The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-02-24
Eli Bugg (colored) was hanged at

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On the scaffold Bugg claimed he was
innocent of the crime, and advised his
hearers to keep out of bad company.
A new trial for Nan Patterson, &C
cused of numbering Caesar Young, Will
be begun on March 6 in New York
in the criminal branch of the supreme
court.
| DR.. John H. Grannis, said to have
been the first union soldier to enter
the town of Gettysburg at the time OF
the battle, died at Saybrook, Conn.,,
aged 60.
| Alexander Mead, a colored man ZIG
years old, died at Toledo, o. Mead
was born in slavery October "a, 1883,
near the Big Sandy river in Greenup
| county, Ky.
John Shaw, residing on farm about
20 miles northeast of Quincy, ILL.,, shot
| and killed his wife, and then ended
| his own life with the same weapon.
Legal and domestic troubles extending
over several years are responsible for
| the tragedy.
Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, has signed
the bill passed by the legislature ap-
propriating 100000 for the erection
and maintenance by the state OF an oil
refinery, with a capacity of 1000 bar
refs day.
Duns and Bradstreet's reviews show
favorable conditions of trade after a
general decrease owing to weather.
An official of the Panama railroad
told the house committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce that mem
bers of the canal commission draw
fees as directors of the railroad.
A Chicago woman captured burglar
after a hand-to-hand fight, in which
she was stabbed six times.
Sensational charges in the West Vir-
ginia legislature may result in the i'm
parchment of Gov. White.
Chicago policemen have been Or
dered to arrest all persons seen spit
ting on the sidewalk or in elevated
trains and street cars.
A parcels post treaty with Great
Britain has been signed by the United
States. 1t will be effective by April l.
Four men killed and IA injured, of
whom three are in critical condition,
was the result of two explosions on
board the British submarine boat
CAS-" in the harbor at Queenstown,
Irei~Id.
Fire of = mysterious origin in the
house of Manning Harris, coal miner
living at Edwards. ILL.,, burned the
bodies of three small children to
crisp.
One man was killed and three per-
sons injured, one seriously, in the over
turning of three passenger cars on a
Missouri Pacific train near Avoca,
Neb.
Fire practically destroyed the inte-
rior of three-story brick building on
Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Mimi
The loss IS estimated between SIS, 900
and 100000.
Claude S. Snively, prominent attor-
ney, pitched headlong from the fifth
story window in the Lonsdale build
ing at Duluth, Mimi, and was killed
To successfully fight the trusts with
in it's borders constitutional conven-
ton may be called to broaden the pow
ers of the Kansas legislature.
President Roosevelt has directed
James r. Garfield, commissioner of cor
porations of the department of COM
MERGE and labor, to begin Immediately
the oil investigation requested by the
house Of representatives in resolution
adopted unanimously.
Daniel H. Mccarthy, at one time one
of the best known cartoonists in the
country, is dead at his home in New
York of heart trouble
Mrs. Rebecca Snyder and her niece,
Ida Shade, of Liberty, o., were killed
near West Carrollton, O., by being
struck by train.
Six men were injured, two of them
seriously, in an explosion of chemicals
in the plant of the Brooklyn sulphur
works, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Edinboro, Pa, the state normal
school town, was visited by one of the
most disastrous fires in it's history.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
Jay Cooke, whose fame as financier
is worldwide, died at the home of his
Charles D. Barney, at
Ogontz, a suburb of Philadelphia Mr..
Cook was SO years of age.
The state department has received
word from Minister Bowen that the Ven
ezuela supreme court, under pressure
from President Castro, has reafflrmed the
decree sequestrating the property of the
New York Asphalt company.
President Roosevelt is preparing re-
quest to Judge Grosscup to punish heads
of the beef trust for violation of the in
junction.
The Wisconsin legislature has dis
missed pages under the age of IA, as re-
quired by the child labor law.
The Illinois railroad and warehouse
commission reported to Gov. Deneen
that the state leads all others in the to-
tai mileage of steam roads in opera
tion
The fight in the Equitable Life AS
surance society ended in draw between
Hyde and Alexander but policy holders
will be given voice in the choice of a
President Roosevelt S message on Santo
Domingo explains the necessity for the
United States to aid the island repub-