The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-30


persons were injured. woman fatally.
A special train on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern road ran from Chi
cago to Buffalo, N. Y, a distance of $40
miles, in seven hours, fifty minutes
and ten seconds, an average of 64.9S
miles an hour. This breaks the worlds
record.
A broken axle wrecked passenger
train near Newport, Pa, and Engineer
Wolfkill and Fireman Haines were
killed and nine other persons were In
jured.
At the closing session in Washington
of the national conference of Unitarian
and other Christian churches Senator
Hoar, of Massachusetts,, was reelected
president.
Fire destroyed more than 100000
worth of property in the best business
portion of Mckinney, Tex.
A fast express on the Burlington road
was wrecked at Waldron, Mo-, and ten
persons were hurt, two of them Sc
riously.
In drunken quarrel at Wagner, I.
r., Zeke and Dick Crittenden, United
States marshals, were shot and killed
by Ed Reed, also marshal.
Twenty business buildings were
burned at Gibsonburg, o., the total loss
being $250,O00.
The Woman's National Press associa-
ton met at Atlanta, Ga.
The fancy goods store of B. Stark &
Co., in Albany, N. Y, was burned, the
loss being 100000.
The Columbia. National bank at Ia
coma, Wash, closed it's doors.
The American Missionary association
in session at Detroit selected Boston as
the place of holding the next meeting
and elected Merrill E. Gates, of Massa-
chusetts, as president.
It was said that the Texas sugar crop
would be far below the average.
Sidney Lane and C. II. Neville, rail
road men at Houston, Tex, killed each
other in duel with pistols.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
81, 14s, 70s,311, against 81, 161 ,O32,962 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 25.7.
The wife and three children of Gran
Vile Lancaster (colored) were burned
to death at Livingston. Ala.
Marsh and forest fires in the vicinity
of Seymour and New London, Wis,
were doing much damage.
James Case, wholesale dealer in boots
and shoes in New York, failed for $780,
900.
George McCrary, negro convicted of
the murder of another negro, was
hanged at Greenville, Ga.
Fire destroyed the Jesse Thompson &
Co. lumber plant and A frame houses at
Augusta, Ga. Loss, 100000.
A movement has been inaugurated at
Vicksburg, Miss, to found national
military park there similar to the ones
at Gettysburg and Chickamauga.
There were 231 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 25th, against 263 the week
previous and 253 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
At the closing session in Meriden,
Conn.,, of the Universalist convention a
resolution favoring union with the Uni
tarians was defeated.
The State bank at Gothenburg, Neb.,
closed it's doors. The failure was due
to the slowness of collections.
Forest fires on the Oneida reserva-
ton near Green Bay, Wis, burned eight
dwellings, and in the destruction of the
house of John Skanihore, an Indian.
three children were burned to death.
BY the falling of a brick wall in Clyde,
O., nine men were badly injured.
An advance copy of the report of the
interstate commerce commission for
the past year shows that railways In
the United States have 779, sos employees
and 7,035 general officers.
The annual report of Inspector Cen
eral Breckenridge shows that the
United States army has attained high
standard of discipline and that the Of
ficers generally are competent.
The national congress of Free Think
ers, with representatives from every
city and state in the union and Canada,
commenced in New York.
The most destructive forest fires
known in the history of Pennsylvania
were raging in the vicinity of Hunt
ingdon.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The democrats of Detroit, Mich,
nominated Samuel Goldwater for