The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-12-04
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The National Society for the Proven
ton of crime was incorporated at
Springfield, ILL.,. with headquarters in
Chicago.
1t mas been decided to remove the
body Of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock
to Arlington cemetery in Washington
from Norristown. Pa, where it has
rested since 1886.
Angus F. McGills and his wife were
probably fatally burned by the explo-
sion of lamp in their home at Menom-
inee, Mich.
arrangements were completed at
Cleveland by which 5000 Christian En-
deavorers were to unitedly pray for
Robert Ingersoll's conversion.
At the fair grounds in Macarthur, o.,
C. H. Rogers was ridden on rail and
afterward tarred and feathered for
speaking disrespectfully of lady
school-teacher.
The president will in December APP
point more than 100 postmasters to Of
fees in the presidential class.
A score of pedestrians, including
number of the most famous walkers in
the country. started on a six-day go-as-
you-please match in Minneapolis.
Grand Master Chipman's report
shows that there are $4,000 odd fellows
and $4,000 Daughters of Rebecca in In
diana.
Alaska's gold output for 1895 is esti-
mated to be $3.000.000.
C;6ao,, MOoro or1 Da,,l Kr,,noy. Land
ers of gang of counterfeiters, were
captured by government detectives.
the former at Cameron, Mo-. and the
latter in st. Joseph.
Thomas Colt, a photographer, shot
Miss Carrie Plate at Arlington Heights,
n. j., and then killed himself. JeaI-
ousy was the cause.
Harry Hayward, who is to be hanged
in Minneapolis next month for the MUIR
der of Catherine Cling, and who has pro-
tested that he was innocent, confessed
his guilt.
Lloyd Montgomery, an 1S-year-old
boy under arrest for the murder of his
father, mother and Daniel McKeecher
near Brownsville, Ore, made a full con-
fession, admitting he killed all three
of them.
Senator David B. Hill, of New York,
inaugurated his lecture tour at the
academy Of music in Milwaukee. Per-
sonal liberty was his theme, and he
made plea for more genuine American
ism. He said he was not entirely
pleased with American representatives
at foreign courts, and said our govern
.I>o Il ha ~ of 4 No
lish pattern. He also spoke good words
for Hawaii.
In the recent blizzard scores of coal
laden bargos along the Ohio river were
torn from their mornings and carried
down stream to destruction and conse-
quent loss to the owners. At Franklin,
Ind, the city hall was blown down. AT
Montpelier, Ind, scores of oil derricks
were RACED and many houses were I'M
rooted. In the Ohio oil fields a dam
age of 100000 was done. In Illinois.
Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin property
was also destroyed.
E. A. Long, of hartford, Wis.,, editor
of the Green Lake County Reporter,
shot himself fatally beca use of business
troubles.
Cooper union in New York was
crowded with large and enthusiastic
audience of sympathizers with the
Cuban insurgents and several addresses
were made.
The Cheyenne Indians were slaugh-
tering cattle near Hutton, Wyo., and
were said to have killed several settlers.
ST.. Clevering & Co., commission mer-
chants in Philadelphia, failed for $780,
O0O
man known as Indian Pete" and
his wife were burned to death in their
bed at their home near Peshtigo, Wis.
Thomas evils. aged 70, of Bell coun-
ty, KY, committed suicide by hanging
because Nora Bellew, 14-year-old girl,
refused to marry him.
Worth:ngton C. Ford, chief of the
bureau of statistics, says that the i'm
ports of articles free of duty were about
100000 less in 1895 than in 1S04-the
figures for 1895 being 1878, $780, 100.
The motorcycle contest in Chicago
over 54-mile course for purses amount
ing to $4,000 was won by the Charles l..
Duryea gasoline motorcycle of Spring
field, Mass, which made the distance IN
ten hours.
Levi Lane, aged 81, dropped dead of
apoplexy at his hoInein Lebanon. Ind.
H. had been deputy clerk for 81 years.