The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-12-02

total expenditures of the year were
$51 1903 ,298, and the secretary's esti-
mates for next year are only little
more than $1,000. 900 in excess of that
amount. The assertions during the year
numbered 1865. The army consists Of
25,426 officers and men, or 2S4 below
the legal maximum, and the discipline
of the troops was never better than
now.
It turns out that Rev. James Miller,
who was supposed to have been MUIR
dered at Decatur, ILL.,, took his own life.
Reports showing favorable results of
the rural free delivery experiments of
the government are reaching the post
Office department in Washington.
Nearly the entire business portion of
the town of Leavenworth, Wash, was
destroyed by fire.
Col. Jose Reyes, aid de camp of Gen.
Maceo, who passed through Jackson
Vile, Fla, said that the most san
culinary battle of the war in Cuba was
fought in the Rabi hills in Pinar del Rio
and 1000 OF Weyler's men were killed
and 1000 wounded.
The fertilizing plant Of Treston &
Sons in Blissville, L. l.. was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
In football games in Chicago on
Thanksgiving day Chicago university
defeated University of Michigan by a
score of to 6, and the Chicago Athletic
association won from the Boston Ath-
letic association by score of IL to 6.
Within the last 30 days there have
been 13 murders in Mingo county, W..
Va.
Inman, Poulson G. Co.'s sawmill at
Portland, Ore, was burned, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Reports from North Dakota announce
the first great blizzard of the year.
Railroad trains were in hopeless
tangle from Fargo west to Mandan.
and most of the telegraph wires were
down. Business at jamestown, Valley
City, Larimore and Devils Lake was
suspended.
In football games in various places
on Thanksgiving day one person was
killed and 81 others were injured, some
seriously.
Contracts for over $4,000, 900 worth of
new vessels for the lakes have been
closed in Chicago since the election,
giving employment to $500 men.
The Naval Veterans association un-
yelled it's monument to the United States
navy at Loudon Park cemetery in Bal
timore, Md.
G. w. Nelson, leading tenor in the
choir at Thanksgiving services at the
First Baptist church in Chattanooga.
Tenn, dropped dead in the choir.
E1npey d. Woodlands grain elevator
at Pennington, Mimi, was burned with
100000 bushels of grain.
Thanksgiving day was universally
observed throughout the country.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
S935,953,113, against $1,235,7S2, 141 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 60.
There were 300 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against 344 the week
previous anu 90 LII lhC corresponding
period of 1895.
K. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly re-
view of trade say that reports from all
parts of the country show clearly the
enlargement of trade, not at all points
in the same branches, but everybody
helped by more confident feeling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Reynolds, an old
couple living at Fredonia, N. Y. were
suffocated by coal gas.
Shoninger, Levy & Co.. wholesale lace
dealers in Chicago, failed for 100000.
Acyclone near Waco, Tex, devastated
a strip one mile wide and eight miles in
length. A number of farmhouses were
demolished and one person was killed
and several others injured.
j. C. Watts, cashier of the State bank
of Nicola, Ia, is said to be defaulter in
the sum of $4,000. He is supposed to be
somewhere in Colorado.
Domestic trouble in the home of Hen
nv L. Bowers at De Kalb, ILL.,, eliminated
in the murder of the wife and the sui
eide of the husband.
In various places in Decatur county,
Ind, on Thanksgiving day two people
were killed, two fatally injured and
several others seriously hurt in acct
dents.
While temporarily insane George Will
bur, SO years of age, shot and killed his
nephew. boy of II, and then COM
mitted suicide at his home near Angus
ia, la.
Two hundred thousand head of cattle
are perishing from cold and hunger on
the ranges west of the Missouri river in
South Dakota.
Three men were fatally shot and sew
eral others more or less seriously