The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-11-17
all 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.

to prepare plans for celebrating the
centennial anniversary of the establish
ment of the national capital at Wash
ington.
The trial in New York of the Holland
submarine torpedo boat was success.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
51,001 900 bushels; corn, IL, 49,, 000 bush
els; oats, 6,963,000 bushels; rye, 1,127,-
900 bushels; barley, 3,S5s,000 bushels.
Tom Sharkey has posted forfeit of
$4,000 in New York to bind articles of
agreement for a second fight with Jim
Jeffries.
Hunter johnson, while hunting in
Pearl river swamp near Jackson, Miss,
discovered an iron box containing near
ly $4,000 in gold.
G. II. Wishman and his bride of q
week were waylaid and probably fatal
ly shot in Chicago by Wishman's di-
vorced wife, Leona j. Lay.
-Four men were fatally burned by an
explosion of rubber cement in ST. Louis.
The auditor of the post office depart
ment in his annual report shows that
during the last year the number of post
offices in the United States increased
from 1876 to 74,3S4. The postal rev.
enues were $95, O21 1884 and the eXpendi
lures SOL, 435 ,269, leaving deficit of &c.
413.SS5.
The pastor of the Methodist church in
Ebeneezer, Ind, preached from the text,
''Do away with the old and build anew"
The next day the church burned.
A passenger train on the Illinois Gen.
trail road jumped the track at Sena-
tobia, Miss, and Jack Barnett, fireman,
and Dave Dorring, engineer, were killed
and Baggagemaster Mott seriously in
jured.
The Fifty-frst Iowa volunteers re-
turned to their native state after serv-
ice in the Philippines and received a
royal welcome.
Five masked men entered the home
of Daniel Wilson, an aged farmer at
Rural Village, Pa, and took $1,700 in
gold.
Ex-Gov. and Mrs. John S. Pillsbury
have presented to the home for chill
dren and aged women in Minneapolis
100000 as q permanent endowment
fund.
George May, leading lawyer of
Warsaw, Ind, was found dead in his
bed. Heart disease was the cause.
The report of Paymaster General
Bates, of the army, shows expendi-
ture during the last fiscal year of
S71,57O,026.
The arch of a new cellar caved in at
Bonneville, Mo-, killing Charles W.
Kaiser, Ezra Mullen and W. Ledger
wood
The Dekalb GILL; post Office was
broken open and $4,000 in stamps and
money taken.
Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia
went out of commission at the Charles
town navy yard.
Gen. Ludlow, governor of Havana,
who arrived in New York on vacation,
says the Cubans now recognize Amer
lean purposes and are friendly.
Fifteen persons were killed and IL
wounded throughout Kentucky, due to
election troubles.
Trains collded near Kokomo, Ind,
and 20 persons were injured some
probably fatally.
The New York board of trade favors
a cabinet department of commerce and
manufactures.
Several German textile manufacture
ers will establish factories in the
United States.
w. X. Vanderbilt is reported to be
the chief factor in $75,OOo,oO0 auto
mobile trust.
Fire destroyed the store of Altman
e. Putnam, milliners and dry goods
merchants in Massillon, o., the loss
being $250,000.
Great quantities Of counterfeit half
dollars and quarters are in circulation
in st. Joseph, Mich.
An agreement between the United
States, Great Britain and Germany to
the partition of the Samoan group of
islands marks the close of a long-stanG-
ing source of international contro-
versy.
w. A. Eddy, New York kite expert,
has invented a system of wireless teleg-
raphy between kites, using electricity
in air, instead of batteries.
James Macarthur, miner, was ar
rested in Lead, S. D., for an alleged
triple murder in Oregon "a years ago.
Lord Pauncefote, British AMBASSADOR
to the United States, arrived in New
York.
Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mil
dred Hazen were married privately in
the rectory of ST. Paul's Catholic
church in Washington by Rev. Father
James F. Mackin, the pastor, assisted by
Rev. Sidney S. Hurlbut and Rev. Joseph
A. Foley.
Admiral Schley has received final or
ders from the navy department to hoist
his flag on the Chicago at New York on
the 18th inst, assuming command of
the South Atlantic station.