The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-09-11
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC. 6 E

by a mob and his head was shot off
and his body riddled with bullets.
THE coinage at the mints of the
United States during August amounted
to $4, SIT, 600, as follows: Gold, $3,672.-
200; silver, $748, 900; minor coins, $97,-
400
THE prevalence Of cholera in Homo
lulu and the orient has created scare
at San Francisco and Portland, Ore,
and the local boards of health were
adopting stringent measures to repel
its invasion.
COUNTY JUDGE BULLOCK, OF Lexing-
ton, KY, will appoint women for cleo
ton and registra ton officials. This
will be the first instance Of the kind in
Kentucky, if not in the United States.
ANGELO ANDREW, the largest wall
paper and paint dealer in Akron, O.,
assigned to James V. WEIGH. = ~ s}t
FIRE at Evansville, Ind, destroyed
the Hellman flour mill, an elevator
and 100. 900 bushels Of wheat, the loss
being 500, 900.
A TOTAL eclipse of the moon was OBJ
served at many places in the United
States.
THE tug L. D. Smith was the first
American craft to pass through the
new Canadian ship canal
MRS. JOHN b. GRIFFIN and little
daughter were the only survivors of a
family of six at Little Rock. Ark.
three children having died of starva-
ton and the father of alcoholism.
The annual convention of the lum-
bermen of the United States opened in
Buffalo, N. Y.
NAPoLEA C. RATE, his wife and
three daughters were poisoned at
Akron, O., by paris green in boiled
cabbage. Mrs. Rate and Alice, aged
Is. could not live. 4
RAND & GosHoRN, the large retail
dry goods and shoe house of Charles
ton, w. Va, failed.
THE trial of William Henry Theodore
Durrant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont commenced in San Francisco.
JOSEPH B. NORTON was hanged at
Jasper, Fla, for the murder of James
Denmark on January last.
The receipts of the government for
the two months of the current fiscal
year were S5s,O22, 394, against SIS, 226, :
945 for the corresponding months Of
the last fiscal year. Expenditures for
the like period were ST., 1876, 24S, against
sos, 3O5, 2ls for the last fiscal year. The
treasury deficit for the fiscal year, or
the excess of expenditures over re-
ceipts, was stated at $13, 113,s54. Last
year for like period receipts ex-
ceeded the expenditures 1921, 1876
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat.
35, $50. 900 bushels; corn, $4,000 bush
els; oats, 3,417,OOO bushels; rye, 445.-
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
The livery stable of Fleming Bros.
at Petersburg, Ind, was burned,
twenty eight valuable horses being de-
stroyed. A hotel was also burned,
the guests losing all their valuables.
AMBROSE E. DEAN and his wife while
driving were struck by Wabash train
near Montpelier, O., and instantly
killed.
THE boycott of national bank notes
ordered by General Master Workman
Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor,
was said by Washington officials to be
a failure thus far.
THE new flag law was observed at
most of the public school buildings in
Illinois.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 4th showed that the debt increased
$2,S15,413 during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$ls4,O39, 156. The total debt, less the
holo ;,,f he
to $942, 924 ,232.
A TREASURY statement shows net
decrease of money of all kinds in cir
culation in the United States on Sep
TENDER of $40, 950,95S, making the to-
tai of circulation s1.6O3, $50, OPS, or
$22. 81 per capita, based on 7O,f37, 900
population. AS compared with Sep
TENDER l, 1894, there is decrease in
circulation of S43, 100000
A STORM of wind and rain did great
damage in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan and other states, while
southern states did not escape un-
scathed. The rainfall in some sections
amounted to inches in ten hours, the
heaviest ever recorded. Growing
crops and fruit were very seriously
damaged throughout a large section of
country.
The Farmers bank at Ladonia, Mo-,
is again open and ready for business
THE trial of Rev. w. E. Hinshaw, a
Methodist minister at Belleville, Ind.
for the murder of his wife on January
10 last, commenced at Danville, Ind.
THE Council of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
selected the University of Cincinnati
as the location of it's immense library.
II. 8. WEBER, a member Of the Six