The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-07-31


republicans will hold joint silver
convention in Birmingham in Novem-
| Der.
ROBERT E. RIVERS, principal owner
of the Pickwick and Royal hotels in
New Orleans and of half dozen sugar
plantations, failed for $33O,OOO
EMELINE G. CIGRAND and her hus-
band, Robert e. Phelps, and young
girl whose name the police refused to
divulge were the latest to be num-
bered among the supposed victims of
II. H. Holmes in Chicago. All three
have been missing more than two
years.
FIRE in Melrose. Ia, burned most of
the village.
Two NEGRO murderers, Whit Fer
rand and Anderson Brown, were exc
cuted at Salisbury, N. c., in the pres
ence of 5000 people. Each confessed
his guilt.
The Central Labor union of Cleve-
land, o., decided to boycott all grocers
and dealers who sell nonunion bread.
ADvIcEs from Wyoming say that
fifty-nine white people were killed by
the Bannock Indians near Jackson's
Hole.
ASA result of a duel at Brandenburg,
KY, Col George Robinson, a county
official, was dead, and Maj. Blood
Schacklett, county commissioner,
was fatally injured,
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. in his annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 80 says the total re-
ceipts from all sources for the year
were $l43, 245, 977, decrease of S., 922,-
All as compared with 1894.
PHILLIP NORMAN NICHOLAS was
hanged at Richmond, Va. for murder
ing William j. Wilkerson and James
Mills by drowning them.
Tom JOHNSON, a negro who murdered
Mrs. fairfield and her daughter at
Meridian, Miss, and assaulted another
daughter. was burned to the stake by
| mob.
THE secretary of the treasury direct
ed that the money paid into the treas
ury on account of the income tax be
refunded to the persons and corpora
tions respectively entitled thereto upon
the filing of the refunding claims.
S. LoFTIN, a negro, charged with as
saulting white woman in Lexington
Tex, was taken from the officers by a
mob and lynched.
TUDOR BROWN, Willie Cook, Sim
Eckols and John Armstrong, negro
desperadoes who broke Jail at Fernan-
dina, Fla, were driven into the ocean
by bloodhounds and all were drowned.
JOSEPH NoLTE, Arthur Walter and
Miss Tillie Helm were drowned in the
Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia, by
the capsizing of a boat.
THE national prohibition camp-meet-
ing commenced at Decatur, Ill.
A BILL was introduced in the Illinois
legislature for tax of per cent. upon
the gross receipts of all games of ball
and to prohibit the game on Sunday.
PROSPECTS for an enormous crop of
corn and other products throughout
the west and northwest were never
more promising.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
$726, 665, 76O, against $1,O3O,O3O,O 49 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 2O.2.
The American Mutual Home associa-
ton is the name of an organization
formed at Kansas City, Kan, to en-
courage matrimony and to cultivate a
love of home and habits of industry
and sobriety.
IT developed that the negro Bob
Haggard, who was lynched at Ford.
KY, charged with having outraged
Miss Elkin, was innocent of the crime
SECRETARY MORTON has abolished the
seed division of the agricultural de-
partment in Washington, to take effect
on the LIST of October next.
THERE were 2O2 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 256 the week
previous and 249 in the corresponding
time in 1894
JOSEPH A. BEAM was hanged at the
United States Jail at Washington for
the murder of his stepdaughter, Mrs.
Annie Leahy, last December
ADvICEs from the Indian trouble in
Wyoming say that every man, woman
and child in Jackson's Hole had been
murdered by the red men and the set
Element burned. The place had about
40 inhabitants.
EVERY day brings to light one or
more atrocious murders committed by
II. 81. Holmes, the insurance swindler.
In all, SO far as known, circumstan-
tial evidence of the strongest character
points to the man as the slayer of Julia
Connor, Gertrude Connor, Amelia CT
grand, Benjamin F. Pitzel and his
three children, Howard, Alice and
Nellie, Minnie and Alice Williams and
Miss Wild. Mrs. Patrick Quinlan
confessed in Chicago all she knew