The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-03-15
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March Q.

For the Week Ending March ..
Chicago republicans nominated Judge
Hanecy for mayor.
HaZers exploded a bomb in Smell hall at
the Chicago university.
Chris. L. Magee, Quay's foe in politics,
died at Harrisburg, Pa.
James Callahan was held as a Cudahy
kidnaper under 1000 bonds.
S~eventy-two pilgrims were drowned dur
ing a storm on the Black sea.
A white convict was whipped to death
In a camp near Winston, NJ
Sagasta formed a new Spanish cabinet.
with Weyler as minister of war.
The Maryland legislature met in special
session to revise the election law.
Two men were killed and seven hurt by
the fall of an levator at Moline. III.
The government is soon to open 5000. 900
acres of Indian lands to settlement
The Montana legislature elected Paris
Gibson (dem.) United States senator.
The First national bank of Niles, Mich.
was forced by a run to close its doors.
The Dressmakers' Protective association
of America was organized in New York.
Ten persons were killed by an explosion
in a coal mine at Ge%lsenkirchen. Prussia.
Lord Pauncefote will represent Great
Britain at Washington for another year.
The wife and two children of Postmaster
Morgan were killed by lightning at Welsh,
Ga.
Carter Fl. Harrison has been renomin-
ated for mayor of Chicago by the DEM
ocrats.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine and Mrs. Cyrus Nc
Cormick gave the University of Chicago
$100, 900.
Fourteen students of Lawrence univer-
sity, at Appleton, Wis, were suspended
for dancing.
The Lake Shore road has established a
school for apprentices in its mechanical
departments.
Mrs. Anna Porter Douglas celebrated
her one hundredth birthday at her home
in Frankfort, Ind.
The Inter Island Telegraph company Of
Hawaii is the first wireless system to be
opened for business.
Isaac M. Gregory, editor of the Judge, a
humorous weekly, died in New York city,
aged about 65 years.
The import duties between the United
States and Porto Rico are not to be re-
pealed until March. 1902.
The windows in two of Hannah & Hogs
saloons in Chicago were smashed by self
styled "home defenders"
Proposals for the acquisition of the Pam
anna canal from Colombia have been sub
mitted to Secretary Hay.
Troops were called into service at Tip
ton, Ind. to protect an aged prisoner
threatened with lynching.
A memorial to naval heroes projected by
the Annapolis alumni will be erected in
Battery park, New York.
John G. A. Leishman. the newly appoint
ed United States minister to Turkey. has
arrived in Constantinople.
Nathan Simpson, Stanley Gordon and
Nilin Do ynn nornn hon O66 q r
Opelousas, La, for murder.
President Mckinley issued an executive
order removing export duty Oh tobacco
in Cuba, to take effect April l.
The British house of has been
asked to provide for an army of $780, 600 men
including a great force of cavalry.
Paris Gibson (democrat) was elected
United States senator from Montana. The
deadlock was broken by a stampede.
Presiding Elder Vaudeville forbid Duke
Parsons holiness exhorters to hold a re-
vival in a Methodist church in Chicago.
A dozen small bands of Yaqui Indians
are on the warpath in Sonora Mexico,
and have committed many depredations.
The story of John Wilson Durant's death
in a duel at Ostend, France, was a fake
invented by himself to break a betrothal.
j. Otis Humphrey has been nominated
by the president for judge of the district
bench for the Southern district of Illinois.
William E. Chandler, former senator
from New Hampshire. has been selected
as president of the Spanish claims commits
sion.
The Diamond Joe" railroad. q miles
long. between Malvern and Hot Springs.
Ark. has been sold TO the Missouri Pa.
ciic.
A workman threw a piece of iron into
the carriage Of Emperor William at Brem-
en-. inf1icting a slight wound on the kaiser's
cheek.
The grand jury of Anderson, S. c., in
dicted four prominent citizens for holding
negroes in slavery under the convict lease
system.
The Commercial club of Omaha ten
dered a reception to Gen. FitZhugh Lee. re-
firing commander of the department of
the Missouri.
An order allowing Russian war vessels
to purchase supplies of United States
bonded warehouses has been suspended by
the treasury department.
Kirby Graves, Bill Johnson and Henry
Brooks (negroes) were hanged at Rich
mond. Little River county, Ark. Friday,
at LEO o'clock for murder.
The Indiana Legislature passed a bill pro-
viding a penalty of death in extreme cases
and Imprisonment from ten years to a life
term for kidnapIng for ransom.
Frederick Kensel. of Somerville. Mass.
physically wrecked as a result of haZing,
has been forced to abandon his prospects
at West Point military academy.
In a test case brought before him Fri.
day County Judge Gregory. at Louisville,
Ky. held that the Pullman Palace Car
company is not a railroad. and that IT'S
rolling stock cannot be taxed as railroad
property is taxed.