The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-28
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


burned at Corsicana, Tex, the loss be-
ing 100000.
A car famine exists on all the rail
road lines centering in Kansas City, Mo.
one line alone, the Burlington, being
short over 1000 cars.
The jubilee meeting in commemora'
ton of the fiftieth anniversary Of
the American Missionary association
opened in Boston.
Fire wiped out the whole business
portion of Enfield, Mass.
Marion Kennard. who lives at Badger
Creek, w. Va. while drunk killed his
wife and 14-year-old son.
f. T. Turner a. Co., one of the oldest
and largest dry goods and department
stores in Waterbury, Conn, assigned
with heavy liabilities.
For the three months ended Septem-
Der 80 the internal revenue receipts
amounted to $37,794,ss7, a gain of $780,
600 over the same period in 1895.
Robert Swallow. prominent labor
man and orator, committed suicide in
Chicago.
The Western New York Preserving &
Manufacturing company ct Springville.
N. V. failed for $4,000. .
Charles +. Flickenger, farmer i;v-
ing near Colby, Kan, shot his wife and
then hanged himself. Brooding over
financial losses unbalanced his mind.
The governor of Indiana has issued a
proclamation calling upon all pupils
and teachers throughout the state tc
olN fot> A,,k~ Jr,x
~ negro was lynched by a mob near
Sunnyside, Miss. for shooting j. IL.
Rock, white man.
L. p. Farnsworth, a prominent resi-
dent OF Cresco, Ia, accidentally shot
and killed his wife while loading rifle.
Mrs. Con Reardon and her nine-year-
old son were burned to death at their
home in Mahanoy Plane. Pa.
The Berkey & Gay furniture factory,
the largest in the world, resumed ope,-
atoms at Grand Rapids, Mich, after a
period of enforced idleness during the
business depression.
In tit Of jealous rage William Hut
finger, worthless character, shot AMI
wounded his divorced wife at st. Louis
and then killed himself.
The Oregon Coal q Navigation com
pany's steamship Argo was wrecked on
the Coos bay bar near Marshfield, Gre,
and four passengers and nine OF the
crew We're drowned.
w. T. Rambusch, the absconding
banker of Juneau. Wis. committed sui
eide at Fredericksburg, Va.
The one hundred and tiftieth ami
versary of the founding of Princeton
college was celebrated at Princeton,
NJ.
The stoneware works of WhitInore,
Robinson & Co. in East Akron, o., were
destroyed by fire, the loss being 5000, COO.
The visible supply of grain IN the
United States on the 21st was: Wheat,
54,S0S,000 bushels; corn, 17.175,O 900 BUSH
els; oats. 10,035,000 bushels; rye, 1885,
GEO bushels: barley. 3.411 900 bushels.
Executive clcmency released from
states prison in Wisconsin DR.. w. Z.
Dovall, who had served 81 years of a
life sentence for killing his wife. The
pardon was recommended by the trial
judge.
Charles Braylock, youth 10 years of
age, died in Richmond, Va, from the
effects of injuries received in a football
game.
train on the Memphis route near Jones
Springs, Mo-, but the passengers es-
capped injury.
Mayer Bros pottery was destroyed
by fire at Beaver Falls. Pa, entailing a
loss of S1G0.0G0. During the fire wall
fell and two boys were fatally injured.
A farmer named Butka. who had a
large income from oil leases, was MUIR
dered on his farm near Toledo. o., by
robbers and his wife was fatally in
jured.
James Lowe fatally shot Addie Schil-
ling in the police court at San Francis
co and then killed himself. The woman
was to have been witness against
Lowe for sending her threatening let
tiers.
The free street fair and trade carnival
Of Knoxville, Tenn, opened with i'm
pressive ceremonies.
The filibuster steamer Dauntless was
captured by the United States cruiser
Raleigh off the east coast of Florida
after an exciting chase. during which
the cruiser used her guns.
The corner stone of the hall of his
tory, the first to be erected of the group
Of buildings to comprise the American
university, was laid in Washington.
The safe in the bank at Cassville, Mo-,
was blown open by robbers and con-
siderable sum of money was secured.
Almost the entire business portion Of
the village of Lancaster, N. Y, was
burned.
The striking miners in several of the
larger mines in the Hooking valley in
Ohio voted to return to work at the re-