The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May :o.

The village of Stoutsville, Mo-, was de-
stroyed by fire.
A cyclone struck Fort Mill, S. c.. and
many houses were wrecked
The Baldwin polar exhibition will start
for the arctic regions in June.
Mrs. Leah A. Robinson died at Victoria,
ILL.,, aged 101 years and months.
Former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
is to be fitted UP as a training ship.
The annual crow hunt near Elgin, H.,
resulted in the killing of 1.0S4 birds
Nearly the entire business portion or
Lily Lake, H., was destroyed by fire.
Four persons were hurt in a Rock Island
passenger wreck at West Wyanet. Ill.
Archibald A. Gibson. lieutenant governor
of Illinois in 1874. died in Wichita. Kan.
King Humbert of Italy had a narrow es-
cape from death in an elevator in Rome.
Iowa prohibitionsts have nominated A.
U. Coates, of Dallas county, for governor.
An explosion in a coal mine at Sem
ghenydG, Wales, caused the loss of 73 lives.
Russian warships have been authorized
to buy stores in the United States free of
duty.
A thoroughbred Hereford cow brought
$1,000 at a sale in Chicago. the highest price
on record.
Charles T. Yerkes has sold the Chicago
Inter Ocean to George Wheeler Human its
Three British officers and nearly 100 men
are in Portland prison for treason TO the
flag in South Africa.
Robbers blew open the post office safe
at Buena Vista, Miss. and secured s50o In
stamps and money.
Admiral Schley whose return from E'i-
rope was FASTENED by illness of his son,
has reached New York.
The police in San Ygnacio Mexico. I'M
earthed complete outfit for making coun-
terfeit American money
Mrs. Charles F. GunZert shot and killed
her l3-year-old son ard then committed
suicide at Tacoma, Wash.
Census returns for Ireland show popu-
lation of 4,456, 546 decrease OF 53 per Gems
since the previous census.
The United States cutter Grant was
wrecked in Saanch inlet, near Victoria.
and may prove total loss.
Fire damaged the plant of the w. D.
Boyce Paper Mills company at Marseilles.
ILL.,. to the extent of $2OOOOO
The Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the
World has voted to expel members who en-
gage in the liquor business.
Weston Rowland, the discoverer of the
method Of refining petroleum. died at FAR
haven, Mass, aged sc years.
One hundred Filipinos from various is
lands of the archipelago will be a feature
of the Buffalo IN. " exposition.
A national tax conference assembled at
Buffalo, N. Y, to discuss reforms in fed
eral, state and municipal methods.
Edison has perfected storage battery
which it is believed will revolutionize the
use of electricity as motive power.
Elmer Lane cut his wife's throat al, Os-
ceola, Ia, and then LSed the knife on him.
self. Domestic trouble was the cause.
Emperor William has issued orders ex-
GLIDING newspaper reporters from all pub
lie functions where he intends to speak.
Under the operation of the new commuta-
ton law about 1000 convcts will be re-
leased from the prisons of Pennsylvania.
Machinists will demand shorter hours
without decrease in pay on all railway
systems in the United States and Canada
Two more bodies were recovered from
the wreck of the City of Paducah near Car
bondale, ILL.,, making the total loss OF
life q.
The country home of Thomas B. Wana.
maker at Meadow Brook, Pa. was struck
by lightning and burned. the loss being
$500, 600.
Senator NJ A. Hanna has been mustered
in as a member of Memorial post of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Cleve-
land. o.
James B. Kicks (dem) was elected to the
Illinois supreme bench from the Second
district, to succeed the late justice Jesse j.
Phillips.
Benjamin Atkins attempted to stop Den
mis- d. Mccarthy, in Chicago, from beating
the latters son and was killed by the father
by fist blow
The Presbyterian general assembly in
Philadelphia by q decisive vote decided to
continue consideration of the question OF
creed revision.
Sir Alfred Miner, British high commits.
sioner to South Africa, has arrived in Lon
don and has been elevated to the peerags
by King Edward.
Queen Victoria's birthday was observed
at London by the impressive ceremony OF
trooping the colors. in which King Edward
and the horse guards participated.
Treasury officials are taking steps to
have the Chinese exclusion act extended to
Cuba to prevent Mongoians coming to the
United States through that gateway.
France expects 10 develop second Egypt
along the course of the Niger river. The
government expedition proves the river
to be navigable and the country fertile.
The government will curtail the business
of San Francisco pension sharks. who are
found to have induced soldiers returning
from the Philippines to swear falsely.
Figures prepared by the commissioner
of internal revenue how the receipts an
DER the war revenue act from the date OF
its passage to April so last were $500. l37. Ssh
The Kate Shelley bridge. which spans the
Des Moines river near Boone. Ia. has been
formally opened. 1t was named after a
young woman whose heroic act several
years ago saved d passenger train.