The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-09

Philadelphia.
THE wife of Patrick Carroll.a Chi
cago laborer. gave birth to four chill
dren-two boys and two girls.
Gov. CALEB WEST, of Utah, submit
ted his last annual report to the secre-
tary of the interior. Before another
report can be made the territory will
become a state. The population, ac-
cording to the census of 1895, is 247.-
324; property valuation, $97, 942, ISL.
JOHN CZECH was executed at Jersey
City, N. j., for the murder of his wife.
STANLEY BRAINE and Mabel Olds,
prominent young people, were drowned
in Mad river at Springfield, O., while
boating.
FLAMES at Warren, r. l., destroyed
three large cotton mills, two ware
houses, small sheds, freight cars and
other property, causing loss of over
81, 900, 900.
The second baseball game for the
Temple cup was played at Cleveland
between the Cleveland and Baltimore
clubs, and was won by the former by
score of to 2.
AT the Kendallville Qnd.) fair five
incendiary fires were started simulta-
neously among the fancy stock pad
docks and James jackson and an un-
known woman were burned to death.
THE constitutional convention at
Columbia, S. c., adopted clause for
bidding the intermarriage of white
person with any person who con tains
any negro blood in his or her veins
The Farmers and Merchants bank
at Creighton, Mo-, made an assign
ment with liabilities of 100000
Col. R. E. A. CRoFToN, commander
of the Fifteenth infantry at Fort Sher-
idan, ILL.,, was shot at by Lieut. Pague,
who was temporarily insane, and mar
rowly escaped death.
IT was said that Secretary Oiney had
sent dispatch to Minister Bayard in
London declaring in the most positive
language that the United States would
never consent to British occupation of
the disputed territory in Venezuela un-
less that nations right thereto was
first determined by arbitration.
JOSEPH TIERNAN, of ST. Louis, who
died September J, has been discovered
to have been short $33, 900 in his ac-
counts with the Security Building and
Loan association.
DURING the past year there were
6,546 applications for divorce in Ohio
and 2,597 were granted.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
81, 49,, OS9, TIT, against $997, 924, 422 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 1876.
The sash and door factory of Rufus
R. Thomas e. Co. in Philadelphia was
destroyed by fire, causing loss of
100000.
S. w. LAMoREUX, commissioner of
the general land office, in his annual
report says the total area of vacant
public land in the United States in
acres is as follows: Surveyed, 313, $751;
sss; unsurveyed, s5,245, 7O7.
THERE were 2O7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 216 the week
previous and 219 in the corresponding
time in 1894
ANOTHER big haul of Italian counter
feiters was made by the agents of the
governments secret service in New
York.
GEORGE WHITECoTTON, of Anderson,
Ind, found his daughter who was kid
mapped twelve yesrs ago.
AT meeting in New York of promi-
nent paper manufacturers a trust was
formed with capital of $a5, 1000, 900.
Mr. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, is of the opinion that the gold
product during 1895 will show an in
crease over last year of from S., 600, 900
to 81 100000.
CHARLES BLoMBERG. eldest son of
August Blomberg, a prominent banker
in Rockford, ILL.,, left New York on a
wager of $4,000 that he can walk
around the world in col days.
NAL GEN. RUGER assumed command
of the military department of the east,
with headquarters at Governors is
land.
MINISTER CASTLE, the new diplomatic
representative of Hawaii to the United
States, arrived in Washington.
THREE men were arrested at Hills
boro, Tex, for participating in glove
fight after the passage of the new law.
AT the Episcopal triennial conven-
ton in Minneapolis resolution was
adopted complimenting the governor
and legislature of Texas on the prize
fighting question.
w. R. HEARST, publisher of the San
Francisco Examiner, purchased the
New York Morning Journal
The school board at Lima, o., issued
an order prohibiting the use of tobacco
and cigarettes among pupils, many