The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-02
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

his wife and then killed himself at Dali
las. Tex.
FARMERS in Livingston county, I'LL,
have lost 500, 900 by hog cholera.
WALKER g. Sons paper mills at
Montgomery. N. Y, were destroyed by
fire, the loss being $l25,00O.
In a suowstorm near Livingston
Mont, William Cheney lost his way
and was frozen to death.
NEAR Arena, Wis, two children and
the farmhouse of Henry Slauson were
burned.
IRISH leaders from all parts of the
country met in Chicago to advocate
the esta blishment of a republic in Ire
land.
FIRE that started in Philadelphia in
building occupied by Charles J. Webb
& Co., dealers in yarns and woolens,
caused loss of $3.50, 900.
THE first annual meeting of the
international deep waterways conven-
ton met at Cleveland.
IT is expected that the fourth-class
postmasters, 65, 900 in number, will be
put under the protection of the civil
service law before the close Of the
present administration.
FAMOUS Chippewa Indian chief
named Wyaquayezich. aged 1OS years,
was drowned N Beaver lake at Cum
berland, Wis, by the upsetting Of a
canoe.
THE three receivers of the Northern
Pacific road handed their designations
to Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee.
AT Meriden, Conn, three laborers
were killed by the caving in of the side
of sewer trench.
COL w. C. JONES, for many years
chairman of the democratic state CEN
trail committee, was thrown from a
cart at lola, Kan, by runaway horse
and killed.
PATRICK BRENNAN, James Suther-
land, Patrick Maher and James Roerke
were probably fatally injured by the
falling of derrick at Troy, N. Y.
A VALUABLE mica mine was discov-
cred on Kettle river, 2 miles above
Kettle Falls, Mimi.
Four members of the Gilbert gang of
years in prison each at Hannibal, Mo-,
for robbing Burlington railway cars.
THE non-partisan silver convention
at Raleigh, N. c., adopted resolutions
in favor of free and unlimited coinage
of silver and calling on all bimetallists
to oppose gold recommendation.
THE Boone County Milling and Ele
vator company's elevator, containing
90, 900 bushels of wheat, was burned at
Columbia, Mo. Loss, $1,000
MICHAEL BOYLE and Benjamin O'Neil
were burned to death at Hartford,
Conn.,, while drunk.
THE annual report of Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Browning to the Sec
rotary of the interior shows progress
in nearly all directions.
ROBERT FAIR. an insurance agent, 40
years of age, shot and killed his wife,
Maggie, aged 35, at their home In New
York and then killed himself A quar-
rel was the cause.
The monthly statement prepared by
the commissioner of internal revenue
shows the total receipts of his Office in
Washington during July and August
of the present year were $25, 742, 522,
against $51, 925, AGA during July and Au
gust, 1894. The net decrease for the
single month of August was $14, 2O3. $50.
THE nineteenth annual convention
of the American Humane society met
at Minneapolis with nearly every state
represented.
PATRICK FARRELL, Michael Craig and
Howard Mccain were killed by the
cars at crossing in Chicopee, Mass.
THIRTY buildings, containing most
of the wealth of the city of Belle
Fouche, s. D., were destroyed by an
incendiary fire.
HURLBUT, WARD & Co., wholesale
druggists at Des Moines, Ia, failed for
$4,000
1T was said another attempt would
be made during the coming congress to
have Hawaii taken under the protec-
ton of the United States.
THOMAS DAVIDSON and his wife and
two daughters were murdered by three
outlaws at their home near Cushing,
o. T.
IT was discovered that counterfeit
money was being made in the state
prison at Jeffersonville, Ind, and that
it was being circulated by Henry Pat
ton, foreman of the Patton Manufac-
turing company, located in the peni-
Tertiary.
JOHN K. GENTRY paced a mile at Du-
buque, Ia, in 2:03A.
Gov. CULBERsoN. of Texas, called an
extra session of the legislature to meet
October 2 to make provision for pre-
venting prize fighting in the state.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE, of Brooklyn, has
accepted the call to be co-pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in Washing
ton.
MARTIN ADAMS was hanged at Column