The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-18
TIE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

OUNLP1itu I fOHl LdI6 OlSpdtCA6Ss
DOMESTIC.
MANY rivers overlooked their banks
In Kansas, inundating several villages
and doing immense damage. The
town of Gridley was completely
wrecked.
MICHIGAN bankers in annual session
at Detroit adopted resolutions against
the free coinage of silver.
A CAR in which number of negro
employees of sawmill in Holmes coun-
ty, Fla, were asleep, was. surrounded
by masked men who shot two negroes
dead and wounded several others.
STRIKERS at Negaunee, Mich, were
becoming desperate and guards had to
be kept along the railroads leading to
Ishpeming to protect the passengers.
THE second of the five races for
Americas cup was won by the Valkyrie,
the British yacht, by AZ seconds, over
triangular course 80 miles long, off
the coast of New York.
JOHN BARILLo and Michael Sabo
were asphyXiated while cleaning tanks
at the Standard Oil company's plant
at Whiting, Ind.
AT Mascoutah, Ill, Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Schauinger and Mrs. Mary
Weber, three people upward of 70
years of age, were thrown from a
wagon and probably fatally injured.
CHARLES ONGUN an William Gooding
started from Lacon, Ill, to make a
tour of the states on bicycles, to be
gone three years.
The South Carolina constitutional
convention convened at Columbia.
In railway wreck near Evansville,
Wis, F. P. Hollinshead and E. j. Sui
Ivan were killed and several other per-
sons were injured.
The entire family of Charles F.
Kruger father, mother and six chill
dren-of Michigan City, Ind, is dead
from eating diseased pork one year
ago, the last surviving child dying re-
Gently.
A WOMAN dressed in boys clothing
has passed through San Bernardino,
Cal, looking for runaway husband.
She had taken the brake beam route
from the east.
DIR. A. w. HIT, of Chicago, says that
there are over 500 cases of leprosy in
the United States.
WILLIAM MURPHY, of Saginaw, Mich,
one of the best known lumbermen of
the northwest, died in Bangor, Me-,
aged 81 years.
THE Roman Catholic university in
Washington decided to admit women
as pupils in all the higher studies.
STRIKE meetings were being held in
the Pennsylvania coke regions and the
indications were for labor troubles in
the near future.
TwO-JIM WAKEFIELD, a negro, commit
ted suicide at Elkton. KY, because to-
bacco worms destroyed his forty-acre
crop.
The regatta committee Of the New
York Yacht club heard evidence bear
ing upon the protested race and
awarded the second race of the series
between Defender and Valkyrie for
the Americas cup to the American
boat.
WILLIAM CALDWELL (colored) was
hanged by mob near Osceola, Ark,
for numbering Mrs. Rhea, a white
woman.
THE fire losses ia the United States
and Canada during August amounted
to SO, 1929, 900, against $40, 432 200 in Au-
gust, 1894.
THE exports of breadstuffs during
August amounted to SO, 500, 100, against
$40, 1884, 200 during August, 1894 The
provisions exported amounted to S11,-
2s1 ,339, against $i5,93O, al in August
last year.
WILLIAM DEAvIs, an aeronaut, was
killed at the Richie county fair at
Pennsboro, w. Va, by falling 1000
feet.
THE pine regions of the Michigamme
and Paint rivers in Wisconsin were be-
ing swept by forest fires.
RANSOM SMITH and Henry j. Green,
leaders of a dangerous gang of coun-
terfeiters, were captured at ST. Joseph,
Mo.
THE United States Veterinary Medi-
cal association in session at Des Moines,
Ia, elected Horace Hoskins, of Phila-
delphia, as president.
THE entire business portion of Con-
way Springs, Kac., was burned.
THE parade of the Grand Army OF
the Republic at Louisville, KY, was
participated in by $4,000 veterans. In
the evening speeches were made by
Henry Watterson, Lieut.. Gov. Jacobs,
Commander-in-Chi Lawler, Gen. Lew
Wallace and Mrs. John A. Logan.