The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27


White caps in Sewer county. Tenn.
went to whip Rufus lngle. peaceable
farmer, and he shot Huston Burnett,
the leader, dead, and fatally wounded
three others.
At the Methodist conference in Cleve-
land Louis Curtis was reelected to the
post of agent for the Western Book con-
Germ at Cincinnati.
The boiler in Davidson Bros. saw
mill hear Marietta, Ind. exploded, ia
tally injuring Thomas and Eunice
Davidson and Frank Battran and
woundng six others.
A freight train on the Omaha road
was derailed at Lemars, Ia, and Mr.. ami
Mrs. Ernest Hildebrand, of Beatrice,
Neb.. who were in the caboose, were in
stantly killed.
James Dewitt was hanged at Gray
son, Ky, for the murder of his wife on
November IA, 1895.
a cyclone struck seven miles south
of Emporia, Kan, and farm property
was damaged and orchards and crops
ruined.
The 1OSth general assembly of the
northern Presbyterian church met in
Saratoga, N. Y, and Rev. DIR. John L..
Withrow, of Chicago, the liberal can
didate, was elected moderator.
A terrific cyclone passed through the
Usage reservation in Oklahoma, devas-
tating farms and ranches and killing a
number of people.
At Coffeyville, Kan, a gas explosion
wrecked two buildings and David Car
ter was killed and IS other persons
were injured, two fatally.
The boiler in tile mill at Upton,
O.. exploded, killing Alexander Moore
and his son, Charles, prcprietors OF the
mill, and ten employees were injured.
Secretary Olney instructed Minister
Taylor to make vigorous protests to the
Spanish government relative to recent
edicts prohibiting expectation of to-
hacco from the island of Cuba on the
grounds that it amounts to practical
confiscat ton of goods in Cuba owned by
Americans.
A business building in Buffalo, N. y.
collapsed, killing Jennie Griffin and in
Turing 10 other persons, two fatally.
The government internal revenue re-
ceipts for the past ten months aggre-
gated $121, 66O,370 an increase over the
like period of 1895 of 81 .00S, 196.
Joseph Holt, paper mill operative
at Mechanics Falls, Me-, killed his one
year-old child and then cut his own
throat.
No,+borp M;opocofo xpac under w n tor
There had been nothing like it for many
years. The prairie was a lake, and
farms were transferred into archipela-
goes.
The wrecl<ers who for the last two
years and half have been busy clear
ing up the worlds fair grounds in Chi
cago have completed their work.
The Thirty sixth general assembly
of the Presbyterian church south in the
United States convened at Memphis,
Tenn.
Minister Terrell said in Washington
that no American missionaries were
killed in Armenia during the massacres.
At the Methodist general conference
in Cleveland it was decided that the
church should not recognize in any mat
ter of legislation the Christian En-
deavor societies or sanction in any man
ner the utilization of these societies with
the Epworth League.
Alva E. Sheppard, San Francisco
ieweler, murdered his cousin, Mrs. l.. +.
Aweny, while insane, and then cut his
own throat.
The steamship Laurada, which left
New York on May 9, landed on Cubar
soil all the men and ammunition she
carried for the insurgents.
At the Presby terrain general assembly
in Saratoga, N. Y, resolutions were pre-
scented denouncing Sunday excursions;
Sunday baseball games; Sunday thea
tiers; Sunday bicycle-pleasure riding,
and the greed Of gain, which compels
thousands against their will to work on
the Lords day.
The firm Of Wood, Bicknall & Potter,
wholesale and retail dealers in crockery
and glassware in Providence, r. l., failed
for 100000.
A national conference of silver men
will be held at Columbus, O., on June 8.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the ED aggregated $3o1,-
339 ,O29, against ,010,009,27S the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1896,
was 1913.
Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau, con-
trolling the Metropolitan opera house
and Abbey's theater in New York and
the fremont theater in Boston, failed
for 100000; assets, 100000.
The will of Edward H. Kennedy, of
Philadelphia, bequeathed his entire for
tune of 100000 to the woman's branch
of the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-