The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-06-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June Is.

For the Week Ending June IS.
Fire destroyed % business houses at
Conroe, Tex.
Mrs. Mary Bunton died in Martinsville,
Ind, aged 104 years.
A cousin of Charley Ross was kidnapped
at Atlantic City, N. j.
Exports for May showed large increase
over the preceding year.
The warship Oregon arrived at San
Francisco from the Philippines.
Out of 62 applications for pardon Gov.
Yates of Illinois granted only one.
A farmer at Hastings, Neb.. was swim
died out of 81 500 by confidence men.
Hazen s. Pingree, former governor of
Michigan is seriously i'll in London.
Barney Morris celebrated in Brooklyn.
N. Y. his one hundred and ninth birthday.
The University of Glasgow has conferred
the degree of LID. upon Andrew Car
nege.
Joseph Marobec was arrested in Chicago
for making his family live on three cents
a day.
Plow manufacturers completed arrange
mentS for forming a trust with $75, 200, Wv
capital.
o. S. Bryant killed his young wife and
himself at Louisville, Ill. Jealousy was
the cause.
c. W. Raymond. of Watseka, H., has
been appointed federal judge for the Indian
Territory.
The Texas legislature will meet in extra
session on August TO redistrict the state
for congress.
Admiral Seymour, speaking at Shanghai,
says America is Britain's greatest COM
mercial rival. .t RI
Prof. Truman Henry Stafford, famous
mathematician and astronomer, oleu III
Newark, n. j.
Tricey Griffin (colored) was hanged at
Brunswick Ga for the murder of K.
Marion Latimer.
London learns that the United States
steel corporation is planning to go after
the trade of the world.
Rev. Richard D. Harlan. of Rochester,
N. ~, has been elected president OF Lake
Forest Qll9 university.
Eddie Guerin. a notorious Chicago
crook, is a prisoner in Paris. France, for
daring express robbery.
In a runaway at Anderson, Ind, Miss
Bertha Stewart jumped from the buggy
and was instantly killed.
Interesting exercises were held at the
University of Chicago Friday, beginning
the decennial celebration.
Engineering students from Michigan
university are employed in place OF strlk-
ing machinists at Detroit.
Fire in the ship yards near st. Peters
burg, Russia, caused loss of SI0oO,Oou
and y persons were killed.
The 10 negroes threatened with lynching
at Shreveport, La. have been taken from
the mob and placed in Jail.
The Institute of Medical Research, found
ed by John D. Rockefeller with gift of
$500 900, has been incorporated.
C. A. Pearson, owner of the London
Daily Express and 10 other English pub
locations, arrived in New York.
The headless body of woman found
near Lowell, Mass, has been identified as
that of Mrs. Margaret Blondin.
Explorer Baldwin sailed from New
York Tor England, beginning the first
stage of his trip to the north pole.
Chicago owners of Indiana coal mines
are said to be planning combination that
will result in a $4,000 coo coal trust.
Secretary Root has ordered large num-
Der of officers to relinquish easy posts and
join their regiments in the Philippines.
The annual report of the chamber OF
commerce of New York shows that Amer
ica's trade balance is wellaover $500, 600, 600
James McLoid. a white man under ar.
rest for stealing pony, was taken from
Jail by mob and lynched at Hamburg,
Ark.
The isthmian canal commission in its
Forthcoming report increases its estimate
of the value of the Panama route by $4,-
600, 600.
Three Thousand veterans or the Soutn
African campaign were given medals by
King Edward at an Immense parade in
London
Revs. James Chalmers and B. F. Tom
kins and IA native teachers were killed
by cannibals in New Guinea and the whites
were eaten.
1t is reported the Erie road will absorb
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton. and
that the Big Four will acquire the Cincin-
natl Northern.
Lewis Hartman. of New York. killed
Rose VioIetta, an actress. at the Great
Northern hotel in Chicago and then COM
mitted suicide.
The seventy-second commencement of
Illinois college was held at Jacksonville
A gift of $50, 600 by Dr. D. K. Pearsons was
officially announced.
A negro appeared at an open air con-
cert in New York with fiery shirt waist
and mob chased him several blocks, tear
ing off the garment.
Blunders have been disclosed by the pub
LEGATION of laws passed by the last Illinois
legislature. One bill that failed to pass
was approved by the governor %
Indictments were returned against Liant
Salisbury. city attorney of Grand Rapids,
Mich, and four others accused of bribery
in connection with the waterworks deal.
The Vanderbilts and other large interests
have formed a company to control trans
portation and industries of Nova Scotia
and establish an extensive line of steam
ships.
Princeton college held it's one hundred
and fifty-fourth commencement, Columbia
university its one hundred and fOrty-SeV-