The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
LATER.

| LATER.
A college building collapsed at LIE
Lerida, Spain. The directo-. and five
children persisted.
Emperor William of Germany offers
to present a bronze statue of Frederick
the Great to the people of the United
States. The statue will be erected in
Washington.
Andrew Carnegie offers to pay $780,
900, 900 for the Philippine islands, pro-
viding the United States would ac-
knowledge their independence.
the president sent to the senate the
nominations of Herbert Goldsmith
Squiers, New York, to be envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to the republic of Cuba, and Edward
S. Bragg, Wisconsin, consul general
at Havana.
Cornelius n. Bliss, national treas
urer of the West Indies relief fund,
said the 10th that he had received a
total of S54, 293 for the relief work.
English shipowners are prepa ring to
fight j. Pierpont Morgan's ship COM
bination
Mrs. Carrie NATHAN was sentenced to
thirty days in prison and to pay a fine
of 500 for smashing bar fixtures stored
in a vacant barn in Topeka, Kas., in
February, 1901. She will not appeal
the case and has gone to Jail.
While crowd of 10000 persons,
mostly women and children, was
standing on viaducts in the stocl1yards
district, Chicago, viewing a fire in the
lard refinery of the Armour plant, one
of the points of vantage gave way and
injured.
More than 5000 workmen in Swed-
en- have joined the strike in support of
electoral reform.
| A passenger train on the 500 road
collided with freight near Pembine
Wis, demoIishing both engines and
injuring four men.
The striking anthracite coal miners
have appealed to the soft coal miners
to join them.
Mrs. George w. Robbins, of Billings,
Montana, was nearly burned to death
to death trying to extinguish a gaso-
line fire.
John Golden, an engineer, has been
killed in New Rochelle, N. Y, by an
electric wire over which for nearly
an hour he stood guard and from
which he warned hundreds of school
| oh hn obi1I,a,, had cofo
ly passed, Golden took up his work and
was electrocuted
Large numbers of 17-year locusts
have appeared at Washington, also AL
| toona, Pa. and Nashville, Tenn.
Continued rains practically ends all
hope of seeding the low lands of the
Red River valley to wheat.
Four men were killed and four seri-
ously injured in railway collision
near Hyannis, Neb.
Admiral Sampson left~an estate of
less than $4,000.
| Mont Pelee has again broken into
activity and threatens further disaster
to the island of Martinique.
The Ford plate glass works at To-
ledo, O., closed down by the striking
of six truckmen. Five hundred men
are affected.
His majesty, Alfonso MIL, king of
Spain, solemnly took the oath to the
constitution in the hall of assembly of
the chamber of deputies at Madrid
/ with the utmost ceremony and in &C
cordance with all the religious forms
and ancient rights.
The president will attend the en-
campment of Philippine veterans at
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
| Earthquakes are reported from the
southern part of Portugal, but without
fatalities
| The fast mail train struck a hand
car near West Salem, Wis, killing one
and injuring four.
! A cyclone struck Goliad, Texas, kill
ninety people and injuring over 100.
The cyclone lasted only five minutes
bat was one of the most destructive
| ever known in the state.
An effort by officers of the law to ar
rest outlaws who had barricaded them
| selves in a store resulted in the most
fatal riot in the history of Atlanta,
| Ga. Eight men were killed, including
| three policemen. Six men, black and
white, were wounded.
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