The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-12-11

the fastest passenger train in the
world, s
There was but little over foot of
water in the Mississippi river at st.
Louis, the lowest record in nearly 20
years.
j. W.. Forlines, engineer; A. w.
Straley, conductor, and Brakeman G.
H. Hehgi were killed in railway
wreck at Lick Branch. w. Va.
A. H. Andrews d Co., manufacturers
in Chicago of fine furniture and Office
fixtures, failed for 100000; assets.
100000.
William ]. Murray, a prominent resi-
dent of Toledo, o., died after continu-
GUS self-imposed fast of Al days.
The movement to bring about the
taxation of church property in Missouri
was assuming commanding proper
tions.
A negro named Isom Kearse, and his
aged mother, charged with stealing a
Bible from church near broxton Ford,
S. c., were whipped to death with a
strap by mob.
Peter Maher and Robert Fitzsimmons
were matched to fight to finish for the
worlds championship near Ell Paso,
Tex, between February IL and Febru-
airy Is.
A trust, comprising almost every car
pet tack factory in the country, was
formed in New York, and the price of
tacks was advanced to almost double
the former rates.
John and Margaret Cowling, aged 70
and 70 years, respectively, after having
been separated by divorce "a years, were
reunited in marriage at Jetfersonville,
Ind.
In tearing out the wall of an aban-
doned cellar near Larned, Kan, the
skeletons of five men were found, and
they were thought to be the remains
of a party of land-buyers who went to
western Kansas in 1880 from Pennsyl-
vania, and who mysteriously disap-
peared. They were probably murdered
for their money.
Melancholia, brought on by trouble
in love affairs, caused Miss May Wills,
young society woman of Akron, O., to
hang herself.
L. NJ C. King, justice of the peace,
and his wife, who had been ill, died sud-
denly in Claybourn county, Tenn, from
the effects of dose of medicine given
them by an Indian doctor.
At it's quarterly meeting the w. c. T..
.. of Richmond, Va, adopted resolu-
tons denouncing the new woman's
Bible"
The First national bank of Pratt.
Kan, went into voluntary liquidation.
All depositors were paid in full.
The mint in Philadelphia is turning
out 400, 900 pennies daily because of the
big demand.
Heinrich Hoetman, of Dortnaund,
trip around the world on bicycle He
is to make the trip in two years.
There were 324 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 288 the week
previous and 3S5 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
Frank C. Elliott, state organizer for
the populist organization in Missouri,
was attacked by robber in Kansas
City and fatally wounded.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9Th aggregated
81 PAT, 194 ,999, against $3.50, 4S4 1882 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 10.
The bonded warehouse of Elliot F.
briggs was burned in New York, the
loss being $25O,OOO.
Fire destroyed the stove works of j.
Woodruff & Sons at Salem, O., and
many valuable patterns were burned.
Mike Ford and William Senter were
arrested at Atlanta, Ca, with large
quantity of counterfeit ten dollar sill
yer certificates on their persons.
The National Civil Service Reform
league will hold their annual meeting
in Washington December 12 and 10.
Mrs. Joseph Reimein died in Toledo,
o., from the shock received by the
death of her husband and daughter in
railway accident.
The hay crop of this year IN the mid
die states is reported to be II per cent.
less than last year.
Prince Graham, Jason Blake and Will
liam Fraser (all colored) were hanged
at Hampton, s. c., for the murder of E.
II Mears; Jesse Jones was hanged at
Ozark, Ark, for numbering Charles and
Jesse Hibdon in February, 1894, and a
negro named Elliott was hanged at
Chester, S. c., for the murder of white
man named WEIGH.
The annual report of Attorney Cen
eral Harmon shows that there has been
an increase in the number of criminal
cases pending in the federal courts as