The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending April 27.

Fire destroyed IL business houses at Dan
vile. Va.
Fire destroyed one-half the business Sec
ton of Plainview. Neb.
Lieut. Gillespie, who located Aguinaldo
has arrived at San Francisco.
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in Columbus June %.
The police at Peru. Ind. have broken VI
a gang of alleged counterfeiters.
The president has ordered Washington
relics restored to the Lee family
Three men were burned to death ano
three injured in fire in Chicago.
Arabs are reported to have massacreo
900 inhabitants of an Algerian village
The bank of G. j. Baetke & Co. a.
Brighton. Mich. was robbed of $4,000
Consolidation of all labor unions into one
big organization is the aim of labor men,
An electrician at Portland. Me-, sho'
four persons fatally in an insane frenzy.
American Pugilist Smith died from the
effects of his fight with Roberts in London
The Rosebud mine at Aurora. Mo. cavee
in and buried five men at depth OF ll'
feet.
The pope has ordered friars in the Phil
ippines to emigrate to Venezuela and Ecu
ador.
The famous battleship Maine will likel,
tumn.
Two men were killed and 70 hurt in q
Cincinnati, Hamilton G. Dayton wreck neal
Dayton. O.
Parliament refused to permit the estab
lishment of Roman Catholic universitJ
in Ireland.
Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton, Ky.
for the murder of Emma Cara Rice, hi:
sweetheart
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged a
Uniontown. Pa. for the murder of VIII
liam Lowdon.
Mayor Leonard, of Waltham. Mass. is
sued an order to the police to stop public
whist parties.
Shamrock H.. challenger for America
cup, was successfully launched at Lumbar
ton, Scotland.
A $50 OOO, 900 steel plant is to be built alons
the Sault Ste Marie canal. to employ H.,
600 workmen.
The Michigan house of representative!
passed by unanimous vote stringent anti
cigarette law.
The Western league baseball season
opened with victories for Indianapolis, TO
ledo and Dayton.
Over 20 banks have suspended paymen
at Osaka and in the southern and centra
provinces of Japan.
The largest beet sugar plant in the worlt
is to be established in the Arkansas Rivel
valley in Colorado.
Gen o. A. Miller, one of Indana's ia
nous heroes of the civil war, died a
Lebanon. aged "A years.
M. Louis GODDARD the French aeron2ut
will attempt to cross the Atlantic in A bal
loon carrying nine persons.
Mrs. Hannah Kjoren, widow, and hel
two boys were burned to death in thei
home near Galesburg, S. D.
Police Chief Ripley. of Chicago, resigned
after being informed by the mayor tina
he would not be reappointed.
Rev. Lyman H. Sherwood, founder anC
head of the Lyons Musical academy, dlet
in Lyons, N. Y, aged u years.
In bicycle race at San Jose, Cal, Bur
ton Downing broke the worlds one-hal
mile amateur record in 80 fiat
Adelbert Hay, son of the secretary o
state, has resigned his post as United
States consul general at Pretoria
W. F. L. Hadley, of Edwardsville, ex
member of congress from the Eighteenth
Illinois district, died at Riverside, Cal.
DR.. Horatio Guzman. for many year,
minister from Nicaragua to the United
States, died in Washington. aged so years
James M Marvin, representative in tht
Thirty EIGHT, Thirty-ninth and Forfeit
congresses, died at Saratoga, N. Y. aged g.
years.
Gen. Ludlow has been invaided home
from the Philippines, an attack of grippe
having developed into dangerous case OF
tuberculosis.
The secretary of war made public the
names of 5SS men selected for first and sec
ond lieutenantS in the regular army or
ganization bill.
car has ordered the expulsion from Rus
STA of Count Tolstoi. and that the decree
has been served.
fast mail train on the Northw esterr
made a squirt of nine miles in six minutes
and passed so swiftly that those watching
could not distinguish it.
Secretary Hay will prepare a new cana
treaty. which he thinks can be drawn sc
that it will prove acceptable to Great Brit.
ain and the United States
Conmissary Sergt. John Weston has
been sentenced to dishonorabie discharge
and two years in prison for completely in
commissary frauds at Manila.
The Curard steamer Saxonia sailed Tues.
day from Liverpool for Boston. carrying
2,260 passengers. the largest number ever
crossing the Atlantic tr one vessel.
Craig Nos. Nine. Adelina PATHS castle
In Wales. will be sold at auction in London
June Is. Wealthy Americans are expected
to bid for the magnificent property.
Details of the plan for the army reorgani.
cation are completed by Gen Miles and ap.
proved by Secretary Root / provides for
49, $50 infantry. 15,S4O cavalry. Is. $50 artillery
and ! PAS Engineers.
The Cunard line will install a wireless
telegraph system by which vessels may be
reported when within Is hours of their deS-
tina ton. 1t is the first transatlantic line
to adopt the method.
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