The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-12-07


elected as president Commodore G. w
Melville, of Washington.
John Gross shot and killed his daugh
ter Tillie and then shot himself dead al
his home three miles northeast of De
corah. la. His wife saved her life by
running away.
The Second national bank in Toledo
O., the oldest in the city, decided to &C
into voluntary liquidation.
The coal shipping season at lake ports
has closed, throwing several Thousand
men out of employment.
At Cameron, Wis.,, a man named Dunr
while drunk seized his new born babe
and dashed its brains out.
The Iowa diocese of the Episcopal
church elected as bishop Rev. DR.. Theo
dore N. Morrison, rector of the Epiph
any church in Chicago.
The whipping post as legal instru
ment of corporal punishment for Ger
tain classes of criminals is favored by
John G. Shortall, president of the ILL
nois Humane society.
Frederick Martin, farmer 35 years
old, living near Green Tree, Ia, shot his
wife and then himself. Four small chill
dren are left orphans.
The gold production for Colorado this
year is placed at $2S,OOO,OOO.
The township of Stevens Point, Wis.
has passed out of existence and new
township has been created named
Dewey.
A negro who killed Alexander Loiu
at Madrid, Mo-, was lynched by mob
The Oliver Mining company AT Hough-
ton, Mich, increased the wages of it's
1000 employees ten per cent.
The annual report of Gov. Brady, Of
Alaska, makes strong plea for action
on Alaska's needs at the coming session
of congress.
Hiram Biggs, farmer, and his wife
and three children lost their lives by
the burning of their home near Perry
O. T.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son in his annual report, in addition to
discussing the domestic problems, re-
views our agricultural relations in for
eign fields.
DR.. and Mrs. Darwin McIlrath, the
around-the-world bicycle tourists, after
an absence of three years and seven
months arrived in Chicago. They
travelled 10000 miles.
During the month of November the
government receipts aggregated $685.
90O,915, and expenditures $49,O90,9S
Since July the receipts have aggregated
1904, 557,O93, as compared with $145,-
1883 during the same time in 1897.
The grand Jury at Carlinville, H., in
dicted Gov. Tanner for palpabe omis-
sion of duty ard malfeasance in office n
connection with the Virden riots in Oc-
tober.
At mass meeting the students of
Princeton On. J) university passed
resolutions abolishing hazing.
Fire destroyed the Academy of Music
and adjoining property in Rochester,
n. Y, the total loss being 100000
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased
SIC, 506,5 sos during the month of Novem-
berry. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $026,117,1S2 The total debt
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts TO $1.127.473,4S7.
The state department has been adj
vised that the French government will
establish a naval attache at Washing
ton.
The coinage of the San Francisco
mint for the month of November
amounted to $4,516,250.
At Peabody. Mass, Mrs. Richard
Hurley. wife Of a gardener, murdered
two of her children, a 12-years-old
daughter and a son seven years old.
She was insane.
A decree has been issued in Paris for
bidding the admittance into France OF
fruits and plants from the United
States.
Chicago will entertain the general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in May. 1900.