The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-11-11

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt increased
7,195,726 during the month of October
The cash balance in the treasury was
$3.50, 676, 221. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury. amounts
to $1.221.O71.717.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I'd was: Wheat,
5s,679, 900 bushels; corn, 10 ,34O, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 11,751 900 bushels; rye, 2,544.
600 bushels; barley, 5,9O7. 900 bushels.
The annual report of Second Assist
ant Postmaster-General Charles Neil
son shows the annual rate of expendi-
ture for all mail transportation at the
close of the fiscal year to be $49,523, 1882.
Matthew A. Grant, Is years of age, a
lifelong resident of Burryville. Conn.,.
and one of the famous Grant triplets.
died suddenly of paralysis.
Mayor McClelland. of Roanoke, Va.
was run down by an electric car and ia
tally injured.
Five inches of snow fell at Huron, S.
D., making foot on the ground.
Louis Bulser. proprietor of the Ameri-
can house at Mankato. Mimi. shot and
killed his wife while intoxicated.
Lambuster Anglo was killed and Lin
coin Guiseppi fatally injured by being
pushed from a trolley car at Newark.
N. j., during panic when an electric
fuse blew out.
William F. Clemmons. dealer in
woolens at New York city. assigned.
with liabilities Of 100000.
In Portland, Me-, Alonzo G. Phillips,
a photographer, shot and killed his wife
and then shot himself in fit of jeal-
ousy.
James H. Campbell, president of the
Stockman's Commission company in
Chicago. has found that $4,000 had
been distracted from the funds of the
company and that Otis F. fall, who for
three years has been his confidential
man, is missing.
The coinage executed at the United
States mints during the month of Oc-
tober was as follows: Gold, SIS, 727 500;
silver, $2,S44.009; minor coins, $66, 900;
total, $S,63S, 400.
By a fall of coal in mine at Ash
land, Pa, three men were killed and
three SO badly injured that they will
die.
Scott Linton shot and fatally wounded
William Metzler and Belle Gray and then
killed himself at Georgetown, y. JeaI-
ousy was the cause.
Miller & Vaughan. bankers and
brokers at Providence, r. l.. failed for
$150.0OO.
Three masked men held up a south
bound passenger train one mile south
of Alvarado. Tex, but did not secure
any booty.
The receipts of the United States
for the month OF October were
$25.2s2, s29 and the expenditures were
$38, ,277, showing u deficit for Oc-
tober of $7.655.45S. The total deficit
since July /. 1896. is 49,, sS9.577.
The wholesale clothing firm of Refs.
Coons G. Co. in Philadelphia failed for
100000.
About 2. 100 employees have been added
to the classified service by the issuance
of an order by President Cleveland di-
recting that the rules of the navy de-
partment regulating the employment
of labor at the navy yards shall not be
changed without the approval of the
civil service commission.
The United States Carriage company's
works at Columbus. O.. were burned.
Mrs. Annie Schrieber, aged %. and her
nephew. lad of IA. eloped from their
homes in Chicago and committed sui
eide in Elgin. Ill.
Three vast waterspouts connecting
clouds and sea was the rare phenomena
witnessed by residents of Cottage City,
Mass.
jeff Jackson. John Adams, Will
liam Taylor and Robert Allison. negro
aaborers, were murdered by white caps
near Wild Fork. Ala.
The Emerson Piano company that
failed recently in Boston has resumed
business.
At Merlens, Tex, Peter Hansen split
his wife's head open with an ak and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself. He charged his wife with in
fidelity.
A telegram from Lick observatory
in California announces the discovery
of faint comet by Perrine, an assistant
at Lick.
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee ar
rived in New York from Havana.
Half an hour after Harrison Bacon.
aged 70. pioneer of CORTLAND, O., had
cast his vote he dropped dead in the
street of heart disease.
Capt. Hatfield, of Hatfield-McCoy
fame. killed Henderson Chambers and
John and Elliott Rutherford at Mate
wan, w. Va, during quarrel over pol
itics. Hatfield escaped.
Constable Francis De Long, one of
the oldest residents of Joliet, ILL.,, was
shot and instantly killed by Lyman
Hall, a young man "a years old, whom
De Long was irving to arrest