The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-24

1t is said that Acknowledgement Nc
Kenna's appointment as associate JUS
tice of the supreme court to succeed
Justice Field has been formally decided
upon by the president.
New style postal cards will soon make
their appearance.
In train wreck near Cleveland, o.,
Miss Grace Chapman, B. S. Baxter and
John Roe, all of Chagrin Falls. sus-
tanned severe injuries.
John r. Gentry and Robert j., the
PAGERS, have closed their 1897 campaign
and been taken to Somerville, NJ j.
Brig. Gen. j. C. Breckenridge will sug-
gest that new bureau of the war de-
partment be created to manage the vol
unteer soldiers homes.
At Barboursville, KY, John Smith and
Fred Harkler killed each other in quar-
rel over a debt.
Albert j. Frantz, aged %, the muir
derer of Bessie Little, of Dayton, o.,
was electrocuted in the annex at the
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus.
The secret service bureau announces
the discovery of new counterfeit $40
silver certificate and also counterfeit
national bank note.
Tom Sweat, negro, who killed an
other colored man near Bryan, Tex,
was taken by mob from the officers
and lynched.
George Wheeler Hinman is to sue
coed William Penn Nixon as editor in
chief of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Henry Clay johnson (colored) was
hanged at ST. Louis, Mo-, for the murder
of William Amend, newsboy, August
1, 1896.
In quarrel over money matters
Henry Kammerer killed his father near
Benton Harbor, Mich, and then killed
himself.
A prairie fire burned over 400 square
miles of territory in three counties in
Texas and thousands of cattle and sheep
persisted.
The report of Secretary Bliss of the
department of the interior for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, says
that the total area of the public domain
is 1,S35,017,692 acres; there were 976,-
O44 names on the pension rolls June 80,
1897, an increase of 1886; the Indians
number 177,17S, exclusive of civilized
tribes; the number of children in pub
lie schools was nearly 100000 and the
value of school property $456,0O0,0O0.
A municipal government for Alaska is
recommended.
Reports indicate a total failure of
the fall mackerel fishery on the At
lantic coast.
Mount Holyoke college at South Had
ley, Mass, the pioneer institution for
the higher education of women, OBJ
served it's siXtieth anniversary.
III. Compton and his young wife were
killed by the cars at Compton, CAL,
while crossing the tracks in a wagon.
Silas D. Fargo, of Happy Hollow, Mo-,
was shot by mob on suspicion of hav-
ing set fire to building.
The directors of the Rochester IN
W savings bank voted to place that in
stitution in liquidation.
The Anchor line steamer Bluff City,
one of the fastest and newest boats on
the lower Mississippi, was burned at
Chester, ILL.,, the loss being 100000.
The Western Baseball association next
year will consist of clubs from St. Jo-
seph, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Du-
buque, Burlington, Quincy, Peoria and
Rockford.
1t is announced on high authority that
President Mckinley will tacitly ap-
prove the programme for autonomy or
home rule for Cuba which Spain now
promises.
In train wreck near Williford, Ark.
J l.. Hoover, of Pleasant Hill, Mo-, was
killed and 80 other persons were in
jured.
The coal operators of northern Hi
nois refused absolutely to arbitrate
with the miners.