The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-02-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Feb. 49,.

For the Week Ending Feb. 16.
Five 81, 600 bills were stolen from bank in
Kansas City. Mo. .
President Mckinley gave state dinner
to foreign ENJOYS.
The Missouri senate passed a bill to pun
lsh kidnapping with death.
Tesla has completed plans to send wire
less message across the ocean.
Lincoln's birthday was very generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
The high school at Rock Island. ILL.,. was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $91, 900.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt az
Memphis and Union City, Tenn.
Mrs. T. c. Plat, wife of Senator Plat,
died in New York, aged 66 years.
Elizabeth Van Hoenenberg died at her
home in Kingston, N. Y, aged 100 years.
The Kansas senate defeated the bill to
restore capital punishment in that state.
Andrew Carnegie is to give fund for
Lincoln Memorial library at Springfield.
Ill.
]. c. Loomiller, wealthy blind man.
was murdered near his home at Hazleton'
Ind.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her eighty
first birthday at her home in Rochester,
N. Y.
The Mardi Gras carnival was formally
opened in New Orleans with the Momus
parade.
Marshall S. Pike, poet. singer and actor,
died at his home in Upton, Mass, aged
50 years.
Vice Presfdent-elect Roosevelt and his
party have ended their famous hunt IN
Colorado.
The senate has confirmed the nomination
of Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles to be lieuten-
ant general.
William H. Halle former lieutenant gov.
ernor of Massachusetts, died at Springfield,
aged 81 years.
The. Presbyterian committee has de.
cided that a change in the creed OF the
church is necessary.
The imports of the United States in jan
uary last amounted to $69, 1874 and the
exports were 33,,39O,OS2
Albert Nelson, II years old, entered a
tigers cage in the Zoo at Indianapolis ana
was attacked and killed
Violent earthquake shocks in Mexico dld
much damage in Chilpancingo, Mescaia'
Dos Dios and other cities.
Alexander w. Longfellow, brother OF
the poet, Henry w. Longfellow, died at
Portland, Me-, aged Sc years.
Sixty workmen were intombed In the
Union mines, Cumberland. B. c.. and all
are believed to have persisted.
George w. Brintnail, war veteran, who
was known as the drummer poy VI
Shiloh" died in Lancaster. Pa.
John Hooker, clerk and reporter for the
Connecticut supreme court for &c years,
died in Hartford, aged IS years.
The federal court in Porto Rico decided
that the executive council cannot be en-
Joined from granting franchises.
A new SIC, 900, 900 corporation, it is said, Is
being formed in Chicago for the purpose of
controlling the tin-can industry.
Judge James Monroe Jackson died at
Parkersburg, w. Va, aged 76 years. He
was an ex-member of congress.
Peggy Jones (colored) died at Client, KY,
aged 1O4 years. Her oldest living child,
Charlotte, is over 100 years old.
George Vance, 20 years old, paroled
convict, presented a forged check in Chi
cago to get back to Joliet prison.
The duke of Connaught has been made
grand master of the grand lodge of Eng
lish masons to succeed King Edward.
George Thomas (colored) was hanged at
Beaufort, S. c., for assaulting Mrs. John
Dunkerly, of Savannah, nearly year ago.
Connecticut, Louisiana. Tennessee and
Washington have been selected as the
names of the four new warshipS to be built.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that the
Shanhaikwan and killed four officers and 40
men.
The Kansas senate passed a bill desig-
mating places where liquor is sold as pub
tic nuisances and providing means to sup
press them.
Joseph B. Hinton, aged % years, a re.
jected sutton, shot and killed Maggia
Shurtz, aged II, and then killed himself at
Logan, Kan.