The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-07-01

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

the Jeffrey Furniture company in Min
neapoiis, causing loss of 100000.
A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed
buildings at Clayton, Clear Lake. Mesh
koro and La Crosse and killed four per-
sons.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country were IA
vorable.
The fifth triennial convention of the
National Association of the Deaf opened
ut Philadelphia.
Forest fires were raging on the north
fork of the Frying Pan river in Colora-
do and thousands of acres of valuable
timber were doomed.
During a storm at Sioux City, Ia,
lightning struck and instantly killed
Mrs. Mary Paulsen. At Newell the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson was
struck and they were both killed.
AS the result of an old feud George
Dean and David Eldridge were killed
near Harlan Courthouse. Ky.
At the eight international convention
in Boston of Sunday-school workers the
statistical report showed total of 49,
33,175 workers in the United States and
British provinces. B. +. Jacobs, of Chi
caco, was reelected chairman of the in
ternational executive committee for
three years.
The private bank known as the Bank
of Salt Lake, with James II. Bacon as
principal owner, failed in Salt Lake
City for S25O,OOO.
W.B. Hulett and Paul Hulett (broth-
ers) eloped from Rocheport, Mo-, the
former with Miss George Drake and
the latter with Miss Irene Mckinney.
Both women were engaged to other
men.
The four-round glove contest in San
Francisco between James j. Corbett
and Tom Sharkey ended in draw.
At all the collieries of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal company in the
vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Pa, work was
discontinued, rendering 5000 men and
boys idle.
Sheriff Rogers, of Mcleod county,
Mimi, was killed by tramps near Glen
coe.
A cyclone in Texas swept across the
country from Wills Point to Wacco,
distance of 200 miles, doing immense
damage.
Mrs. Adelaide G. Mitchell, wife of
Henry w. Mitchell, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
and famous authoress, died at the age
Of AZ years. She wrote under the nom
de plume of "Violet Etynge."
Reports from 30 wheat counties in
Minnesota and the Dakotas show that
the crop will not exceed 190,0O0,000
bushels, or considerably less than the
estimate.
George Stutz, marine engineer, shot
md killed Mrs. Cora Borden in San
Francisco and then killed himself. No
cause was known.
A waterspout at Sisterville, w. Va,
and vicinity caused loss of 100000.
A cloudburst did great damage in
Marshal, Wetzel and Tyler counties in
West Virginia.
The Collins Manufacturing company,
makers of all sorts of road vehicles at
Jackson, Mich, failed for $4,000.
Rebecca Sutton, housekeeper at Hiff's
hotel at Hampton. N. j., after quarrel
shot and killed Martin Reed, her para
mour. and then shot herself.
In the four-oared freshman boat race
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Cornell won,
Harvard second, Pennsylvania third,
Columbia last. Time. 1O:0s.
The Security savings bank at Win
chester, N. H., and the Hinsdale savings
bank at Hinsdale closed their doors.
Miss Anna Putnam, Miss Bessie New
hall and John U. Putnam, all of Mime
apolis, and a young man named Sher-
man, of St. Paul, were drowned at An
Mandate by the upsetting of sailboat.
The Falls Rivet and Machine COM
pany, the largest and one of the oldest
manufactures at Cuyahoga Falls. O.,
failed for $4,000.
JamesJ j. Corbett and Thomas Sharkey
have agreed to meet in finish fight for
$4,000 side within six months.
A windstorm at Atlantic, Ia, blew
down the amphitheater and floral hall
on the Cass county fair grounds and did
great damage to crops in the vicinity.
During a cloudburst near Marietta,
O., houses were swept away. stock of all
kinds drowned. and crops were ruined
on the Little Muskingum for 20 miles,
causing loss of hundreds of thousands
Of dollars.
Mrs. Bierner, wife of farmer near
Dan ACA., ulO"HCu hSA sell
and her three children, aged two, four
and six years. No cause for the act
was known.
Six thousand Sioux, the remnant of
the most powerful fighters Of the Amer
lean Indians, celebrated at the scene of
the massacre the great event in their
war history-the Goth anniversary of
the destruction of Clusters command
on the Little Big Horn, June rs, 1876.
It was said that the Michigan peach
crop would be the largest on record.
II tho o;rol1if court at Cha