The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-11-27

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

New YORK secretary CarllSle spoke on
national finances. He said the legal
tender note was the fundamental vice
of our currency system, was response
BILE for many vagaries, and should be
retired.
At Purcell, |. t., 80 buildings were
burned at a loss of $150,OO0, and two
merchants were arrested for arson.
Jesus Vialpando and Feliciano
Chavez, convicted of numbering and
burning the body of young Tomas Mar
tinez. were hanged at Santa Fe, N. M.
The magnificent new battle ship In
diana was accepted by the government
from the builders.
A great forest fire was raging on the
Little kanawha near Parkersburg, W..
Va, and large tracts of woods and barns
and fencing had been burned.
One hundred retail druggists of Kan
sas City formed stock company to
manufacture all proprietary remedies
consumed by the local trade.
Daniel III. Brenizer, cashier of the
Citizens Trust and Surety company in
Philadelphia, was said to be short $685.
coo in his accounts.
Two earthquake shocks frightened
the residents OF Cairo, ILL.,, but did no
damage.
The Texas Paper company and the
Deertng Harvester company lost their
loss being $125,000.
Four boys wrecked train on the New
York Central road near Rome, N. Y.
and n. n. Hager, the engineer, and an
unknown man were killed.
1t was said that new gold-bearing
region had been found in ArchuIeta
county, COL, which would eclipse any,
thing known in the world.
The catch of the Gloucester (Mass.)
mackerel fleet the past season was only
$4,000 barrels, against $4,000 last year.
The post Office department has is-
aued fraud order against the United
Indemnity company of Los Angeles,
Cal. bond investment concern.
Three fishermen, names unknown,
were drowned near Harbor Springs,
Mich.
AS the result of feud between the
Handley, Jones and Kilgore families,
near Birmingham, Ala, Joseph Kilgore
and John Jones are dead and Johu
Handley is fatally injured.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the
interior department. has decided that
where a pension has been obtained
fraudulently the attorney procuring
the pension is not entitled to the fee and
must refund it.
gerous counterfeit two-dollar bills.
They are tritle larger than the gen.
uine, and in the portrait of Window
the eyes are larger than in the original.
The business portion of Madisonville,
KY, was burned.
at meeting in New York of the Silk
Association of America the price of
twisted silk was advanced five per cent.
One hundred and twenty settlers
south of Ashland, Wis.,, are, by de-
cision from the general land office, made
homeless.
The schooner Shamrock of Key West,
Fla, foundered off ST. Martins Key and
six of the crew. all colored, were lost.
The monthly output of the gold mines
at Cripple Creek, COL, was said to be
100000.
The American cruiser Minneapolis
was ordered to sail for Smyrna, Asia
Minor, to assist in protecting the lives
of American missionaries and other SUBJ
jects of the United States in the dis
tricts now being ravished by the Mo-
hammedan fanatics.
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform league will be held
in Washington December IL and ID.
Thieves broke into the post office at
Summit, N. D., blew open the safe and
secured over $4,000 worth of stamps
and $500 in cash.
EX-State Comptroller Edward Wem-
pie, of New York. was taken to the
Utica insane asylum. His insanity has
taken a bent toward arson.
DIR. David j. Hill, president Of the
University of Rochester, N. Y, resigned
to take effect at the close of the pres
ent college year.
The secretary of the interior issued a
requisition on the treasury for $1O,S5O,-
900 for the quarterly pension payment.
The First national bank of La Grange,
Tex, which suspended payment Oc-
tobsr 20 last, was permitted to resume
business.
John Tod, of Cleveland, was appointed
receiver of the New York, Pennsylva-
MIA &c Ohio Railroad company.
Mrs. Theresa Fell, who was injured
by Chicago q Alton train, was
awarded $1,000 damages by jury at
Bloomington, Ill.
Charles Hurd, negro who killed Jo-
seph D. Kelley at Wartburg, Tenn, was
taken from Jail by mob and hanged.
A negro accused of riding horse
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