The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-01-08

(1rarO mine at Ondu1OklH. Ia.
Two baby boys of Thomas r. Bebb
were burned to death at Palmyra, o.,
and the mother lost her reason in con-
sequence.
While asleep in their house near
Frontenac, Kan. Robert. John. William
and Archibald McFadden (brothers)
were burned to death.
Five villages, with a population of
10000 were annexed to Cincinnati, Civ
ing that city population of $4,000.
For the first time in the history of
Colorado the gold output for 1895 ex-
ceeded in value that of silver. The fig
ures are: Gold, $17.34O,4 05; silver, $14,-
$4,000.
Andrew Brown, q negro cattle thief,
was hanged by mob near WestviDe,
Miss.
The Philadelphia bourse, the first
general exchange building erected in
this country, was formally Dedicated
The public debt statement issued on
the Cd showed that the debt decreased
$1,179,349 during the month of Decem-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $17s. 200. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 947,29s,262.
Montana produced in metals about
SAT. 49, 900 during the year 1895.
Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls
went down an embankment in wagon
near Akron, o.. and were fatally in
jured.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint shows coinage exc
cuted at the minis of the United States
during December, 1895, to have been as
follows: Gold, $s,O97,14 silver, $751;
5g2; minor coins, $107 1886; total, S.
2S0.573.
Anthony Huber, William Penn and
John Strong were fatally crushed while
working in box car near Cincinnati.
The -four output at Minneapolis for
1895 was 1851, 900 barrels, the largest
ever made by 100000 barrels.
F. Nj. Vanden & Co., wholesale dealers
in liquors and tobacco at jackson,
Tenn, failed for 100000.
Albert Woodley, who murdered his
intended wife, Jennie Buchanan, on
May 2, 1894. was hanged in the yard of
the county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gov. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts,,
was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos-
ton.
The president gave his first state din
ner of the season, thus inaugurating
the social gaieties of the winter in
Washington.
In fire that destroyed the residence
of John III. Hubbard at Columbus, O., he
aid his wife and two children and Miss
Fay Hibbard and Mrs. Grace Hubbard
Lee, his two sisters, were burned to
death.
Peter Schertz, in the banking and
lumber business at Metamora, H.,
failed for 100000.
In anticipation of the expected bond
issue there was considerable business
in gold in New York at ~ per cent.
premium.
Four persons were killed, one fatally
injured, four more were missing and 81
received injuries more or less serious
as the result of an explosion in build
ing in st. Louis. The money loss was
100000.
Fire swept over ten square miles of
valuable territory in Boulder county,
Col, causing a loss Of over 100000.
The statement of the receipts and ex-
penditures of the United States shows
tkat during the month of December
the receipts aggregated $26,2sS,937 and
the expenditures amounted to 1884,
81, leaving surplus for the month of
$474,62O.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the Sd aggre-
gated 81, 1920, O42 400, against 81, 44,92S,-
2O2 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was,7.4.
The burning of the Thornton Buggy
company's house at Des Moines, Ia,
caused a loss of 100000.
There were 4O3 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 316 the week
previous and 373 in the corresponding
period OF 1895.
At Millidgeville, KY, boy named
Walters, while playing, secured a re-
volver and fatally shot his two little
cousins, two girls, aged four and eight,
and then sent ball through his own
head.
The bodies of two more men were
found in the ruins of the explosion in
st. Louis, making a total of six lives
lost.
fire that originated in the ba sement
CT Horton Donilson's furniture store in
Creston, Ia. caused loss of $150,000.
Singer & Wheeler, wholesale dealers
in drugs at Peoria, H., failed for $780,
Geo.
Fire destroyed the hammer shop of
the a merican bridge works in Chicago.