The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-03
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LATER.
Henry Dersham, farmer near Iowa
Falls To-, has fallen heir to $50, 900.
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity
of Black River Falls, Wis.
The National w. C. T.. U. convention
opened at Buffalo. N. Y. the 29th.
Miss Willard called the convention to
order.
The British forces under Gen. Sir
William Lockhart have captured the
Sempagha pass in India.
Owing to the death of Henry George,
the Thomas Jefferson democracy have
substituted the name Of Henry George,
Jr., as candidate for mayor of Greater
New York.
Rev. Gillian, in a sermon preached
at Mintonville, KY, affirmed that there
was no devil. The congregation took
offense, and when the reverend gentle
man. attempted to speak again he was
elected from the house and about
twenty pistol shots were fred at him.
The Alaska Commercial company's
steamer Excelsior arrived at San Fran
cisco from st. Michaels. She brought
5000 ounces of gold. There has been
no recent communication with Dawson
City, the Yukon being impossible, but
the latest information received from
Fort Yukon, which now constitutes
the base of supplies for the places
further north, is to the effect that the
people are swarming out of Dawson
City and Circle City by every possible
means to escape suffering and possible
starvation.
A disastrous explosion occurred in
the Amarillas shaft of the Grand Cen
trail mine at Minas Priestas. Mexico.
Thirteen men were killed outright and
three sustained probably fatal injuries.
Lord Rosmead, better known as Sir
Hercules Robinson, who was appoint
ed governor of Cape Colony in 1895,
died at Washington, D. c.
Thirty-five striking miners were ar
rested at Turtle Creek, Pa, charged
with unlawful assemblage.
Two electric cars collided in Burling-
ton, To-, fatally injuring one person
and two seriously.
The gold reserve in the U. S. treas
ury the 3Oth was $153, 551, 81, the larg-
est by few thousand of any time
since Novem Der, 1890.
The Peruvian cabinet has resigned
on account of the vote of censure pro-
posed by the congress of that country.
Peter Braun, a merchant of Aurora,
ILL.,, was shot and killed by highway
men. In the scuffie one of the robbers
sent,a bullet through his partners body,
ending his life.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of Henry George occurred in
New York the 31st. An immense con-
course was in attendance.
The most fatal mine disaster in the
Lakawanna. or Wyoming coal fields,
since the Twin Shaft horror at Pittston,
over year ago, was developed in the
fire which Quilted the river slope of the
Delaware & Hudson company's Won
Stonch mine in Scranton, Pa. At least
seven men are known to have been
suffocated by smoke and possibly ono
other, Polander, is mum bered among
the dead.
The Ottoman government has mott
fed the appointment of Col. Schaeffer,
officer in the army of Luxembourg, as
provisional commissioner of the pow
ers for the island of Crete.
Geneaal Blanco, the new governor
general of Cuba, arrived at Havana
the S1st. General Weyler at once sur
rendered command
The Georgia Cotton Oil mill at At.
lanta, Ga, was burned. Loss, $175, 200.
The steamer Milwaukee sailed from
New Orleans for Liverpool with the
largest cargo of cotton ever foated. 1t
consisted of 90, $50 bales. together with
$4,000 bushels of grain. 1t would take
500 freight cars to carry her cargo.
The business portion of Warren,
Mass, was destroyed by fire.
Won Cannon, one of the players Of
the Georgia university football team,
died from effects of injuries received
in the game with the team from the
University of Virginia.
Sixty recruits at Jaca, Spain, who
were destined for services in Cuba, be-
came mutineers, deserted their camp
and fled to France.
Serious trouble has risen between
Germany and Hayti over the illegal
arrest and Imprisonment of German
citizen ut Porte au Prince.