The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-08

During February 1892 immigrants
arrived in New York, an increase OF
about IS per cent. over the arrivals dur
ing February, 1895.
in Brooklyn IN. ~ tenement house
fire.
Reports from northern Wisconsin
told of complete snow blockade on
many railroads. The drifts were from
ten to twenty feet deep.
Thomas Brannigan, well-known
business man at Corning, o., shot his
wife fatally and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
An express on the West Pennsylvania
railway was wrecked near Freeport.
Pa, and five persons We're seriously in
jured.
Nine men were injured. three of them
fatally, by the falling of lift at mine
near Pottsville, Pa.
Jose Ramon Del Vale, prominent
Spaniard who resided in Matanzas,
Cuba, arrived with his family in Key
West, Fla, and said it was impossible
to longer endure the outrages commit
ted by the Spanish troops. He told of
many brutal deeds, and declared that
peaceful, unarlned people were ruth
lessly slaughtered and the murders
were called victories.
A fire in Brunswick, Ca, destroyed
wharves, warehouses and business
blocks valued at 100000.
President Cleveland has approved
the joint resolution authorizing Benja-
rrin Harrison to accept medals from
Spain and Brazil
April "a has been fixed as the date
for Arbor day in Ohio.
Rudolph Spreckles, president of the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar COM
pany, in his annual report states that
the worlds product of sugar this year
will probably be 100000 tons short Of
The supply of several years past.
The Iowa legislature defeated bill
to legalize the manufacture of liquor in
the state.
Maxey Cobb, treasurer of Lancaster
county, Neb., charged with embezzling
$4,000, committed suicide at Lincoln.
Continued restriction of distribution
of staple merchandise, and unsatisfac-
tory mercantile collections continued
to be the leading characteristics of gen
eral trade in the United States.
Thomas Wharton, Sunday editor of
the Philadelphia Times, fell from a
fourth-story window of the house in
which he lived and was instantly
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended Oh the Sd aggregated
1881 ,976,7ss, against ss96,s59,15s the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week In
1895, was 60.
Edward Pollen, an Illinois Central
employee at Clinton, ILL.,, shot and in
stantly killed his wife, Myrtle Pollen,
and his wife's mother, Mrs. William
and then jumped in front of
n moving train but was not fatally in
jured. Family troubles were the cause.
The quarterly statement of business
failures in the United States shows
4,031, with liabilities Of $57,425,135,
against $500 last year, with liabilities
Of $47,s13,6s3.
No. mill of the Lawrence Manufac-
turing company at Lowell, Mass, shut
down, throwing over 1000 operatives
out of work.
The statement that President Cleve-
land had written a letter declining to
be again candidate for the presidency
was said to be false.
A young negro about 1S years old
was taken from Jail at Tupelo, Miss,
by mob and lynched for attempting
TO assault a prominent white woman.
Richard Ringer, merchant at
Friend, Neb., committed suicide when
informed by doctors that he was af-
fiicted with hydrophobia.
Wade, Davis e. Co., of Plainville,
Mass, manufacturing jewelers., failed
for 100000.
The cloudburst on Little Sexton and
Buffalo creeks in Kentucky did more
damage than at first reported. Instead
Of four there were IS persons who lost
their lives.
In Montcalm county, Mich, an en-
tire family of eight persons died from
using the milk of cows afflicted with
The money order transactions
the United States during
he last quarter of 1895 beat all pre- !
7ious records in volume, the receipts |
lggregating $105,755,071.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Virginia prohibitionistsi in convention !
1t Roanoke elected delegates to the ma
.ional convention at Pittsburgh, Pa, !.
nut up state electoral ticket and !;