The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-12-16

ing organized at Butte, Mont, TO JOIN
the insurgents in January.
Vernon White, 13-year-old boy. was
accidentally hanged at Omaha by his
playmates while playing police.
The tobacco manufacturing plant OF
Brown Bros. at Winston, N. c., was
burned, the loss being $150.000.
Rev. DR.. T. DE Witt Talmnge denies
the report that he is to be married to
Miss Susie Mangam, of Sing Sing, N. Y.
Cliff Simpson, 20 years old. stabbed
and fatally wounded his teacher, Clar-
eence Campbell, at Vaudeville, Mo-, be-
cause the latter chastised him.
Frank C. vierling, prominent real
estate dealer in Chicago. failed for
$4,000.
The Iron Mountain fast express train
was held up within the city limits OF
st. Louis by six masked men, but the
express safe could not be opened and
the bandits fed without booty.
The report that William Drury, of
New Boston, Ill.,, the large land owner,
is dead, proves to be false.
The seventh annual convention of the
Non-Partisan National Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union began in Wash
ington.
At Missouri Valley, Ia. Benny Free
man shot his father. DR.. George Free
man, and then killed himself. No cause
is known.
Scar-Faced Charley, notorious
Modoc chief, died of consumption on
the Modoc reservation in Indian terri
tory.
The Alabama legislature has taken
recess until January 20.
Rev. Samuel Bailey was arrested at
Westchester, Pa, for the murder of his
wife.
Joseph 81. Kriesel and his sister Lena,
of New Richmond, Wis, were struck
and instantly killed by a west-bound
passenger train.
Miss Mae Kelly, prominent young
society woman, fell dead at a Catholic
fair in Duluth, Mimi, just as she had
begun singing "ue Giveth His Beloved
Sleep"
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform league was begun
in Philadelphia.
The two children of William Bledsoe,
living near Sasakwa, 0. r., were burned
to death by a prairie fire.
The banking house of Jonathan Es
terly & Co. at Columbiana, o., closed it's
doors with liabilities of S165.000.
The Harlan state bank at Harlan,
Ia, closed it's doors, owing deposltors
SIS, 900.
Acknowledgement Harmon in his an
nUal report to congress expresses sat
isfaction at the results of the new salary
system which displaced the old fee sys-
tenn July of the present year. A large
reduction is shown in every one of the
items which would naturally be affected
by the fee system. During the year the
court considered 374 cases. new
crimes act is one of the things the at
torney-general thinks is needed.
The interstate commerce commission
has issued preliminary report of the
income and expenditures of the rail-
ways in the United States for the year
ending June 80, 1896, which shows that
the net earnings on 1880 miles were
$36S. 675.047.
mason contractor at Rochester, N. y,
failed for 100000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
O65, 63S,S61, against $1,2S5, 4S5,SO4 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was SO.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 379 the week
previous and 1873 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Mustapha Bey, the Turkish minister,
has received peremptory instructions
from his government to secure retrac
ton of the injurious statements made
by President Cleveland in his message
lomatic relations between the United
States and Turkey is threatened.
The corn crop in Illinois this year is
2ss.5OO,OOO bushels, which is the largest
yield in the history of the state.
Marshall j. Miller was hanged at San
Quentin, CAL. for the murder of Jo-
seph Pierre, of Marysville. last May.
The Georgia legislature has passed
bill making women eligible for state Ii
bTarian.
The international hypothecate bank
was incorporated at Dubuque, Ia, with
capital of $1O.OOO.OOO.
Walter F. Slade and Francis H.
Clough, operating the Clear River WOOL
en- mills at Burrellville, r. l., failed for