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

celebrated his 106th birthday.
There is big shortage in the tea
crop of China and Japan.
A newspaper writer named Eulen-
berg killed his wife and three children
and himself at Blacewitz, Germany.
Poverty was the cause.
In an Interview in Constantinople
Hon. A. w. Terrell, United States min
lister to Turkey. said the relations of
the United States with Turkey were of
the most cordial character, and he said
the report about the cruiser Bancroft
forcing the Dardanel.es was too ridic-
ulous for serious notice.
Ii Hung Chang arrived at his home in
Picking, China, from his tour in the
United States and other countries.
Advices from Formosa state that the
japanese are pacifying that island by
DISCRIMINATING the natives. Men, wom-
en- and children are bayoneted by Jap
anese troops, while the whole country
is overrun by banditti.
The estate of Charles Bertrand at
Quebec. Can, assigned with liabilities
of $235,000.
In massacre on the Solomon
islands the five victims of the savages
were members of party of Austrians
under the leadership of Henry Baron
Foulton Won Norbeck, an Austrian
scientist. who was one of those killed
The bank of England's rate of dis
count has been advanced from three
pei cent. to four per cent.
Jamaica has prohibited the importa-
ton of American cattle.
The government has revised its esti-
mate of the wheat yield of Manitoba,
reducing the amount to something less
than 100000 bushels.
The annual financial statement of
Canada for the past fiscal year shows
deficit of $363,4S1, and an increase in
The public debt of $5,53S,331. The net
public debt now aggregates $23s, 52s, 39L
LATER.
The priests of ST. Johns church at
Wahpeton, N. D., the 9th, returned to
the Great Northern Railway Co. $1,000
that was recently stolen from the depot
at that place. The priests state that
the theft became known to them
through the medium of the confess
sional
Edward S. Wyatt, chief marshal of a
silver demonstration at Ottumwa, Ia,
was killed the oath by collision with a
hose cart going to a fire.
In desperate fight at Cleveland, O.,
the Oath, between six drunken sailors
John Kohler and Mike Mullen were IA
tally stabbed.
The civil marriage of the crown
prince of Italy to princess Helene of
Montenegro took place the Gath in
the ballroom of the quirinal at Rome.
Fire at Saginaw, Mich, the 25th de-
stroyed the plant of the Center Lumber
Company, and 5000, 900 feet of lumber.
The Rt. Rev. Frederick Temple,
Bishop of London, has been appointed
archbishop of Canterbury and primate
of all England, in succession to the late
Most Rev. Edward White Benson.
Whisky and cards created a light at
Adairsville, KY, the 25th, in which
Arch Proctor killed Aaron Crofton and
seriously wounded his brother Doc
Crofton.
The London bakers, the 25th, put
the price of bread half penny per loaf.
The morning of the 25th two trains
on the st. Louis & San Francisco rail-
road collided near Windsor, Mo-, in
stantly killing eight and injuring thir-
ty, three of whom will die. The killed
are all of ST. Louis. Their names are:
Adolph Hohl, engineer; Charles Mo-
bine, Conrad Kuntz, C. C. Blevins, X.
Thall; Barney McKenna, in charge of
the refreshments; Miss Maud Nc
Kenna, his daughter, aged IA; John
| Cartwright.
The warehouse of w. f. Ladd at Gal
weston, Tex, with 1000 bales of cotton,
was destroyed by fire the 25th.
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