The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-12-18

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j. p. Riply, distiller at Lawrence
burg, Ky, failed for 100000.
st. AEmelianus' orphan asylum at ST.
Francis, Wis.,, was burned, the loss be-
ing over 100000. There were 200 chill
dren in the building, but all were safe
ly removed.
Mrs. Nancy j. Thompson, aged rs
years, was found starved and frozen to
death near Maple City, Kan.
At the meeting in New York of the
American Federation of Labor resolu-
tons were adopted protesting against
the passage in congress of the COM
pulsory arbitration bill and against
capital punishment.
Representative E. M. Woomer, of
Pennsylvania, representing the Fourth
district, fell on slippery sidewalk in
Washington and broke his left leg.
The bark Theobald arrived at San
Francisco from Coal bay with the first
cargo of coal ever shipped from Alaska.
The character of the information re-
ceived at the war department in Wash
ington concerning the reported Apache
outbreak in Arizona shows it to be
trifing, and not likely to lead to any
general uprising.
The discovery in the dissecting room
of a medical college at Topeka, Kan, of
the bodies of three women stolen from
cemeteries caused riot that required
the calling out of troops.
The schooner Elwood of San Fran
cisco is missing, and was supposed to
have gone down off the Alaskan coast
between Cooks inlet and Glazier bay,
with all on board.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Carlock, Ill.
arrested at Pittsburgh by United States
authorities.
Aaron Harper (colored) was hanged
at Coffeyville, Miss, for the murder of
bis wife last April.
The Weir plow shops at Monmouth,
H., were almost totally destroyed by
fire, the loss being $150,000.
Miss Pearl Barton, young girl who
had been asleep at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
since November %, died without awak-
ening. The doctors were unable to say
what the cause of death was.
E. C. Taylor, city editor of the AL
ton Qll.) Sentinel-Democrat, fell dead
of apoplexy.
At the annual convention in Balti-
more of the National Reform associa-
ton proposed amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States was ap-
proved that acknowledges Almighty
God as the source of all authority in
civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ
as the ruler of nations, and the re-
vealed will of God as the supreme au-
thority in civil affairs.
The most famous blockade runner
during the rebellion, Alexander Collie,
died in poverty in New York.
The supreme court of Minnesota de-
cided that state legislators could not
hold any other Office. This decision
throws out of Office large number of
men.
A statement made by the bureau of
statistics shows that breadstuffs valued
at $107, 349,274 were exported during the
II months ended November so, against
11,s20,345 during the same time in
1894. Provision exports were $13s,sS2,-
375, against $151, 89s,259 in 1894.
William Campbell & Co., manufacture
ers of woolens in New York, failed for
100000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, 129, 766,2SS, against 81 PAT, 194, $3.50 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1915.
George Rubright, a weak-minded
young man, while in church at Evans
vile, Ind, suddenly attacked Miss Car
RE Daum and stabbed her fatally.
There were 3SS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 324 the week
previous and $40 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
Max Goodrich, aged 35, in a fit of jeal-
Gus rage fatally shot his young wife,
Bertha, at their home in Philadelphia
and then sent bullet through his own
brain.
The secret service officials in Wash
ington discovered new counterfeit $40
United States note of the series of 1880,
with the portrait of Hamilton poorly
engraved.
By premature explosion of powder
and dynamite four men were killed at
La Toilette, Tenn, and four other inen
were missing.
The American Red Cross society has
decided to accept the duty of distrib-
uting relief funds for the Armenian
sufferers.
Steamers arriving in New York re-
reported terrible weather at sea.
y Jim Nichols, (coloredD was hanged
M Eoyotto w Vo for tha murder IF