The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-03-04

Jacob Dietzel shot his daughter, Mrs.
Henry dinner, and himself at his daugh-
ter's residence in Chicago. A quarrel
was the cause.
The loss of the large three-masted
schooner Josie r. Bent, Capt. A. +.
Bent, with crew of eight men and
cargo of 1850 tons of coal, was feared
a. Philadelphia.
The bank examiner of South Dakota
announced that the First national bank
of Mitchell was solvent and would re-
open March 1.
Attorney-Genera Harmon submitted
to Postmaster-General Wilson decis-
ION to the effect that the numerous bond
and investment schemes conducted
throughout the country are lotteries
and not entitled to the privileges of the
Iuails.
The entire business portion of the
town of Florence, S. c., was wiped out
by fire.
At a meeting of the New York Yacht
club Lord Dunraven was expelled from
membership in the club by vote OF 80
to /.
Moritz Firky, wealthy farmer resid-
ing near Blue Earth City, Mimi, muir
dered his wife and committed suicide.
No cause was known.
Judge Grosscup refused to modify
the sentence in the case of Joseph Dun
lop, of Chicago, convicted of sending
improper matter through the mails,
and the two years Imprisonment in a
penitentiary and the fine of $4,000 will
stand.
During a street fight in Rome, Ca,
Policeman Mulkey was killed and ex-
Sheriff Matthews fatally wounded
At Jersey City, N. j.. John Mackin
shot and killed his wife and his mother
in-law, Bridget Connors, and fatally
wounded his father-in-law, Morris Con
Eors.
There will be no more days of grace in
Ohio, the governor having signed the
law.
A gasoline stove explosion at Eureka,
S. d., caused the destruction of Frank
Il. Puckett's house and killed Mrs.
I'uckett and two children.
Twenty-one thousand acres of land
in O'Brien county, Ia, recovered from
railway, were thrown open to settle
ment.
Charles L. Colby, of New York, aged
80, and formerly president of the Wis
consin Central Railroad company,
dropped dead at Newton, Mass.
There were 27S business failures in
in hp
ended on the 2sth, against $50 the
week previous and $50 in the CORE
spending period of 1895.
John Nelson was hanged at Palmyra,
Mo-, for the murder of John Zull and his
old mother in August, 1898.
A gallery in the casino at Fall River.
Mass, collapsed during "a polo game
and 80 persons were injured. Narcissus
Maynard, an old man, died soon after,
and seven others were thought to be IA
tally hurt.
A boiler in the establishment OF W.
II. Overholt at Frankfort, w. Va, tx
ploded, instantly killing Samuel Live
say, Kell Livesay, Woodson Ransberger.
Clowney Fersmner and Mr.. Dunbar and
lnJurlnS SIX OIneTS.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 2Sth ag-
gregated 1913, 622, 465, against $1,O92.-
244,548 the previous week. The in
crease, compared with the correspond
ing week in 1895, was 1875.
Pruitt Turner (colored) was hanged
at Van Buren,, Ark, for the murder of
Robert Hawkins February II, 1895.
Advices from Washington say that
horseless mail wagons will soon be used
in all the large cities of the United
States.
A. China Springs, Tex, julien Evans
and Henry Wilson, farmers, Who had
long nursed feud, fought with rifles
and both were killed.
Two children of Howard Allen near
Shanghai, Ind, were roasted to death in
their home where they had been LETT
alona.
In The Iowa legislature the hose de-
feated the woman suffrage bill.
Jea,ousy, prompted by his magma
ton +Ihat his fiance was untrue to him,
led Edward Peters, a Chicago printer
10 years old, to shoot and kill Flo"a Lar
big, aged II, and then to end his own
life BY sending bullet into his Irain.
The Wisconsin legislature in extra
session passed new apportionment
bill ard adjourned sine die. TIE gov
ernor signed the measure.
Fred Struenkel and two of his chill
dren were asphyxiated by coal gas in
their home near Crete, ILL.,, and Mrs.
s'truenkel and four other children were
dying from the same cause.
Alexander Rhimes. of Niles, Mich,
made application in an Indiana court