The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-08
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The United States consul at Odessa,
Russia, haa reported to the state de-
partment that the wheat crop of this
year in Russia is poor one, the yield
in many places being not more than
four bushels per acre.
Fire at Hillsboro, To-, destroyed ten
business houses and one residence.
Loss, $50, 600.
A negro, name unknown, was
lynched near Excel, Ala, for assault
ing an old man with an axe. The ne
gro was under arrest and on his way
to Jail when the mob took him.
Rev. M. E. Dudley, of Colum bus, O..
was withdrawn from the ministry and
church for cruelty to his wife.
DR.. James B. Angel, the new United
States minister to Turkey, with the
members of the American legation,
was granted an audience by the sultan
the Sd and presented his credentials.
For the week ending the Sd. there
were 1913 failures in the United States,
against 334 the same week last year.
There were 6,36S, SAT bushels of grain
exported, against 8, $50, S62 bushels last
year. Factories and jobbers report an
increased trade.
Judge Ellsworth, of California, de-
cides that bicycle cannot be seized
upon an execution.
The great miners strike is about
settled. The United Mine Workers
agreed to the miners a proposition
from the Pittsburg operators for a
straight price of IS cents ton, to con.
tinue in force until the end of the year.
A delegate convention of all miners
who haye suspended work has been
called to meet in Columbus. to act up
on the recommendation. President
Ratchford and the other members of
the board say there is not the slight
est doubt but that the miners will APP
prove the recommendation.
William Botto. of Louisville, KY,
was arrested in New York for uttering
worthless checks.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
road was held up near Twin Noun
tains, Colo, by two men, who blew
open the safe of the Pacific express
company and secured about SIS, 900.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
a drug store in the suburbs of Indian
apolis, Ind, and killed six men. While
working in the ruins second explo-
lsien occurred that wrecked an adjoin-
ing building and injured thirty, some
of whom may not recover
George Cyrus Thorpe, a young citl-
zen of Minneapolis, was killed by the
Turks on the island of Crete.
At the meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton company, A. L. Mohler was elect
ed president.
The boat Mystic and 1899 bales of
cotton were burned at New York.
An excursion train on the Maine Gen.
trail road was wrecked at Etna, Me-,
and Martha Payne was killed and sew
ieral were seriously hurt.
The boiler of the electric light plant
owned by Dyer Bros, at Morton, H.,
lexploded, killing two girls, aged and
10 years and injuring two boys.
The three-masted schooner Agnes /.
crew escaping in a boat.
Over 1,5O0 union cloak makers have
returned to work in New York.
Yellow fever has appeared at several
cities on the coast of Gulf of Mexico.
The recent decision of the supreme
court of Idaho, multiplying of a MAORI
| y of Idaho's laws, may result in liber-
ating large number of convicts now
lincarcerated in the state penitentlary
who were convicted on information of
the district attorney without grand
| jury indictments.
The financial statements of the COM
mittee of 1897 of the sixteenth inter-
national Christian Endeavor conven-
| ton shows balance in the hands of
the treasurer of 81. 274,3S
| A broken frog wrecked train on
the Pittsburg & Western railroad near
Ravenna, o. Brakmen Hawley was
fatally injured and several tramps
were killed.
Benjamin Bre wster. president of the
Keokuk & Des Moines railroad. died at
his summer home in Cozinovia, N. Y.
General Weyler has returned to Ha-
vana and has issued orders prohibiting
the planting of tobacco within the
boundaries of military cultivated zone.
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