The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-08
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 27th was: Wheat,
55,936,000 bushels; corn, II ,572, 900 bush
els; oats, $4,000 bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 3,556,OOO bushels.
The United States has declined to ac-
cept the agreement as to the disposition
of the Samoan islands reached by Great
Britain and Germany.
Bert Repine, of Nashville, Tenn, won
the 4S-hour bicycle race in Kansas City,
Mo-, covering distance of 961 Is miles,
which is a new record. th
Out of respect to the memory of the
late Vice President Hobart the presi-
dent and cabinet have Cancelled all So
cial engagements for the present.
Gen. Israel c. Smith, aged 60 years,
a civil war veteran, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of his gun
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The annual report of Charles G.
Dawes, comptroller of the currency,
says that the number of national banks
in operation on September 2, 1899, was
1896, with individual deposits of So,
$50, 725, 1851, an increase of $419,271,-
O55 over the same time in 1898.
State Superintendent Jackson has
decided that the Bible may be read in
the public schools in Nebraska.
Ezra Moore shot and killed Con-
stable William Smith and fatally
wounded Deputy Sheriff J. T. Conklin,
who tried to levy on an execution at
his home near Chicago Junction, o.
On the run from Boston to Hamp-
ton Roads the battleship Kentucky
broke all records for ships of her
class, the average speed being IS
knots an hour.
The Georgia legislature defeated a
bill for the disfranchisement of negroes.
After an uninterrupted career of 80
years the great publishing house of
Harper & Bros. in New York has passed
into the hands of the State Trust COM
pany with liabilities of over S., 100000.
Sixty nonunion negro laborers had a
running fight with white strikers in
Chicago and nine persons were injured.
The attempt to form company to
control all of the independent tele-
phone companies of the United States
has failed.
Commissioner Wilson, of the internal
revenue bureau, in his annual report
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1899,
shows that the receipts from all sources
aggregated S273, 4s4 ,573. an increase over
the preceding year of $102, $4,000.
1t is announced that the Pennsyl-
vania Railway company has acquired
control of the Baltimore & Ohio and
that the New York Central company
will operate the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago & st. Louis and the Chesapeake
& Ohio roads.
Elliot G. Stephenson, attorney for
Gov. Pingree and friends, has filed libel
suits against the Detroit Free Press,
with damages aggregating $4,000.
Maj. Guy Howard, who was killed in
the Philippines last October,was buried
in Omaha with military honors.
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of San
tiago province, arrived in Washington.
Samuel Coad, aged 62, a wealthy resi-
dent of Murphysboro, ILL.,, killed his
wife, aged 80, and himself. No cause is
known for the deed.
Mrs. Joseph Kessler, aged 10, was
married in st. Louis to Oscar E. Far
rar. She had been married and di-
vorced four times in five years.
Miss Margaret Quinn. of Chillicothe,
o., who married Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.. of
Baltimore, Nd, was uncertain whether
it was her husband or twin brother who
had courted her.
Joseph Gibbs and his wife died of
hydrophobia at Willsdale, Pa. They
were bitten by rabid dog about two
months ago.
During the last fiscal year officers of
the internal revenue seized 2,19O illicit
stills, and in the discharge of their
duty one officer was killed and three
wounded.
Frank Weiser, farmer, had both
arms cut off in corn-shearing machine
near Muscatine, Ia.
The president has directed that con-
gressional medal of honor be presented
to Col. j. F. Bell, Thirty-sixth United
States volunteer infantry, for distin-
guished gallantry in the Philippines.
The town of Garland, Tex, with 1000
Inhabitants, was destroyed by fire.