The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


MAX L. GUTMAN, retired jewell ?
manufacturer at Rochester, N. Y,
tried to kill his four daughters by
shooting them. The women escaped
and then Gutman shot himself fatally
GEORGE P. TINKER set sl,O41 ems of
agate type in eight continuous hours,
correcting all errors. This perform
ance smashes all previous records made
on the typesetting machines and con-
firms him as the most rapid typesetter
in the world.
BY the alteration of brands it was
discovered that thousands of head of
cattle had been stolen in Wyoming and
rln north into Montana, where they
were sold.
JsssE c. JONES, Minneapolis lum-
herman, failed for $15O,OOO.
THE Bank of Shelby, Tenn. sus-
pended with liabilities of 100000.
In 2O-mile bicycle race at Mime
apolis Burney Bird, of St. Paul, broke
the worlds record, making the dis
tance in 54:l7.
A TORNADO, rain and hailstor m
struck Belle PLANE, Mimi, doing great
damage.
The first national convention of COM
mercial lawyers of the United States
met in Detroit with nearly every state
and territory represented.
Hot winds were blowing over Iowa,
doing great damage to corn.
Lon DAVIS, John Bell and William
Thomas (all colored) and Frank Ben
nett (white) were shot by an unknown
negro at st. Louis.
A BIG strike of tin ore near Willetts'
gold camp in Colorado was reported
Tests showed that it run 20 per cent.
tin.
A CLAM shell containing fourteen
handsome pearls was found in the St.
Joseph river at st. Joseph, Mich.
JAMES ANnCK was shot and killed by
Mrs. Ella Amick near Eureka, Kan.
He attempted to horsewhip her when
she retaliated.
A NATIONAL conference of silver dem
ocrats met in Washington for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon line of policy
to be pursued in the interest of silver
in the democratic party. Nineteen
states were represented.
RECEIVER MCNULTA sold in Chicago
eighteen plants of the old whisky trust
to the reorganization committee for
SO, 100000
THE new system adopted by the
Western Union Telegraph company of
employing boys on bicycles to deliver
messages proved satisfactory in New
York.
MERCHANTS of Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan met at Columbus and organ
lied the National Wholesale Buyers
association, the object being to pur-
chase in large quantities direct from
the producers and thus save for them
selves the profits of the eastern jobber.
FRANK SWEETS efforts having failed
to separate Mrs. Alice Burr from her
husband, Frank Burr, of Chicago, and
induce her to live with him, he shot
her. probably fatally, and her friend,
Mrs Nichols, and then killed himself.
AN engine struck cow on the Alton
road near. Slater, Mo-, throwing it
upon the cowcatcher, and three tramps
who were riding thereon were killed.
JOHN SPoTsNAGE, Curtin Ammons
and John Blair were killed by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of thresher near
Morgan town, w. Va.
THOMAS HovENDED, the famous art
list, was killed by the cars near Norris
town, Pa, in attempting to save the
lie of little girl. The child was also
killed
BY the overturning of a hosereel at
Cincinnati Capt. Ed Meyers and Pipe
man AL Doherty were fatally injured.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT and wife
opened the doors of their new summer
palace The Breakers" at Newport.
r. 1. The building cost $1,000, 900.
A BOAT capsized in Highland lake
near Eldred, N. ", and three men
were drowned.
AT Eilensburg, Wash, Samuel Din
som and his son Charles were hanged
by mob for numbering Michael
Kohloph and Joseph n. Bergman in a
saloon row.
In New York Fred Titus made 10
miles on bicycle in 2O5s As, breaking
all previous records for the distance.
THE official returns tor August show
that the prospective fruit crop of the
country, taken as a whole, was much
larger than for several years.
THE business part of Pikeville,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire, only one
store being left standing.