The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-22
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Thirtytwo men and boys have made
affidavit that they were taken from
New York a week ago. by detective
for one of the railroad lines and, in a
locked car, were sent to Pittston, Pa,
where they were compelled to work in
the washeries connected with the coal
mines.
A gang of robbers dynamited the
postoffice safe at East Palestine, O.,
and secured $500 in cash and $500 in
stamps.
Gen. Alger announces himself as
candidate for United States senator to
succeed the late James Macmillan.
After causing the arrest of two men
on the charge of stealing $4,000, Miss
Frances A. Spur of Chicago has found
the money in one of her old slippers,
where it had been placed without her
knowledge.
The 16-month-old son of Hans H. An
derson, of Brookville, Mimi, was
drowned by accidentally fal ling into a
tub of rain water.
John Warren, who was hanged at
Grosbeck, Texas, for the murder of a
storekeeper named Dock Stevens, sold
his body before execution for SIS.
The American Tin Plate works at
Elwood. Ind, has shut down indefn-
itely.
During the last few days several Ha-
vana newspapers have been making
violent onslaughts upon the chief ex-
ecutive of the republic, accusing him
of incompetency, ignorance and weak
ness in not having as yet done any
thing useful for the country.
The lower portion of the City of At
talta, Mexico, on the Pacific coast, was
swept by tidal wave and wiped out
of existence.
Fire damaged the Pike opera house,
Cincinnati, O., to the extent of SIS, 900.
The fire was started by cigarette.
Gen. Irving Hale, of Denver was
elected president of the Society of the
Army of the Philippines.
Police were called upon to protect
the stables of the large department
stores in Chicago. Some days ago the
stablemen strike of all men employed
by the stores.
Eight months without criminal &C
ton of any description, not even an
ordinary case of drunk is the remark
able record of Glenwood, Wis, city
of more than 1 ,OOG Inhabitants.
Extreme simplicity marked the flu
neral services over the late Senator
Mcmillan at Detroit, Mich, the 18th.
Luther Marsh, the noted spiritualist
and iurist died at Middleton, N. Y.
Co. VIM A. Hemphill, former may
or of Atlanta, Ga, and founder of the
Atlanta Constitution is dead.
A grave in which c. S. Morris was
supposed to have been buried at Guth-
Okla, was opened recently and found
to be empty.
Fierce forest fires are raging about
Florence, Wis.
Walter Newman was robbed murder
ferson, Tenn.
| In collision between two freights
near Humboldt, Iowa, Conductor Roe
Harlan was killed and six stockmen
were injured.
A man giving his name as John Silas
was shot and badly wounded while try
ing to burglarize the store of j. w.
Hines, at Campbell, Ia.
In fight over claim in Oklahoma,
Edward and Alexander Winns, broth
ers, were killed by Sam Dixon and
William Smiley.
| A. B. Cornell, former governor of
New York, is losing his mind by soft
ening of the brain.
| The National Winona Bible confer
ence convened at Warsaw, Ind.
A site for the $40, 900, 900 cotton mill
projected by eastern and Missouri and
Kansas capitalists, has been selected
at Hollidy, Kas., fourteen miles west
of Kansas City.
The United States war department
has bought of Herr Ehrhardt, a gun
maker of Dusseldorf, Germany, the
fright to re-arm the American field ar
tillery with Herr Ehrhardts new piece.
The Elgin, ILL.,, Creamery company,
operating 1875 creameries throughout
Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, failed
for 100000 There are nearly $4,000
creditors.
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