The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-10-19

IN active con ltI pldllOu.
Cora Smith died at Anamosa Qa.)
penitentiary from eating spiders. She
was under a life sentence for murder
ing her father.
Maj. Gen. John j. Coppinger was re-
tired as brigadier general of the reg
ular army on account of age.
Gen. Miles ordered the Fourth and
the Seventeenth regiments-both vet
Grams of Ell Caney and San Juan-to
proceed to the scene of the Indian
troubles in Minnesota.
The Tourist hotel, under construc-
ton at Tacoma, Wash, was burned,
the loss being 100000.
James J. Corbett and Tom Sharkey
have been matched to fight on Novem-
Der % before the LenoX Athletic club
in New York for purse of $4,000.
The private bank of Jacob Den
herder al iceland. Mich, wac entered
by robbers and $4,000 stolen.
President Mckinley was greeted on
his arrival in Omaha by the largest
crowd that ever filled the streets of
the city.
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triennial conclave of the Knights Tenn
plar took place in Pittsburgh, Pa, TO-
900 knights being in line.
L. S. Gates, dairy commissioner of
Iowa, was stricken with apoplexy
while addressing meeting in Omaha,
Neb., and died in Is minutes.
Gov. Tanner issued prociama ton
Wo1nocIox- nofchor
as Lafayette day in Illinois schools.
An attempt TO place negro work
men in the mines al Virden. ILL.,.
brought on a battle in which II meu
were killed and over score were bad
ly injured. Troops were ordered by
the governor to the scene.
President Mckinley addressed vast
crowd on the exposition grounds in
Omaha, his theme being Americas
achievements in peace and war.
A monument to Austin Blair. Mich
igan's war governor. was unveiled at
Lansing.
Trouble with the hostile Pillager In
dams in Minnesota was considered at
an end.
Mrs. Annie E. George was held to the
grand jury in Canton, O.. charged with
the murder of George D. saxton.
Three railway employees were
drowned near Walker, Mimi, by the
capsizing of boat.
The Vermont legislature passed
resolution memorializing congress to
restore the rank of vice admiral and
confer that title upon Rear Admiral
Dewey.
James Prall. a farmer living near
Middlebury. O.. shot his wife fatally
and then killed himself
Fire wiped out one-half the business
portion of Coloma, Mich.
Five men were killed and II injured
by an explosion of gas in colliery at
Coaldale, Pa.
j. Med. Scott & Co.. wholesale shoe
dealers in Pittsburgh, Pa, failed for
100000.
A snowstorm, the first of the season
and the earliest in the past &c years,
descended upon Chicago.
Later reports from Virden, ILL.,, say
that IA persons were killed in the re-
cent battle and % were wounded. The
militia were in control, but further
trouble was feared.
President Mckinley left Omaha for
ST. Louis and was greeted by immense
crowds at every stopping place and
made several brief speeches.
Twin sisters, Misses AIDA and Alma
Mckee were married to twin brothers,
William and Frank Brindle, at Whining
ton. O.
Adams G. Bishop, manufacturers and
wholesale dealers in paper in New
York, failed for 100000.
Mrs. Sherman, wife Of former Sec
rotary of State John Sherman, suf-
fered stroke of paralysis and was in
a very critical condition at her home
in Washington.
AT the meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa,
of the grand encampment of the
knights Templar Reuben II. Lloyd, of
San Francisco, was elected grand
master.
The doors OF the Tioga rational bank
Of Owegc. n. Y, were closed because of
a defalcatlon on the part of Eli w.
Stone, the assistant cashier
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Rev. Calvin Fairbanks. famous
throughout the world as an abolition
ist, died suddenly at his home in An
gelica, N. Y, aged SO years.
Howard Gould. third son of the late
Jay Gould. was married in New York
to Miss Viola Katharine Clemmons, n
actress, and the young man may lose
fortune of $5.00O.000 in consequence.
Colorado middle-of-the-road populists
have chosen Judge James Glynn. of
Leadville, as their nominee for governor
in the place of Simon Guggenheim. who
declined.
Rev. Elmer Yocum. the oldest Meth
odist preacher in the United States.
died at Kilbourn. Wis.,. aged 90 years.