The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-05


ranging in the convict camps near
Rusk, Tex, and several deaths had oc-
CURED.
The lumber storehouse of B. C..
Pingree & Co. was burned at Lewis
ton, Me-. the loss being $4,000.
At Colville, WASH, Ad0lph Niese and
his wife were sentenced to 20 years In
the penitentiary for beating their ten
year-old son to death. Shortly after
the prisoners were placed in Jail they
committed suicide with razor.
William Trout, a barber of Maysville,
KY, has tasted 50 days except that he
drinks buttermilk.
The Union Trust company of Pitts
burgh, Pa, went into the hands OF a
receiver with liabilities of $4,000.
Relva A. Lockwood was disbarred
from practicing as an attorney or agent
before the pension bureau i'll Washing
ton because of alleged irregularities.
The national board of trade in session
1T Washington declared that legal ten
der notes should be retired from cir
culation.
During a wedding at the residence of
Albert HI. Baker near Sandusky, o.. the
floor gave way and rs persons fell into
the cellar. Mrs. H. N. Norton was fatal
ly injured, and others were badly hurt.
The supreme court Of Indiana decided
that gerrymanders for legislative pur-
poses are unconstitutional.
Johnny Morris and Bonnie Armit
were drowned while walking across the
L nd
Ind.
Richard L. Brown, wholesale grocer
at Richmond, Va, failed for 100000.
DR.. Alfred L. kennedy, one of the
most distinguished chemists in this
country, was burned to death in his
office in Philadelphia while experiment.
ing.
The war ship Helena was launched at
Newport News, Va.
Verne w. Jaynes, one of the pro-
prietors of the Daily Capitol at Pierre,
S. D., committed suicide by swallowing
morphine.
Madeline Messner, of Gibsonburg,
o., a patient at the insane asylum in
Toledo, O., committed suicide by hang
ing herself with her hair.
The South Carolina legislature re-
elected Associate Justice Pope to the
supreme bench for eight years.
Gus Thomas, the notorious Hardin
county moonshiner and murderer, was
captured and placed in Jail at Savanna,
Tenn. Thomas has murdered three
revenue officers.
Six persons were killed and nearly
a score injured, some of them fatally,
by the explosion of boiler at the works
of the Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Iron and
Nail company.
George Krout, the Wells-Fargo ex-
press agent at Colorado Springs, Col,
confessed that he stole the express
packages containing $4,000, and said
his father was innocent.
The stables on the Narragansett park
grounds at Providence, r. L., were
burned and IA valuable trotting horses
persisted in the flames.
Two brothers, Charles and Edward
Shepard, aged 10 and II years, respect
lively, broke through the Ice at Chester,
Pa, and were drowned.
DR.. w. II. Furness, aged 90, the oldest
and most prominent Unitarian divine
in the country, died at his home in
Philadelphia.
Harvey Page. his wife and two young
sons, aged three years and three
months, were burned to death in their
home in Marengo township, near Mar
shall, Mich.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 31st ult. ag-
gregated s9O,9s0,97O, against 979, 967,-
AIT the previous week. The decrease,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was Sc.
Charles Asimus, a hunchback, was
hanged at Kalama, Wash, for the MUIR
der of James Greenwood last Septem-
Der.
In an interview with Senator Jones
(Nev) Secretary Olney said that the
all that could be done to protect the in
tcrests of Hammond and other Amer i
cans in the Transvaal.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures for
January show the aggregate receipts
to be $29, $40 and the expenditures
$32, SOC, $50, leaving the deficit for the
month about $3,459,160 and for the
seven months of the present fiscal year
about $1S,853,S67.
Cashier George Barnard, of the Fort
Stanwix national bank at Rome, N. Y.
killed himself, and the bank was closed
pending an examination of it's affairs.
The boiler in the stave-mill on Will
liam Morrison's farm near Freepcrt,
o.. exploded, killing William LapoTte,
William Kiefer and Roy Vesey.
Their. were .OA business failurea in