The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-03
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 visible supply of grain in the
United States on the ed was: Wheat,
1855 900 bushels; corn, 14,099, 900 bush
els; oats, 6,742, 900 bushels; rye, 1861
900 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
The annual report of the money or
der system of the post office department
shows total issue during the year
amounting to $224,95S,3 1868, an increase
of $50, So, 492 over last year.
The famous stallion Star Pointer has
been taken off the track permanently
by his owner, w. j. White, because of
an injury to one of the great PAGERS
legs.
In fit of jealousy John Franklin,
miner, killed his wife and himself at
Pinckney. Ala.
Walker Davidson shot and killed his
young wife at Alley, Va, and then shot
himself. No cause was known.
Col. Charles DENLY and Prof. Worces-
ter, of the Philippine commission, have
arrived in Washington.
The directors of the New York Cen
trail & Hudson River railroad authorized
an increase of the capital stock of the
road from $1O0,O00,000 to 100000.
The Citizens state bank of Sioux Cen
ter, Ia, has lost its cashier and $11, 150.
The First Montana volunteers arrived
at Butte and were given rousing well
come.
Twenty girls escaped from the state
industrial school for girls at Mitchell
vile, Ia, but were recaptured.
In wreck on the Wabash road near
Wabash, Ind, Engineer Mosher was
killed and three other men were in
jured.
Juan Garcia, a Cuban, killed his sweet
heart, Miss Bessie Mahoney, daughter
of a prominent publisher in Peoria, ILL.,,
and then killed himself. Refusal of the
girls parents to allow marriage was the
cause.
Thomas Apple, aged about 60 years.
shot and killed his recently divorced
wife at Inwood, Ind, and then killed
himself.
Nebraska's corn crop for 1899 aggre
gates IA, 125,093 bushels, exceeding all
records.
Murray Gilbert. well-known must
clan, shot and killed jamie Hall, aged
%, and then blew out his own brains in
Paducah, Ky. Jealousy prompted the
deed.
The quartermaster generals depart
ment in Washington is preparing to
ship to Manila supplies worth about
S1,5O0,0e0.
George W. Chapman, aged 10, a dea-
con of fremont temple and one of the
best known Baptist laymen in the coun
try, dropped dead on fremont street in
Boston.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union in national convention at Seattle,
Wash, adopted resolutions protesting
against President McKinley's policy in
the Philippines and reelected Mrs. L.
NJ. N. Stevens, of Maine, president.
Five more men have been killed in
the r-Griffin-Philpot feud, and ter
ror reigns in Clay county, Ky. Judge
Eversole has fled from the county seat,
fearing to hold court, and the governor
has been asked to send troops.
Rear Admiral Sampson, commandant
at the Charlestown navy yard was given
reception and banquet by the board
of trade in Boston.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Gen. Ludlow,
governor of Havana, arrived in New
York from Cuba.
Alexander Jester was indicted at
Paris, Mo-, for the murder of Gilbert
Gates % years ago.
On her trial trip at Bath, Me-, the
new torpedo boat Dahlgren made 81
knots an hour, showing her to be the
fastest boat of her kind in the world.
John D. Rockefeller has given $685.
600 to the city of Cleveland, o., for park
improvements.
Postmaster Ira C. Crawford died at
his home in Dayton, o., from injuries
received in a fall.
Martin White, chief of police of the
city of Omaha, Neb., dropped dead in
hotel.
The National Association of State Ii
brarians began its second annual con-
vention at indianapolis.
The Georgia Legislature met in regu-
lar session in Atlanta, and in his mes
sage Gov. Gambler said that while edu-
cation had decreased illiteracy among
the negroes, crime had increased.
The house purchased for Admiral
Dewey in Washington by popular sub
scription has been formally turned over
to him by United States Treasurer Rob-
erts.
At Trenton Admiral Sampson was
presented by Gov. Voorhees,, on behalf
of the state of New Jersey, with fine
sword as token of high esteem.
President Mckinley has issued proc
lamation setting apart November 80 as
Thanksgiving day.
The Twenty-sixth infantry arrived in
Manila on the transport Grant and
sailed for Iloilo without disembarking.
The insurgents have returned to the vi
cinity of Calamba.
DR.. 3. Ide Wheeler was formally
inaugurated president of the University
of California at Oakland.