The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-09-30

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


coming year is $4,000. 900. During the
year there were 29,393 deaths of vet
Grams reported.
Antonio Cauze, a young Swiss living
near Aspen, COL, shot and killed his
wife and her mother, Mrs. Mary Quinn.
He says that the taunts of the women
made him mad.
The free turnpike mob destroyed eight
more toll-gates in Washington county,
Ky. making 43 thus far torn down.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 21st was: Wheat,
49,656, 900 bushels; corn, 13, 621. 900 bush
els; oats, S.46O. 900 bushels; rye, 1868
n0O bushels: barley. 1,33s 200 bushels.
The Lithicum Carriage company, of
Defiance, O., failed for 100000.
A dangerous counterfeit made its APP
pearance at Toledo. o. 1t is a So Win
dom silver certificate raised to $40.
Edison Keith, aged 63 years, the mil
aionaire banker and merchant prince Of
Chicago and head of the firm of Edison
Keith & Co., committed suicide while
temporarily insane by drowning him
self in Lake Michigan.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers in annual session at Peoria. ILL.,,
reelected Frank p. Sargent, of that city,
grand master.
The twenty-second annual eonven-
tion of the American Bankers associa-
ton commenced at St. Louis.
The Pawnee bank at Pawnee, Ill.,,
closed its doors with liabilities of $751;
900; assets, $4,000
Charles Pfeifer killed his wife and
child at Brightwood, Ind. while insane,
and then hanged himself.
The sovereign lodge, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, in session at Dallas,
Tex, elected Fred Carlton, of Austin,
Tex, grand sire.
Delegates from 1S states were in at
tendance when the twenty-seventh an
nual national convention of insurance
commissioners began in Philadelphia.
The Richards company, womenis out
filters in New York. failed for $4,000.
Gen. Brooks, in command of the Col
orado national guard. declared martial
law in Leadville because of information
that at an opportune moment the strik-
ing miners intended to wipe out the en-
tire national guard and burn the town.
Frank Ii. johnson, aged 4s, a broker.
and one of the oldest and most popular
members of the Chicago board of trade.
committed suicide by shooting himself.
j. E. & C. H. Brown, proprietors of
the Mapleton bank at Mapleton. MINI.
made an assignment with assets of $l41,-
600 and liabilities of 100000.
James J. Corbett, the pugiiist. was ar
rested in Asbury Park, N. j., on the
charge of agreeing to engage in Prize
fight, and liberated on 81 200 bail.
The weat crop in three northwestern
states is estimated at los, 100000 BUSH
els.
The assets of the Philadelphia G.
Reading Railroad and Coal & Iron COM
panies were sold in Philadelphia to C.
H. Coster. of New York. for 2O.5O0. 900.
Three members of the Cotton family,
living near Tiefaw, La, were murdered
by negro and another member of the
family was seriously wounded.
DIR. Lewis Swift, of the Mount Lowe
observatory at Pasadena, CAL, has dis
covered two new comets close together,
both being about one degree from the
sun.
The twenty-sixth reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
was held al Rockford, Ill.
The Cascade Lumber company's mill,
Office and lumber yard at Burlington,
Ia, were destroyed by fire, the loss being
$105,000.
All the prisoners in the Jail at Belle
fontaine, o.. were released for want OF
money to pay the sheriff for their keep
ing and the entire police force was dis
charged for the same reason.
Elbridge 6. Blunt, who was intimate.
1y associated with John Brown in con-
Quoting the underground railway in
Kansas, and who was also an active
scout in the civil war, died in Chicago,
aged rs years.
Owing to the high price of hard coal
a great many people in Cherokee, Ia.
and vicinity will burn corn this winter.
DIR. John C. Sackville, aged SO years,
once a skilled and eminent physician.
was struck by train at Washington,
Pa. and instantly killed.
In New Mexica four murderers were
hanged, Dionicio Saldoval at Albu-
querque, TerIectO fOullla ana rosario
Ring at Tiorra Amarillo and Antonio
Gonzales at Roswell.
Jim Hawkins (coloredD, charged with
assault and battery on little white boy,
was lynched by mob at Gretna, La.
The Missouri military academy at
Mexico was burned to the ground, caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
In fit of jealousy Grace Clark, aged
IS years. shot and killed Harry M. Con-
way, her lover, and then took her own
life in Chicago.