The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-28

court. Debs has three months more to
: serve.
MRS. WILLIAM MCGUIRE and James
Brown, brother and sister, were re-
united at Nevada, Mo-, after twenty
years search for each other.
AT the Washington park track in
Chicago Joe Patchen and John R. Gen
try raced for the worlds pacing cham
pionship, the former winning in three
straight heats, the mile heats being
paced in 2:054, 2:07A and 2:O7A re-
spectively.
The corn, hay and fruit crops of Vir-
ginia are the largest for ten years.
CHARLES R. BISHOP, of San Fran
cisco, first vice president of the Bank
of California, has contributed $500, 900
to schools and societies in the Ha-
waiian islands.
THE expenditures of the government
for the fist two-thirds of the present
month exceeded the receipts by 81 ,OO9,-
293.
THE Society of American Florists, in
session at Pittsburgh, Pa, elected Will
liam Scott, of Buffalo, president.
DR.. L. F. CARTER, of Boston, and
Miss Foster and Miss Flora, of New
York, were drowned near Ellsworth,
Me-, by the overturning of a boat.
RAILWAY men announced that it
would require two years to move the
Iowa and Kansas corn crops.
EIGHT THOUSAND cloak makers were
on strike in New York city for higher
wages.
A HEAVY frost, destructive to crops
and fruit, visited Susquehanna, Pa. At
Gulf Summit ice formed to consider
able thickness.
FIRE that started in the warehouse
of the Union Steamboat company
burned over a dozen blocks in Milwau-
kee and destroyed property worth
1882, 900.
The Grand Union hotel at Congers,
N. Y, burned with it's contents The
guests lost all their baggage.
SEVERE frosts occurred in the vicinity
of Warren, o.
THERE were 222 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 1876 the week
previous and 234 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
A MASKED mob went to the Jail at
Monticello, Ark, broke down the door,
secured Jim Jones, negro charged
with murder, and hanged him.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 23d aggregated
$9O0,5lS,41 against 1878, 743,725 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1O.7.
FIRE at Shelbyville, Ind, destroyed
Conroy, Bierly & Co.'s table factory,
the largest of it's kind in the world
Gov. CULBERTsoN announced for the
second time that no prize fighting
would be allowed in Texas while he
was governor.
A CIRCULAR signed by every presid-
ing elder of the Methodist church of
Ohio has been sent to the members Of
that denomination throughout the
state calling for united political action
on the part Of all Methodists in an eff
fort to elect to the next legislature as
many members as possible who will
fight the saloons.
THE returns of internal revenue re-
ceipts for July, the first month of the
current fiscal year, show that the total
receipts were 1879, 800, decrease as
compared with July, 1894, of $11, 979, 231.
The first national bank of Franklin,
O., closed it's doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
FIRE destroyed the tannery COM
pany's extensive buildings at Irvona,
Pa, the loss being 100000.
JOHN 7. JONES, James Heney and
Henry Piper were indicted at Carson,
New, for the mint shortage discovered
last April
OWING to the low price of horses in
cident to the general use of bicycles
and electric power, large shipments of
horses were being made from Balti-
more to European markets.
THE hotel at Air Line Junction, O.. was
burned, and Timothy mccarthy, of Hills
dale. Mich, and two other men per-
ished in the flames.
BY fall of slate in the Algoma CIV.
Va.) coal mine three men were killed
and three others were fatally injured.
THE whole south side of the square
at Osceola, Neb., was burned, with the
exception of the bank building.
The steamer Penobscot cleared from
Superior, Wis, for Buffalo with the
largest wheat cargo ever carried from
the head of the lakes, ~, 900 bushels.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WILLIAM STRONG, who retired from
the bench of the United States SUI