The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-29
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

INIEuulUENOE phOM ALL AAS1O
DOMESTIC.
The consolidation of the three great
cracker companies of the United States
is now an assured fact, its capitalization
being 100000.
John Osborne, IL years OLD, and Err
win Warren Oelm, 16 years of age.
were drowned while skating on thin ice
at Buffalo. N. Y.
The Christmas money order business
Of the New York post Office this year
greatly exceeds that of any previous
year.
j. A. Hanway, receiver for the defunct
National bank Of North Dakota. was ar
rested in Fargo on charge Of being
short $4,000 in his accounts.
The Golden Rule dry goods store was
burned at Danville, ILL.,, the loss being
100000, and Miss Mary Reed. clerk,
perished in the flames.
Three schooners of the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing feet with 40 men were
given up as lost.
Mrs. August Radke, of Oshkosh, Wis,
gave birth to 10 pound baby. breaking
the record for weight in this country.
The expectation of raw cotton from
the southern states to Japan is prac-
1ically double what 1t was last season.
Freezing weather has greatly dam
aged the orange crop in California.
The Southern Express company's Of
flee at Columbia, S. c., was robbed of
$4,000.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of Doniphan, Mo.
A report as to the penitentiary scan
dal in Nebraska discloses Irregularities
aggregating $537,S71.S7.
The Auditorium theater and the Au-
ditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo-.
owned by Alexander Fraser, were
burned, the loss being 100000.
The Hide and Leather bank in Chi
cago went into voluntary liquidation
and the assets were transferred to the
Union national bank.
The doors of the First national bank
of Pembina, N. D., were closed, with
liabilities of $95,OOO.
Leda Charland. Is years old, George
NORM. aged Is. and Frank Waterman.
aged IS, were drowned at Gardner.
Mas, while skating on thin ice.
Three young persons were drowned
while skating on creek at Tonawanda.
Ny.
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and
Miss Mary Baird, aged 80 years, died
In Plainfield, N. j., from drinking wood
alcohol.
Engineers j. S. Hodson nnd L. B. Hor-
ton were killed in railway wreck Mt
Cayuga. Ind.
Miss Leila Herbert, aged 30, daughter
Of ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert,
killed herself while respondent over i'll
health by jumping from high window
in Washington.
Twenty-year-old Peter S. Mcmahon,
crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed
himself at Syracuse, N. Y.
Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford
were blow to pieces by an explosion Of
dynamite at Clearwater. N. Y.
The United States training ship Alli-
ance has arrived in New York after an
extended cruise.
Mrs. Barney Picker. aged widow, died
in want at Lima, O., and the admins
traitor found over $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in notes secreted in an old bon
net.
In Milwaukee Walter C. Sanger broke
his own worlds indoor bicycle record
for half mile, unpaced, riding the dis
lance IN one minute fat.
A loss of S150.000 was sustained by a
fire which consumed the A. II. Andrews
coLspany's furniture factory in Chica-
go. f..
Postmaster-GeneralG Gary has decided
TO order special issue of stamps COM
memorative of the holding of the trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha the
coming year.
The school board of Iron Mountain
Mich, has forbidden it's teachers to at
tend dances or parties ON evenings pre-
ceding school days.
The reciprocity negotiations between
the United States and Germany are
practically suspended.
A train struck stage coach at a
crossing near Passaic, N. j., and 20 per-
sons were injured. three fatally.
Charles e. Stubs has been sent to
Europe by this government to encour'
age the use of the American horse in
the cavalries of Europe.
The constitutionality of the civil
service law was upheld by the Illinois
supreme court.
In an open letter to the Federation OF
Labor Secretary of the Treasury Gage
defends the gold standard,