The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-07
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

The National Association of Book
sellers, Newsdealers and Stationers will
hold their thirteenth annual convention
n Boston OH October and Z.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Dushville. Mich, was wiped out by fire.
Seven lives lost and property
worth $1,OOO,OOo destroyed is the record
of cyclone which swept Savannah, Ga.
The loss of life and damage to property
outside of the city was also great.
Over one-third of the business por-
ton of Evansville, Wis.,, was swept
away by fire.
A tornado at Brunswick, Ca, wrecked
many buildings and killed four men.
The property damage is estimated at
S5O0,00O.
at Cadillac. Mich.
The prison reform congress IN session
in Milwaukee passed resolution call
ing on all clergymen in the United
States and Canada to observe Prison
Sunday October Is, by preaching SER
mons in the interest of prison reform
and the prevention of crime.
Peter Helm, n day laborer, instantly
killed Perry Ferguson, well-to-do
farmer at Plano, ILL.,, and mortaliy
wounded Mrs. Helm. Helm charged i'm
Ferguson.
d. NJ. Browning, commissioner of In
dian affairs. in his annual report says
the progress of Indians generally in
education and civilization has been I'M
interrupted and substantial.
Vast tracts of timber lands in north
ern Wisconsin were being destroyed by
forest fires.
HuIburt Brothers & Co., sporting
goods and bicycle dealers in New York,
failed for $4,000.
Rev. Elwood Siler, aged &c years, of
the Friends church at Kokomo, Ind,
who was attacked with hiccougbing ten
days ago, died from the effects.
Edison Keith, the capitalist and Chi
cago business man who recently COM
mitted suicide by drowning, left an es-
tate valued at $1,25O,O0O.
A West Indian hurricane which en-
tered Florida at Cedar Keys and swept
through the southern part of the state
in northeasterly direction destroyed
many towns, causing a loss of at least
SO lives and $2,OOO,0OO worth of prop
crty.
During 4 storm DR.. H. C. Sherman,
cousin of Senator John Sherman, of
Ohio, died Of fright at his country resi-
dence at Olney, Md.
All the inmates of the Hotel Norman
near Wilmerding, Pa. were chloro-
formed by robbers and $4,000 in money
and jewelry were stolen.
A tornado OH the sea islands in
Georgia caused the loss of 100 lives and
the destruction of 100000 worth of
property.
The barge Sumatra foundered eff the
government pier in Milwaukee and four
sailors were drowned.
F. =. Whitney, the senior member Of
the banking firm of Whitney & Son,
known as the Bank of Atlantic at At
lantic, Ia. made personal assignment
with assets of $500, 900; liabilities. $780,
600.
The severest gale ever known in
Syracuse, N. Y, did thousands of dol
lars worth of damage to property.
A hurricane in Pennsylvania caused
the loss of six lives at Pottsville, two at
Reading aud two at Shamolsin, and the
property loss is estimated at over ST.
100000.
A storm at Alexandria, Va, killed
four persons, three churches were de-
stroyed and nearly every business block
was more or less damaged and hun
dreds of private houses lost their roofs.
By an explosion in Schmidt's brewery
at indianapolis two men were fatally IN
jured and ten others seriously hurt.
George Barnum, the only brother of
the late p. T. Barnum, was murdered
for his money near Harrison. Mich.
The Pacific Mail steamship China ar
rived in San Francisco from Hong Kong
and Yokohama two days ahead of time,
breaking the trans-Pacific record be-
tween Yokohama and San Francisco.
Fire destroyed 16 business houses and
the City hotel at Ladonia, Tex, and Mrs.
Jane Knapp, John Mcfarland and Miss
Carrie Mcfarland were burned to death
in the hotel.
George B. Anderson attempted to
make parachute drop from balloon
at Paola, Kan, but the parachute did
not open and he fell 5000 feet and was
killed.