The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-09-15
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.


Temperance union will hold its twenty
sixth annual convention in Seattle,
WASH. October 20-25.
The national convention of the Letter
Carriers association was formally
opened in Scranton. Pa.
Senator Carter, of Montana, in an in
terview in Washington said that in his
opinion the war in the Philippines
would be ended by January 1.
AT Greentown, Ind, James Ball, a la
borer, fatally shot his father-in-law,
Henry Murden, well-known real es-
tate and insurance man, and then killed
himself. Family trouble was the cause.
The central Porto Rican relief COM
mittee in New York has issued another
appeal to the people of the United
States on behalf of the sufferers from
the hurricane.
Ten persons.were seriously injured by
the running away of team in Burling
ton, Wis.
At meeting of the presidents cab
met President Schurman, of the Philip
pine commission, made a comprehen-
sive statement of the situation on the
islands.
Richard Kessee, in Jail at Springfield,
Mo-, under sentence of death for kill
ing Dave Shelby at Marshfield, commit
ted suicide.
The corn crop of the United States
for 1899 is estimated at 2,500,O00,O0O
bushels, breaking all previous records.
AT Bayonne, n. j., John Flanagan,
the worlds champion hammer thrower,
made a new worlds record, 1inging the
missile 1874 feet inches.
Consul Bedloe, whose status as our
representative in Canton, China, is in
question, arrived in Washington to con-
fer with the state department.
The United States and treat Britain
have about concluded a modus vivendi
covering the disputed boundary of
Alaska.
In Boston j. Mahoney broke the
worlds professional record for the one
handed 56-pound weight throw, landing
it 80 feet inches.
The hrst-class battleship Kearsarge
was given her builders trial trip at
Newport News, Va, and made maxi
mum speed of 1714 knots, showing her
to be the fastest boat in the navy.
The number of yellow fever cases at
Key West, Fla, is increasing steadily.
The doors of the Atchison national
bank of Atchison, Kan, were closed,
with liabilities of $1S9,16 Bad invest
ments caused the suspension.
The twenty-ffth annual convention
of the American Bankers association
commenced in Cleveland, o.
Gold in large quantities has been dis
covered on Lookout mountain at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
At the Hawthorne race track in Chi
cago Carnero established 4 new worlds
record for, one mile and a sixteenth, the
time being 1:45.
The amount of net gold in the United
States treasury on the 5th was $780,
246,254, exceeding all records.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 5th was: Wheat,
34,76S,O0O bushels; corn, 6,73S, 900 bush
els; oats, 5,085,0o0 bushels; rye, $685.,
600 bushels; barley, 944, bushels.
The steamer Douglas Houghton, the
largest ship on the lakes, sunk across
the channel OF ST. Mary's river at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, stopping all naviga-
ton.
Frederick Max Brookhouse was
hanged at Wethersfeld, Conn, for COM
plicity in the murder of Daniel N. S.
Lambert in Wilton, December II, 1897.
Advices from Hin OILS, Iowa. Missouri,
Nebraska and Kentucky tell of m
tense heat, the mercury ranging from
a6 degrees to 1913 degrees.
The cruiser Marblehead, Capt Colby
command, arrived in San Francisco
from her long cruise of $4,000 miles
from New York around Cape Horn.
By the capsizing of the yacht Ahadia
q Sheepscot bay at Bath, Me-, five per-
sons were drowned.
Forty thousand grand army veterans
passed in review before President Nc
Kinley at the national encampment in
Philadelphia.
The yacht Buckeye was lost off Am
herstburg, o., with six prominent To-
ledo people aboard.
The business portion of the village of
Hortonville, Wis, was burned, Is stores
being destroyed, including the post Of
fee and the bank.
Seven members Of a scientific pros
pecting company of New York died of
scurvy in Alaska.
President Mckinley and party ar
rived in Washington from the grand
army encampment.
Thirty-two rioters at Darien, Ga. were
convicted and sent to the chain gang
for year.
Fifty persons were injured in rear
end collision on the B. & 0. railroad at
Connellsville, Pc.
Extreme heat has done considerable
damage to the corn crop in Nebraska,
Iowa and Missouri.
An open switch caused wreck on
the Erie railroad at Miller's Station,
Pa, in which four men were killed.