The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-21

Utah. and the mail car was robbed.
A gang of masked men looted the
little town of Peryear. Tenn. and then
started fires in many places, but they
were extinguished with small loss.
Capt. William Clarke. of Hampden,
Me-. shot and killed his wife and then
shot himself. Jealousy was the cause.
The Manchester Cigar Manufacturing
company at Baltimore, Md, failed for
100000.
A treasury statement says that the
first half of October shows deficit OF
5,739, 1878 and for the fiscal year to date
! of $50, 034 900. The total receipts for the
fiscal year to date have been 1915
GO and the expenditures have aggre-
gated $122.5Oo.670.
After residence of six years at Fort
Sheridan, near Chicago. the Fifteenth
infantry, U. S. A., left for Fort Bay
ary, N. NJ. Col. Robert II. Hall, of the
Fourth infantry, succeeds Col Crofton
as commandant of Fort Sheridan.
The wholesale chinaware and crock
cry establishment of Pearson q Wetzel
in Indianapolis was Quilted by fire, the
loss being $4,000.
In collision between two freight
trains near Meridian, Miss, Will
Tulsche, engineer, and Zip Alexander,
fireman, were instantly killed and 40
| cars were wrecked.
At the annual meeting in Colorado
Springs, COL, of the International Typo
graphical union William p. Prescott. of
Toronto, Ont. was reelected president,
and a nine-hour labor law was passed.
Col. j. John Donoghue, of Whining
ton. Del. was elected commander of
the Union Veteran Legion at the annual
meeting in Washington.
j. H. Brigham, Of Delta, o., president
of the National Grange, said at the an
there are now nearly 100000 members
and 1000 oranges in the United States.
The wholesale clothing firm of Hex
Ter Brothers in Philadelphia failed for
$4,000.
An anvil burst at a political meeting
IN Shelbyviile, Ind. and half of it was
blown through a window in the resi-
dence of John Lansing, fatally injuring
two children who were sleeping in the
room.
Rev. John w. Milan, pastor of the
Madison Avenue NJ. f. Church at Indian
apolis. Ind, and his wife have both
been declared insane. Overwork on his
part and illness on her part were the
causes.
Henry Miller. negro who assaulted
Miss Blanche Gray, young lady OF fine
family in Spalding county. Ca, was
hanged by mob.
The house of ]. S. Miller, farmer
living four miles north of Linden,
Wash. was destroyed by fire and six
children were burned to death.
John Imboden, aged %, killed his Sis
ter, brother and an old man named
Jacob Wilhelm who made his home
with the Imbodens near Piedmont, Mo.
At the session in Chicago of the In
ternational Association of Farmers
Institutes George McKerrow, of Wis
consin. was elected president.
Heine Supp, who is girdling the
earth, has reached Washington. Supp
started from Munich, Germany, July 81,
1895, and expects to arrive home De-
cember 20. His object is to travel
around the world, IL 900 miles of which
will be accomplished on foot, in Is
months.
The county workhouse prisoners at
work near Soddy. Tenn, mutinied and
four of them were fatally shot by the
guards.
A monument to the army correspon-
dents and artists of the late war was
dedicated at Gapland, Md.
| The post office at Granville, o., was
i entered by burglars and 81. 1000 in stamps
and over 5000 in money taken.
! Three firemen were killed and six
badly injured at fire at the chemical
warehouse of Gilmour G. Co. in Montreal,
Can. The property loss was 100000.
There were 1928 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended ON the 10th, against 206 the week
previous and 263 in the corresponding
| period of 1895.
! MissRita and Josie b., Mrs. w. f. ID.
Stokes double team, PAGERS, lowered
the worlds record from 2:12h to 2:09h
at Lexington, Ky.
Harold Cavelle, the matrimonial
|
| in Cincinnati for II months and heavily
/ fined.
Six men were killed and one seriously
hurt by an explosion of dynamite near
Van Buren,. Ark.
Wheat has advanced II cents bushcl
since October /. the closing price in tine
Chicago market on the 10th being 72A
/ cents.
| n. Y. was destroyed by an incendiary
fire.