The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-22
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Thomas E. Edison has taken up the
study of air ships. He says those al.
ready invented are wrong in principle
The twenty-ninth meeting of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee will
be held in Milwaukee October 81 and %
John L. Sullivan announces that he
will run for mayor of Boston and that
his platform will be to license gambling
places and disorderly houses.
Rev. Scott Hyatt and wife, Royal Nc
Queen and Miss Mae Tibbetts were
drowned in the Cedar river near Waiver
ly, Ia.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington in good health and spirits
from his summer vacation.
REV" G. F. B. Howard, a noted fed
eral convict, escaped from the state
prison at Columbus, o.
In an interview in Washington Con-
sui General Lee said that in his opinion
the insurgents would eventually win
their independence in Cuba without as
sistance from any outside sources.
Trouble broke out at Coke Bros col
sent to the scene.
A tornado struck Port Arthur, Tex,
and six people were known to have been
killed and many others injured. Build
Jugs were blown down and great dam
sge was wrought. At Sabine Pass ten
persons were killed and at other points
some lives were lost.
Large numbers of coal miners in
Pennsylvania and Ohio were returning
to work.
Paper mills at Appleton, Wis, received
orders from japan for 1000 tons of
print paper. This opens up a mar
ket new to American paper manufac-
turers.
A fire at Iron Mountain, CAL, de-
stroyed property belonging to the
Mountain Copper company valued at
nearly 100000.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country say that
hot weather has given corn big boost.
Ten dead and many injured and the
destruction of property and crops
worth $25o,OoO sum up the losses by the
hurricane at Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass, Tex.
S. Fl. Lanyon, one of the most widely
known men of southeastern Kansas.
dropped dead on the street in Pitts
burg.
The Bank of Durand, ILL.,, closed it's
doors.
The mill situation in Rhode Island is
better than it has been for five years
Mills are running on full time.
The Midland national bank of Kansas
City, Mo-, went into voluntary liquida-
tion by resolution of it's stockholders.
The second national congress- of col
'ored women met in Nashville. Tenn.
The salmon catch of the past season
has been the largest ever known in the
northwest.
The eleventh annual convention of
the National Association of Builders
met in Detroit.
1t has been decided to change the
color of the current two-cent postage
stamp from carmine to green of the
shade now used on government notes.
Yellow fever was said to be spreading
in New Orleans and other southern
cities.
Michael broke the worlds 2O-mile
bicycle record at Springfield, Mass, go
ing the distance in 38:11.
President Ratchford has sent out q
circular address to the miners declar-
ing the great strike off,
1t is estimated that the recent hail
storm in the vicinity of Washington,
Ia, caused damage of 100000.
By the fall of a cage in mine at Nam
ticoke, Pa, four men were fatally in
jured and eight others seriously hurt.
A mob of 400 mer lynched Lyle Levi,
Bert Andrews, Clifford Gordon, William
jenkins and Hiney Shuler at Versailles,
Ind. The men had been arrested for
burglary.
The steamer Excelsior arrived in San
Francisco from Alaska with SO ,passen-
gers and about So 100000 in gold.
An investigation made by Commits
sioner Jones, of the Indian bureau,
shows that there are only 6s insane In
dams in the country.
Postmaster General Gary is devoting
considerable attention to an investiga-
ton of the wisdom of establishing post
al savings banks.
Another very rich gold find has been
made in Lucky 10" shaft at Deadwood,
IS. D.