The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-11-06
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Col. George w. Cole, aged So, president
of the Bankers and Merchants Protect
i've association and a prominent mem
Der of the G. A. R., was killed by street
cable train in Chicago.
At Columbia, S. c., the constitutional
convention voted down the woman
suffrage amendment by vote of 121
to 49,
Thousands of acres of valuable tim
Der land in Livingston, Genesee, Wayne
and Seneca counties, N. Y, were ruined
by forest fires.
Isador 81. Sultzbach, an extensive
dealer in clothing in Philadelphia,
failed for 100000.
Passenger trains on the Union Pacific
road collided in st. Louis and the two
engineers, Eugene Campron and John
Harper, were killed outright, the two
fremen, George True and George Dun
bar, were fatally injured, and six other
persons were badly wounded.
Word was received at Cuban head
quarters in New York of the safe land
ing in Cuba of the expedition under
Carlos H. Cespedes which left Phila-
delphia October 20.
At Chillicothe, O., w. w. Windle cut
the half-mile bicycle record from 81 to
4S seconds.
E. <. Craig, an aeronaut, of Sturgis,
Mich, fell 200 feet from his balloon at
Hancock. Md. and was fatally injured
Gov. Clarke, of Arkansas, ordered the
First regiment of state militia to be
ready to proceed to Hot Springs to pre-
vent the proposed fight between Fitz-
simmons and COrbett. FitZsimmOns
was arrested at Fulton and taken TO
Little Rock, where he would be put
under heavy bonds to keep the peace.
Commissioner William L. Lochren,
of the pension office, in his annual re-
port shows that the number of pension
ers, June 80, 1895, was 97O, 404. The
appropriation for the year was $780,
100000, and there was paid during the
year $685. 1897.
The First National bank of McGregor,
Tex. was robbed by burglars of $4,000.
The business portion of the village
of Henderson, Mich, was wiped out by
fire. the work of tramp.
In his annual report Capt.W. T. Samp-
son, chief of the naval ordnance bureau,
submits estimates aggregating $6,457,-
5s4 for the next fiscal year.
The largest bell in the world was cast
in Cincinnati for the Catholic church
of St. Francis de Sales in that city. 1t
weighs Is tons.
Returns compiled by the Iowa state
census bureau show that there are SO
cities in the state having popula-
ton of 1000 or more. Des Moines is
the largest and Dubuque comes next.
Four hundred acres of timber and 300
acres of corn were destroyed by fire
near Monteville, Mo.
At Lead City, S. D., Fred Croker MUIR
dered Miss Louise Johnson and blew his
own brains out. They were lovers and
quarreled.
L. A. Shakman & Co., one of the larg
est firms dealing in clothing in Milwau-
kee in the wholesale trade, failed for
100000.
A monument to Gen. Grant at Wash
ington, D. c., is an object that the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee will
ask the next congress to make an appro-
priation for.
In the Holmes trial in Philadelphia
Mrs. Carrie Pitzel told how her hus-
band and two little girls were spirited
away from her and murdered.
The president and secretary of war
have changed the name of Sandy Hook
to Fort Hancock, in honor of the late
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.
DIR. Wray Grayson, of Washington,
Pa, says antitoxin is a cure for lockjaw.
Fire destroyed eight business build
ings at Miller's Falls, Mass, the loss be-
ing over 100000.
Comptroller Eckles says that on Oc-
tober there were 3,712 national banks
in the United States with total capital
of $66S, $751; SAT. The individual deposits
were $1,701 ,653,521, compared with ST.
72s,41s,819 last year. The loans and
discounts were $2,O41, SAC, 233, against
1891. S74,273 last fall.
Two students were expelled from the
Pennsylvania state college in Philadel-
phia and IA more were indefinitely sus-
pended for haZing.
Mrs. Fortescue Whittle of Peters
burg, w. Va, Miss Lucy Stone, the
Youngest child of Mrs. Whittle, and a
negro servant were fatally burned by
an exploding gasoline stove.