The Ely miner., 1895-09-04
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
SOLOMON HUaHLErT, one of the most
prominent democratic politicians in
Missouri, killed himself with gun at
WelIsville.
SOME $50, 900 persons saw the parade
of over $4,000 Sir Knights Templar in
Boston. At the business meeting
Grand Commander McCurdy delivered
his address. The report of the grand
recorder, William B. Isaacs, Jr. ,
showed that there were 961 regular
Communicates, and thirty-nine under
the jurisdiction of the grand body.
The mem bership of the former is 1Oa,-
54l and of the latter 3.119.
THE charred remains of the body of
Howard Pitzel, the one remaining miss
ing child of Benjamin Pitzel, were
found stuffed in chimney in the eel
lar of a house which H. FL. Holmes oc-
cupied two or three days last October
in Irvington, Ind.
A MEETING of the largest steel con-
Germs in the country was held at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and preliminary steps were
taken to form an organization to con-
troll prices.
AT Wapakoneta, O., a strike on the
waterworks trenches developed into a
tragedy and three men were fatally in
jured.
RAINS throughout the northwest
greatly improved pasturage and crops.
CRACKsMEN blew open the safe in the
post office and general store Of E. E.
Phillips at Rush, Mo-, and got away
with money, stamps and papers valued
at over 81 900.
SECRETARY CARLISLE returned to
Washington after months absence
spent mostly in a tour of the great
lakes.
AS THE result of quarrel Frank
Hurst and Belle Levi were fatally
wounded by Charles Williamson and
William Broshears near Rockport, Ind.
THE annual encampment Of the Ma
tional Spiritualist association COM
menced at Liberal, Mo.
JOHN D. SCULLY, who for the last
fifty years has been president of the
First national bank at Pittsburgh and
its predecessor, the Pittsburgh Trust
company, resigned because of falling
health.
THE twenty-fourth annual conclave
of the grand commandery of Colored
Knights Templar opened in Cleveland.
THE president reappointed Matt w.
Ransom to be United States minister to
Mexico.
CONFIDENTIAL advices received at the
department of state in Washington
were to the effect that Spanish rule in
Cuba could not last much longer, pos
sibly three or four months at the out
side.
FIGHT members of gang of counter
feiters were captured near Perry, .. T.
MASKED men stripped and tarred and
feathered William Sprill and his wife
at Burnettsville, Ind, and ordered
them to leave town.
IT was announced that Secretary
Olney had made peremptory demand
on the British government for settle
ment of the Venezuela boundary dis
pute.
FOURTEEN states were represented at
meeting of the Western Editors as
sociation at Salt Lake City.
The weather bureau in Washington
will hereafter place on it's charts read
ings of sensible temperature--that ac-
tually felt-and make it a prominent
feature.
AT Lewisburg, Tenn, Jerry johnson
(colored) was lynched by mob for
making an insulting proposal to white
girl.
FIRE in Louisville, KY, destroyed
the building occupied by hampton,
Crane & Ramey, dealers in paints, var
nishes and oils. Loss, 100000.
THE feature of the second day of the
Knights Templar encampment in Bos-
ton was the competitive drill. The
grand treasurer's report showed cash
resources of $50, 3O2.
c. A. BRowNELL, aged so years, the
Oldest photographer in Cincinnati, was
found dead in his studio from heart
failure.
SPELMAN Bros, importers and deal
ers in fancy goods in New York for
fifty years, failed for $500, 900.
A FUTILE attempt was made to wreck
an east-bound night express on the
Eickle-Plate road near McComb, o
In the Montana Methodist difference
at Helena the question of admitting
women to the general conference on
the same footing as men was decided
in favor of the women by a vote of "a
to 4.