The Ely miner., 1895-09-04

~ bOAI Upset III d Squdll on Cue o.
Clair river near Marysville, Mich, and
Mrs. Michael Derufg, Frank Derufg,
her brother-in-law, and Miss Celia
Chonisli and Miss Edith Connors were
| drowned.
THE resurvey of the boundary line
| between California and Nevada result
ed in giving California strip of coun-
try aggregating several hundred
| square miles.
TOMMY" CONNEFF, an amateur rum
| ner. broke the worlds record for
mile at New York, going the distance
| in Ais 3-5.
| AT Itasca, Tex, John Brown, %
! years old, cut the throat of Miss Boone,
aged 13, and then killed himself. Re-
fusal Of the girls father to marriage
was the cause
| AT the twenty-sixth triennial con-
clave in Boston of Knights Templar
| w. La Rue Thomas. of Maysville, KY,
was elected grand master, and Pitts
burgh was chosen as the meeting place
! in 1898.
FRosTs were reported at many points
in northern Minnesota.
| JAMES STEWART, the famous swim
mer, better known by the name of
Paul Webb, died in Spokane, Wash,
from injuries sustained July 4 last in
sliding down 1900 log chute in
| barrel.
AT Central City, Col, the Americus
and Sleepy Hollow mines were acci-
| IDENTIFY flooded and thirteen miners
were probably drowned.
The Waif Savers association in ses-
sion in Detroit elected ex-Gov. r. j.
| Oglesby, of Illinois, as president.
THE third annual convention of the
| National Spiritualists' association of
| the United States and Canada will be
held at Washington October Is, IS
| and II.
AUGUST SELNoU and two sisters
| named Holtzhuler were killed by the
cars at Deerfeld, Wis
JOHN SKINNER, a prominent business
man at Bloomington, Ill, died while
| the funeral of his father was taking
tplace
A COMPANY was organized at Denver
| to operate the first steamboat line on
the Colorado river.
For criticising the United States
courts in the mint cases H. A. Lemon,
editor of the Carson New Tribune,
was fined $50 and sent to jail for ten
days.
On the Fleetwood track near New
York city Robert J. defeated Joe
| Patchen and John r. Gentry in three
straight heats, the best time being
| 2:O4A.
HEzEKIAH ROBERTS, a young farmer
at Butler, KY, cut his wife's throat
and then cut his own. He was sup
posed to have been insane.
A CALL was issued for convention
of free silver editors at Little Rock,
Ark. September Z.
AT the session in Detroit of the Amer
lean Bar association Justice Brewer, of
the United States supreme court, urged
a better education for lawyers.
The exchanges at the leading clear
| ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 3Oth aggregated
| $Ss5. .551, s54, against $9OO.51S,4 416 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1S.9
FIRE destroyed fourteen buildings,
| comprising the business section of Lib
ertyville, ILL.,, the loss being 100000.
FOURTEEN men perished in the mine
disaster near Central City, Col.
ALoNzoJ. WHITEMAN, formerly mayor
of Duluth, Mimi, ex-member of the
| Minnesota legislature, ex-banker and
millionaire, who dissipated fortune
in few years, was sentenced at San
Francisco to nine years Imprisonment
for forgery.
The gold mining company at Hefin,
Ala, was incorporated at Chattanooga,
Tenn, with a capital stock of $500, 900.
The circuit court at Parkersburg,
w. Va, in decision held doctor was
entitled to his fee whether he cured or
not.
THERE were 1856 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 30th, against 222 the week
previous and 1876 in the corresponding
time in 1894
AN excursion train was wrecked be-
tween Homan and Pope's, Ga, and
fifty people, among them many Pyth-
ians, were hurt. and Mrs. c. w. Han
cock and !. A. Kennedy were killed.
AT the losing meeting in Detroit of
the American Bar association More
field Story, of Massachusetts,, was
elected president.
TWENTY men from Penn's Grove, N.
j., were lodged in Jail at Wilmington,
Del, charged with violating the neu-
| trality laws in having organized hos
tile expedition to Gu ba.
A WOMAN named Dora Heilwagon
fatally shot her faithless lover, Henry
Boding, and her rival, Rosa Swearin-
gen, near Quincy, ILL.,. and made her
escape.