The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-01
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Pc
Iitical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
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A fast passenger train on the Lake
Shore ran into a freight at Ligonier,
Ind. demolishing both engines.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat,
32,70s,000 bushels; corn, 40, 342, 900 bush
els; oats, 15,517.0OO bushels; rye, $685.
600 bushels; barley, 4,631, 900 bushels.
The post office and the large depart
ment store of ID. Heenan G. Co. were
burned at Streator. Ill.,, the loss being
$4,000
John Borseman. wife and child were
run down by train near Clay Pool,
Ind, and the latter two were killed.
A stock train on the Santa Fee road
was burned at Wakarusa. Kan, and 16
head of cattle were cremated.
Elizabeth Matherly, an S0-year-old
resident of the Terre Haute Qnd.) poor
farm, committed suicide.
The supreme court of Indiana was re-
organized by the election of Judge Tim
othy E. Howard, of South Bend, to be
chief justice in place of Judge James
McCabe.
A six days congress of the Methodist
Episcopal church has opened at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Solomon L. Sharp, noted turfman.
died suddenly in Cincinnati, aged 43
years.
Fire at Baltimore destroyed w. FL.
SCOTS furniture store, the loss being
S135, 900, and Mrs. Susan E. Maxon per-
sshed in the flames.
The steamer Saratoga reached New
York, having on board the crew Of the
Competitor. recently released from
Spanish prison in Cuba.
Citizens of Nashville, Tenn, presented
fine silver service to the gunboat Nash
vile at the Norfolk (va.) navy yard.
The Cuban League of the United
States of America issued an address to
branch leagues urging united action in
r further effort to induce congress to
grant belligerent rights to Cuba.
John B. Meixell. ex-cashier, and Willis
q. Hoch, ex-teller of the South Bethle-
hem, Pa, national bank, were each SEN
fenced to six years in prison for embez-
element.
Judge Joseph E. Gary has been Sc
lected to preside at Adolph L. Luetgert's
second trial for murder in Chicago.
Fire destroyed the warehouse of the
Ravenswood Distillery company in st.
Louis, the loss being 100000.
Frank Novak was found guilty at Vim
ton, Ia, of the murder of Edward Muir
ray and his sentence fixed at ten years
IN prison.
Six million feet of lumber, valued at
$4,000, were destroyed by fire at Car
rollton, Mich.
The steamer Telegraph, one of the
biggest boats on the Ohio river, sunk
near Louisville, the crew and passengers
narrowly escaping death.
Frank Kveton shot and killed his wife
Mary in Chicago and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
At the 10th annual dinner Of the New
York chamber of commerce Secretary
of the Treasury Gage was the speaker.
and he said that the time for currency
reform was now.
Robert Baltimore, negro desperate,
In resisting arrest near Kingston. Tenn,
shot and killed an officer, fatally
wounded two others and then escaped.
Receivers were appointed in Chicago
for the international Building, Loan
and Investment union, whose liabilities
are $325,000.
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, pre-
diets long session of congress, owing
TO the currency question.
The quarry owners about Youngs-
town, O., have raised wages from ten
TO twenty per cent.
Lawrence j. O'Neill, letter carrier,
was given three years in Jail for theft
Of letters at st. Louis.
Fire at Collins, Ia, nearly destroyed
the entire town. Loss about $4,000.