The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-11-10
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
$s,441, 1873 during the month of October.
The cash balance in the treasury was
1881, 669,957 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury. amounts
to ST. 900, 563.901.
Chicago's first horse show opened in
the Coliseum with 10000 persons pres
ent.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the list was: Wheat.
26,974 900 bushels; corn, As, 99s, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 15,364,O00 bushels; rye, 3,442,-
600 bushels: barley, 3,S17.000 bushels.
A strawboard trust, controlling every
plant in the United States. was formed
at Anderson, Ind.
During the fiscal year ended on June
80 last the total receipts OF internal
revenue from all sources were $146,619,-
500, a decrease as compared with the
fiscal year 1896 of $311 ,022.
A ten-dollar counterfeit certificate
bearing the Hendricks portrait was in
circulation in Chicago.
During the first three months of the
present fiscal year 1926 immigrants
arrived in the United States, decrease
of nearly 1850 as compared with the
same period last year.
1t is stated that number Of turret
guns will be erected as an additional de-
fense of New York harbor.
Statistics of transportation COM
psnies show that nearly 5000 persons
are in the gold fields of Alaska.
The business portion of Healsburg,
Cal, was swept away by fire.
The coinage at the minis during Oc-
tober aggregated $6,426.5o0, as follows:
Gold, S3.s45.000; silver, $2,301 900;
minor coins, S2S0,500.
The Union Pacific road, including the
buildings and all that goes to operate
the system, was sold in Omaha to the
reorganization committee for $5S,965,-
74s.
In the Georgia legislature bill was
introduced to prohibit football playing
In the state.
William Findlay Brown died in New
Castle. Pa, from injuries received three
years ago while playing football.
The North Dakota supreme court says
that Indians who have taken lands in
severalty may vote.
The ITS stone house at Tappan, N. Y,
was blown down by wind. This is the
house where Maj. John Andre was i'm
prisened and from which he was taken
20 his execution on October 2, 1880.
Four laborers were killed and several
Others were injured by an explosion of
dynamite near Victor, Cal.
At st. Louis two men were fatally
hurt and four badly injured by the
fall of scaffold.
Seven persons were killed and "a were
hurt by trolley cars in Chicago during
the month of October.
James Fl. Jordan, postmaster of Den
yer, Col, died from an overdose of
morphine pills.
As the result of feud j. o. Wright
and J. c. Blackerty killed each other at
Junction City, KY.
Edward Hamilton, employed at the
Worcester (Mass.) national bank. killed
his wife and daughter and then shot
himself.
!, Ex-Gov. Charles P. johnson, one of
the best-krown criminal lawyers in
Missouri. has been retained to conduct
She defense of Luetgert, the Chicago
sausagemaker, in his second trial for
the alleged killing of his wife.
Judge Alfred Walling, one of the best
known democrats in New Jersey, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Keyport
by shooting himself.
James H. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, has been elected president
of the Commercial national bank of
Chicago, and will enter on his new
duties January 1 next.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union in session in Buffalo, N. Y, re-
elected Miss Frances E. Willard presi-
dent.
The business portion of Pinconning,
Mich, village Of 1000 inhabitants,
was practically wiped out by fire.
In an election riot at Frankfort, KY,
Frank Egbert, Thomas Deakins. How
ard Glore and Charles Graham (col-
ored) were killed.
Most of the merchants and saloon
men at Covelo, CAL, were arrested on a
charge of selling liquor to Indians.
The Astoria, probably the most costly
hotel in America, was formally opened
In New York.
BY decision OF the Illinois supreme
court physicians must give expert tes-
timony for regular witness fees.
In fire in Philadelphia Is firemen
were seriously burned.
A train went over an emba nkment at
Warsaw, Mo-. and the engineer was
killed and several others injured.
The Bank of Shipshewana, Ind,
owned by Hulett Davis, was robbed of
about $4,000 in cash and many valuable
papers.
Prof. Stuart Young, an aeronaut,
dropped from his balloon into the lake
An Chicauo and WAS drowned