The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-06

Inc GreeK CABINET resigned In con-
sequence of the refusal of the legisla-
tive assembly to pass vote of conf
dence demanded by Premier Ralli.
i LATER.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
during September, 1897, shows the re-
ceipts to have been $21, 633, 09S, and the
expenditures, $25, 36S,S15, an excess of
expenditures over receipts of So, 435, III.
A woman and four children were
found dead in a New York hotel by as
phyxiation. The woman had evident
ly killed her children and then COM
mitted suicide. They were registered
as Mrs. Caroline Rivinius, West Point,
and four children"
Premier M. Ralll officially rendered
the resignation of the cabinet minis
tiers of Greece, the LIST, and they were
accepted by King George. All the
newspapers, with the exception of the
Delyannist organs, expressed the deep
est discomfort at the crisis.
The Cuban insurgents attacked and
captured Santa Maria de Rosario in
Havana province and routed the Span
ish column. The railway bridge was
blown up, destroying all communlca-
ton between Havana and Pinar del
Rio.
The agricultural department has
been compelled to forego it's decision
to distribute this years seed from
Washington because of decision by
Comptroller Tracewell, of the treasury,
that such distribution would be viola
ton of the law by which the appropri-
alton was made.
Bandits robbed the Rock Island pas
senger train near Mimic, I. T. The
registered mail pouches were quickly
rif1ed, but the through express safes
resisted all efforts of the road agents.
All passengers were forced to climb
out of the train and were relieved of
then valuables.
The music prize, known as the Men
delssohn stipendium, was won by Miss
Lenora Jackson, an American COM
petitor, at Berlin, Germany.
Wash Ferran, who criminally as
saulted two children near Cadeville,
La, war taken by mob and hanged.
Gen. Neal Dow died at his home in
Portland, Me-, the I'd, aged 90 years.
A terrible wreck occurred on the ST.
Louis & San Francisco road near Ches-
ter, Ark. A freight train coming down
the mountain got beyond control by
the air brake refusing to work, and
every car ran off the track, killing
most of the train crNw.
Mrs. Frank Davis, of Schuyler, Neb.,
poisoned herself and five children by
putting strychnine in coffee.
The house of George Browning, at
East Long Meadow, Mass, was burned,
and Mrs. Brownlee and her son Thomas
persisted in the flames.
Seven new cases of yellow fever
were reported at Edwards, Miss, the
I'd.
John L. Stoddard announces his re-
tirement from the lecture platform
after eighteen years of active travel
over the most of the known world in
search of material, and seventeen sea-
sons of lecturing.
Senior Sagasta, the Liberal leader,
has been entrusted by the queen re-
gent of Spain with the task of forming
a new cabinet, in succession to the
Azcarraga ministry.
The schooner Henry May was
wrecked off the coast of New Jersey
and the captain and five men chung to
the rigging for "a hours before the life
boats were able to rescue them.
All of the militia have been with.
drawn from Hazelton, Pa, and the
miners have returned to work.
The steamer Rowenna Lee, bound
north, struck snag below Memphis
and sank. Her cargo of 800 bales of
cotton foated away. The crew and
passengers were saved.
Two men held up a cable train out
side of Kansas City and secured what
small change the conductor had and
escaped. Gripman N. j. Israel did not
comply with the order to stop quick
enough and one of the men fired shot
at him. No damage was done and the
conductor submitted to his pockets
being searched. There were no pas
sengers on the car. The robbers were
young men.
Prairie fires swept over portions of
Manitoba At Bezjour, two women
and five children, named Moreski,
were burned to death. Fire caught
upon their house which was in the
woods from two direc simultane.