The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-01
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.


was destroyed by fire.
The 5000 employees of the National
Rolling Mill company at McKeesport,
px, received notice of ten per cent.
RdVance in their wages.
Outlaws raided picnic at Glenwood,
o., and in the fight that ensued Lew Hol-
ley was killed and William Porter and
Van Linkfeld were fatally stabbed.
Nebraska reports yield of 45,000,000
bushels of wheat and 35O,OO0,OO0 of
eccrn and South Dakota 20,000,000 BUSH
els of wheat and 2OO,OOO,oOO Of corn.
The trial of Adolf L. Luetgert, who is
charged with numbering his wife and
then dissolving her body in vat of acid,
began in Chicago.
A celebration in commemoration of
the centennial of the establishment of
Jefferson county, O., was held at Steu-
,zeenville.
Hundreds of coal miners in Grundy
county, ILL.,, were said to be on the verge
OF starvation.
1t is said that the coming season in
the lumber camps in Michigan will be
record breaker in activity.
The miners officials and operators
held conference in Pittsburgh, Pa,
but nothing was accomplished.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic began at
Buffalo, N. Y, with reception to
CCmmander-in-Chie Clarkson and
parade of civic societies.
4 statement from the treasury de-
partment shows that individual 6epos-
its in national banks throughout the
country are $1O2,OOO,OOO greater than
one year ago.
Jerry Brown was hanged at Fayette-
.vllle, w. Va, for an assault on Mrs. Rad
ford last February.
The uniform law commission of the
American Bar association has prepared
a bill providing for divorce law which
will be uniform throughout the various
states.
Wiley Douglas (coioredD was lynched
by mob at Kendall. Ark, for killing
Il. T. Johnson. white man.
White caps went to the house of
Frank Smith (colored) at Abbeyville,
Ala, and shot him to death for threat
4ening to divulge the names of white
-cappers to the grand jury.
The twenty-first annual session of the
national council of the Daughters Of
liberty began in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The final effort at Pittsburgh, Pa, to
arrange plan for ending the big coal
strike proved failure and the strike
goes on.
n1ar so nm vstarone rvara in oftaDd
sance at the national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Buffalo. N. Y. on the gath, and Presi-
dent William Mckinley was the central
figure in the proceedings of the day.
Gov. Tanner has designated Septem-
her as Labor day in Illinois.
The business portion of the town of
Ina, H., was wholly destroyed by fire.
A terrific cloudburst over the central
and northern parts of New Jersey rem
dered hundreds of people homeless and
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of property.
The reports as to the condition of
The crops throughout the country show
the need of warmer weather and more
rain.
Window glass manufacturers met in
Chicago and organized trust.
New discoveries of valuable deposits
OF pearls in lakes and rivers in Arkan-
ssas have been made.
The law enacted by the last Wiscon-
sin legislature requiring the labelling
OF convict-made goods brought into
Wisconsin from other states has been
declared unconstitutional.
The National Association of EX-Pris-
,oners of War met in national conven-
t1on in Buffalo, N. Y.
Early next spring a party will be
sent out from the geological survey at
Washington to make investigation Of
gold resources in Alaska.
Over 10000 veterans. with the presi-
dent of the United States at their head.
made the triumphal march of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the encamp-
ment in Buffalo. N. Y.
The president has appointed William
n Holloway. of indianapolis. to be con-
sui general at st. Petersburg. Russia.
The twentieth annual convention Of
Che American Bar association began in
Cleveland.
Yn fire that destroyed A. H. Holmes
livery stable at Ann Arbor. Mich. 81
horses persisted.
The German pencil firm of A. W..
Faber has been fined 100000 by the
United States for undertaking its i'm
Dortations during 20 years.
Prof Willis L. Moore, of the weather
Nureau, will issue marine weather
charts for the lake region a few days
before the beginning of each month.
AL Hawkins, one of the best-known
sporting men in the west, was killed by
the closing of folding bed in Chicago.
The city of Holland, Mich, cele-
DRAFTED the fiftieth anniversary of it's
existence