The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-29
TILE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March 23.

For the Week Ending March d.
Miss. for robbery.
Fire almost entirely DESTROYED the viii
lage of Tiptonville, Tenn.
Portland, Mich. was under water be-
cause of an ice gorge il Grand river.
The warship Massachusetts, has been
hoated at Pensacola without damage.
The California legislature appropriated
S2oO,oD0 to purchase and preserve The red
wood forests.
The PRESIDENT has appointed Frederick f..
Coyne, now collector at Chicago, postmas-
ter of that city.
Mrs. Kate Green celebrated her one hum
dred and eleventh birthday at her home in
Coldwater, Mich
Gov. Voorhees, has signed bill dividing
New Jersey into ten, instead of eight, con-
gressional districts.
Three churches in New York city re-
fused to accept money raised by the Tam
many organization.
Three million boxes of oranges are rot
ting in California orchards owing to lack
OF shipping facilities.
1t is denied at me whit. house that ex-
Senator Wolcott. of Colorado. is to be Sec
rotary of the interior
Fire destroyed the jerks Shipbuilding
company plant IN Fort huron, MICH, en-
failing loss of $4,000.
Omaha police say the confession of man
in Dallas, Tex, to the Cudahy kidnapping
is trick to get the reward,
The British foreign office fears the re-
lations between Russia and Japan may
soon reach the danger point.
Managers of English charities are lying
in wait for Andrew Carnegie to relieve him
Of some of his surplus wealth.
H. Barringer Cox, an Indianapolis sci
enlist, says he has discovered the law for
measuring iEtersteliar spaces.
The Minnesota legislature passed bill
prohibiting the manufacture. sale or giving
away OF cigarettes in the state
The first discovery OF oil in the southern
portion of West Virginia was made in a
S00-barrcl oil we'll drilled at Milton.
A new counterfeit nve-dollar national
bank note on the National Iron bank of
Morristown N. j., is in circulation.
The Wisconsin assembly passed a pri-
mary election bill which provides for NOM
nations by direct vote of the people.
The British house of commons has passed
a bill prohibiting the sale or delivery of
intoXicants to persons under 16 years of
age.
Charles Pfeifer fell dead in Brooklyn
while going for a doctor for his mother.
The mother was 0eao when the doctor ar
rived
Rev. DR.. Frederick a. Muhlenburg. one
of the best known Lutheran clergymen in
America, died in Reading, Pa, aged 81
years.
Guglielno Marconi in the United States
circuit court in New ork was recognized
as the sole inventor Of the wireless telc-
graph.
Cashier johnson. alleged wrecker of the
bank at Niles, Mich, captured in Column
bus. O., has been taken to Grand Rapids
for trial
]. P. Morgan G. Co. have absorbed the
Rockefeller steel interests, necessitatirS
$4,000 600 increase in the capital of the
steel trust
Sedition is rampant in Russia. and the
car has fled from s.. Petersburg. The
police have evidence Of a gigantic plot TO
kill the czar
Albert w. Wshard has been appointed
United States district attorney for Indiana.
and c. II. Petit United States marshal for
the same state.
The steambca- City 81 Poughkeepsie ran
on the rocks and sunk at Stony Point. n.
Y. All on board Were saved. The prop
erty loss is $l30,Gr0
W. S. Eden, managcr Of the Great North
ern hotel in Chicago. filed a petition in
1,
S6S and assets $780, Ill.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace. wife of the late
Gov. Wallace, of Indiana. died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. j. II. Steiner, at
Cataract aged S4 years.
The warehouse of J. S. Ford johnson 6:
Co.. chair manufacturers, Sixteenth street
and Indiana avenue, Chicago, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss. 5000 09O
A woman found dead in New York is be-
lieved to be the daughter of Thomas Low
ry, the Minneapolis millionaire, and wife
of H. F. Robinson, editor of the Chicago
Railway Age.
The Minnesota senate passed bill pro-
hbiting the marriage of insane, epilcptic
and idiotic persons. and requiring a medi-
cal certificate Of all applicants for mar
riage licenses.
The body of May Comstock, girl violin
list of the American conservatory of music,
was found buried in the sand on the Chi.
cago lake shore. Her father says worry
ever a $l2 debt drove her to suicide.
Prof Willis l.. Moore. chief of the
weather bureau. under the authority of
Secretary Wilson. has called the triennial
convention of weather bureau officials at
Milwaukee. Wis. August q TO % next.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson esti-
mated Tuesday that over So. 900 600 worth OF
Young live stock throughout the country
was saved during 1900 by the prompt use
of medicine for blackieg sent out by the
department.
The funeral services of Hon. Mark S.
Brewer eX-civil service commissioner,
who died in Washington. D. c.. last Tues
day, were held at Pontiac. Mich. Friday in
the First Presbyterian church. AT tho
conclusion of the ceremonies the body
WAS inferred in Oak Hill cemetery