The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-01-15

The municipal authorities of Little
Rock, Ark. refused Robert G. Ingersoll
permission to lecture in that city.
"Uncle" Bose Mason, well-known
farmer living near Hammond's Mill,
KY, was robbed of $4,815 by three men.
The large coal breaker of Simpson q
Watkins at their Mount Lookout col
liery near Wilkesbarre, Pa. was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being 100000.
Frank Simpson and Harrison Fuller,
two negroes who assaulted Mrs. Pom
eroy and her daughter near Huron
Tenn, were lynched by a mob at Lex
ington.
AS the result Of an old feud H. Will.
liams shot and killed Bill Wells and Gus
Osborne and fatally wounded Jim Cox
in Wise county, Va.
BARLEY, Johnson & Co., distillers at
Louisville. KY. failed for 100000.
The schooner j. II. Carey, which left
Gloucester, Mass, August 20 for the
Grand Banks, with 13 persons ON board,
was given up as lost.
While taking a last look at the re-
mains of his brother James at Decatur,
ILL.,, Peter Hart, prominent citizen, fell
dead across the coffin.
The farm once owned by John Brown
in Essex county. N. Y, and where his
body now lies, has been turned over to
the state as public park.
An electric car went through bridge
at Cleveland, killing Lyman Haymaker
and William Young.
In letter President Cleveland says
thai no arrangement of any kind was
made for the disposition of the recent
bond issue to any syndicate or through
the agency of any syndicate.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 10th aggre-
gated $1,235, 652,555, against 81 900, O42,-
400 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was 1876.
Freeman Collins (colored) was hanged
at Tuskegee, Ala, for the murder of his
wife last year.
During a drunken brawl at their
home in Lynn, Mass, Mrs. Lamoire,
aged SO years, and her daughter-in-law,
Annie Lamoire, aged %, were burned to
death.
Howard & Haynie, of Duluth, owners
of one of the largest retail dry goods
houses at the head of the lakes, failed
for 100000.
Stanhope Roysler, well-to-do farm
er. shot and killed w. E. MacFartend,
wealthy resident of Boone. Ia, who
was said to have wronged Roysler's
daughter.
Eight masked men blew open the safe
of the Farmers bank at Verona, Mo-,
with dynamite, and escaped with 5000
in cash.
George H. Smith, who fatally shot
Robert Clapsaddle, his father-in law,
at Ransomville, N. Y, was pursued by
a posse of villagers and shot to death.
Abraham Smart (colored) was
lynched by mob near Monroe, L., for
numbering Calais Queer, peddier.
Pilot Medium, the celebrated stallion
owned by Walter Clark, of Battle Creek.
Mich, and valued at 100000, died sud-
denly Of Inflammation of the bowels.
There were 431 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 4o3 the week
previous and 42O in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Keene, Sutterlee & Co., one of the
largest exporting and importing firms
In Philadelphia, failed for 100000.
The supreme court of Indiana de-
cided that the county seat of Crawford
county should be removed from Leaveu-
worth to English.
A. C. Ady, dwelling house builder at
Columbus, O., failed for S4OO. 900.