The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-02-19

! Maggie Callard, aged IA. and Mabe:
Winters, aged ID, were drowned while
skating near Middletown. N. Y.
AS the result of quarrel near Paris,
Tex, Charles and William Walker were
killed and Jack Williams was fatally
shot. All were prosperous farmers.
! Near Dexter, O., on the Kanawha &
Michigan railroad. ten freight cars
| jumped the track and seven tramps
| were killed.
| William Fowlds, Archie Warner and
Alvin Rowley, all men with families.
were killed near Milan, O.. by the caving
/ in of the wall of an artesian well which
they were boring.
| j. z. Anderson, fruit dealer at San
Jose. CAL, failed for $4,000.
For the first time in half century
the Niagara falls on the American side
practically ran dry. The formation of
an ice gorge was the cause.
Scott jackson and Alonzo Walling
were indicted at Newport, Ky. for the
murder of Pearl Bryan, the girl found
at Fort Thomas, Ky, with her head cut
off.
| The heaviest snowstorm of the winter
visited Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Mis-
souri,.
| Twenty business places, including
the post office and bank. were burned at
Kenneth, Mo.
| Miners at Sand Run and Carbon Hill,
Ia, were said to be in a very destitute
condition.
Edwin F. Uhl qualified as ambassador
of the United States to Germany and
vacated the office of assistant secretary
of state.
A. B. Williams, until recently CASH
Ter of the Traders national bank at
| Scranton, Pa, was said to be short $751;
600 in his accounts.
A boat containing five dead men and
six barely alive was found on Dog is
land beach near Carrabelle, Fla.
The fight advertised to take place on
the 14th in Texas between Fitzslmmons
and Maher was postponed because of
the bad condition Of the !atter's eyes.
At Brown university in Providence,
Il. L., several juniors were expelled for
the remainder of the college year be-
cause of alleged dishonesty in rhetoric.
Jacob Vogel e. Sons, pork packers in
Cincinnati, have made an assignme MT
with liabilities of 100000.
Dick Wilmington, who started from
San Francisco April 5, 1895, to push a
wheelbarrow round the globe within
three years, on wager of $4,000, ar
rived in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lucket & Co.'s tobacco factory and
stemmery in GAINESVILLE, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire, consuming 100000
pounds of tobacco and causing loss
of 100000.
The Exchange bank at Jennings
burg, KY, assigned with liabilities of
$4,000 and assets of 100000.
The Baltimore Condensed Milk COM
pany and the York Canning COM
pany at York, Pa, failed with total
liabilities of 100000.
John, alias "Patsey," Harris, the muir
derer of Matthew SpruelI on July last,
was hanged at Washington in the Dis-
trict of Columbia Jail.
There were 3S1 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 14th, against 323 the
week previous and 27O in the CORE
spending period of 1895.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th ag-
gregated $9O5,345,253, against $999, $685.
400 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was 0.8.
Fire that broke out in C. G. Loaf dry
goods store at Sunfield, Mich, burned
four stores and hotel, the total loss
being 100000.
Three workmen were killed and three
fatally wounded by boiler explosion
in mill near ASHORE, N. G.
P. A. Higgins and his wife and son
and daughter all died with the measles
within few days of each other at
Brights, Ala.
Gov. Morton signed the bill passed
by the New York legislature transfer
ring the Palisades to the national gov
eminent for national park.
A negro, or a white man with his face
blackened, while robbing the residence
of Jefferson Smith at Dallas, Tex,
fatally stabbed Smith and killed his
| wife with all AK.
AT Centerville, Ia, George Jones shot
and killed his sweetheart; Leah Mar
| tin, her mother, Mrs w. j. Martin, and
then put bullet into his own head.
Mrs. Martins objections to the young
mans attentions to her daughter was
the cause.
The first annual show Of the Ma
tional Poultry association opened in
Central Market hall III Washington.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The republicans of the Sixth district
of Illinois repOnin1tpd H. ID COOka f,r