The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-11-13
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

fire.
Capt. Frederick Lang and his wife
were murdered at their home in Gar
denville, Nd. by burglars.
Farnum Whitcomb, 80 years old, one
of the richest farmers in Wapello coun-
ty, Ia, while returning from voting was
killed by train near Ottumwa.
News reached the state department
of the death at Antigua, West Indies. of
James B. Fox, United States consul at
that place.
Two men were instantly killed and
two were fatally hurt by coal car
jumping off a trestle at Shaw. w. Va.
Carrot p. Sewell and Jane N. Robert
son eloped from Bethlehem, KY, and
were married at Jeffersonville, Ind, by
Magistrate Hause. The bride is the
youngest daughter of family OF 81
children-ten boys and II girls ali of
whom have been married by Magistrate
Hause within three years.
After having been in business in
Philadelphia for more than quarter
of century Herzberg brothers, whole
sale furnishing dealers, failed for $780,
900.
Rev. William E. Hinshaw, the Metho-
dist minister adjudged guilty of MUIR
dering his wife at Danville, Ind, was
sentenced to the states prison for life.
He made speech declaring his inno-
cence.
The potato crop in the United States
measures up over 2S2,OOO,0OO bushels,
against 1876 900 bushels last year.
After being twice married and twice
divorced, William j. Buford and Mary
Buford, of Franklin county, Mo-, were
married for the third time.
A fire in New York destroyed the
Manhattan bank building and other
property, the total loss being nearly
100000.
Rain extinguished the forest fires in
Indiana and Wisconsin.
The Fair will case in San Francisco
was settled out of court, and what
promised to be bitter contest over an
estate valued at $4O,OOO,OOO was thus
prevented.
An explosion of boilers in the Journal
building in Detroit killed at least II
persons and injured 30 others, some
fatally.
Harry Clark, of Denver, broke all
worlds bicycle records, unpaced, for
both class A and B from three to five
miles. His time was as follows: Three
miles, 7:1S LIS; four miles, $3.50; five
miles, 12:342-
In tenement house fire in New York
city Charles Ryan and his wife and four
children were burned to death.
The cases in Milwaukee against Eu-
gene Debs and other officers of the
American Railway union were dropped.
Mike Mcclure and Dave Folston,
woodsmen, were killed and terribly mu-
tilated by three bears near Foxboro,
Wis.
w. G. Peters, cashier of the Columbia
national bank at Tacoma, Wash, was
arrested on a charge of embezziing
$4,000.
All the bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copaI church with one exception met in
Chicago to map out the work for the
coming year.
Thirty thousand counterfeit United
States stamps and the plates from
which they were printed were captured
in Chicago by secret service officials.
The furniture factory of the Wood
son-J ohnson company in West Lynch
burg, Va, was burned, the loss peing
100000.
The Minnesota supreme court rem
dered decision holding husbands re-
Co. eSo pIo ,,%f I, + t,o;y
wives.
In football game in Philadelphia be-
tween Hahnemann college and the Y.
Nj. C.. A. I'll. C. Hurloch was fatally hurt.
The Chickasaw legislature, which has
just adjourned, passed a bill barring all
intermarried citizens from any prop
erty rights in the Chickasaw nation
whatever.
The Leadville (Col.) savings and de-
post bank closed it's doors, owing to
scarcity of ready money.
John AItmarsh, an engineer, and An
drew Harnick, fireman, were killed by
a collision between dummy engines in
the blast furnaces at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Further reports from the explosion
in the journal building in Detroit says
that IS bodies had been recovered and
that several more were missing.
Near Roxana, Ala, j. 81. Hayes,
prominent farmer, shot and killed Mi
chael and Henry Harper, brothers and
tenants on his plantation, in dispute
over rent.
The money-order department of the
Chicago post Office broke all records for
payments in one day, the amount being
more than $105,000.
The Bank of North America, state
bank with capital of $25O,O0O, closed
it's doors at New Orleans.