The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-08-18
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.

Later adVlceS say that ~ persons
were killed in the trolley car accident
near Bridgeport, Conn.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
37,16G,000 bushels; corn, 10,461 900
bushels; oats, Ash 900 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
The United States transport McPher-
son, from Cuban and Porto Rican ports,
with discharged and furloughed Off
GERS and men. arrived in New York.
Later news from the scene of the dis
aster at Mount Desert Ferry, Me-, says
that 20 persons persisted.
a statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that by October 90
there will be at Manila or on the way
to the Philippines 10000 men.
At Colorado Springs, Col, William
Borden fatally shot Miss Mabel McKen-
ma because she refused to marry him
and then shot himself.
For the first time in over two weeks
the city of Cleveland, OILS practically
without military protection and the
people were again riding on the street
cars unmolested by strikers.
Troops A, ID and NJ, Third cavalry,
left Fort Myer, Va, for Seattle, en- route
to Manila.
The grape crop IN the lake shore belt
in Ohio has been almost totally de-
stroyed by dry rot, entailing loss of
S1,00O,oO0.
A race riot occurred at the Poe cotton
mills near Greenville, S. c., in which
one white man and five negroes were
badly wounded.
Salvador Praizers, an italian, shot
and killed his wife at Oil City, Pa, and
then shot himself. No cause is known
for the crime.
Robert O'Shea, of Mount Clemens,
Mich, committed suicide at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, by jumping into the Nj
agara whirlpool.
Ben Thompson, colored, 20 years
of age, was lynched at Alexandria, Va,
for attempting an assault upon Lillian
Clarke, aged eight years.
First Sergeant John Jackson was shot
and killed at Fort Douglas, Utah, by
Private w. Fl. Carter, and the latter was
arrest.
The National Steel company has con-
tracted for 300 new coke ovens in the
Connellsville (Pa.) coke regions.
Mrs. Mamie Glenn killed herself and
child with poison at Guthrie, o. T. No
cause was known for the deed.
The bureau of engraving and print
ing in Washington is printing a new So
silver certificate.
Secretary of War Root says that the
war in the Philippines from now on
will be prosecuted with all possible en-
ergy, and that all the men, all the arms
and all the supplies necessary to end
the trouble in the islands will be fur
nished at the earliest possible moment
Two sisters, Annie and Mary Crozier,
aged respectively SIS and So years, died
at the same time at their home in Phil
adelphia.
The Second Oregon regiment has been
mustered out of the service at San Fran
cisco.
Edwin D. Heidler was hanged at Erie,
Pa, for killing his brother-in-law, Levi
Kreider.
While using kerosene oil to start fires
in stoves Mrs. Catharine GAIA and her
baby and Mrs. Augusta Knitter and her
child were burned to death in Detroit,
Mich.
The business portion of Carlisle, KY,
in Market street was destroyed by fire.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of July aggre-
gates $11, 100000, and for the seven
months of the present year ST, 126, $50.
Scarcity of laborers in Minnesota, the
Dakotas and other northwestern states
is proving very damaging to various in
Gustries.
Noah Finley, negro who robbed and
attempted to kill Maj. Darst at Dublin,
Va, was sentenced to be hanged, the
jury having been notified that if such a
verdict was not rendered Finley would
be lynched.
The last company of militia left Cleve-
land, o., the authorities saying there is
little probability of any further trouble
in connection with the street car strike.
Five hundred business men of Cleve-
land held an anti-boycott meeting and
a fund of $4,000 was started to ferret
out the criminals who are dynamiting
cars and creating discord in the city.