The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-30

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

dropped dead at his home in Richmond,
XIV.
The Crescent Linseed Oil company's
works in Chicago were burned, the loss
being 100000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party
of cabinet officials arrived at Atlanta,
Ca, and were warmly greeted.
KERR CRAIG, third assistant postmaster
general, in his annual report for the
past fiscal year shows that postal rev.
enues from all sources were $40, 9S3, 1913,
the expenditures being $50, $780, 72, an
excess over receipts of $9,S07,04
The children of William Burmeister,
consisting of Lena, aged 10 years, Will
liam, Otto and Gustav, were killed by
an unknown man at their home near
Tower, N. D., during the absence OF
their parents
THE second annual convention OF the
National Association of Agricultural
Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers
began in Chicago
AT the national meeting in Baltimore
Miss Frances Willard was elected pres
ident of the W. c. T. U. for the fifteenth
time.
REV. A. j. POTTER, known through
out Texas as the lighting preacher,
on account of the fearlessness of his
life on the frontier, dropped dead in his
pulpit at Lockhart.
FOURTEEN business blocks were de-
stroyed by fire at Alta, Ia, causing a
loss of 100000.
Four business buildings were burned
at Madison, Mimi, the loss being $3.50,
900.
NEAR Mount Gilead, O., Christopher
Miller shot his wife fatally and then
committed suicide by hanging. He
hal been adjudged insane, but relatives
kept him from going to an ASYLUM.
THE gelding Frank Agan defeated
Robert j., John r. Gentry and Joe
Patchen in pacing race at Louisville,
KY, his best time being 2:05A.
THE twenty-ninth annual meeting of
the American Missionary association,
which is devoted primarily to mission
work among the negroes, Indians and
Chinese in America, commenced in De-
troit. Mich.
Boston has been made the headquar-
tiers of the National Advisory Council of
the A. P. A.
AT Phillipsburg, Pa, $4,000 men were
involved in the miners strike.
At the closing session in Baltimore
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union resolutions were adopted admit
ting Catholic and Hebrew women as
delegates. Banners were presented to
several state unions which showed
large gains in membership and there
was feast of music.
The Arkansas supreme court sus-
tanned the prize fight law and Corbett
was remanded back to the custody of
the sheriff of Garland county.
The official count of the population of
Minnesota by counties shows 1,574, 91O,
an increase of 273, OS4 over the count of
1890.
The total collections of internal rev.
enue during the first three months of
against $58,O45, Jos for the same period
last year.
Near Cairo, Ill, Mrs. Rousch hanged
her 4-year-old daughter and herself be-
cause of poverty.
Rev. William Gordon, 81 years old, of
Michigan City, Ind, who was visiting
his daughter at Worcester, Mass,
dropped dead while attending prayer
meeting.
Engineer George O'Neill, Fireman C.
p. Luidamood and Brakeman Frank
Houston were killed in freight wreck
near Max Meadows, Va.
Jack Henderson, farm laborer who
attempted to assault the wife of his en-
ployer, James Allen, at Vinegar Bend,
Ala, was hanged by mob.
A large mound on the farm Of Henry
T. Niles near Toledo, O., was opened and
twenty skeletons, all in sitting pos
ture, were found.
Presidential day at the Atlanta ex-
position was attended by thousands,
and President Cleveland received a
warm welcome, to which he responded
briefly but eloquently.
In Baraga county, Mich, good sleigh
ing was reported, the earliest on record.
The bank of Kemp M. Woods, Jr.
& Co., private concern at Libertyville,
Mo-, with $1,000 in deposits, closed its
doors.
The entire business portion of Ceres,
Pa, was swept away by fire.
Pete and Henry Gabbard, brothers
living on Kavanaugh's creek, Jackson
county, KY, were shot and killed by
Sanford Lakes, a neighbor. An old
grudge was the cause.
At Louisville, KY, B. W. Twyman
broke the 10O-mile bicycle record, going
the distance in 4:27:32.
The intellectual and spiritual condi-
tions of the Indian and the Chinaman
were discussed at the meeting in De-
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