The Ely miner., 1903-04-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tie Week Ending April IS.

For tie Week Ending April IS.
The Erie, Oswego and Champlain
canals will be opened for navigation on
May 2.
Ex-Congressman Benoni F. Butler,
aged II years, died suddenly at Boom
vile, Ind.
The Ohio democratic state conven-
ton will be held at Columbus August
25 and 26.
j. Pierpont Morgan celebrated his
sixty-sixth birthday at his home in
New York
Gunners of the battleship Alabama
are the champion marksmen of the
American navy.
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugi-
lists wife, died at Bensonhurst, N.
Y, of pneumonia.
The Wabash river levee broke near
Clinton, Ind, and $50, 900 acres of farm
land are under water.
William Dudley and the three chill
dren of Ora Eddington were drowned
in flood at Clinton, Ind.
Weekly trade reviews say business
has been retarded by cold, wet
weather of last few days.
Former Congressman A. S. McClurs
died suddenly from heart disease at
Wooster, O., aged Ga years.
Henry E. Youtsey, in testimony at.
Frankfort, KY, declared Gov. Goebel
was murdered by James Howard.
Dublin the British ministry's Irish
land bill was indorsed in principle.
The boiler of mill at Ruby, O., ex-
ploded, killing Charles Bevans, Richard
Houck, Rufus Houck, and two boys.
Vandals invaded the cemetery at
Mishawaka, Ind, and destroyed every
monument and tombstone in the place.
Harry Kline assaulted May jack
son and then killed her at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and then took his own
life.
A crop review shows that April
weather thus far has been ideal for
growth, but unfavorable to farm
work.
j. j. Davis, who founded the Manhat-
tan (Kan.) Mercury in 1884, died on a
train while returning home from New
Orleans.
Brig. Gen. Frank X. Baldwin has
taken charge of the department of the
Colorado, succeeding Gen. Frederick
Funston
Col. James Powell, U. S. A., veteran
of the Mexican and civil wars, died at
his home in Peoria, Ill.,, after an illness
Of 20 years.
President Roosevelt during his stay
in Springfield, Ill, June will dedicate
the new state armory, opposite the
state house.
Capt. Horace Holingshead, one Of
the best-known pilots on the Missis-
sippi in his day, was drowned near
Lansing, Ia.
The Peoples Bank and Trust COM
pany, of Fort Wayne, Ala, having
branches at Attala and Collinsville,
has suspended.
The house in Washington given to
Gen. Phil Sheridan has been sold by
Mrs. Sheridan, who is said to have
Thomas Waterman Wood. famous
portrait artist, died in New York of
heart disease. He was born at Mont
pelier, VT, in 1928.
During a severe northeast gale the
scow Hughes capsized in the Delaware
river off Marcus Hook, Pa, and four
men were drowned.
Charles Barron, chief engineer of tho
Graham & Morton line of Chicago,
has resigned after 60 years of service
on the great lakes.
A commission to kill Gen. Otis, writ
ten by Aguinaldo, was discovered
among papers in Washington taken
from the Filipino insurgent govern
ment.
Gen. Baden-Powell, of the British
army, who is touring American, call
ed on Secretary Root at Washington,
and inspected American cavalry meth
DDS and tactics.
Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, has or
dered the Hammond police to stop
pool selling at the Lakeside race
track at Roby, which means the clos-
ing of the track.
The steamship Minnesota, the
largest cargo and passenger boat yet
built, was launched at New London.
Conn. The vessel is 63O feet long and
contains 10 0O0 tone Of efeaI pIatas