The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-25
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

MISS Anna ana EJUa MOCK were ld1dily
injured by being thrown from car
riage at Williamstown, Ind.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the bimetallic
leagues from all over the silver strong
holds OF the country met in Chicago to
form league to advance the interests
of the white metal.
THE big battleship Maine, seven
years building at the Brooklyn navy
yard, was put into commission.
FORTY business houses and many res
licences were burned at Dodge, Neb.,
the damage being over 100000
AN expedition, consisting of several
hundred we'll equipped men, left Key
West, Fla, to aid the Cuban insur-
gents
AT Sunmerfield, Kan. A. A. Ger
harris livery barn was burned and If
teen head of horses were cremated.
MORTON DUXBURY rode from Provi-
dence. r. l., to San Francisco and back
again in 4S days and IS hours. Dux-
bury is the first bicyclist to make the
journey from coast to coast and return.
THE State bank at Perry, o. T., one
of the leading banks of that city,
failed for $780, 600.
THE college at Beloit, Wis. opened
with women enrolled as students for
the first time in its history.
The National Association of Labor
Statisticians met in Minneapolis.
THE cotton states and international
exposition, the great show of the
south, was successfully opened at At
lanta, Ga. After the parade and the
addresses of welcome and congratula-
ton President Cleveland, at Gray Ga
bles, touched button and flashed over
the wire the electric force which set
the ponderous machinery of the expo
sition in motion.
AS THE result of an incendiary fire at
Alaska, Mich, but one store was left
in the village.
JOHN MOORE was sent to the work
house for thirty days at Pittsburgh,
Pa, for beating his wife. Magistrate
Donahue let Mrs. Moore fix the pun
ishment.
Two LITTLE girls, daughters of
Thomas Thompson, a farmer near Illi-
opolis, Ill.,, were poisoned to death by
eating elderberries.
FRED HARTMAN and his wife were
found murdered in their home at Scrib-
ner, Neb.
A STORM that swept over Sanilac and
Huron counties in Michigan killed four
persons and damaged property to the
extent of $25O,Ooo.
SEVERAL business blocks at Indian
oils, Ind. were burned, the total loss
being nearly 100000.
The Patriotic Sons of America in ses-
sion at Indianapolis, Ind, elected James
Kilon, of Denver, Col, as president.
JOHN r. GENTRY beat Joe Patchen in
three straight pacing heats at Milwau-
kee. Best time, 2:054.
JOHN and James Howard, desperate
moonshiners of Knott county, KY,
were killed by revenue officers.
THE dedicatory exercises at Chicka-
manga, Tenn, of spots where heroes
fell in the IL te war were attended by
multitudes of persons from various
portions of the country.
THE Thermometers all over the west
on the 18th registered in the vicinity
of 100 In Chicago there were three
deaths from the heat
THE Morgan company's sash and
door factory and other property was
burned at Oshkosh, Wis, the total loss
being nearly 100000. j. thinner, a
workman, was burned to death.
Gov. CULBERsoN, of Texas, refused to
express himself in reference to Judge
Hurts opinion favorable to prize-fght-
ing. but it was evident he would ignore
the opinion and prevent the fight.
Ross c. VAN BoKKELEN, receiving
teller of the Merchants Loan and
Trust company of Chicago, was miss
ing, and SO was $4,000 of the money
belonging to the institution.
A TRAIN OF seven vestibuled cars on
the Pennsylvania railroad ran from
jersey City TO Philadelphia in 90 min
utes. The distance is 81 miles.
CHARLES KENDALL and Ella Gillette
were welded at Lima, O., and left on
bicycles for three weeks wedding
tour of Indiana and Ohio.
In session at Denver, Col, the Ma
tional Prison association elected
Roeliff Brinkhoff, of Ohio, as president.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows in
session at Atlantic City, N. j., adopted
an amendment to the constitution of
the order providing that no saloon
keepers, bartenders or professional
gamblers shall be eligible to member
ship.
Mrs. ANNA DAVIS, Mrs. Sophia Davis
and Miss Anne E. Ingram, OF Big Rock,
ILL.,. took out their final naturalization
papers They are natives Of Wales.
The government of the United States
is now in full possession of the Chieka-
manga and Chattanooga field. The
park dedicated on the 10Th to the ma