The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-12-08
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.

DOMESTIC. :.
The steamer Nahant was burned to
the waters edge at Escanaba, Mich,
and two of the crew persisted.
The corner stone of the new $1.000,-
600 Congregational house in Boston,
was laid.
Baron Won Holleben, the recently-ap-
pointed German ambassador, presented
MS credentials to President Mckinley.
Mrs. Theresa Cardoza, who weighed
coo pounds, died In San Francisco.
The River Falls (Wis.) state normal
school was burned, the loss being $751;
coo.
The Chinese Equal Rights league of
Chicago will petition congress to give
Chinese citizens of the country The right
of naturalization and citizenship.
The Union Pacific fast mail completed
the longest record-breaking run ever
n.ade-519 miles in $50 minutes. The
run was from Cheyenne to Omaha.
The National Civil Service Reform
league will hold its annual meeting at
Cincinnati December 16 and II.
The new agricultural building at
Tuskegee, Ala, for colored students
was opened.
A monthly steamship service has
been established between New York
and India.
The militia of Kentucky is under
marching orders ready to protect the
toll gates, Gev. Bradley being deter
mined to stop their destruction.
At Lincoln, Neb., Eugene Moore. ex-
auditor of state, was sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary for the en-
bezzlement of $4,000.
The Mississippi river is frozen over
at Dubuque. Ia, and navigation has
closed
Seven men were dead at Maplesville,
Ala, and II more were not expected to
live from the result of drinking mix
cure of wood alcohol and cheap whisky.
Martin Thorn was convicted in New
York of murder in the first degree in
killing William Guldensuppe, his pre-
Eecessor in the affections of Mrs. Au-
gusta Mack, at Woodside, L. l., on June
rs
William Ellis. prominent farmer
near Evergreen, Ala, took Cook King
(colored) and tied him to a tree and
shot him to death. Intimacy with FL
lis daughter is the alleged cause
Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Hill
rois, has declined the position of chair
man of the interstate commerce COM
mission.
George Douglass. who accidentally
killed Albert Grayer at Snowden, Pa,
in attempting to murder another, was
hanged in Pittsburgh, Pa.
In an accident on the Atlantic & Dan
Vile railroad at Gill's station. Va. En-
gineer James Luter and Fireman Frank
u. Smith lost their lives.
At Olneyville, r. l., $4,000 mill oper-
stives have received an advance Of 20
per cent. in wages.
A dime-in-the-slot machine for reg
&stered letters is being tested in the New
York post office.
Frank A. Keith and Maggie Godfrey
committed suicide together by inhaling
gas in room in Lowell, Mass. They
were penniless.
Secretary Gage estimates the treas
Ivy OSUcll lot Tue HScdl year cuOluS
June 80. 1898, at $20.000.O00.
Gambling paraphernalia valued at
$1,000 was burned at Leadville, Col, by
order of the court.
w. j. Burian fired a revolver at his
wife in Detroit but succeeded only in
slightly wounding her, and then shot
himself dead. Jealousy was the cause.
Tho puhIic debt sfatomept issued IN
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$11,33S,125 during the month of Novem-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $846. 409.076. The total debt. less
the cash balance in the treasury.
amounts to ST ,009. 226. 466.
In bis message to the general as
Sembly which convened at Richmond,
Va, Gov. O'Farrall discussed the lynch
ing question and proposed legislation to
correct the evil.
The canals of the state of New York
have been closed for the season.
The government receipts during No
vemher were $43,363605 and the ex-
yenditures were $37.s10,s3s.
Fire in the F. o. Sawyer G. Co. paper
factory In ST. Louis caused loss of
100000.
Miss Susan Wesson died in Roxbury,
Mass. aged 100 years months and z
days. She was the oldest unmarried
woman in Massachusetts,.
Justice Fields retirement from the
supreme court, of which he gave official
notice last October, has taken place..