The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-18
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


The exports for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1897, amounted to $1,03O,0 01.300.
against 1868, 2O0,4 s7 for the year ended
June 80. 1896. The imports amounted
to $754,717,609. against $779, 724.674 for
1896, and the balance of trade in favor
of the United States was $275, 2S3,69l,
against $s5, 476,213 for 1896.
The forty-siXth annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science convened at Detroit,
Mich, with an attendance of about 200.
James Dwyer, of Frankfort, Ind. was
instantly killed while attempting to
board an east-bound Big Four freight
train at the Lafayette junction.
The eleventh annual convention of
the National Butchers Protective asso-
citation was opened at Springfield, Mass,
with large attendance of the trade
from the east and west.
At Barnum, Tex, fire destroyed the
planning mill and dry kiln. lumber yard,
lumber store and a number of tenant
houses and number of cars and three
bridges belonging to the Kansas g. Tex
as railroad. Loss, $250,OOO.
The board of aldermen of Richmond,
Va, has concurred in the resolution of
the common council inviting the Grand
Army of the Republic to hold their an
nual encampment in that city in 1899.
The treasury statement of the inn
ports of sugar shows that the July inn
portations at the six principal ports
aggregated 17s.OO4.O6O pounds, valued
at $4,152,245. Of this amount 43,O09,-
113 pounds, valued at 81 PAP, 1868, came in
free under reciprocity treaty with Ha-
waii.
The report of the statistician of the
department of agriculture shows the
following average crop conditions on
August 1: Corn, "a; No. 2 spring wheat,
s6.7; spring rye, 1913; oats, $50; bar
ley, SIS.
AS result in an attempt to escape
from the state prison at Charlestown.
Mass, Herbert A. Willis, a prisoner,
and his brother Everett were fatally
shot, and several prison officials injured.
Martin Lillis and George Weir were
fatally injured by the explosion of dyna-
mite in stone quarry at Easton, Pa.
Frank C. Conroy, the Ogdensburg
IN. W wife murderer, was executed by
electricity at Clinton prison.
Henry G. Loomis, well-to-do farmer
of Butler. Ind, committed suicide by
hanging himself to rafter in his barn
The infant son of Mrs. David Cherry
was scalded to death by falling into a
tub of boiling water at Shelbyville, Ind
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
taken cognizance of the rush to the
Klondike gold fields and Alaska, and
has issued a warning to the general
public, calling attention to the hard
ship and suffering which will have to be
endured by those who attempt to go
there at this time of the year.
The steamer Mexico, en- route from
the Yukon river, struck on a reef off
Sitka and went to the bottom. Her $50
passengers were saved. Many valuable
specimens collected by naturalists for
the Columbian museum al Chicago. to-
gether with $50 tons of freight, were
lost.
At Chicago after cutting his wife's
throat Charles M. Clifford ended his
own earthly existence by shooting him
self with a revolver, jealousy being the
cause.
Three hundred pounds of giant pow
der exploded in the ST. Joe lead mine
near Bonnie Terre, Mo-, killing William
Fl. Waddern and Taylor Dodson.
The councilmen of Fort Scott. Kan,
are insisting that an occupation tax be
assessed against the ministers of the
town as means of raising revenue to
make up the deficiency occasioned by
the closing of the saloons.
According to United States treas
ury statement the principal articles Of
dc mestic exports for July, 1897, shows
that the total value of the months ex-
ports amount to $36,945,27s, as against
$35,645.S4 for the same month in 1896,
and $29, 445,340 for the same month in
1895.
At Hayes City, Kan.. Mrs. Walken-
stein, wife Of a German tailor. shot a
jeweler named Mulheim seriously and
then shot and killed herself, jealousy
being the cause.
In Chicago Judge Dunno held Alder
man William Mangler guilty of con-
tempt of court in refusing to tell who
offered him So 900 for his vote and fixed
the punishment at $1,000 fine and 90
days imprisonment in the county Jail.