The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-08
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Five Finlanders were drowned in the
bay at Gladstone, Mich, by the capsiz-
ing of sailboat.
Mrs. Croker and her nine-year-old
son were killed by Santa Fe passen-
ger train near Cedar Junction, Kan.
A heavy frost visited the northern
part of Michigan.
Judge D. L. Downs, who has held the
Office of probate judge II years, was
stricken with paralysis at Richland Cen
ter, Wis.
A large Cuban flibustering expedi-
lion left Cleveland. Fla.
The steam barge City of Bangor left
Chicago for Buffalo, N. Y, with 175,00O
bushels. of corn, the largest cargo ever
carried on the lakes.
The Southern Pacific railway COM
bany has had seven locomotives changed
TO crude oil burners.
The coal strike was considered set
lied at Columbus, o. The plan was to
resume at "a cents and work pending
arbitration.
The First state bank of Mcpherson,
Kan., failed with liabilities amounting
to $685. 200.
E. B. Cuthbert & Co., brokers, failed
In New York for 100000.
Richard McGriff and John McGriff
celebrated their ninety-fourth birthday
at Deerfield, Ind, making them the old
est twins in the Unied States and prob
ably In the world.
The state bank at Ambia, Ind, with a
capital of So, 900, was closed by order of
the auditor of state.
Nora Miller put poison in scrambled
eggs at her home near Metropolis, ILL.,,
and her sister died and her father,
Henry Miller, would probably die also.
No cause was known for the deed.
Minneapolis has been connected by
telephone with New York and Boston.
A train jumped the track near APP
pleby, Tex, and D. D. Moss, of Chicago,
was killed and eight other persons were
seriously injured.
The dry house at the Palms mine at
Bessemer, Mich, was destroyed by fire.
The fire was incendiary and the strik-
ers are suspected of the crime.
Chicago are being literally swamped
with the unprecedented movement of
grain from the west.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country say that
more rain and hot weather was needed
for corn.
At the conference of labor leaders in
ST. Louis resolutions were adopted scor-
ing government by injunction, favor
ing public ownership of railways and
telegraphs, and the right of the people
to keep and bear arms. Another meet
ing will be held in Chicago on the 27th
inst.
Edouard Remenyi, the Hungarian vio-
linist, was robbed of $4,000 in New
York.
BY the explosion of a railway engine
at Fredericksburg, O., Engineer Thorn
lev and Fireman Brown were killed.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased
: $14,sSs,475 during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$3.50, 145,3 67. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 81 zoos, 1886, 121.
The records and papers of the SUI
preme court of Illinois are being re-
moved from Ottawa to Springfield,
where the court will sit hereafter.
Thieves stole sack containing $500
in silver from the Adams Express COM
pary at Burlington, Ia.
Many buildings were unroofed and
several private residences were over
turned by windstorm in Indianapolis.
Frederick Mcconnell, cashier of the
state bank at Ambia, Ind, is charged
with embezzling $4,000. The bank has
closed.
With appropriate ceremonies the CEN
tennial anniversary of the founding of
Waynesboro, Pa, was observed.
The trustees of Brown university at
Providence, R. l., voted to request Presi-
dent Andrews to'withdraw his resigna-
ton.
The safe of the district tax collectors
Office in Washington was robbed of 3d.
600, and Varick Hawkins, the negro
messenger, was Charged with the crime
Government receipts from all sources
during the two months of the present
6scal year were $5s. 1os, 71s. and the ex-
penditures were $s3,6sS. 500, showing a
deficit for the fiscal year thus far of
Sea, $50 1877.