The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-06
A WEEKS RECORD
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The eighth annual session of the ma
tional irrigation congress began in Mis-
soula, Mont.
Dispatches from Calumet and Hough-
ton, Mich, say the first snow of the sea-
son fell at those places.
Medical Director j. Rufus Tryon has
been placed on the retired list of the
navy on account of age.
The marriage of Miss Julia Dent Grant
and Prince Cantacuzene, according to
the rites of the Protestant Episcopal
church, took place at Newport, r. l.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 25th was: Wheat,
39,72S, 900 bushels; corn, s,s50,O00 bush
els; oats, 6,3S3,OOO bushels; rye, $780,
600 bushels; barley, $50, 900 bushels.
A boiler explosion in gin mill at
Pottsboro, Tex, killed Grant Gordon,
Num- Steele and boy named Jones.
John Carson, farmer, aged 65, OF
Newton Falls, o., was stung to death by
bees.
D. P. Hearn and ]. P. Hearn (broth-
ers), and Penn Hearn, were killed by
the explosion of a boiler at Palmetto,
Ga.
II. J. Schloss, manufacturer of cloth
ing, filed petition in bankruptcy in
New York with liabilities of $735, 162;
no assets.
Thomas Ken, aged II, died in Meri-
den, Conn, from injuries received in a
football game.
The life-size white marble statue of
the late Gov. Oliver P. Morton, of Indi-
ana, was unveiled in Statuary hall at
the capitol in Washington.
The battleship Kearsarge on her Of
fetal speed trial over the Cape Ann
course averaged 1854 knots per hour.
The flagship Olympia, with Admiral
Sandy Hook four months and six days
after sailing from Manila. Although
the admiral arrived two days ahead of
his schedule, he explained it by saying
he lad made it a custom in life to try
TO be two or three days ahead instead
of an hour behind. The shore forts
doomed out a salute to the warship
and her commander, and during the day
Admiral Sampson and others of promi-
Admiral Dewey and gave him a warm
welcome.
The first annual carnival in Spring
field, ILL.,, given under the auspices of
the Carnival association, was witnessed
by $4,000 people.
1t has been definitely determined by
the government to create four military
departments in the Philippines.
Thousands of horses in Chicago are
laid up with the pink eye.
Fifty youths, representing the best
families in Denver, Col, were placed
in Jail on account of riotous conduct in
the streets.
The twenty-eighth reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
began in Detroit, Mich.
The Cuban agitators in Havana were
warned by Gen. Ludlow that any vio-
lence that may attend the threatened
strike will be promptly crushed by the
United States.
The treasury secret service has found
n new issue of an old counterfeit two
dollar treasury note, portrait of Nc
Pherson.
Leonard B. Imboden, president of
the Planters bank in Kansas City, Mo-,
was sentenced to ten years in the peni-
tertiary for forgery.
Three men were killed and several
injured in a collision of New York
Central train near Auburn, N. Y.
Will Otis (colored) was lynched by
mob near Rawl Springs, Miss.
Amid the laundering of cannon and
thousands df shrieking whistles Ad-
miral Dewey and the Olympia ran the
forts in the lower bay and sailed along
the Staten island coast to the head of
the fleet of warships that will make up
the grand naval parade in his honor.
Early in the morning Rear Admiral
Howison, commander of the South At
lantic squadron, arrived from South
Africa on his flagship, the Chicago.
During the day Admiral Dewey received
numerous callers. among them being
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy Allen,
with a welcome from President McKin-
lev. The admiral visited the Brooklyn
navy yard, and was warmly greeted. In
the evening New York harbor was bril-
liantly illuminated.