The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-17
TILE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the week Ending May IL

| OE the week LhuIhS uAAy LIE
Evan Williams, ex-governor of Nevada,
| died in San Francisco.
| Justice King, Of the Ontario supreme
court died at Ottawa.
/ The cup defender Constitution was
| launched at Bristol. r. /.
| Harvard trustees voted to make Presi-
Gent Mckinley an LII. d.
Jackson Harris (colored), aged 100 years.
i died at Terre Haute, Ind
The village of Kendall, n. Y, was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Three men were burned to death in a
boarding house fire at Ottawa, Ont.
Seats collapsed in circus at Oil City,
| Pa, badly injuring dozen persons.
| Gen. Weyler ordered instant shooting of
! all engaging in disorders in Barcelona.
| Maryland corrected census figures re-
| duce the population of the state to 1,lSS,O44
Engineer Monk and Fireman Addison
| were killed in a railway wreck near Jop-
| lin, Mo.
New Jersey prohibitionists have NOM
| mated Joel w. Brown Of Jersey City, for
| governor.
Prof. ]. H. George, of Montreal, has been
elected president of the Chicago theological
| seminary.
| The Twenty-ninth infantry, United
| States volunteers, was mustered out at san
| FRANCISCO.
| rive men were fatally an
plosion of powder in mine at Wilkes
| barre. Pa
Cardinal Martineili was invested with
the red berretta by Cardinal Gibbons at
| Baltimore.
Policemen Sheehan and Mosher were
| found guilty in Chicago Of robbing Hugh
| McDougall.
In Mrs. Mary E. Owens Chicago has the
only patrolman in the world doing daily
| police duty.
| Washington advices say the educatioEa
| qualification for suffrage is growing II
public favor.
The schooner Fostoria sank in ST. Clai,
| river after collision with ice. Two sailors
were drowned.
EX-Treasurer Ladd, of Cuba. says the
| revenues of the island are not equal &c
the expenditures.
Col. E. F. Taggart, of Akron, has been
elected commander of the G. A. R., de.
| partment of Ohio.
Prof. r. G. Moulton told Junior students
at the University of Chicago that fiction
| was truer than fact.
All factories of the National Starch
company have been ordered closed because
of the corner in corn.
Expulsion of Italians from lola. Kan,
in labor fight is to be investigated by
the Italian government.
Former President Grover Cleveland made
100000 by the skyrocket fight of Northern
Pacific stock in New York.
John NJ. Carroll, who was member OF
the Forty-second congress, died at Johns.
| town, n. Y, aged IS years.
The Thirty-second infantry. United
States volunteers, has been mustered out
of service at San Francisco.
| Joseph Hush, living near Mishawaka
| Ind, celebrated his one hundred anc
eighth birthday anniversary
Industrial interests of Cuba urge annexa-
ton to the United States, fearing disaster
| if they lose American markets.
T. S. McClindy. in a fit of insanity. shot
| and killed Howard Baker and then killed
| himself at Boone's Ferry, Ore.
| Henry Johnson, a negro, was lynched
| at Valdosta, Ga. He had fired at young
white man, but did not hit him.
| Efforts are to be made at the next ses-
sion of congress to give the Interstate
| commerce committee more power.
! A decision of the comptroller of the
| treasury will make it easier hereafter to
1 keep out Objectionable immigrants.
Charles Foster, of Fostoria. O.. former
secretary of the treasury, filed petition
in bankruptcy with $7i7, COS liabilities.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
! plans to spend millions in improving the
northern division of the Omaha road.
The thirty-third annual convention of
| the National w oman suffrage dSSOcId'
| ton will convene in Minneapolis May 80.
E. w. Methever, who murdered Dor
| othy Mckee al Long Beach, Cal, in July,
1899, was hanged al San Quentin prison.
| Three thousand farm districts are now
| served by rural mail carriers at a cost Of
| s3,50O,O 900 a year. More routes are pro-
| jected.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, the American arctic
| explorer, says he has the best equipped eX-
| petition that ever started in search of the
north pole.
| Scott R. Wellington was arrested in
| Chicago, charged with proposing marriage
| to over score of women and obtaining
| their jewelry.
! Mayor Frank Moores, of Omaha. says a
| majority of the residents do not favor Sun
| day observance, and that hereafter every
| thing will be run wide open"
| Andrew Carnegie doubled his recent gift
| of 1872, 500 to the Iron and Steel Institute of
| London. In an address the donor declared
| England must adopt American methods.
| Prof Nichols. of Dartmouth college, in
| experiments with specially constructed in
| struments at Yerkes observatory, discov-
| ers and measures the heat radiated by the
| stars.
Miss Helen Gould, overcome by the strain
| of her extensive charitable work. has
| been ordered to take Il long rest and is be-
lieved to be suffering from nervous pros
| tration.
The seizure of William O'Brien's paper
| The Irish People. for libelous attack on
| King Edward was resented in the house of
| commons by John Dillon, who declared it a
| scheme to destroy opposition papers.
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