The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-19

men five miles south OF Folsom, n. M.
Lightning caused the destruction of
half the business portion of Frews-
burg, N. Y.
The Indianapolis News was sold at
auction to Charles II. Williams and Del
AVIAN Smith for $936,000.
There were 5000 persons present at
the funeral of the six members of the
Reinhard family killed by the cars at
Columbus, o.
Frank Crager, aged SO, saloonist,
and Charles Pope, aged 27, miner,
were drowned at Pana, ILL.,, while bath
ing.
Brig. Gen. Rosser, who has just
reached Washington from Cuba, said
that mo man on the island with dol
lars worth of property ever wants to
see the United States flag pulled down"
The magnificent country residence
of William c. Whitney in Wheatly hills,
two miles from Westbury, L. L., was de-
stroyed by fire.
At the annual meeting in Los An
geles o. r. Corson, of Columbus, o.,
was elected president of the National
Educational association.
William Goings (Walla Tonehka), the
Choctaw Indian, was shot at Alikchi, l..
r., under sentence of the Choctaw
court, for murder.
Dry dock No. at the Brooklyn navy
yard caved in, causing loss of over
100000.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
of America met in Richmond, Va, in its
ninth annual convention.
Arrangements have been made with
the agricultural department for the
distribution of seed to the flood suffer
ers in the Brazos valley in Texas.
The City of Para sailed from San
Francisco for Manila with four COM
panies of infantry and two troops of
cavalry.
Attorney-General Oren, of Michigan,
says that the one cent per pound state
beet sugar law is unconstitutional.
John d. Davis and his wife, Louise
Hitchcock Davis, started from New
York for trip to San Francisco on a
gasoline automobile.
War department officials say the en-
listment of volunteers is making graft
flying progress.
Thirty thousand men, employees in the
American tin mills, are to have their
wages increased Is per cent.
The total merchandise exports of the
United States during the past fiscal
year amounted to ST, 227, 443, 425, against
$1,231 ,4S2, $50 in the fiscal year 1898. The
imports amounted to $697, 1888.
Four boys died of lockjaw at Reading,
Pa, caused by injuries received on the
Fourth of July.
Frank Mallory, of Evanston, ILL.,;
George Robley, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
and Percy Curtis, of Atlanta, Ca, were
killed and five others were seriously
injured in a railway wreck near Glen
dale, Mo.
The number of stamps, stamped en-
velopes and postal cards issued by the
post Office department in the fiscal year
ended June 80 was 5,162, O2O, 525, valued
at $92,659, 167--an increase Of $50, 701,-
555 in number and $S,466,720 in value
compared with the previous fiscal year
In and around New York 81 deaths
from lockjaw have occurred, due to
Fourth of July pistol wounds.
Gov. Scofield has issued another ap-
peal to the people of Wisconsin for adj
ditional aid for the sufferers from the
New Richmond tornado. He says $751;
900 more is needed.
William F. Draper, ambassador TO
Italy, said at Milford, Mass, that Italy
and the United States were negotiating
naturalization treaty.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
Charles Mali, for the past So years
Dolc aorS1,l No1xr Norlr diad Ii,