The Ely miner., 1896-10-14


saessed the eighteenth annual parade
If the Yelled Prophets.
/ A cyclone lid great daraes to p-cp-
e,ty at Edmond, Q. L.. aud several per-
sons were injured.
James Magee and William Lamont,
employees at the Carrie furnace near
Rankin, Pa, were burned to death by a
gas explosion.
A large tar still at the Standard oil
refinery in Lima, o.. exploded. fatally
burning two workmen, William Pat
ricks and A. }. McElroy.
John s. johnson broke the worlds
two-lnile bicycle record, riding the dis
tance in 1888 3-5 on the Garfield park
track in Chicago.
George j. Marsh, treasurer of the
Cape Ann savings bank at Gloucester,
Mass, committed suicide, and it is said
that he was defaulter to the extent of
$150,000.
In the fourth and final game at Cleve-
land of the Temple cup National league
baseball series of 1896 between the Bal
tiInores and Clevelands the former club
won, the score being to 0.
Two gamblers, Jones and Evans,
buncoed gang of Usage Indians at
Perry, o. T., and the Indians ran the
gamblers out of town and beat them
10 death.
All the bridges over Union river and
the Iron river bridge and nearly all of
the 20 bridges between Camp Union and
Ontonagon, Mich, have been burned by
forest fires, and much farm property
has also been destroyed
The morocco factories of Garrett g.
Barr, Charles Baird d. Co. and Washing
ton, Jones d. Co., in Wilmington, Del,
were damaged to the extent of $260,000
by fire and William McNeal, a fireman.
was killed by falling walls.
Two inches OF snow fell at Blue Noun
tain lake and other points in the Ad-
irondacks in New York.
The National Wholesale Druggists
association in session in Philadelphia
elected as president John B. Purcell, OF
Richmond.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
weed ended OH the 9th aggregated
$1,O5s, l72,453, against $s94,271,419 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is so.
Burglars entered the bank at Brainard,
Minn., and demolished the vault with
dynamite, but failed to secure any
money.
M foi lr,t.o in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9Th, against 315 the week
previous and 263 in the corresponding
period OF 1925.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters in session in Washington
elected as president E.. w. Christie, of
Cleveland, ..
In celebration of the twenty-fifth al
niversary of the great Chicago fire near
ly 100000 citizens marched on the 9th
in the business mems sound money"
parade IN that city. In the evening the
advocates of free silver to the number
of about 10000 paraded the streets.
John Lunn, wholesale graiu dealer in
Philadelphia, failed for 100000.
All kite-fyipg records were broken
at the Blue Hill observatory near Bos-
ton, where nine kites went to the height
of 0,3SS feet above the sea level.
The Minnesota conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in session
at Austin voted in favor of admitting
women as delegates to the general con-
ference.
Burglars robbed every store and shop
at Atwater. o.
Albert Bray, aged 80. a farmer living
near Nohlesville, Ind, cIlt the throats OF
his wife, his 9-year-old son, Carl, his e
year-old daughter, Edna, and then killed
himself. No cause is known for the
deed.
Mrs. Henry Grundy. a rich widow aged
so, died at Youngstown, o., as the re-
suit of starvation. Her husband re-
Gently died and she afterward refused
all food.
A man entered the bank at Hardie,
Ia, covered the cashier with a revolver
and escaped with $TOO.
The Jasper county Jail at Paulding,
Miss, was burned and two prisoners.
j.. A. Strickland and Mollie Daniels,
negro woman. were cremated.
George Sanders fatally assaulted
with club piano tuner named Fisher
at La Grange, Ind, and then hanged
himself to rafter in deserted house.
Corning, Ia. was visited by a fire
which destroyed one-third of the busi-
ness houses. the loss being 100000.
DR.. Andrew j. Purdy, aged so. pas
tor of the Asbury Methodist church in
Buffalo. dropped dead on the street at
Corning. N. Y.
For splitting in his sons face Temple
Houston shot and fatally wounded j.
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