The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-12-25

| tutlonal.
John Hunter made 90 balls in contin-
uous pool at the Plaza club in Chicago.
| This beats the worlds record by eight
| points.
John E. Kitzmiller. one of the best
| known horsemen in eastern Ohio,
/ failed at Canton for 100000.
A bicycle that goes a mile minute
is the invention of j. a. Ferguson, a
Cincinnati machinist.
Experiments at Duluth, Mimi, demon
! strated that potatoes could be treated
and preserved in much the same manner
! as apples.
The legislature of Virginia refused to
give the governor enlarged powers to
order out troops to prevent lynching.
Rensselaer, Trip, aged 70, a farmer
living near Cortland, N. Y, shot and
killed his neighbor, George Calpin, aged
| IS, and then shot himself.
High water did great damage in Fo:t
Scott and other portions of Kansas,
where rain had been falling for 40
/ hours.
Fire in New York caused a loss of
$780, 900 to clothing, art and plate glass
| manufacturers.
A locomotive with a train attached
ran away near Mount Carmel, Pa, end
| four men were fatally injured and nine
others were badly hurt.
A cyclone swept over the country
four miles north of Sherman, Tex,
doing immense damage.
A family named Bergman, residing
in Dubuque, Ia, were notified that they
were heirs to an estate in Australia
worth $1.OOO.OOO.
The National Editorial association is
to meet in ST. Augustine, Fla, JAN
uary IA.
The heaviest rainstorm in the his
tory of Chicago flooded streets in the
city, electric car tracks were under
water, people in the suburbs were
driven to the upper floors of their
dwellings, and the furnace fires OF
hotels, residences and big manutac-
tories were extinguished by the waters
The ante-mortem statement of Harry
T. Hayward, hanged recently in Mime
apolis for the murder of Catherine
Cling, says that he took the lives of foln'
other persons before that of Miss Cling,
and that he never got into trouble until
he began to gamble. ->,
Theodore Lambert (colored) was
hanged in tie jail at Camden, Pa, Tor
the murder of William G. Xavier on De-
cember 4, 1898.
Erastus WimaII, Of New York, serv-
ing term of five years in prison on the
charge made by r. G. Dun & Co. Of
forgery, was liberated by the court OF
appeals. &#
Mrs. Gen. Grant celebrated the open
ing of her new home recently pur-
chased in Washington.
Arrests made by secret service Off
GERS in Kansas City, ST. Louis and Paola,
Kan, resulted in the seizure of sol 900
in counterfeit $40 silver certificates and
the breaking up of gang of counter
feiters.
A fire-damp explosion in coal mine
near Raleigh, N. c., killed 43 men.
American commerce celebrated the
centennial of it's liberty in New York
by a banquet at Delmonico's.
Collections of internal revenue for
the five months of the current fiscal
year aggregate $64,423,4 AIS, a decrease
of $8,124, 2S7 as compared with the cor
responding period of 1894.
In Washington Mgr. Satolli, apos-
tolic delegate to the United States, be-
came Cardinal Satoili, member of the
sacred college of cardinals and prince
of the Roman Catholic church
William P. Harrison, of Chicago, ar
rived in San Francisco from an extend
ed trip of the antipodes. During his
stay on the Samoan islands he states
that 25 individuals were devoured by
the cannibals and that he narrowly es-
capped a like fate.
Secretary Carlisle estimates that it
will cost $41S, 1901 ,O73.17 to run this gov
| eminent during the next fiscal year.
The appropriations for the present
year made by the last congress amount
to $412,753, 264.S1.
While playing on the ice at Indianap-
oils John Horhamer, aged ten, and Otto
Greenwaldt, aged seven, cousins, were
drowned.
Al Stinson and William Davis, white
cap leaders at Anderson, Ind, were SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiary.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Clearwater won
the pool championship of the world, de-
feating Keogh, of Binghamton.
The principal business portion of
Bethel, N. c., was destroyed by fire.
Figures on the racing season of 1895
in the United States show that So, $780,
TAO was earned by horses placed in the
1862 events decided during the year.
James B. Pace, president of the Plant
ers' national bank at Richmond, Va,
failed for 81 100000.
The police at Buffalo, N. Y, arrested