The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-10

The public debt statement issued on
the list shows that the debt decreased
$2,276,1 9S during the month of October.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$1,O25, 15s,S49. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,O46, 100000.
The transport City of Puebla arrived
in San Francisco from Manila with
troops. Seven volunteers died on the
voyage.
Gov. Murphy, of Arizona, says the ter
ritory will ask for admission to state
hood when congress meets.
Slosson won the professional billiard
match with Schaefer at Madison Square
garden in New York.
Judge John C. Long, of Florida, has
been appointed diplomatic agent and
consul general at Cairo, Egypt.
The state department has been in
formed of the arrival at Reval, Russia,
of the first steamer with American In
dian corn.
The Philippine commission in
preliminary report to the president
says that the natives are not at present
fitted for self-government, that inter
necine warfare would result if the
United States should withdraw, and
that there is no course open except to
prosecute the war until the insurgents
are reduced TO submission.
John Balm & Sons livery stable was
destroyed by fire at Boone, Ia, and rs
horses were cremated.
During October more than 20.0O0,OOO
pieces of money were coined at the mint
in Philadelphia, representing a total
value of $3.263, 563.26.
Chief Examiner Server, of the civil
service commission, in his annual report
says 4S,503 persons were examined for
entrance to the government service and
not quite Is per cent. of the candidates
passed.
Albert Sloss, negro, was lynched by
a mob near CORTLAND, Ala, for criminai
assault on Mrs. w. E. Bussey.
Burglars robbed the state bank at
Chiffon, Wis.,, of $4,000.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment was
given royal welcome in Topeka and
Gen. Funston was presented with fine
sword.
Criticism of his speeches led to the
resignation of c.. d. Heron from the
faculty of Iowa college at Grinnell.
John Ovens three small children were
burned to death at Rowan, Ia, while
their parents were away.
The schooner Chiquita went ashore
near Miller's Station, Ind, and Capt.
ID. 5. Way and three sailors persisted.
A. Fl. Patterson, a railway employee,
killed his wife and then took his own
life in hotel in Chicago. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
1t is said that a colonial bureau will
be established to take charge of all mat
tiers pertaining to the outlying depend
encies of the United States.
The private banking firm of Wood
bury & Moulton at Rutland, Me-, mad
an assignment with liabilities of $780,
600.
Efforts 10 combine all the threshing
machine manufactures in the United
States in one organization have failed.
Levi r. Doty, a Chicago coal mer-
chant and capitalist, filed petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of $5OOO,-
600 and assets of 100000.
The annual report of Rear Admiral
A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau
of navigation, says that the number of
men and apprentices in service on June
80 was 14,501.
J. o. Russell, an old resident of Mani
tou Park, Col, was caught in blizzard
and frozen to death.
The project for national university
at Washington was discussed in that.
city by college presidents.