The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-08
LATER,

LATER.
The Argo starch works in Nebraska
City, Neb., employing 800 to 400 hands
and one of the largest plants in the
country, has been closed indefinitely
| by the starch trust.
Burglars blew open the postofice
safe at Miles, O., and secured $16O in
money and So, 900 in stamps.
| Charles Howard, the famous old-time
negro minstrel, was sent to the poor
house at Baltimore, Md, on the charge
of vagrancy.
Thomas Aunger, farmer, hanged
himself in d corn crib on his farm near
Benson, La.
| Eleven members of the brass mold
ers' union were indicted by the grand
jury in Chicago on charge of incitin g
to assault, and in this connection one
of the strangest tales ever related in
courtroom was told to the members of
the jury.
The cruiser Des Moines will be
launched at the Fore River yard, Quin-
cy, Mass, Sept 20. Her sponsor will
he Miss Helen West, daughter of Harry
West, a business man of Des Moines.
The monthly statement of the ma
tional debt shows that at the close of
business July 81, 1902, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
1913, 91O, 367, which is an increase, as
compared with July 1, of 81, 453, 1875.
The steamers City of Wheeling and
City of Cincinnati collided on the Ohio
river off North Bend, Ind, causing
panic among the passengers aboard
the Wheeling. All were safely landed
The government has about concluded
to print its own postage stamps
| Venezuela has closed the port of
Mariacaibe to Colombian articles of ex-
port, and will not pass imports for Co.
lombia without the payment of Vene-
zuelan import duties.
At Wise (Va) court house, in the
presence of thousand people, George
Robinson, colored, was hanged for the
murder of another negro.
During an electric storm at Butte,
Montana, pile of meat became SO
charged with electricity that A. E.
Rhodes was killed when he came in
contact.
E. B. Baldwin, the artic explorer ar
rived at Honningsvag, Norway on his
way back to the United States.
Harry Tracy, the fugitive desperate,
is in eastern Washington, unwounded,
in good health armed with four guns,
20 rounds of ammunition, provisioned
for five days and equipped with two
| horses.
A cyclone struck the little town of
Hannas Siding, Ia, fatally injuring
B. A. Shaw and wife.
Mrs. Martha S. Hille, of Milwaukee,
has dug up from the yard back of her
home eleven bottles containing $500 in
silver currency. She does not know to
whom the money belongs.
Two negroes, John Arnold and Wes-
ley Davis, fought a duel to the death
near Independence, Texas Arnold is
dead and Davis will die. The men had
a difficulty several weeks previously,
and, meeting in the road, agreed to
fight it out.
The horse Dan Patch paced mile at
Columbus, o., in 2 minutes and 81 Sec
onds
The $1,000 trotting race at Hart
ford, Conn, between the Boston horse
Boralama and the New York horse
Lord Derby was won by the latter.
Boralama broke down while scoring
in the fourth heat
Eros, one of the lost planets, has
been redi scovered by Prof. Lying, of
the Chamberlain observatory at Den
yer.
st. Paul's church, London, threatens
to collapse unless thorough repairs are
undertaken.
In head end collision between two
milk trains at Horizons, N. Y, three
men were killed.
Russia denies she is making war on
the trade of America.
| A masked man held up a street car
in Helena, Mont, and robbed the con-
ductor and four passengers of all
valuabl
A number of persons were injured
in street car collision at Elgin, Ill.
| In quarrel over the use of horse
at Macarthur, O., David Morris aged 90
killed his father with club.
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