The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-28

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explosion.
The American Christian Missionary
society closed it's forty-eighth annual
convention in Springfield. ILL.,. and adj
journed to meet in Indianapolis. Ind,
In October, 1897.
John d. Morrison, d. D., rector of st.
Johns church, New York city, has been
elected bishop of Duluth. MINI.
Mrs. Kate Bascom. of Clinton, Mo-,
killed herself and her four-year-old son
in Kansas City. Disappointment in not
receiving money from her husband was
| the cause.
Nearly the entire village of Spring
field. KY. was destroyed by fire.
A conflict occurred at the sultan's
palace in Constantinople between the
Turkish and Albanian guards, during
which several men on both sides were
killed.
The missionary ship Dayspring was
wrecked on a rock north of New Gale
donia island and nine persons persisted.
Fire in a factory building in Brook
Ign. N. Y, caused a loss of $15O,000, and
Alfred Beaumont. a fireman, was killed.
| President Cleveland addressed the
students and alumni of Princeton uni
versity in behalf of national honor. He
| urged the men of education actively to
engage in political campaigns, from
their inception to their close, aud to
let such efforts be steady and not spas
| modic.
The National Spiritualists' asssocia-
tion in session in Washington elected
Harrison d. Barrett, of Lily Dale, N. Y.
president.
Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwin, one
of the best known Congregational cler-
gymen of New England. committed sui
eide at his home in Hartford, Conn. Ill
ness was the cause.
j. M. Criglar, manager of Hagerman's
lumber mills at Hager Station, Fla,
killed two negro assailants and wounded
four others.
Charity Ward (colored) left her three
little girls alone in her house at Ridge.
Ark, and the building caught fire and
consumed the children.
Haney d Campbell, manufacturers
of creamery supplies at Dubuque, IA,
made an assignment.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 23d aggregated
$1,044, S6S,O62, against 5000 ,325,9O4 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 9.3.
Mrs. William Hanchey. Miss Elmira
Hanchey and little child were thrown
from buggy near Elba, Ala. in run
away and killed.
There were 274 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d. against 1928 the week
previous and 231 in the correspond
ing period of 1895.
James Sheakley, governor of Alaska,
in his annual report to the secretary
of the interior says there is great en-
couragement in the outlook for the
Alaska gold mines. During the past
year $2,300,00O in gold bullion has been
taken from the mines.
A passenger and express train on the
Chicago G. Alton railroad was held mp
and robbed by four masked men at
Blue Springs cut, between lude-
pendence and Glendale. Mo.
The DR.. Tanner who was killed Ia the
Whitmer Robinson company fire at
Akron, O., is not DR.. S. H. Tanner, of the
famous fasts.
Morris Landa, manager of the Inter-
national Export 81 Grain company, and
prominent in the local grain market,
was shot and killed in his office at Kan
sas City, Mo-, by +. III. Watt, dis
charged clerk.
Louis A. Coquard, bond and stock
broker in ST. Louis, failed for $780, 900.
The revenue to the producers of wheat
in the United States since September
has been $2S,6SS,00O in consequence of
the rise in the price of that staple.
Will Settle, cashier of the United
States Building and Loan association
N Louisville, KY, is said to- he default
er for $4,000
Judge Henry w. Scott, of Oklahoma
City, o. T., has resigned the associa &c
;usticeship of the supreme court of that
territory to become a member of the
New York bar.
The steamer T. P. feathers. loaded
with 1,7OO bales of cotton and 5000
sacks of cotton seed, sprung leak and
sunk three miles above Nachez, Miss.
The loss is over 100000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Justin s. Morrill,, of STAFFORD, was