and his associates. and the ar
| rest of we'll known men charged with
| protecting Carter is likely to follow ,