The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-11-20
TIE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


The Lawrence Beach hotel, one of the
largest summer hostelries on Long
Island, was burned, entailing loss of
100000.
The corner stone of the pedestal for
the William Henry Harrison statue was
laid in Cincinnati.
The Atlanta exposition directors an
nounced that the gates would close De-
cember 81.
The final crop report of Kansas shows
a product for the year in corn of 201,-
Asst 1896 bushels.
The 18th annual Baptist congress
opened in Providence, r. L., with large
attendance from all parts of the coun-
try.
During the past season 100000 hogs
were packed in Cincinnati, against 461,-
900 in 1894.
C. M. Loring, Minneapolis specu-
lator, failed for $370,OO0. Two years
ago he was worth 100000.
The plant of the York (Pa.) Wall
Paper company was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $150,000.
The 25th international assembly of
the Knights of Labor met in Washing
ton.
The women of 40 states gathered in
their respective state capitals on the
18th to do honor to the life and work of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it being the
80th anniversary of her birth.
The Tombs police court, which for 70
odd years has been held at the corner
of Franklin and Center STREETS, New
York, was permanently closed.
The residence in Detroit of ex-senator
Thomas u. Palmer, president of the
worlds fair commission, was burned,
and valuable works of art and bric-a-
brac collected from all over the world
were destroyed.
at st. Joseph, Mo-, James Pollard,
young farmer, was sentenced to be
hanged for shooting to death Joseph
Irwin July 80 last.
The bureau of statistics in it's state
ment of domestic exports says that
during the ten months ended October
30, 1895, the amount of exports of bread
stuffs, cotton, oils and provisions was
1929, .916, which is loss, as COM
pared with the same period in 1894, of
$25,7O5.69S.
Rev. r. A. Torrey, of Chicago, resigned
as president of the International Chris
tian Workers association at the meet
ing in New Haven, Conn.,, and Rev. Rus
sell II. Conwell, of Philadelphia, was
elected to succeed him.
H. II. Holmes, convicted in Philadel
,.l,;o IF he Of d Dit1o1
through his counsel filed reasons for a
new trial.
In an address before the Georgia Leg
islature ex-Speaker Crisp declared him.
self unequivocally in favor of the free,
unlimited and independent coinage of
silver at the ratio of sixteen to one.
William Kuntz murdered Mrs. Caro-
line Mem and her ten-year-old girl at
Laredo, Tex, and then killed himself.
At Brislow, Ind, Judd Linden,
Thomas Ellis and Frank Orr were suf-
located by foul gas in well.
a. L. Hatch, appointed minister to
the United States from Hawaii to sue
coed Minister Thurston, arrived at San
Francisco.
A freight train collided with work
train near Birmingham, Ala, and Tony
Cunningham, Moses McGee and Stephen
Mcdonald were killed.
BY the death of an uncle in Australia
the daughter of William Kelly, poor
gardener in Philadelphia, receives $751;
OOL 900.
The main building of the Randolph
paper box factory in, Richmond, Va,
was totally destroyed by fire, the loss
being $150,0O0.
Freight trains collided near Warwick,
O., killing William Earnest, John Adams
and two unknown men.
Stephen B. Puffer, Lowell (Mass.)
capitalist, failed for $4,000.
The National Grange Patrons of Hus-
bandry opened it's Goth annual session
IL Worcester. Mass.
At the national assembly Of Knights
of Labor in Washington Grand Master
Sovereign declared the order to be in a
fourishing condition.
The Marinette iron works at West Du-
luth, Mimi, went into the hands Of n
receiver with liabilities of 100000.
In session at Tallequah, l. T., the
Cherokee council passed bill which
prohibits the employment of others
than Cherokee citizens, as managers,
clerks or bookkeepers in any mercantile
establishment.