The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-07-24
TIE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

NhIIdL IlOpc harvey, Oh SulcdRO. Uc-
gan an eight-day contest in Chicago
over the currency question, the former
speaking for gold and the latter for
silver.
ORDERS were issued by the post office
department abolishing the post Office
at Pisgah, Morgan county, Ill.
NEBRASKA silver democrats will hold
state convention in Omaha on Au-
gust 90.
AT 3 meeting in Louisville the lead
ing distillers of Kentucky decided to
make no whisky in the state during
the season beginning July 1, 1895. and
ending July 1, 1896.
A SLEEPING car conductor and porter
were arrested at Detroit for smuggling
Cinnamon in berths from Canada.
TIE floods along the Rio Grande put
IL square miles of East Ell Paso, Tex,
under water and all traffic was
blocked.
AT a meeting in Chicago of the SUI
preme executive board of the Ameri-
can Protective association a resolution
was unanimously adopted against the
giving of lectures by ex-priests and ex-
=
zation, and declaring that the order is
not making war on the Roman Cath
olic religion, but on it's political fea-
lures.
AT the twentieth annual convention
in Chicago of the National Amateur
Press association William Hancock. of
Fargo, N. D., editor of Prairie Breezes,
was elected president.
THE ninth annual convention of the
Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experimental Stations
opened at Denver.
JAMES and Thomas Maloney and
James McNerney were arrested near
Union City, Pa, where they were
counterfeiting silver coin.
HIeHwAYMEN held up the Wilmot
Springs stage near Howard Hill. Ore,
and robbed the driver and passenger
Of $500.
CASHIER L. T. PARRISH of the Farm
ers' bank of Orrick, Mo-, was missing
with 100000 of the banks money.
FIGURES compiled by the treasury
bureau of statistics in Washington for
the last fiscal year show the exports of
merchandise to have been 1871, $50, 319,
or excess of exports over imports of
SIS, 732.943; gold coin and bullion, $780,
13l, 1873, or excess of exports over i'm
ports of $50, 9S4, 449; silver coin and bull
lion, $47,226,6l2, or excess of exports
over imports of S37, 7O7, 6s4.
The family of c. C. Newton, en- route
from Marion, Ind, to Arkansas, ate
poisonous mushrooms at Jonesboro, ILL.,,
ana three of the children died.
TIE Ricnelieu hotel in Chicago, Fl.
V. Bemis, proprietor, went into the
hands of a receiver with liabilities of
5000
forger, also hoated many thousands of
dollars ot spurious bonds of Indiana
towns.
WILLIAM BRossEAU, the accomplice
of Mrs. Nellie Pope in the murder of
Dir. Horace \. Pope, on February 2, in
Detroit, Mich, was sentenced to TWEEN
ty-five years Imprisonment.
TIE bank of Norborne, o., and the
Carrollton county (O.) bank were
placed in the hands Of receivers.
ACCORDING to the annual report of
the American Bible society it printed
100000 Bibles during the year.
HUeHIs FISHER, an old soldier at
Uniontown, Pa, extracted a bullet
from his leg which he received thirty
Shree years ago at the battle of Gaines
Mills.
THE Puget Sound national bank of
Everett, Wash, closed it's doors with
liza DilitieS of 500, 900
A BRIDGE on the Santa Fe road fell
with freight train near Monument,
Col, and three persons were killed and
twelve others were injured, three
fatally.
AT New London. Conn, four sailors,
members OF the engineers gang of the
torpedo boat Ericsson, were fatally
scalded by the bursting of hot water
pipe.
NANY homesteaders will lose the
work of years because of irregularities
fond in the affairs of the Marquette
Mich. land Office.
BECAUSE his divorced wife would not
remarry him Joseph Nickma shot her
dead at Miller, Neb., and then killed
himself.
iNadrunken fury George Mcnamara,
of Kansas City, fatally stabbed his
wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs. S. E.
Mayfeld.
A BIG combination of all the phos-
plate companies in this country was
formed in New York.
THE postmaster general issued an
order denying the use of the mails to
the Mecklenburg Schwerein state lot
terry of Schwerein. Germany.
THE business portion of the little
town of Alta Vista, Ia, was nearly
wiped out by fire.