The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-29
DOMESTIC.

The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
57,153, 900 bushels; corn, II 1885, 900 BUSH
els; oats, $3.50, 900 bushels; rye, 1,422,-
600 bushels; barley, 1891, 900 bushels.
The Illinois supreme court declared
void the anti-department store ordi-
nance of Chicago.
The cadets at the United States mill
tary academy in West Point, N. Y.,with-
out dissenting voice, have decided to
abolish hazing.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has decided to pension aged employees
of the road.
The Charles A. Voegeler company,
patent medicine manufacturers in Bal
timore, Nd, has failed.
The Michigan legislature met in spe-
cial session in Lansing to consider the
governors proposition for constitu-
tional amendment placing railways
upon the same basis for taxation as all
other property.
The Produce Exchange Trust COM
pany in New York suspended business,
with 100000 liabilities.
Admiral Sampson has been mustered
into James A. Garfield post, 1913, G. A.
r., at Palmyra, n. Y.
The proposed strawboard combine
has been abandoned.
Near Green brier, Ark, the residence
of George Roberts was burned and his
wife and two small children were ere
mated.
In a railway collision at Vincennes,
Ind, ten persons, mostly women, were
injured, one fatally.
Gen. Alger will write history of
his departments work during the
Spanish war.
Seven persons lost their lives in a ten
ement house fire in New York.
Admiral Dewey has renewed his re-
quest that the Chinese who served with
him during the battle of Manila bay be
given the right to enter the United
States free of restrictions.
The business portion of the city of
Florence, S. c.. was swept by flames.
Three men robbed the passengers on
Missouri Pacific sleeping car near
Kansas City, Kan.
DR.. Garrigues told the New York
Academy of Medicine that one person
in 200 is buried alive.
The national bank of Port Jarvis, N.
Y, closed its doors.
AT the request of Senator M. A. Han
ma the Little Consolidated street rail-
way of Cleveland, o., Of which he is
president, will distribute $4,000 among
employees as Christmas gift.
n. S. Peverill, charged with recruit
ing men for service with the British
army in South Africa, was arrested in
Rochester, N. Y.
In November 26,46O immigrants adj
rived in New York, against 1896 dur
ing the same month last year.
The main building of Buchtel college
at Akron, o.. was burned, the loss being
100000.
The supreme court of Alabama hand
ed down a decision which practically
kills horse racing in the state.
Fire destroyed the car shop of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad
at Dubuque, Ia, the loss being 100000.
The government has finally adopted
puerto Rico as the official spelling
of the name of that island.
President Henry Clay Simmons, OF
Fargo IN. d. college, dropped dead
of apoplexy.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
geek ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,000, 130,547, against $1,955,7S5,964 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1898
was 1872.
Henry lands, secretary of the Bal
timofe board of trade, committed sui
eide by jumping from a third-story
window.
Prosecuting Attorney Williams, Of
Pawnee county, while arguing a case
in court in Perry, o. T., fell dead with
heart disease.