The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-06-20

| the Boer army, reached London and
was arrested on treason charge.
Sidi Ali, the hey of Tunis, died at
the age of IS years.
The British government is plan
ming to appoint a commission to in
| quire into the South African war.
The Bank of France lost 100000
francs by the ingenious fraud of d
! trusted employe.
Gonzales de Queseda,. the Cuban
minister to the United States, has ar.
rived in Washington with his family.
LATER.
President Roosevelt sent message
F; to congress pressing for action which
shall grant reciprocity to Cuba. From
sources close to the president it is
learned that he was influenced to take
this action solely by the broad ques-
ton of the duty of the United States
to Cuba. In his message, President
Roosevelt gives sharp and decisive an
swer to those who had claimed that
there would be a pause in Cuban reci-
procity legislation because it had been
said that the American Sugar company
was using that legislation to further
| its interests.
Alexander City, Ala, a place of 1, 500
iuha bitants, was completely wiped out
by fire, the loss reaching $780,
The street car strike at Sheboygan,
Wis, has been settled, the men get
ting an advance in wages.
Fire broke out in the mill of HI. M
Rosenblatt e. Co., manufacturers of
leather goods, Philadelphia, and de-
stroyed that plant and several adioin-
ing properties, including the Third Re-
formed Presbyterian church.
Frank Johnson, middle-aged labor
| ing man, was killed on a farm west of
Appleton, MINI. He was sleeping in
haymow and boy went to put down
some hay and threw his fork into a
pile of hay, striking johnson in the
temple, killing him instantly.
Herman o. Moritz, a Brooklyn in
ventor, 81 years old, was killed at
Coney Island, N. Y, by a device on the
invention of which he had spent more
than a quarter of century and all his
savings. Moritz' invention was an
aerial toboggan slide.
The cholera epidemic in Manila is
gaining Roadway. \
Bessie Bonehill the actress is dying
from a cancer in hote l in London.
The first gold from Klondike this
season arrived at Vancouver, B. c., on
the steamer Princess May.
The president has sig ned the river
and harbor bill.
The lower house of congress passed
the irrigation bill by vote of LAG to
| SIS.
Thoswald Hanson was hanged at
Montreal, Cauada, for the murder of
Eric Marotte, 9-year-old boy in or
der to obtain II cents the boy had in
his hands.
1t was announced that S64 Trans
vaal Beers surrendered the 18th, bring
ing the total of surrenders of all the
colonies up to about $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Sassanalli died at Youngs-
d
double-barreled shotgun in the hands
of Vincenzo Aduasio. The woman's
husband and Aduasio quarreled over a
card game and Aduasio attempted to
shoot him. The woman ran for po-
liceman and Adusio turned the gun on
her.
Commander Edwin Deer of Maryland
has been elected president of the Ma
tional Militia association.
New York bootblacks have formed a
union, with 800 members. They pro-
pose to hoist prices.
Eddie Guerin, Chicago thief, was
sentenced to life imprisonment by the
courts of Paris.
Ike Bradford was sentenced at Des
Moines, Ia, to II years imprisonment
for participating in hold-up with his
son, aged IS, who recently received a
2O-year sentence. They secured 81 by
| their crime
Rev. Joseph Lindsey, who has been
for years minister of the Christian
church in Southern Illinois, is in Jail
at Carbondale, charged with robbing
George Wright, a DeSoto farmer.
Senator Proctor introduced bill au-
thorizing the president to appoint
Captain Charles =. Clark, late of the
battleship Oregon, a rear admiral
Anna Dyer and her 12-year-old daugh-
ter were found dead, hanging from the
ceiling of their home at Okfugee, in
the heart of the Creek nation.
The storm which swept over the CEN
trail part of Michigan developed into a
tornado in the northeastern portion of
the state, where it reaped harvest of
six victims.
Senator Elkins introduced joint
resolution in the senate providing for
the annexation of Cuba and it's admis-
sion as a state.