The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-24
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.

While John Yunsk and Conrad
track near Enterprise, Pa, train ran
down and killed them both.
The Bank of Athens, Ga, was placed
in the hands of receiver.
Robert Walthour, of Atlanta, Ga,
broke the worlds professional paced
bicycle record for 5, 10 and Is miles at
Jacksonville, Fla, finishing the first
5 miles in 9:O6, the 10 miles in 1898 3-5
and the Is miles in 26:49 3-5.
On behalf of Admiral Dewey and his
officers and men Washington attor-
neys have asked the court of claims
to find that the amount of bounty
money due them is $3S2,S0O.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of
diamonds were stolen from the store
of Sigler Bros. at Cleveland, O.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
52,562,000 bushels; corn, II 900, 900 bush
els; oats, 6,7O6,OOO bushels; rye, 1851
900 bushels; barley, 2,641, 600 bushels.
Ed Grandson (colored) was hanged
at YaZoo, Miss, for the murder of Dep
uty Sheriffs Stonestreet and Everett.
Samuel Overstreet, of Guthrie, United
States district attorney for Oklahoma,
was found dead in his berth in a sleep
ing car few miles from Joliet, Ill.
The three sons of Mrs. Kate Orr, aged
eight, six and five years, were burned to
death at Detour, Mich.
1t is said that President Mckinley in
his message will urge retention of the
Philippines and immediate and stable
territorial government for Hawaii and
Porto Rico.
The seventeenth annual meeting of
the national Baptist congress opened
in Pittsburgh, Pa, with large at
tendance from all parts of the country.
A negro named Dickerson, who as
sassinated Arthur Maxwell and M. X.
Grey, was captured near Rand Lake,
Miss, by mob and shot to death.
For the ten months ended October 81
the balance of trade in favor of the
United States was 1870, S67,157.
According to the annual report of the
paymaster general it cost $13,9S3, 174 to
maintain in commission the ships in ac-
The price of brooms was advanced
more than so per cent. at a meeting in
Chicago of the National Broom Manu-
facturers' association of the United
States and Canada.
The annual report of Maj. Gen. Nell
son A. Miles, commanding the army,
says that under all circumstances and
at all times the utmost loyalty, forti-
tude and faithful performance of duty
have been manifested on the part of the
troops in the foreign service.
Surgeon General Sternberg's annual
report says that from May /, 1898, to
June 30, 1890, 6,619 American soldiers
have died, of whom 400 were killed in
battle.
A. j. Whiteman, Frank Edmunds,
John Thompson, Robert j. Knox and
Charles Ward, probably the most dar-
ing and successful gang of bank swind-
lers in the country, were arrested in
New York.
Harry Hatfield, lightweight boxer
who was knocked out by Jack Fox in
prize fight in New York, died of his in
juries.
Fire in business block in Chicago
caused loss of over $150,000 and sew
eral persons were injured by an explo-
sion.
"Major" Taylor smashed the worlds
bicycle record for the paced mile in
Chicago, setting the new mark at 10
Congressman Henderson, next speak
er of the house, announces the appoint
ment of Jules c. Richards, of Waterloo,
Ia, as private secretary.
The town of Troy, Kan, was almost
wiped out by fire.
The thirty-third annual session of
the national grange convened in Spring
field, o., with &c states represented.
News from Cape Nome says that at
least seven men lost their lives while
stampeding to the new gold fields at
Cape York.
The Tennessee regiment will be mus
tered out of service on November %.
This will end the service of state volun
teers called out for the Spanish war.
James Monroe, who has, the police
say, 26 wives and many aliases, is in Jail
at Rochester, N. Y.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,75o,oo0
additional to the Carnegie institute in
Pittsburgh, Pa.