The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-11-04

stroying farmhouses and uprooting
trees Of all sizes.
During a quarrel at Butte, Mont.
James Kelley, well-known young man.
fatally shot Jessie Hill, his sweetheart,
end then killed himself.
A cyclone swept over q stretch OF
country about 20 miles east of Guthrie,
o. T., devastating district several
miles long and 100 yards wide and kill
ing ten persons.
Two small vessels carrying IS pas
sengers, besides a crew of five men,
were lost on the Alaskan coast in q
storm.
BY an explosion of gas in one OF the
mines of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Coal company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, six
men lost their lives.
A cyclone in Tensas parish, La,
wrecked many buildings and killed six
persons.
Mrs. j. w. Allen shot and accidental
ly killed her ten-year-old son and ia
tally shot her husband at Marysville.
Mont. He was whipping the boy and
she interfered, when he turned on her.
A cyclone at Madison, Wis.,, carried
away the opera house roof and Olowed
down small buildings, trees. electric
wires, etc.
Frank B. Bunce, the manager Of the
Lyceum theater in New York. fell dead
in his Office at the theater.
A heavy snowstcrm in western Ne
braska retarded railway traffic.
The date for the annual Harvard
Princeton college debate has been fixed
for December 10 at Princeton, n. j.
The large factory of the House T.
Davis Piano company in Desplaines.
Chicago suburb. was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $3.50
The apple crop of the United States
the past season is estimated at $4,000
coo barrels, against 100000 barrels 10
1895.
There were 27O business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 3Oth ult., against ETA the
week previous and 278 in the CORE
spending period of 1895.
Julius Mannow, the self-confessed
murderer of Carey B. Birch. suffered the
death penalty on the gallows in the
Cook county Jail in Chicago.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 3Oth ult. aggregated
S96S, ISL ,558, against $1,O44 ,S6S. 062 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 1913.
Rufus G. Clark, farmer living near
Cumberland, Wis, deliberately shot and
killed his wife as the result of a quarrel.
The known dead in the recent cy-
clone in Lincoln and Payne counties, o.
T., number seven, with three probably
fatally injured.
A tornado at Appleton, Wis.,. unroofed
several paper mills and destroyed u
brewery.
At Nashville, Tenn, John S. John
son made a mile at the Coliseum on a
bicycle in 2:O1 is. This is the fastest
mile ever ridden on an indoor track.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the
coffee and spice works owned by d.
Charardelli, the loss being 100000.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
women's auxiliary of the Episcopal
church in America was celebrated in
Cincinnati.
Commodore Matthews, chief of the
navy department bureau of yards and
docks, in his annual report to Secre-
tary Herbert reduces the estimate OF
Sc. 900 500 to S2,245,O43.
The Columbia cascade canal in Ore
gon, which has been under construc-
ton for Is years and upon which the
United States government has expend-
ed about 100000, will be opened No
vember S.
Rev. William H. Allworth, aged 7s
prominence, dropped dead in a prayer
meeting in Plymouth church at Lam
sing. Mich.
Albert Robinson, living in Sandstone.
Mich, turned kerosene oil from jug
into fire and Mrs. Robinson and her
eight-year-old daughter were burned
TO death. Robinson was injured fatally
and the house was consumed.
A terrific cyclone passed through the
eastern part of Jefferson county, Ark,
doing great destruction to property
and injuring 20 persons, some fatally.
Six hundred thousand feet of lun1-
Der at Green Bay, Wis.,, were swept from
dock into the Fox river by flood.
Mrs. Frank Mayo, widow of the ia
short time ago, died very suddenly at
Canton, Pa.