The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-07-31

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

failed for S1O5.OO
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires were still
raging in the pine woods near Long
Lake, Mich.
FIRE that started in the Wright &
Adams machine works at Quincy. ILL.,,
destroyed $4,000 worth of property
and crushed the life out of Percy Hun
salxer, fireman.
MASKED men boarded west-bound
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern ex-
press train at Reece siding, near Wau-
seon, O., forced open an express car and
at the pointof revolvers compelled the
messenger to unlock the safe 1t was
known that at least So, 900 was taken.
In another fight between Indians
and settlers near Jacks Hole, Wyo.,
killed.
The number of immigrants arriving
in New York from January l, 1895, to
date exceeds by nearly $4,000 those
who arrived during the same period in
1894
A PREMATURE explosion of dynamite
on the drainage canal near Willow
Springs, ILL.,, killed William Kelly,
Joseph Smith and Thomas Soaker.
THE bank of Archie, located at
Archie, Mo-, went into the hands of a
receiver.
THE Connellsville Pa.) coke region
was swept by a tornado which spread
destruction far and wide. Railroads
were washed out, delaying all traffic,
buildings blown to pieces hundreds of
cattle drowned, orchards uprooted and
crops laid waste. The total loss was
estimated at 100000.
A CLOUDBURsT swept over the village
of Brecon, 0. damaging many build
ings, and large number of cattle and
sheep were drowned.
RESIDENTS of Batesville, o., blew up
with dynamite the only saloon in the
town.
GIBSON ROLAND, a well-known young
farmer near Manchester, Ia, shot and
killed his brother Henry, also a farm
err, and then shot himself No cause
was known.
ROBERT B. THOMPSON and Theophile
Curry left Chicago for tour around the
world on stills. Such a thing was
never attempted before.
In dispute over money at Hot
Springs, Ark, w. C. Myers and his
brother James, popular young men,
were shot and killed by D. W. Clai-
born, liveryman.
HERMAN FRANTz, an artilleryman,
left Fort Hamilton, N. Y, on bicycle
for Fort Smelling, Mimi
In quarrel at social party at
Union Ridge, w. Va. knives, razors
and reviewers were used and four men
were killed and several others serious
ly wounded.
REPORTS as to the conditions of crops
throughout the country made by the
directors of the different state weather
services say they were in fine condi-
ton.
The steamer Terrier reported upon
arriving in New York that in a col
lision July IL with the British schooner
Eagle two men, two women and child
were drowned.
THE Lake View Land company at
Los Angeles, Cal, failed for $780,
DURING fire in the residence of
Rev. W. FL. Scudder, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Norwich, N. Y,
two of his children, Mary and Clarine,
aged and 2 years respectively, were
burned to death.
w. 81. TAYLOR, dealer in dry goods
at Fort Worth, Tex, failed for 500. 600.
j. b. PRITCHARD and his wife, who
lived near Rosston, Tex, were killed
by lightning.
ROSE GARDEN, a dissolute woman,
killed Mary Sullivan and Lizzie Brown
at Barboursville, KY.
TROOPS were ordered out to protect
the settlers in the Jackson Hole coun-
try in Wyoming.
JOHN S. COLLINS, a negro who shot
and killed Student Frederick Oil at
Princeton, N. j., last June, was SEN
fenced to twenty years at hard labor
in the state prison.
GEORGE REED. painter SO years of
age. shot and killed his wife in st.
LOUIS in fit of jealous rage.
AT a convention of coal miners in
Pittsburgh, Pa, it was decided to give
the operators their choice of advancing
wages or fighting another strike.
CHARLES M. WEBB has declined the
appointment of associate justice of the
supreme court of Wisconsin.
THE city waterworks at Ironton, 0.
were burned, the loss being 100000.
A NATIONAL association of wire goods
manufacturers was formed at Cincin-
natl with Fred j. Meyers, of Hamilton,
o., as president.
THE third annual convention of the
United States League of Building and
Loan associations convened in Cleve-
land.
RAINS have put an effectual check to
forest fires in Michigan.