The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-01

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others were injured.
It is understood that Canada has re-
fused to stop pelogic sealing for
year, as the United States requested.
LATER.
Chesterfield, Ind, was almost wiped
Off the map by the explosion of 80
quarts of nitroglycerine which had
been broughtover from Montpelier
and placed in an open field half mile
from town. The shock twas felt for Is
miles and the town of Chesterfield is a
mass of RUNS. Damage was done in
Danville. two miles away, and at York
town, five miles distant. One man
only was fatally injured.
George Gould. president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, has advanced
salaries 10 per cent all along the line.
The advance affects $4,000 employees
and dates back from Nov. 1.
The stage running between Bishop
and independence, New, was robbed
of the Wells, Fargo e. Co.'S express
box. containing about $1,000.
The gold reserve in the U. S. treas
ury the Goth was 156, 1854. $40.
The Salvation army held its annual
congress in New York, beginning the
26th.
c. Campbell Searles, a miser at
Beatrice, Neb., was found dead in his
howell. In his trunks were found pa
pers and securities representing many
thousand dollars.
Colonel Hermoso has planted the Pa
raguayan flag in Bahia Negro territory,
which is in dispute with Bolivia. Two
forts, armed by two hundred men and
two batteries, have been armed erect
ed to hold the territory.
Antonio Milagno. on Italian at Erie,
Pa, went home drunk, saturated his
wife's clothing with oil and set her on
fire causing her death.
The Brazilian chamb Der of deputies
approved the Franco Brazilian arbitra-
ton treaty, within the terms of which
will fall the boundary disputes be-
tween France and Brazil and particu-
question.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
Ashland, Va, lasting about FIVE Sec
onds.
A freight train broke through a
bridge on the Louisville g. Nashville
railroad near Winchester, Ky. James
Harris and VIM. Burch, two bridge
carpenters working below, were buried
under hundreds of tons of coal, lum-
Der, etc.
Three floors of building at Balti-
more, Md, occupied by the Armour
Packing company, collapsed. killing
James Smith.
The millinery and furnishing store
of Apt Bros, in Philadelphia, was
damaged by fire to the extent of $751;
900.
William Carr, under sentence to be
hanged at Liberty, Mo-, for drowning
his 3-year-old child, attempted suicide
by swallowing quantity of pounded
glass.
Ms. Adrian Islin, aged n years,
died at her home in New York. Four
years ago Mrs. Islin built st. Gabriel's
Roman Catholic church. one of the
most picturesque church buildings of
Long Island, at a cost of 100000.
Consul General Lee has made re-
port to the secretary of state, saying
that there are 1907 American citizens
in Cul a dependent upon charitable as
sistance. They have been partly pro-
vided for out of the $50, 900 appropri-
ated by congress.
The destruction of nearly thirty
miles of the Evert & uonte Christie
railway by the recent foods threatens
to cause famine in the small mining
town of Monte Cristo, Wash, which is
cut off from the outside world.
The typhoon which swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 9th of Octo-
Der was one of the worst disasters that
has been reported from the Southern
ocean in many years, if not in the his
tory of that section of the world.
Thousands of lives were lost, including
many Europeans, and the damage to
property is something appalling.
The records of the national revenue
bureau show that the receipts for the
five months of the present fiscal year
will exceed those for the same period
last year by about $s,000,000
Sidney Brown. while digging in a
deep ditch at Forest City, was buried
by the caving OF dirt. When taken
out life was extinct.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the National Educational
Society it was decided to hold the next
annual convention in Washington, d. c.
MARKETS.