The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-24
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
iitical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.


W. H. Harrison, editor of the Ashland
fMiss.) Register, was stabbed to death
by j. l.. Mcdonald.
President Mckinley has designated
-ex-Secretary John W. Foster as spe-
ciaE plenipotentiary to treat with the
prime minister of Canada concerning
all matters now pending between the
two governments.
The final act on the part of this gov
eminent in the ratifica ton of the treaty
adopted by the recent universal postal
congress was taken when President
Mckinley signed the article.
President Fetterlof, of Girard col
Iege, Philadelphia, issued an ediet
against football.
Louis and Joseph Schrempp, two
brothers, both saloon keepers, were
stricken with paralysis in ST. Louis at
1he same moment.
L. D. Spickler. farmer at Cushing,
Ia, killed his wife and himself. Family
trouble was the cause.
The Territorial Press association has
adopted resolutions favoring the crea-
tjon of a state from Oklahoma terri
tory.
The Delta county bank at Delta, Col,
closed its doors with liabilities of
$50, 900.
The Ohio supreme court decided that
the law requiring that in filling ap-
pointive county and city. offices prefer
ence should be given to honorably dis
charged union soldiers is invalid.
Mrs. Terrill and her nephew, Ed
ward Mason, were burned to death on a
farm a few miles from Peru, N. Y.
The Wyoming supreme court has de-
eided that no foreign-born citizen can
vote unless he can read English.
During the absence of Louis Brown
and wife from their home near White
Oak, Ala, the house was burned and
three children were cremated.
At the fifteenth annual congress in
Chicago of the Baptist denomination of
the United States close communion was
sepudiated by several well-known lead
sers of the church.
At the annual meeting in Harris
burg, Pa, of the National Grange Aaron
Jones, of Indiana, was elected worthy
master.
The gold reserve in the national
treasury on the 10th was $155,Ss6,24s.
the highest on record.
4 league of business men has been
Formed in Kansas to try and secure
the repeal of the prohibitory liquor
Law.
George Seagraves, proprietor of a
restaurant in st. Louis. reproved his
TWO grown sons for some trivial offense
and they fatally assaulted him.
The operators of the Cross mountain
coal mines in Tennessee will mine coal
by electricity.
Joseph A. Iasigi, formerly Turkish
consul in Boston, was sent to prison
for is years for embezzlement.
An earthquake shock, accompanied
by rumbling noise, was felt in the
vicinity of Greensboro, KY.
Robert Sims (colored) was hanged at
Jonesboro, Tenn, for the murder of
Walter Galloway July last.
Ed Purvis, a negro, was hanged at
Ellington, N. c., for the murder of NJ. j.
Biackman (white).
The president has appointed F. w.
missioner of the general land office.
A mob destroyed eight tollgates near
Nicholasville, KY, and warned the
keepers to quit.
Mrs. A. M. Dorm, of Fresno, CAL, rup-
fured blood vessel while laughing and
died instantly.
Charles Arnold and wife and Gustave
Arnold, a grown son, were buried side
ny side in the cemetery at Freeburg,
III. They all died on the same day, but
of different maladies.
William Mays, who shot and killed
G. d. Massengill June Is, was hanged
at Brownsville. Tenn.
Edward Vancy fatally shot his sweet
heart, Nellie Skitman, and her brother
at Bear Creek, Mich. Jealousy was the
cause.
For the four months of the present
ziscal year the total internal revenue
receipts of the government exceeded
those of the corresponding period in
1896 by $6,75o.O69.
Henry Sherry, one of the greatest
lumber operators and manufacturers
Wisconsin ever knew, made an assign
,ment at Oshkosh for 100000.
George and Homer Brewer, aged II
and IS respectively, were drowned while
skating on Big Stone lake at Ortonville,
Alinn.