The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-29
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


lands station, Rockaway Beach, N. Y.
President Mckinley has been present
ed with a gavel made from timbers of
the Spanish fort at Guantanamo bay.
Cuba.
The seventy-fifth annual meeting of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fell
lows of America began in Detroit,
Mich.
Twenty-seven white miners have been
arrested at Carterville, ILL.,, charged with
the recent shooting of seven negroes.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
39,2SS,000 bushels; corn, S,107, 900 bush
els; oats, 6,52S,O0O bushels; rye, 627,-
600 bushels; barley, GIG, 900 bushels.
Nearly the entire business portion of
the village of Farnham, N. Y, was de-
struyed by fire.
Gov. Roosevelt issued proclamation
setting apart Friday and Saturday, Sep
TENDER 80 and 80, as holidays in New
York in honor of the return of Admiral
George Dewey to the United States.
Up to the 18th there had been 362
cases of yellow fever at Key West, Fla,
and II deaths.
The Chinese government has lodged
with the state department an emphatic
protest against the military order of
Gen. Otis excluding Chinese from the
Philippines.
r. F. McClannanin, aged 65, we'll
known actor, fell dead at the supper
table of a hotel in Hartford, Conn.
Sheriff II. F. Farley, of Monterey
CAL, by George Caesar, desperate.
The United States transport Buford
reached New York from Cienfuegos
and Havana with COS soldiers.
A block of business buildings was
burned in Los Angeles, CAL, the loss be-
ing 100000.
The First national bank of Penn Yam,
n. Y, closed its doors with liabilities of
$4,000.
Princeton university at Princeton, N
j., entered upon its one hundred and
fifty-third year.
The Chickasaw legislature, in session
at Tishomingo, 1. T., passed bill rails
ing the fee for marriage licenses from
$50 to $1,000. The measure is aimed at
white men.
The supreme court of Michigan has
decided the oleomargarine coloring law
passed by the legislature in 1897 is I'M
constitutional.
Forest fires were doing immense dam
age in the Adirondack forests in New
York.
The coal miners strike in the Chi
cago & Alton district, which began last
April, has been declared off.
Rev. DR.. l.. NJ. Kuhns, aged 70, one
of the best-known preachers of the
Lutheran church in the west, dropped
dead at the exposition grounds in
Omaha.
Through the benefcence of Edward
Tuck, of New York, the endowment
fund of Dartmouth college in Hanover,
N. H, has been increased 100000.
The third annual convention of the
League of American Municipalities
opened in Syracuse, N. Y, with 400
delegates in attendance.
Theodore B. Basselin's large sawmill
at Castorland, N. Y, and ten acres of
lumber were burned, causing a loss of
$250,0O0.
Fred E. Harvey, correspondence clerk
of the Preston national bank in Detroit,
confessed to embezzling 900.
AS result of a domestic quarrel Jud-
son Herrendeen was fatally shot by his
wife in Port Huron, Mich, who after
ward shot herself fatally.
Fred j. Hilbert, cashier of the Bank of
Palatine at Palatine, ILL.,, was MORALLY
wounded with a hammer by Walter
Lawton, who was shot fatally by an ac-
dental discharge of his own pistol.
The Davidson Investment company
of Wichita, Kan, has failed, owing $780,
600.
At Williamson, w. Va, Elias Hatfield,
who killed III. E. Ellis, was sentenced
to IL years in the penitentiary.
The handsome $4,000 stone edifice of
the First Congregational church in Bur-
lington, Ia, was Quilted by fire.
Elijah Hall shot and killed his father,
Henry Hall, in Pike county, Kentucky,
for abusing his mother.
The Ridgway (Pa.) tannery, belong
ing to the Elk Tanning company, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being 100000.
Four persons were killed and four
others injured in collision between
trains IS miles southeast of Kansas
City, Mo.
The 113 Indiana monuments and
markers and the Wilder brigade monu-
ment at Chickamauga park, near Chat
tanooga, Tenn, were dedicated in the
presence of 10000 people. Gov. Mount,
of Indiana, made the address.
John L. Hanna, chief of police at Dali
ton, Ga, was shot and killed by three
moonshiners whom he was trying to ar
rest.
During the month of August the re-
ceipts of internal revenue amounted to
$24,240,9S0, an increase as compared
with August last year of S., 949,4s2