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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
Counterfeited the Brand.

For year or more certain Canadian
distillers have mlstrusted that their
special brand of whiskey, labels and
bottles have been counterfeited in
Minneapolis Recently officers thor
oughly searched the establishment of
Jacoby & Mikolas, known as the New
Market Wine Company, Second avenue
north, between Fifth and Sixth streets.
They had good reasons for the pro-
cedure, as the were armed with writ
of replevin taken out by Carpenter.
However, they took possession of 100
or more bottles of liquor bearing the
Canadian revenue stamps and copy
righted labels of the Canadian concern.
The lithographing stone was found at
the Monasch Lithographing Company's
ablishment, 1920 Fourth street
north, by Carpenter, Deputy Sheriff
John Wall and Detective Doyle, of the
local police department The stone
was taken on writ of replevin, and
will be examined by members of the
grand jury during their investigation
of the case.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
FOREIGN.

The Cit; of Guayaquli, in Ecuador,
was visited by fire that caused q loss
of 81 O00,Gn0.
The rebels in Corea have killed a
party of japanese who were engaged
il, protecting the telegraph.
1t was announced from Glasgow that
Mr.. Gladstone would reenter parlia-
ment. He wishes to support the Ar
menians.
Ambrose Thomas, the famous mu-
steal composer, died in Paris, aged S.
years.
y steamer capsized on the river at
were drowned.
Further advices say that the fire in
Guayaquil. Ecuador, destroyed 1870
houses and 80 persons were burned to
death.
Advices from Seoul, capital of Corea,
say that in an uprising there the pre-
mier and sew en- officials were murdered
and the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation.
Etienne Chatelain, pensioner of the
war of 1912, died at Cornwall, Ont, at
the age of 100 years. His widow is
over 95 years of age.
James Mc0ougall & Co., wholesale
clothiers at Montreal, failed for $780,
600.
1t was reported from Siberia that DR..
Fritjof Nanseu, the Norwegian scien-
fist and explorer. had reached the
north pole, had found land there and
was returning to civilization.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
LAT FRI

After period of % years the bible
will once more be regularly read in the
public schools of Chicago. A commit
tee, composed of members of Protes-
tant, Jewish, Catholic and other denom-
nations. has prera 81 an expurgated
edition.
John Vaughn, white resident OF
Dudley, Mclean county, KY, was fatal
ly shot the, 18th by Henry Sholan, and
robbed of $137. Sholan escaped.
VIM. Fl. Hughitt, the 22-year-old son
of Marvin Hughitt, president of the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad, shot
and killed himself at his fathers home
Chicago the 18th while laboring under
fit of temporary insanity.
Rev. Mr.. Gill, cure of the Church of
Notre Dame. Grandy, Que, has been
committed to prison by the magistrate
for refusing to disclose the secrets of
the confessional in suit at law in
which he was called as witness.
Miss Barbara Kossel, of st. Louis,
Mo-, in a fit of jealousy, shot and killed
her lover, John Rohlfng, the 10th. and
then killed herself.
The mutilated body of Elmer Sheets
was found near the railroad track at
Muncie, Ind, the 10th. Murder is sus-
pected.
Robert Williams, the negro who
killed Policeman Suggo at Montgomery,
Ala, the 18th, was hanged by mob.
Cash in the u S. treasury the 18th
was $2O5, O24, $50; gold reserve, 1885,
$50
Rev. VIM. Bailey, Christian science
preacher, was tarred and feathered by
mob at North Platte, Neb., the 18th,
after which he was released under a
promise to leave town.
The president has consented to serve
as arbitrator between Italy and Brazil
in the settlement of certain questions
that have been pending for several
years, growing out of the claim of
Italians for idemnity for i'll treatment
in riots at Rio during the Brazilian
rebellion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
"BLACK DEATH"
The Fatal Scourge Attacks Residents of
Floyd County, Ky.

Lexington, KY, Feb. ia fatal
disease, resembling cerebro-spinal NEIL
nights, commonly known as 'black
DEATH has again broken out in Floyd
county. There have been eight deaths
already-five in one family, three in
another. More than 25 cases are re-
rorted in the vicinity. Last March the
disease was thought to nave been car
ried there from Cincinnati by COM
mercial Traveller, who was ITS first vic
tim. 1t then spread till warm wea ther,
telling it's victims daily, in which time
more than So deaths occurred. 1t af-
fects the mouth at first by swelling,
which goes into the throat and chokes
the victim to death, usually in less than
"a hours-never exceeding that time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
DOMESTIC,

A train on the Great Northern road
was wrecked uear Clarissa, Mimi, aud
all of the Is passengers aboard were in
jured, though none seriously.
lib McCollen. Elijah Lemons, Dem
mis- Gum and the latter's son were
drowned while attempting to cross the
Dan river near Stoneville. N. C.
Dynamite was discovered on the Bal
ti1nore & Ohio railroad bridge at Ma
poleon, o., in time to prevent the wreck
ing of passenger train.
James Walker, negro, and Miss Hal
lie Skater. daughter of wealthy In
diana farmer, were married. The deed
in Indiana is punishable by ten years
Imprisonment.
Burglars effected an entrance into
the Leesburg CO., bank and carried OF
5000 in money.
Skeletons of living bodies were photo
graphed in the laboratory at Trinity
college in Hartford, Conn.
A bill was introduced in the Ohio
house providing a fine of from $40 TO
$500 for every legal voter who negIects
to vote.
Cullers & Henry, wholesale groce1s
at Sherman, Tex, made an assignment
with liabilities of 100000.
A passenger and a freight train col
lided near Dongola, ILL.,, and Engineer
Huntington. Firemen Anderson and
Adams, Baggageman Armstrong and
brakeman Mclean were killed.
Bartholomew Shea died in the cleo
trical chair at Dannemora, N. Y, for
the murder of Robert Ross during an
election riot at Troy in March, 1894.
At Newton. Ia, Charlie Phares, while
crazy, shot and killed his mother-in-
law, Mrs. L. L. Smith, fatally shot hi'
father-in-law, II. T. Smith, and then
Killed himself.
The Valley state bank at Hutchin
son, Kan, was closed with liabilities
of $l34.O00.
DR.. William S. Armstrong, at the
head of his profession in Georgia, fell
dead while attending medical meet
ing.
T.. W. Wood. aged IS years, murdered
his daughter Minnie with a Ratchet at
Antioch. Miss, and then shot himself.
Burglars robbed and then burned the
post Office at Petersburg, Ill.
Grant At,erberry. who was in ja;' at
Sullivan, H., charged with assaulting
his sister-In- law. Mrs. Roxy Atterterry
January 13, was taken from the Jail
by a masasd mob and strung up TO "a
tree,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19

The republicans of Minnesota will
meet in state convention in Minneapo-
lis March "a for the selection of four
delegates at large and nine presidential
electors.
Mrs. Angela Carberry, who has lived
So days without mouthful of solid
ncurishment, died at Eckerty. Ind.
James b. Brown, for 33 years editor
of the Galena (Ill.) Gazette, died at the
home of his daughter in Chicago, aged
CA years.
Allen Dodsworth, for many years
conductor of the celebrated Dods-
worth's band in New York. died at
Pasadena. Cal, aged IS years
The Nebraska state prohibition con-
vention in session at Lincoln elected
IL delegates to the Pittsburgh national
convention to be held March 81.
Rev. William Lathrop Kingsley, one
of the profoundest scholars in New
England, died at his home in New
Haven, Conn, aged - years. He had
been editor, of the New Highlander and
Yale Review for nearly years.
Republicans of the Third Illinois dis
trict renoninated Hugh r. Belknap for
congress, and in the Fifth district
George +. White was renominated.
Nebraska republicans will hold their
state convention to select delegates to
the national convention on April Is at
Omaha.
Judge Alexander Davis, the noted
jurist, who figured in many of the
frontier romances of early days and
was one OF the characters in Mark
Twain's "Roughing It," died in St.
Louis, aged 81 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
FOUND THE NORTH POLE.

EumOred Success of hansen, the Arctic
Explorer.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 14.-A dispatch
from Irkutsk, Siberia, says that ST.
Derian trader named Kouchlareff, who
is acting in the capacity of agent for
DIR. Nansen. the Arctic explorer, has in
formed the project of Kolmysk that he
has received information that Nansen
has reached the north pole. where he
found land. and that he is now ON his
way back.
Kouchnareff, the man mentioned in
the dispatch from Irkutsk as the agent
of DR.. Nansen, who has received infor-
nation that the explorer has found the
pole and is returning, is DR.. Nansen's
dog supplier. He resides near the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
Inheritances Galore.

Inheritances seen to be falling around
New Paynesville indiscriminately r.
p. Gilbert, a rich money lender, and
Frank Brown, well-to-do farmsr, re-
turned only few days ago from the
East, where they went to settle an
estate that had been left to them, and
now word comes that A. f. Kluge and
Mrs. Hugh Burr, have fallen joint heir
to a fortune of $4,000. Mrs. Burr is
the wife of poor farmer, with a large
family. and Kluge was groceryman
before these hard times came on, but
is now bookkeeper for a firm in Sank
Center
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
immigration.

The migration convention held at
Princeton was grand success. 1t
convened at the opera house, and
organized by electing Il. R. Mallette
president and M. S. Rutherford, secre-
tary. The delegation from st. Paul
and Minneapolis were j. j. Hill, E. V.
Smalley, c. w. Horr; I. G. Bernard, OF
Grand Rapids; E. E. Webster, of New
York; Moses Folsom, P. b. Groat and
Samuel Hill, with his private car. The
opera house was crowded, there being
over 600 people present and the pro-
ceedings were attended with great
enthusiasm
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
The News Of the Week.
CONGRESSIONAL.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

CONGRESSIONAL
The Proceedings of the First Session.
Short speeches were made in the senate
on the 10th on the Monroe doctrine and rel
alive to the termination of the war In
Cuba The Nomination of Edwin F. Uhl
OF Michigan, to be ambassador extraor-
dinsry and minister plenipotentiary Of the
United States to Germany was confirmed.
In the house the bond bill was further dis
cussed. The death Of Representative Grain.
OF Texas was announced, and as q mark
OF respect the house adjourned for the day.
In the senate on the 18th the bill demand
Ing the purchase and distribution of seeds
was passed. Senator Cullom Qll) intro
duced bill giving q pension of $24 per
month to ex-soidiers Is years Of age who
served in both the Mexican and civil wars.
In discussing the deficiency bill Senator
Allen (Neb.) said the two frauds of the
public service were the civil service COM
mission and the Interstate commerce COM
mission Senator Wolcott (ColD said the
real menace to the country was the power
Of patronage lodged with the executive
The nomination of w. w. Rockwell, of
Maryland, to be assistant secretary of
state was received. In the house the day
was devoted to the consideration of bust
ness reported from the committee on the
District of Columbia.
Discussion of the deficiency appropria-
ton bill occupied the time of the senate on
the 18th. Senator PETER (Kan.) introduced
a resolution providing for the appointment
OF a special committee to investigate the
circumstances of all recent bond issues -.
In the house resolution was adopted ap-
propriating $4,000 to make a joint survey
together with Great Britain of the boundary
line between Alaska and British territory
The silver bond bill was further considered.
By vote of q yeas to 20 nays the senate
on the 18th defeated the motion of Senator
Morrill,. chairman of the finance commit
tee, to take up the tariff bill. The urgent
deficiency bill, carrying appropriations to
the amount of about $G,000.000. was passed.
and the military appropriation bill was
discussed. The house. by vote of 80 to
100 in committee Of the whole rejected the
senate free-coinage bill and reported the
bill with a recommendation to nonconcur
and insist on the house bill
The senate has adjourned until the 18TH
LIN the house on the 14th. after debate,
the senate's free-coinage substitute for
the bill Of the house. authorizing bond
sales to maintain the gold reserve sales of
treasury certificates to meet temporary
deficiencies in revenue and providing addi-
tional revenue for the treasury. was de-
feated by vote of 215 to 80.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
Was a Sailor Forty Years.

Muncie, ind, Fer. 13. Uncle Billy
Swift, aged 20, for 40 years sailor, who
had touched at all he important har-
bors of the world, died at his home in
this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The republicans of the Sixth district
of Illinois rerominated Z. ID. Cooke for
congress.
Isaac Murphy, the celebrated colored
jockey. di,d at Lexington. KY, Of heart
failure.
Judge Emery d. Potter died at 70
ledo. o., aged 90 years. He was mem
Der II cong1 ess in 1851.
Pennsylvania democrats will meet at
Allentown April 20 to nominate can
didates for presidential electors, two
congressman at large and delegates to
the national democratic convention.
Mary E. Lease, of Wichita, Kan, the
well-known lecturer, has decided to en-
ter the ministry.
The convention Of Republican clubs
of Ohio met at Columbus and Endorsed
Maj. Mckinley for president.
The S7th anniversary of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln was celebrated
throughout the country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
The New East River Bridge.
IL VIII be Far and Away the Greatest
Work of Its Kind in this Country.

IL VIII be Far and Away the Greatest
Work of Its Kind in this Country.
All the contracts have been let for the
stone and iron work of the second bridge
between New York city and Long Island,
which is to span the East River at Black
wells island. Some idea of the magnitude
of the contract for the superstructure may
be gathered from the fact that the engin-
GERS for the construction company were II
months, lacking 10 days, in completing ev-
cry detail of their calculations Work has
been steadily advancing on the river piers,
of which there will be four, one on the
Long Island side, one on the New York
side, between SiXty-fourth and SiXty-tifth
streets, and one on each side of Blackwell S
Island The island piers are now each
about eight feet above water at high tide
The only structure in the world with
which the bridge can be compared is the
great Firth of Forth bridge in Scotland.
There are other structures of similar plan
of construction in this country, notably the
high bridge at Poughkeepsie and the bridge
of the Canadian Pacific railroad across the
| ST. Lawrence, lat Montreal. Neither of these,
though, approaches the tremendous breadth
| OF Ine weight vi lHe DlaSh"oh A9i"hu
bridge.
The bridge will be 9S feet in width, and
will contain four steam railroad tracks, two
tracks for electric cars, wagon ways, and
two foot walks The foot walks will be
each six feet in width. From terminal to
terminal the bridge will measure two miles,
and 2305 feet of this distance will have to
be composed of the heaviest steel framing
ever yet used in a superstructure of the
cantilever pattern. The weight to be meas
ured and provided for is almost incalcula-
BILE. The two channel spans of the bridge
will be each SAG feet in length, and the isl
and span will be 613 feet From the floor
of the bridge to the top of the great girders
on these immense spans the distance will
be 100 feet, making the top height of the
! structure from high-tide level 23J feet.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
Lawyers and witnesses.

On one occasion Sir Frank Lockwood
was defending a man in Yorkshire who
was accused of stealing cattle, or "beasts,"
to use the North Country term. One wit
ness for the prosecution declared he beheld
the whole transaction from afar.
"Now, my man, quoth Mr.. Lockwood,
severely, "you must be extremely careful
in your statements, You say you watched
this affair for some time. Tell me, now,
how far can you see IA beast to really know
its points?'
Just as far off as | am from you mas
ter" replied the yokel earnestly. And
the great Q. c. subsidized
There was a civil action in the law
courts some time ago, mainly concerning
some money matters. The plaintiff stated
calmly in the witness-box that his finan-
cial position had always been satisfactory.
Counsel for the other side rose with a
truly portentious air, and inquired if he
had ever become bankrupt.
Plaintiff said he had not.
'Pray be careful, sir. Remember, you
are on oath. Do you mean to tell the
court you have never stopped payment"
"Well," was the reply, "now that you
come to call it to my mind, believe did
on one OCCASION"
"Ah! thought we should arrive at it
presently" And counsel took a long
draught of water, in an impressive and
theatrical way. snow, sir, when did that
happen?"
after l had paid all my debts" was
the crushing reply.
The court fairly shrieked with laughter,
and the judge laughed, too, while the ush-
er was so stricken with merrment that he
was far from restoring order.
The writer was present in court when
the following amusing passage took place
between counsel and witness in disputed
will case:
"Did your father give you no parting
admonition?"
HE never gave much away at any time. :"
81 mean to say, what were his last
words?"
They don't consarn YOU"
They not only concern me, SIR" re-
marked the barrister, severely, ''but they
concern the whole court"
sob, all right" was the reply. Gath
er said: Don't have no trouble when I'm
gone, jim, COS lawyers is the biggest
thieves unhung.'"
81 can teach you law, sir, but l cannot
teach you manners" said an exasperated
counsel to small, meek witness.
The latter replied quietly: "That is so,
sir" and people laughed consumedly.
The extensively familiar witness is a sore
trial. The dignity and eruditlon of the
most eminent @. c. are thrown away on
him. In an important case recently
heard in the chancery division loqua-
cious witness was asked the question:
"What sort of man was hep"
The reply came swiftly: "Just an under
sized, red-faced chap, like yourself.-Tit
Bits.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
The Alfred NJ. Waite Farm and Personal
Property at
AUCTION

/ will sell at public auction, on the premises .
miles from Brattleboro, Vt, on the main road
leading from Brattleboro 70 Putney, on Satur-
DAY, May 2, $500, at 10 O'Clock A. M sharn
REAL ESrATE.-The home farm which is one
OF the best in Mindham county. 1t contains 1g5
acres, suitably divided into tillage pasture and
Woodland. The farm will keep 50 head of cattIe
the wear round and teams necessary 10 carry on
the place. The land is in a high state of culfiya
Iloh There is good set of buildings The farm
WIN be sold entire, or subdivided, as seems hest M
tllle OF sale Also, pasture in Putney, contain.
containing 10 acres '''-''i sVon'
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Ten good businass
horses two good two horse dump carts two o,9
dump carts, two two-horse lumber wagons one.
nUIse lumber wagon, two sleds, two seghs, land
Taylor sulky pillow, bearing Irvine binder. haV
tteidder winnowing mill, and many other articles
Also quantity of household furnitnre "'''0'eS'
Terms given at the time of sale
M @ NJ GEO. b. HIT, Guardian.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24

The Boston Journals Washington cor
respondent reports Gen. Grout as saying
81 hope the report will prove true that
the President is about to offer his friendly
offices for the adjustment of Cuban diff
cuties. 1t is really the only thing he can
properly do under the resolutions recently
adopted. Those who voted against the
resolutions did so because one of them de-
clared in favor of recognizing the belliger-
ency of the insurgents, which cannot be
done without clearly cOntravening the we'll
established principles of international law
and this some were unwilling to do, not
wlthstanding their sympathy for the Gu
bans. Had the resolutions only recon-
mended the friendly offices of the United
States there probably would not have been
vote against them. | do not believe
there is a single American citizen any
where who would not heartily approve an
early offer by the President to mediate be-
tween the contending parties"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
MONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, APRIL "a,
A Defence of Prayer.

The childhood of the world is not yet
over; and, in our natural weakness, in
stinct is called upon to supply the place of
reason. BY instinct all men pray, though
they cannot explain how foreknowledge
and free-will are to be reconciled; nor does
anyone, whether metaphysician, saint, or
student of science, understand how the
primal energy sustains and fills the facul.
ties of creatures, or what Is the influence
of eternity on things of time, These ques.
tions we must leave as we found them.
Yet we see, in the material universe, that
all things receive of the sun in their sever
al ways the forces which they need appro-
priating and applying them to ends which
are fulfilled, not in the source out of which
energy flows, but in the organisms that
make it their own. Spiritual influence
may be conceived of upon this pattern. We
give it many names-grace, inspiration,
enthusiasm, but who can deny its exist
ence? Has it not been the creative force
of religion? And may not every one who
will submit to its power realize in himself
what is meant by conversion" and "new
creature?"
When, asks the critic, has there been
witnessed an answer to prayer? When?
Are the great religions of the world such
insignificant and paltry phenomena that
we may pass them by in this inquiry?
What power was it that overcame in the
martyrs, or built the monasteries, or filed
with courage and compassion the Vincents
of Paul, or those who put an end to the
slave trade, or the tender-hearted women
who dedicate their lives on battlefields, in
leper hospitals, amid scenes the most re-
pugnant to flesh and blood? Unless we
shut our eyes to these things, and ten
thousand like them, we must acknowledge
that prayer has done more than remove
mountains; it has, | say, created civiiza-
tion-not the steam engines and the stock
exchange, indeed, which some would call
by that abused name, but the human spirit
of pity, self-control, justice, mercy and
hope, whereby alone men have become
god-like. No other force could have
achieved this great and enduring miracle.
For it was not secular knowledge, not the
ardor of conquering barbarians, not even
the graceful amenities of literature and
social intercourse, but religion that gave
us our present gospel, which we allow to
be true even when we break its command
ments. And | ask, where would that re-
ligion have found a beginning, how could
it flourish, during what time would it con-
tinue to survive, unless millions had be-
lieved in the power of prayer, and thou
sands upon thousands had practiced it,
| Nineteenth Century.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
The Dear Little Woman.

The young physician was tired when he
returned from his evening calls, but as he
settled back in his easy chair, and his pref
ty wife of only a month or two took a
seat beside him, he asked affectionately:
"And has my little wife been lonely?"
"Oh, no." she said, animatedly; Eat
least, not very. I've found something to
busy myself with"
"Indeed! ~ he said. "What is it?"
ooh, Pm organizing a class. A lot of
young girls and married women are in it,
and we're exchanging experiences and
teaching each other how to cook"
"What do you do with the things you
cook?' he asked interestedly.
"Oh, we send them to the neighbors
just to show what we can do. There
one lodging-house gets most of it. It's
great fun"
"Dear little woman" he said, leaning
over and kissing her. "Always thought
full of your husbands practice. Always
anxious to extend it."-Bangor CONNER
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