The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-20
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.


Fire destroyed one-half the business
portion of the village of Shepherd,
Mich.
Admiral Dewey has chosen j. W.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the office of
the judge advocate general of the navy.
By vote of 100 to 43 the Rock River
conference in Rockford, ILL.,, went on
record in favor of removing the time
limit from the Methodist pastorate.
j. Boyd, well-known steeplechase
rider, was killed at Hawthorne race
track in Chicago by his horse turning
a somersault and crushing him.
Henry Lewis shot his wife (not fatal
ly) in Rockford, H., and then killed
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
The United States cruiser Olympia
arrived in Boston and will go into dry
dock for extensive repairs.
The United States supreme court
convened in Washington for the regu-
lar October term.
In Chicago on the 9th President Nc
Kinley officiated at the laying of the
corner stone of the new federal build
ing, among the other distinguished
guests being Vice President Mariscal,
of Mexico, and Premier Laurier, of Can
ada. In the afternoon the military and
civic parade took place and in the even
ing there was parade of all nations
and banquet at the Auditorium in
honor of the noted visitors
Mrs. w. S. Walden, of Knoxville,
Tenn, gave birth to twins in crowded
day coach of a Rock Island train near
Duncan, o. T.
Many beautiful summer cottages be-
longing to wealthy families and valued
at $15O,0O0 were burned at Mill Valley,
a San Francisco suburb.
President Mckinley talked CONNER
cial prosperity and industrial progress
to his hosts of the Commercial club on
the 10th in Chicago, was given public
reception at Memorial hall by the Army
of the Tennessee, addressed meeting
of bricklayers and stone masons, and at
1880 at night left with his party for
Evansville, Ind.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment ar
rived in San Francisco from Manila
with Brig. Gen. Fred Funston.
The first race for the Americas cup
between the Columbia and the Sham
rock was again postponed on account
of fog.
After a lockout of more than 1S
months, during which many lives were
strike has been settled.
Rear Admiral Henry L. Howison was
placed on the retired list of the navy on
account of age. He will make his resi-
dence in New York city.
In street duel in New Orleans Dom
mick O'Malley, proprietor of the Even
ing Item, and C. Harrison Parker, editor
of the Delta, both were probably fatally
wounded.
Madge Davenport, 81 years old, and
Mamie White, % years old, drank car
bolic acid in a dance hall in New York
city and died.
In dispute over business affairs
Free Hopen fatally shot his partner.
T. L. Eversole, at Hickman, KY, and
then committed suicide.
A fire which originated in a drug
store destroyed large section Of the
business portion of New Iberia, La.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
44,335, 900 bushels; corn, 14,750,000 bush
els; oats, $3.50, 100000 bushels; rye, S06,-
600 bushels; barley, 1871, 900 ushels.
Seventeen business houses in Makan-
da, ILL.,, were destroyed by an incen-
diary fire.
The total wheat crop of 1899 in the
United States is estimated at 565,350,-
900 bushels, against 715,o0o,OoO bushels
in 1898.
Six farmhouses were burned and a
large amount of hay and miles of fences
consumed by forest fires near Oconto
Falls, Wis.
Capt. Chadwick, who commanded the
cruiser New York, was presented with
a sword at Morgantown by the citi-
gems of West Virginia.
The Woman's National Industrial
league has taken the initial steps to
raise fund with which to purchase a
home in Washington for Admiral
Echley.