The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending March II

For the Week Ending March 18.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles has gone on a Cuban
tour.
Sixteen persons were killed in a tornado
in Arkansas.
The Pan-American exposition in Buffalo,
N. Y, will open May /.
The population of Germany is sc. 200, 900;
that of France, IS, 600. 900.
Mrs. Epley, of Cen1er, Ind. celebrated
her one hundredth birthday.
The duke and duchess Of York left Lon
don on a tour of the world.
Marconi, the wireless telegraphy In
ventor, arrived in New York.
The transport Indiana sailed from San
Francisco for Manila with troops.
Gov. Wells, of Utah, vetoed the bill
which legalized polygamy in the state.
A fierce blizzard in Michigan tied up all
railroad traffic north of Grand Rapids.
The report of President Diaz being seri-
ously i'll is denied at the City Of Mexico.
Millions of acres of public land in New
Mexico nave been fenced in by cattiemen.
Col. w. C. Sanger, of New York, has
been appointed assistant secretary OF war.
Henry Raab, ex-stalc superintendent of
education, died at his home in Belleville.
Ill.
Eleven passengers were injured by tho
ditching of a passenger train near Soldier,
al
Americans are trying to buy and reor-
ganiZe the sleeping car system OF all Eu-
rope.
The post office department will remove
as few fourth-class postmasters as pos
sible.
Foreigners of high station pay tribute to
the worth and work of Benjamin Har-
riSon.
c.. T. Gorham, former minister to The
Hague, died at Marshall. Mich, aged -
years.
Jimmy Coogan, a light weight pugilist.
was shot and killed in Denver by Frank
Salter.
One man was killed and four injured in
a fire in the Merchants hotel in WASH
ington.
Prof. Goodspeed was a victim Of hazing
by students in Smell hall, Chicago uni
versity.
Frank Sherman, of Washington. D. c..
won the pool championship of the world at
Boston.
A bill DISTINGUISHING 40, 900 illiterate
voters in Maryland was passed by the leg
i~slature.
c.. H. Duell, of New York. sent his resig-
nation as commissioner of patents to the
president.
A mail bag filled with registered letters
was stolen from a post office wagon at
Cleveland, o.
The Pennsylvania ompany is said to
have secured control Of the Baltimore 81
Ohio railroad.
Two trainmen were killed by a passenger
train running into a snowdrift at Lake
Station, Mich.
A Michigan posse shot and captured
three burglars near Pennington after tr-
ing 1000 times.
The census of India shows a population
of 294, 600, 900, an apparent increase OF 1000
900 in ten years.
Robbers blew open the safe of the Farm
ers' bank at New Madison. O., but failed
to get any booty.
The democratic city convention of Dem
son for city clerk.
Rear Admiral Sampson has received a
check for IS, 1896 prize money for his defeat
of Cervera's fleet.
Frank E. Corbett, speaker of the Mon
tana house of representatives, died in
Butte, aged 81 years.
Sixty persons, mostly negroes. are said
to have persisted in a fire in a turpentine
camp near Mobile, Ala.
1t is proposed that IS, 900. 900 be expended
IN the Blue Ridge mountains for a national
reserve or 2,OO0, OUO acres.
The Maine legislature refused to resub-
NIT to the people the prohibitory amend
ment to the constitution.
While testing a new patent life boat in
New York, Is men were thrown into the
water and one was drowned.
Alfred Stead, youngest son of w. z.
Stead, of London, and Miss Mary Elaine
Hussey were married at Indianapolis.
J. Pierpont Morgan's big steel trust pro-
poses to avoid labor troubles by establish
ing a permanent board of arbitration.
The Michigan Central railroad has or
dered 1000 new standard box cars from
the American Car Foundry company.
Gus Davis, a negro, was hanged at
Belleville, Tex, for the murder of Herman
Schluens, a white farmer, last December.
Mayor Gleischmann, of Cincinnati. an
nounced that no more permits for boxing
contests would be issued to athletic clubs.
Mrs. Richardson, widow of the Savan-
nah (Mo.) merchant who was murdered
last December, has been indicted for the
crime.
Ralph G.. Bateman killed his sweetheart.
Ella F. White. at Norwood, Mass, and
then committed suicide. Jealousy was the
cause.
Chancellor Won Buelow, in a speech in the
reichstag. announced Germany's policy in
China, and said his nation would not be
pushed out.
made successful experiments in lighting
up Niagara falls at night with great
searchlights.
President McKinley's signing of appro.
priation bills calling for $31S, III, 800 on Sum
day has alarmed officials lest they be de-
Elared illegal n compel an extra session
of congress.