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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-17

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Tho Proceedings of tho First Session.
The senate passed the new general de-
hciency bill on the Sth and the conference
report on the post Office appropriation bill
was agreed to. In discussing the immigra-
ton bill Senator Morgan spoke of the pres
ent war in Cuba and said the conditions
were such as to justify Intervention by the
United States. In the house bill for the
aJnelioration of the condition of American
seamen was passed and conference reports
were agreed to on the post o.-.ce, Indian and
District of Columbia appropriation bills.
Final conference reports on the naval
appropriation and on the Indian appropria-
ton bills were agreed to in the senate on
the 9th, leaving only the sundry civil and
the District of Columbia conference reports
outstanding. Most of the day in the house
was devoted to the consideration of the
Aldrich-Underwood contested election case
from the Ninth Alabama district. Mr..
A1drich finally being seated. The final con-
ference reports on the Indian and naval
bills were agreed to.
The senate disposed Of the las. of the ap-
preparation bills on the 10th, and has fixed
four o'clock D. m. to-day as the time for
final adjournment. Bills were passed to
Increase the pay of letter carriers, to pre-
vent the shipment of liquor under false
labels, and the bill giving right of trial by
Jury in all contempt cases. !. In the house
the concurrent resolution for the final ad-
journment OF congress at four clock p. m.
to-day was received from the senate and
agreed to. The senate amendments to the
sundry civil bill were concurred in and
many bills were passed, among them being
one to extend the scope of investigation of
the agricultural department into the ques-
ton Of road Improvement.
The senate adjourned sine die on the 11th
after passing resolutions expressing thanks
to Senator Frye, of Maine, president pro
tenn, and Vice President Stevenson for the
uniform courtesy and ability with which
they had presided over the senate. e. In the
house resolution offered by Mr.. Turner
(dem., Ga.) was adopted thanking Speaker
Reed for the ability, efficiency and strict
impartiality with which he has discharged
the arduous duties of his Office, after which
the house adjourned sine die.
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win Meet Next at Toronto.

Grand Rapids, Mich, June 1o.-At the
general session of the charities and cor
rection conference, Justice c. B. Grant,
of Michigan supreme court, delivered
an address upon prison discipline, in
which he took the ground that there
should be stricter enforcement of the
laws and longer terms of sentence for
hardened criminals. For youthful and
first-term criminals he Endorsed the
ideas of the prison congress. Work was
carried on in the nine sections of the
conference during the day. Toronto
has been selected as the next place of
meeting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-06-17
A BRUTAL FATHER.
Shoots His Daughters Because They Re-
fused to Buy Beer.


fused to Buy Beer.
Chicago, June 11.-William Otter, of
419 Mclean avenue, shot bis two step
daughters Wednesday night while un-
der the influence of Liquor. Otter came
home drunk and walked into a room
where were sitting his two step
daughters and their mother. He asked
the eldest girl, who is II years old, to
go after can of beer for him. This
she refused to do, and the father be-
coming cnraged, and drawing revol-
yer, began a promiscuons shooting.
The cider girl was hit in the breast
and the younger one, aged seven, re-
ceivcd bullet in the abdomen. Mrs.
Otter was not struck. Both girls were
sent to the hospital, where it is said
the young lady will recover, but the
little girl died. The father was arrest
cd
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CYCLONE IN ALABAMA.
Wyeth City Destroyed-TwO Lives Lost
Many Injured.


Many Injured
Montgomery, Ala, June 1o.-The lit
tie town of Wyeth City, in Marshall
county, some 80 miles west of Gadsden.
with population of about 300 souls,
was completely wrecked at II o'clock
Tuesday morning by cyclone. Eight
cen houses were destroyed. The cyclone
lasted fully five minutes and then passed
in northeasterly direction. Fifteen
persons are wounded, six fatally. Mrs.
Picketts and a man named Bundby were
badly hurt and will die. Mrs. Clark, Mrs.
Brown and several children will prob
ably die. The path of the cyclone was
about 100 yards wide. Several persons
are missing, and it is probable that they
will be found dead. Ed Long and an
unknown woman were killed by light
ming.
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DIED WITH HER CHILD.
A Chicago Mother browns Her Babe and
Herself.

Herself.
Chicago, June 9.-After having quar-
relied with her husband at noon Monday
Mrs. Hannah Kock, of 1o44 West Thir-
tenth street, left home with her two
children and threw them and herself
into the river near the California av-
enuc bridge. She and her two-month-
old daughter Emma were drowned.
but the other child, Charles, nine years
old, escaped. Two boys who were
swimming in the river at the time wit
messed the deed. Before they could
reach the scene the mother and baby
had disappeared and the little boy had
struggled to the shore.
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LATER.

Two successive dynamite explosions
occurred at Havana the night of the 18th.
CONSERVATION prevailed for time, as
it was feared it was prelude to an at
tack by insurgents, but it was found that
the stone bridges of Christina and Con-
cha and the aqueduct of Fernando Septi-
mo were the points that has suffered
from the dynamite. The bridges were
partially destroyed, and the pipes on
the aqueduct upon with the city is de-
pendent for it's water supply, were
much damaged.
The six-day ladies' bicycle race at
Winnipeg, Man., ending the 18th. was
won by Miss Dottle Farnsworth. The
score for the twelve hours, two hours
each night, was 231 miles and laps.
Burglars entered store at Valley
Springs, SD. the night of the a1ath,
but secured only few pennies.
Fire at Louisville, KY, the morning
of the 14th, destroyed large ware
house of the White Mills Distillery
company, entailing loss of 1925, 600.
Fireman Val Schwab fell into burn
ing stream of whisky and was so badly
burned that it is thought he will die.
John Fitzgerald and Philip Bierod,
firemen, received painful burns about
the hands and arms.
A dispatch received at Rome from
Massowah confirms the report of the
acquittal of Gen. Baratieri by the
court martial which heard charges
against him connected with the defeat
of the Italians by the Abyssinians.
A council of Spanish generals in
Cuba has decided to suspend operations
against the insurgents owing to the
rains.
F. T. Tolland, of La Crosse, Wis,
was assaulted and robbed by three
men at Indianapolis. Ind, the 14th.
His assailants were arrested.
X. ]. Smith. general superintendent
of the Edison electric light plant in
New York. and president of the recent
electrical exhibition, was fatally in
jured by fall the 14th.
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Ex-Judgc Maynard Drops Dead.

Albany, N. Y, June 13.-Isaac 81.
Maynard, ex-judge of the court of APP
peals, dropped dead Friday in the Ho-
tel Kenmore. Heart disease was the
cause.
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The democrats OF Connecticut in con-
vention at Hartford selected delegates
to the national convention who are OPP
posed to the free coinage OF silver.
Z The Nevada democrats in convention
ut Reno elected free silver delegates to
the national convention.
The national committee of the re-
publican party met in the Southern ho-
tel a. St. Louis and began the work Of
preparing the routine of the national
convention which meets on the 18th.
The Indian territory democratic con-
vention, held in vinita, elected FREQ sill
yer delegates to Chicago.
In convention at st. Paul the Mime
sota democrats elected delegates to
the national convention on gold plat
form
The following congressional nomina-
tons were made: Michigan. Fourth
district, A. E. Beebe (pop.). Illinois,
Sixteenth district, w. n. Henrichsen
(dem.). Kentucky. Eighth district, G.
NJ. Davis {rep.).
William E. Finck, of New Lexington,
was nominated for congress by the free
silver democrats of the Eleventh Ohio
district
Isaac II. Maynard, aged SO years, ex-
judge of the court of appeals, dropped
dead In the Hotel Kenmore in Albany,
NY
Col. w. P. Hepburn was renomi-
mated for congress by the republicans
of the Eighth district of Iowa.
DR.. Charles NJ. Mes, aged 60 years,
died in York. Pa. He was the inventor
of the Mes silicon method of converting
iron ore into STEEL
FOREIGN.
Muzaffer-ed-Din, the new shah Of
Persia. was formally enthroned at Te-
heran.
Three men, Nilsson, Fowler and Sea-
man, were hanged in Newgate prison
in London on one scaffold for murder.
1t was said that the Cuban harvest
this year would be only one-eighth that
of 1895.
There was much talk IN official cir
cles in Havana of arranging the Cuban
question on o basis of concession of
home rule, similar to that in Canada.
Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby farmer who
was believed to have murdered not less
than 40 infants, was hanged in Newgate
prison in London.
In commemoration of his coronation
the car of Russia donated So, 900 to
charities.
II the Indian revolt in Oaxaca, Mex.
leo, free masons were attacked and sew
eral of them were burned to the stake.
Upon paying fac of $125.000 each
john. Hays Hammond, Col. Rhodes,
George Farrar and J. W. leonard, tho
leaders of the johannesburg reform
committee, were released from prison
81 Pretoria.
1t was announced in the British
house of commons that negotia tions
were proceeding with the United States
with the view of bringing about a set
tlcnent by arbitration of the Vene-
zuelan dispute.
The British cruiser Bonaventure lost
70 men by sunstSoke while on voyage
from Colombo to Pondicherry.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
ATHLETIC SPORTS
Between Cape Road Employees at willard
Today.

This afternoon at Willard will OCCUR the
last out of door athletic exhibition of the
season. The employees CT the Portland
and Cape Elizabeth electric road are to
contest for prizes offered by the company
and as all of those who take part are
good athletes the afternoon promises to
be one full of interest and amusement
for the public. Among other things
which will please the crowd will BIZ tug
of war between two picked teams of the
company's employees. One of these will
be oaptained by Superintendent H. R.
Mcleod. and the other by Mr.. Mac readis
and as both teams have been in training
for some time this event promises to be
holly contested and full of excitement.
Then there are to be other sports such as
running, jumping, throwing the haIn-
mer, and in fact all kinds and sorts of
out of door athletics. Prof Lee Of the
Portland Athletic club, and Merle L.
Griffith will otficiate at the sports which
will probably be witnessed by a big
crowd.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
FISHERM EN- GO.
Last Trout of the Season Have Been
Caught at Rsngeley-Great Ones.

Upper Dam, OcJober 1.-The fishing
season ended.here yesterday with great
success. There are mentioned here q
few Of the many luck fishermen: T. B.
Stewart of New York, caught three trout,
weight, pounds, 9 ounces; pounds,
8 ounces and pounds ounces. respeo-
lively. Mr.. I. B. Stewart, also caught
in one day ten trout weighing 23 pounds.
j. O. Dougherty of New York. caught
trout weighing pounds, ounces; 8
pounds, ounces 6 "a pounds and Z
pounds, Q ounces, and a salmon weigh
ing pounds, one ounce.
R. N. Parish, Of Montville, Conn,
caught trout weighing pounds; 6
pounds. ounces; 10 pounds and a
salmon Weighing pounds ounces. The
salmon was the largest salmon taken on
fly at Upper Dam.
All of these fish were taken in the Pool
below the Upper Dam.
All fishermen have gone soday.
Mr.. Thos. MoKean Of PHILADELPHIA.
Pa. goes home by special car today from
bemis's over the P. & r. F. & r. L.
H. r.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
More About the Richmond Burglary
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1

>~>>~~~~ ~
Richmond, October Further investi-
cation shows that the burglar, or
| burglars who broke into Mr.. Isna l..
Lakes house Tuesday night ransacked
the honse thoroughly. Beside the money,
a lot of food was taken, also a pocket
knife and some under clothing. A new
pair Of Shoes were taken. but were left
outside the door. The thief took the pre-
| caution to close the blinds and pull down
the curtains and then, with lighted
lamp went through everything in the
house, even to Investigating butter jar
In the cellar. The lamps was left on the
floor near the door by which the burglar
left the house.
To get at Mr.. Lakes clothing the thief
had TO pass around the led and go into q
narrow space between the bed and wall,
close to where Mr.. LIKE was lying
asleep. From the fact that neither Mr..
Lake nor his wife were disturbed by the
extensive movements of the thief and
that neither of them woke in the morn.
ing until some time after their usual
hour of rising, it is thought thai some
thing may have been used to make them
sleep more soundly.
At Mr.. Hagar's the exploration was
less thorough, and not 80 much was
taken.
The whole thing was evidently the
work of a bold and experiep need hand and
not that of a novice
A suspicious looking character was
noticed on the street, down town, Tues
day morning, and his looks commented
upon, but owing to the many people
about town on account of the fair that
day, apparently no watch was kept on
his movements.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
CENTENNIAL OF VACCINATION.
Tho Experience of Russia Leads to a Ma
tional Commemoration,
(From the INDEPENDENT. J

(From the independently
/. Could the shade of Jenner revisit the
earth next year it could not but be
pleased at the general attention that
will then be given to the history and re-
suits of his great discovery. Russia,
where the circumstances surrounding It's
introduction were such. as to make it
ever memorable, proposes to have ma
tional oommemoration of process which
has saved millions of lives in that tenn
ing empire. Germany will not be be-
hind, for she has more accurate testi-
nony to exhibit than any other country
from the complete success of vaccination
and re-vaccination in her army; and the
American Medical Association, meeting
in May, 1896. proposes to devote special
attention to the subject.
DR.. Sotin. seeing that smallpox was
approaching from the east to St. Peters
burg, set himself to make precise study
of the effects Of vaccination and non-v &C.
clnation. He examined 1854 children,
belonging to 665 families. He found that
!, 055 mad been vaocinated, and had visi-
Bile scars; rs formed a doubtful group
who were said to have been vaccipated,
b1t had no visible scars; 434 had never
been vaccinated. Smallpox came and
widespread. epidemic resulted. 1t was
contracted the disease--1.3 per cent. OF
the doubtful cases nearly 90 per cent.
suffered while of those known to he un-
vaccsnased 58 per cent. had the disease
that is, the unvaccinated suffered TO an
extent 90 times as great as the vacoin-
ated. In those families where mono had
been protected, Of which there were 1S9
II one child fell sick all the others In
the house were sure to be attacked; there
We're II exceptions. Some families
hastened to have all their willing mem
bers vaccinated, and in every case il
proved safeguard, and in the suppose
bly, un willing members the punishment
of flying In the face of clearly demon
strated scientific way of escape was ar
attack of the disease.
Dr.. Sotin believes that there is no dan
ger from vaccination done during al
epidemic; and it seems as If any person
who finds himself surrounded by
cases., " as in time of epidemic, wonld
not fail to submit to it. The rational Ia
of the matter is this, even supposing that
he has caught smallpox, ii be is ino-
culated with the virus of vaccination in
time he has two poisons in his system
oneivirulent and often fatal the other of q
milder disease of the same nature, but
with less Injurious effects; but the vac.
cine disease runs Its course in about
tour days less than the more violent one
and there Is no doubt that If a suddeI
and severe onset should be made In an,
community. by the introduction of in
footed persons or things from the out
side, and a general epidemic started, il
might be stamped OUT as effectuall;
as cholera has been this year in Hawaii.
By universal vaccination.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
WESTBROOK.

Tomorrow will be Orally Day" with
daily invited.
Tomorrow will be Rally Day" al
Warren church. In the morning ths
pastor will preach at 10. 80 on '.Tne- Bible
and Its Study" Sunday school at noon,
at which. there will be special services
by the children. Evening services g
praise and social service.
Tomorrow mt the NJ. E. church the
pastor win speak ON Unreasonable Ex-
cuses". ln the evening the first of sew
eral addresses on s'What the spirit ga it
to the churches" The sacrament of the
Lords supper will be administered at
tho close Of tomOrrow's service.
The October meeting of the Westbrook
Natural History society will he held at
the high school building this evening.
The regular monthly meetings of fh
companies of the fire department were
held last evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Leroy Hawkes. returned
Yesterday from their wedding tour to
Nav York and have taken up their resi-
dence at 2 Main street.
The Westbro0k high schools and the
Freeport high schools play game of
foot ball at Warren Park this afternoon.
Two Japanese paper manufacturers
made visit to the plant of S. ID. War
rem q Go. yesterday. These gentlemen
are In this country for the purpose of
purchasing paper machinery and to in
speot the paper plants here. AT S. D.
Warren & Co. plant they saw two of
the latest and best paper machines in
this country.
Mr. John Sullivan, olerk for Simon
Arenosky. Is confined to his home with
illness.
The work on the new FIRE alarm system
Is abous completed. The boxes were
being put up yesterday The fire depart
ment will DO called out on false alarm
sometime nsxt week to test the system,
The regular monthly meeting of the
caty council will be held Monday eve
ming. @tl
Mr.; Patrick Donnely will continue on
the Chronicle. ...-s-==
Westbrook council, A. o. r. of A. has
moved into the Knights Pythias hall in
the Brigham block.
MIR: Frank S. Spring of the electrios
Is taking vacation. -
Messrs. V. d. Ward and @. P. Wood
man returned yesterday from their gun
ming trip to New Hampshire They report
game very plentiful
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

State Detective Ira NJ. True arriyed.ip
Augusta Thursday morning from Ban
gor. haying in custody William Il. Davis.
weil.known amateur skater of tbs
queen CITY. Davis is charged with beat
said he is wanted by the secret seryies
officers of the United States postoffic e
departpent: He was looked up in Ken
nebeo Jail. Davis is a fine looking Young
fellow OF about %, and wien arrested
by the Bangor officers Wednesday niant
had ON natty bicycle uniform and had
fine Cleveland bicycle. His latest
offanae, SO far as the Bangor police have
heard, was committed at Rowland, where.
1t Is alleged no beat hotel bill and
stole q watch.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
FAILURES WERE MANY.
Record Of Past Nine Months I'm.
precedented.
NUMBER EXCEED EVEN THE PANIC
YEAR OF 1898.

Slight Improvement in Trade Noted by
Bradstreets Past Week-Merchantile
Collections Improve in Some Locali-
ties-Great Advance in the Price of
Wheat.
New York, October 2-Bradstreets' to-
morrow will say: Cooler weather and
continued purchases by interior mer-
chants, notably west and south continue
and slight improvement i'll trade is re-
corded as in preceding weeks. Merchants
at primary cotton market and larger CEN
ters in the spring wheat region report a
better movement of staples, due to Gun
usually heavy receipt of those crops.
At the eastern centers the improvement
is seen in greater ease in the money mar
kets and more disposition TO discount
commercial paper, although at unchanged
rates. z
Wholesale merchants report a better
feeling very generally. but few antici-
pate any material increase in the volume
of business this month.
Mercantile collections continue slow
ana difficult to make as heretofore, ex-
oept IN tho cotton states and some points
in the northwest, where heavy crop re-
ceipts have enab led interior merchants
to liquidate long standing accounts
The worlds statistical position of
wheat indicates return of some Of the
conditions of 1880 which resulted in
heavy wheat export from the United
State rapidly advancing price.
lie export of wheat (Aour included as
whent) from both COASTS of the United
States and Montreal, this week amount
sd to 4,2l5,794 bushels, the largest
weeks exports of wheat since the second
week of September, 1898.
The total hank clearings for September,
So. 664. COO, OGO, decrease of more than
II per cent compared with September
| 1895. For the nine months of current
calendar year the clearings aggregate
| S37. 02o, 900, 600, a decrease com pared with
the corresponding portion of 1895 of rs
| per cent.
| The total mum her of failures through
out the United States from January ! to
| September 30, 1896, is II. $780, the largest
aggregate reported for like period since
the records of this character have been
| compiled. The next largest correspond
Ing oObiiI Is IL, ItU, lOT VIC ul1lc mUutub
of the panic year of 1898. The liabilities
in failures the past nine months of this
year aggregates Sl7l, $50, GOO; assets
| 50, GA 600.
The total liabilities of the first nine
months of 1896 are more than one half
the corresponding total three years ago.
The failures in the third quarter of the
current Year, which exce eds that in the
corresponding portion Of panic year 1893,
appears due, in part, to the effects OF
| the widespread, active agitation for a
change in the standard of value.
! The failures in New England the past
nine months mum bered 1866; liabilities,
SIG, 57S. 1858; assets, $7,275. 19i against 1868
failures liabilities. SIS, 3S2, 1893; assets,
| S7.l70, 1888; the corresponding period OF
1 last year. When records are examined by
groups of states. it is found that the
| New England states report totals more
nearly normal than any other group.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-03
Stamps and Buttons.
(Harper's Round Table. J


Two hundred thousand sets of the 1866
issue of the Nova Scotia stamps have
turned up, and the entire lot is said tc
| have been sold to syndicate of Cana.
dian dealers. The find is so large that
prices on this set must fall very much.
The veteran dealer, ]. W. Scott, states
that Is years ago he purchased several
hundred sets lacking the 30. from a gen
tleman in Ottawa at about soc per set.
The SC. has been the oommonest Of all
this issue during the past decade.
THE Geneva exhibition has been a
great success. The stamps were we'll
shown, and the local committees made
things pleasant for ali visitors. The
exhi bition closed with a grand dinner to
which la5 gentlemen sat down.
There were 50 Zurich rappsn, So &C.
neva 10 confines, 81 Vaud confines.
shown, almost all of which were In used
condition. These are the stamps worth
from 500 tic $500 each, but the bulk of
them were In the albums of eight or nine
of the exhibitors. Pastor Lombard took
the gold medal for the best Swiss stamps,
Stanley Gibbons the gold medal for the
beat collection of any one country. He
collection, worth $685. 900.
A collection of 20, 600 buttons, includ-
ing specimens of those worn on all the
uniforms in the world. has been left by
a rich Englishman named Hamilton.
who died recently in Vienna. He had
also brought together 352 FANS which
had each belonged to beautiful women.
Another fad of English collectors is the
buttons of servants bearing their en-
niOy6r'6 coats of arms.
4 The button craze is rapidly growing.
and probably will reach it's climax early
in Novem Der, after which time it will
gradually die out. Several collectors
have over 900 different buttons In every
variety of shape, size, color, design and
motto. The buttons were sold early in
the season for $50 thousand, but the
price has come down to 81 thousand.
Specially handsome buttons are $40 a
thousand. The sidewalk peddlers sell
them at two cents each, or thres FOR five
cents.