The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-21

was killed and her betrothed, Jacob
Westover. was probably fatally hurt
in a runaway at Kalamazoo, Mich.
ACCORDING to the census just COM
pleted the population of Duluth, Mimi,
is 59,396, gain of 26,2s1 since 1890.
DURING a storm near Marshall, o.
T., Mr.. and Mrs. William House, but
lately married, were killed by light
| ming.
The shops of the Colorado Midland
railroad at Colorado City, Col, were
burned, the loss being 100000
T. ID. MARSHALL, member of the state
legislature; II. H. Coleman and R. T.
Fox, prominent residents of Vicks-
burg, Miss, were sentenced to life i'm
| prisonment for the murder of R. T.
Dinkins in quarrel.
AS THE result of family quarrels Mrs.
| William Browning, of Evansville, Ind,
shot and killed her husband and then
| blew out her own brains.
Mrs. ID. III. REYNOLDS was killed and
Mrs. S. L. Cook probably fatally hurt
by being thrown from buggy in a
runaway at Albion. Ind.
| LOUIS GIsIM, of Cleveland, O., rode
455 miles on bicycle in "a hours, beat
ing the worlds record.
Tom Robson, of Fairbury. ILL.,, at the
fair grounds in Bloomington ran 100
yards in 3-5 seconds, breaking the
worlds record.
| IT was discovered that Cinnamon
were being struggled into New York
from Havana by hundreds every
month.
E. SHERMAN's distillery at Leaven-
worth, Kan, recently built at a cost
of $110,OOo, was burned No insur-
ance.
GREAT damage was done by storm
at Chlckamauga park, near Chatta-
! nooga, Tenn. Some of the finest trees
in the park were ruined.
The town of Hindostan, Ind, was
wiped off the face of the earth by an
incendiary fire. 5r
The conference of free silver demo-
Graf is concluded it's session in Washing
ton. The address to the party urges
united action to have a white metal
declaration4t the national convention
and a candidate for president NOM
mated who is a free coinage man. A
plan of organization was also outlined
for states to carry out.
Mrs. ELEANOR Biting, who lives
near Washington, attempted to take
the lives of her seven children by
strangling them, but was prevented by
neighbors Mrs. Biting was partially
insane because of the death of her hus-
band.
EMMETT DIVERS, a negro who killed
Mrs Cain near Fulton, Mo-. a couple
of weeks ago, was taken from Jail by
mob and hanged to a railroad bridge.
A BICYCLE railroad has been incor-
porated to run from San Francisco to
Santa Cruz, 90 miles.
MRS. M. H. CASE, 90 years old, and
confined to her bed by infrmities of
age, was burned to death at her home
near Delaware, o.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
$s73, 743,725 against $976, ,215 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1870.
TwENTY-THREE men, charged with
participating in the recent assault upon
the colored people Of Spring Valley,
Ill, and with driving them from their
homes, were arrested and held for
trial
Tom WILBUR, aged 81 years, commit
ted suicide with razor at Norwich,
n. Y.
A LOG house near Arlington, Tenn,
was burned, Mrs. Callie Harrill and
two grown daughters perishing in the
flames. Foul play was suspected.
Mrs. WILLIAM HowARTH, of Newark,
N. j., and her brother, Joseph Shaw,
of New York, met after an enforced
separation of thirty years.
FIRE destroyed nearly the entire vii
lage of Ludlow Falls, 0.
The notorious Bedderly brothers,
who had long been a terror to cattle
men on account of their bold thefts of
cattle, were lynched by vigilance
committee in Buffalo County, S. D.
THERE were 1876 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 225 the week
previous and 229 in the corresponding
time in 1894
THE thirtieth annual reunion of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers
opened at Pittsburgh, Pa, with 1000
members of the brotherhood present.
The directors of the Commercial
bank in Milwaukee decided to close the
bank because of poor business.
DIR. H. r. HOLMES and DIR. r. K.
Aushland fought duel at Portland,
Ore, and both were fatally injured.
AT Stineville, Ind, David Culross
and Charles Deck fought a duel with