The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-12-09

The clerk of the house of representa-
tives has issued q list of members of
the house of the Fifty-ffth congress-.
showing that it will be composed of
2O4 republicans, 124 democrats, 13 flu
sionists, IL populists and silverites,
and that there is one vacancy, from the
first Missouri district.
A Russian family consisting of man,
his wife and three children persisted in
/. blizzard at Williamsport, N. d.
The Third Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church in Columbus, O., was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000.
Three distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Pittsfeld, ILL.,, and many
people ran from their houses.
Casper Hartlein was hanged at Weth
ersfield, Conn.,, for the murder of Louise
Marie Treble at South Manchester Feb
ruary 20 last.
The New Jersey court of appeals has
declared the divorce law of the state I'M
constitutional.
A heavy snowfall in Virginia and
North Carolina blocked all railway
trains.
The submarine cable between New
York city and Hayti is completed, and
has been opened to the public for the
transmission of messages to Hayti and
other places in the West Indies.
George Nungesser, a well-to-do farmer
aged 6S years, was frozen to death rear
Bucyrus, 0.
The National Council of Women of
the United States met in Boston in an
nual convention. Mrs. Mary Low Dick
inson, the president, occupied the chair.
The administration building of the
New Jersey state institution for feeble
minded children at Vineland was de-
stroyed by fire.
Arthur Gardiner, of Chicago, estab-
lished two new bicycle records in Den
YER, riding a quarter of mile in 26 is
seconds, and half mile in one minute
fiat.
The latest effort to establish a new
morning paper in Cincinnati came to an
end after only II issues.
Mrs. Eliza HI. Cummings, wealthy
woman of Hillsboro, o., committed sui
eide by jumping from the sixth story
of hotel in New York. She was de-
mented.
The Imperial Grand Opera company,
under the charge of Col. Mapleson, was
stranded in Boston for lack of funds.
Charles Witter, of Winthrop, Mimi,
while undergoing the ceremony of ini-
tiation into the Mystic Shrine at the
Masonic temple in Minneapolis, fell
dead.
Passengers who arrived in Key West.
Fla, from Havana reported that Wey-
!er's campaign in Pinar del Rio SO far
had been complete failure.
President Cleveland issued procla-
nation reimposing tonnage and light
house duties upon German ships enter
ing the United States because of fruit
less effort to induce Germany to no
longer impose such taxes upon Ameri-
can ships, and the action is in the nature
of retaliation.
The National w. C. T. U. sent letter
to President-elect Mckinley asking him
to Danish wine from the white house.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
$1,2S5, 4s5,s04, against $935,953,113 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 40.
The Cunard steamer Servia broke the
record from Europe to Boston, making
the run from Daunt's Rock in days,
IA hours and minutes.
There were 379 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 300 the week
previous and 324 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
East Corinth. a town of 500 popula-
ton in Vermont, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire.
The report of r. f. Preston, director
of the mint, shows that during the past
fiscal year the total coinage was $71,-
18S,52S. He states that the silver coins
are being counterfeited, exactly similar
to the genuine in size. weight and de-
vices, and some cannot be distinguished
from the genuine. even by experts.
The town of Flippen, Ky, was almost
wiped out by fire.
A fire that began in the Baptist
church at Weston, Mo-, destroyed the
best portion of the village.
Dynamite Dick, the notorious Okla
homa outlaw over whose head hangs
a reward of $4,000. was killed in fight
with deputy sheriffs near Newkirk.
The annual report of Secretary of the
Interior Francis shows that the total
number of acres disposed of up to June
80 last was 946, 100000, leaving public
domain still vacant estimated at over
600,000,0O0. not including the district
of Alaska with an area of over 800 ,000,-