The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-12-30
DOMESTIC.

vids for 10.O65 salaries, was passed. Adj
journed to January s.
DOMESTIC.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 21st was: Wheat,
5,l63, 900 bushels; corn, 1904 900 bush
els; oats, IL, ABA, 900 bushels; rye, 2,S3l,-
600 bushels: barley. 5.13O.OOO bushels.
A large number OF families in Union
county, Ark, are in destitute condi-
ton, and many of them are starving be-
cause of the failure of crops.
Secretary Carlisle in his annual re-
port on the state of the finances shows
the revenues of the government from all
sources to have been $409, AIS ,4OS, and
the expenditures $434,67S,654, which
leaves deficit for the year ended June
80, 1896, of $25,203.246.
The failure of the National bank of
Illinois caused three OF her Chicago banks
to close their doors, as follows: +. s.
Dryer d. Co., liabilities, $1,20G,O00; Was
mansdorff, Heinemann d Co., liabilities,
$4sO, 900, and the Roseland bank, liabili-
ties, $4,000.
Jim Stone (colored), who assaulted
Mrs. j. NJ. II. Green, of MaytieId, KY.
was taken from Jail by "a mob and
lynched.
Twenty men were imprisoned in a
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by an explo-
sion. and six were probably killed.
Mrs. Foss was murdered and her
mother fatally wounded by negro near
Pontachoula, La. Robbery was the mo-
tive.
Cuban sympathizers held a mass
meeting in Cooper Union, New York.
and addresses were made by Col. Ethan
Allen, Gen. Bradley L. Johnson. of Vir-
ginia, and others.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
was held up by masked men 200 miles
west of San Antonio. Tex, but they only
secured $40.
The supreme court of Utah handed
down unanimous opinion sustaining
the validity of the late election in the
state.
The will of the late Henry L. Pierce,
of Boston, leaves 100000 in public
requests and over So 100000 to relatives
and friends.
William Waldorf Astor's vast hold
irgs of real estate in New York are to be
sold as fast as possible without sacrl-
flee and he will become resident OF
England.
Alfred II. Wilson, an old miser who
lived alone near st. Joseph, Mo-, was
murdered and robbed of $1,000.
A train on the Grand Trunk railway
was derailed near Danville Junction,
Me-, and ten persons were injured.
The United States gunboat Annapolis
was launched from Nixon's shipyard
at Elizabeth. NJ j.
Frederick Joblinski and his son and
daughter were murdered and his wife
fatally wounded by John Mottle, the
hired man. near Madelia, Mimi, and the
murderer also took his own life. Mottlc
was in love with Joblinski's daughter
and the father objected.
Joe James (colored) was lynched a;
Woodstock, Ala. He attempted to as
sault Fannie Smith, aged II. while she
was on her way to school.
The Bank of Minnesota, one of the
Oldest financial institutions of the state.
and considered one of the strongest In
st. Paul, closed with heavy liabilities,
and as a result the Union stockyards
bank was forced to close.
Gov. Drake has issued a proclamation
recommending that the people of the
state fttingly observe on the 2Sth inst.
the fftieth anniversary of the admis-
SION of Iowa into the union.
The Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school foot
ball team defeated the University of
Wisconsin IL at the Coliseum in Chicago
by score Of 20 to 8.
Fire at Bridge, Mass, destroyed four
large business blocks, the loss being
100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aelo and their grand
child were burned to death in their
home at Sheffield. o.
George Finley (colored) was iynched
by a mob near Mayfeld, KY, for at
lacking a white man with knife. in
ficting slight wound.
Hon. William j. Bryan opened his lee
ture tour at Atlanta, Ca, his subject be-
ing ''The Ancient Landmarks"
Jay Van Scyoc and Earl Campbell.
two young men of Valley, Neb., were
drowned while skating on lake.