The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-11-25
Frank Waller lowered the American

was en- route 10 1LlVerSluo peulteutHIy
with % prisoners one of them jumped
from the train and the warden jumped
after him and broke his neck.
Seldom Bloomquist, farmer living
near Dawson, Mimi, shot his sister-in-
law, Mrs. John Bloomquist, and then
shot himself. No cause is known for
the crime.
At the twenty-eighth annual meet
ing in St. Louis of the Army Of the Ten
nessee Granville M. Dodge, Of Iowa. was
reelected.
Rev. James C. Hull, Methodist min
lister in ST. Paul, MIMI, charged with
attempting to poison his wife, plead
guilty and was sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary.
The annual report of Commodore
Melville, chief engineer of the navy,
shows that all the modern ships are in
good condition. The bureau has ex-
pended $675.O95 during the past year.
At the annual meeting in Washington
of the National Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry resolutions were adopted rec
ommending a stable currency; that
United States senators be elected by the
people; equal protection for the farm
err; pure food legislatio and rural
mail delivery.
Nj. Klippart, travelling salesman for
New York jewelry house, was robbed
at the union passenger station in Co.
lumbus, O., of a valise containing S.
900 worth of gold watches.
The experimental test made by Buff
falo On. W street railway company on
two of it's lines of the electric power
from the Niagara Power company has
proved success.
The whaling steamer Beluga arrived
in San Francisco with the largest catch
of the season. She had % whales, $4,000
pounds of bone and 73O barrels of oil.
United States Deputy Marshal Nc
Glinchy had fight with Black Jacks
bandits near Separ, N. NJ, killing the
notorious Bob Hayes and fatally wound
ing George Musgrave.
The Alabama legislature has been
asked to call convention of the peo-
pie of the state to remedy the election
laws so as to require an educational
qualification for voters.
Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Conaty. of Wor-
cester, Mass, has been appointed by the
pope as rector of the Catholic university
at Washington, to succeed Bishop John
j. Keane, resigned.
A train on the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad caught buggy at a street
crossing in Concord, KY, and instantly
killed Al Pollok, young lawyer, and
III, - y,
of the proprietor of the Lind hotel.
Continued improvement in CONNER
cial and industrial circles was reported
throughout the country.
Wild animals are more numerous in
northern Wisconsin than they have ever
been before.
A violent earthquake shock was felt
at Wilmington, Del, Woodbury., N. j.,
and at other places in Delaware and
New Jersey.
Il. B. Armour, postmaster at Memphis,
Tenn, is said to be $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Firc in the building at Cleveland, o.,
occupied by H. w. Luetkemeyer & Co.,
wholesale and retail hardware and
paint dealers, caused loss of $35O,0O0.
There were 344 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 25S the week
previous and 500 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Earl a. Moore was taken to the peni-
tertiary from Springfield, o., to serve
one year for prize fighting.
A man and woman who registered at
hotel in Valley City, N. D., as Thomas
Owens and wife, were found dead,
clasped in each others arms. Prussic
acid had been taken.
Corbett has accepted an offer made
by the New York Athletic club of
purse of $4,000 for glove contest with
Fitzsimmons in that city on January IA.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
81 ,235, 1914 against $1,191, I17,147 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 9.3.
j. J. Crowley, supervising special
agent of the treasury, in his annual re-
port states that the number of arrests
made during the year for violations of
the customs laws was So; number of
seizures. 1856. The receipts for the
year exceeded those of the preceding
year by $s,05s.1Ss.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A. s. Clay was elected United States
senator by the general assembly of
Georgia.
Daniel Downey died at his home in
Charleston. ILL.,, aged 100 years.
Richard P. Giles. the democratic con-
gressman-elect in the First Missouri