The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-10-13
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

stroyed by fire.
Every building except five in Austin.
Pa, was swept away by fire.
Joseph Herth. Adolph Pierson. A.
Hendrickson and George Robbins, fish
ermen, were drowned near Long
Branch. N. j.. by the upsetting of their
boat.
The Phoenix Brewing company, one
Of the oldest brewing companies In
Louisville. KY. failed for $25O.O0O.
Constable James Parrish was fatally
whipped by white caps at Decatur, Ind.
for beating his wife.
At a railway crossing near Willow
Springs, Mo-. Philip l.. Wooten and his
three children and Mrs. Francis Mallory
and her child were killed by the cars
and Mrs. Wooten was fatally injured.
For the first time in the history of
Boston university negress, Miss Ida
Hill, has entered the College of Liberal
Arts.
The first game of the Temple cup
series was played at Boston, the score
being: Boston. 10; Baltimore, IL.
President Mckinley has renewed the
receptions given on Monday to the gen.
.erai public.
The whaler Nevarche was reported
lost on the ALASKA coast with % of her
crew.
During quarrel George P. Pfeiffer, a
stenographer. shot his father-in-law.
Robert Delaney. through the brain in
st. Louis and then killed himself.
Baltimore won the second game of the
Temple cup series in Boston, the score
being: Baltimore. Is; Boston. H.
Edward McElroy, gambler, shot and
fatally injured his wife and then shot
himself in their room in Kansas City,
Mo.
A train on the Pennsylvania road ran
from Louisville to Indianapolis, dis
tance of 1O6 miles. in 1e1 minutes.
The National Horse Thief Detective
association in session at Madison, Ind,
elected Gov. Mount. of Indiana. presi-
dent
An explosion of gas in a coal mine
at Plymouth. Pa, killed Isaac Ed
munds, George Eddy and Louis Rich
ards. - "t-tfeg
Two were killed and another injured
by boiler explosion in a sawmill at
Moscow, la.
Rukeyser & Bash, manufacturers of
neckwear in New York, failed for $780,
600.
The president has appointed Laurits
8. Swenson. of Minnesota, envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to Denmark.
The big hotel at Lindsay Park. near
Charlevoix. which was to have been the
largest summer hotel at the northern
Michigan resorts, was blown down and
Pierre Kendall and Guy Hamilton were
killed and ten other persons were in
jured.
The states of Illinois. Missouri, In
diana. Kansas. Nebraska and Arkansas
were all reported to be in great need o.
rain.
Both sides of the case in the trial in
Chicago of Adolph L. Luetgert for the
murder of his wife have been heard and
the state has begun the introduction of
evidence in rebuttal.
The marsh fires near Valparaiso, Ind,
have destroyed many houses and thou
sands of tons of hay and miles of fences
have been burned.
The American Society of Municipal
Improvements began its fourth annual
session in Nashville, Tenn.
Henry Grower, negro, was taken
from the courtroom at fernando, Miss,
by a mob and lynched for assaulting
15-year-old Dovie Ferguson.
The pecan crop in North Texas and
the lndion territory will be the largest
on record.
Thirty persons were injured, several
of them seriously, by the falling of a
platform at an electric railway station
in Kansas City.
The girls dormitory at the state In
dustrial school In Plankinton. S. d.. was
burned, and seven girls persisted in the
flames.
AT Opelika, Ala. Laura Bennett and
James Ferguson, two prisoners, were
roasted to death by the burning of the
Jail.
Fire consumed about half the village
of Centervile. o.
The opera house and two business
buildings were burned at Detroit. Mich,
the total loss being $500.000.
Nine horses pcrlSned In nre IN
George Martins livery barn at Allison,
Ia. Five of the animals were bloode1
stock.
The Guggenheim smelling works at
Perth Amboy, N. D., were destroyed by
fire. the loss being $250.000.
The drought which has prevailed
throughout the northwest for nearly
two months has been followed by dis.
astrous fires on the prairies and in the
forests of Indiana, Michigan, North and
South Dakota and Nebraska. In several
instances entire villages have been
swept away. Lesser fires have prevailed
in Illinois. Ohio and Wisconsin.