The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-01
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

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Client piling on which the city stands
has decayed and the city will De
stroyed Campanile destructioE a
forerunner.
The Ohio legislature has been called
to meet August rs by Gov. Nash to pro-
vide new laws for city governments,
which the supreme court held invalid.
Secretary Shaw denies the reported
statement that he favored five-year
limit to service in the treasury depart
ment.
Fire at Brookside, Ala, destroyed
four business houses and 40 resi-
dences.
Theweather bureau crop report says
corn has made splendid progress, ex-
cept where destroyed by floods. Rains
have interfered with harvesting.
abe Deal was hanged at Port Glib
son. Miss, for the killing of Barge
Miller. Both were negroes.
Ashley Cooke and Tom Lauderdale
were hanged at Greenville, Miss, for
the murder of G. w. Wray.
Engineer Conaty and Fireman Mus
ter were killed by the explosion of a
railway engine near Olney, III.
Santos-Dumont has arrived at New
York and declares he will be able to
sail Brighton Beach airships around
the statue of liberty.
Steve West (colored) was hanged at
Vicksburg, Miss, for the murder of
Minnie Fisher, a 19-year-old negro
girl. year ago.
Seven hundred trees in the Chicago
West side parks and boulevards were
destroyed or damaged by a storm.
Twenty-three thousand and forty
acres of land on the Siletz Indian res
ervation in Lincoln county, Ore, have
been thrown open for settlement.
Col. r. NJ. O'Reilley has been appoint
I'd surgeon general of the army, to sue
ceed Gen. Forwood, who will retire on
september Z.
Maj. Gen. John r. Brooke has re-
tired after Al years service, and Maj
Sen. Macarthur succeeds him in COM
mand of the department of the east.
Senator McLaurin, of South Caro-
lima, has declined the tender by the
president of vacancy on the United
states court OF CLAIMS.
w. r. Wells was hanged at Atlanta,
Ga, for the murder of Frederick
Pierce.
Joshua Wall (colored) died in the
prison at Michigan City, Ind, aged 1o2
years.
The striking anthracite miners are
troubled by the distribution of the
100000 week relief fund unions are
to contribute; nearly 100000 persons
are likely to claim aid.
John w. Mackay, who died in Lon
don, will be buried in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He left an estate valued at $40, 100000.
A census report shows that the value
of all farms in the United States in
1900 was $16,674, 1894, PAT.
Administration officials think much
has been gained by Gov. Taft's visit to
Rome, and that the friar problem is
nearer settlement.
Russell Sage narrowly escaped being
killed while trying to board New
York street car.
Rev. Walter Galley, of Boston, has
accepted the position of general sec
rotary of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America.
The damage done to farms by floods
along rs miles of river frontage in Mis-
souri, is placed at $5,O0O,OOO.
Ellsworth, Wis, with 1900 popula-
ton, is the healthiest town in the
United States. Only two deaths &C.
Cured there in 1901.
Adolph S. Ochs has bought the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger for $2,25O,00O.
The navy department is troubled to
find ships enough for watching South
American and West Indies rebellions.
Archbishop Ireland has rebuked
Roman Catholics who attacked the
policy of President Roosevelt in the
Philippine church question.
Two unknown negroes were lynched
by mob at Womelsdorf, w. Va, for
completely in the murder of officer
Wilmoth July %.
A tornado near Indianapolis killed
Eleanor Wilson and his stepson and
destroyed a number of barns and a
church.
James Larson killed Mary Robert
son at Parsons, Kan, because she
refused to marry him, and then
killed himself.
A Panhandle limited train was
wrecked near Xenia, O., and three
passengers were burned to death in
sleeping car and the engineer and
fireman were killed.
A coach on the Baltimore e. Ohio
road jumped trestle and fell 40 feet
at Donda. o., and two persons were
killed and % injured.
A Rock Island train jumped the track
near South Omaha, Neb., killing the
fireman and fatally injuring the con-
ductor.
President Roosevelt reviewed brig
ade of the New Jersey national guard
at Sea Girt and delivered an address
eulogizing citizen soldiery as the ma
tiona main dependence in time of war