The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-15

Fire at Savannah, Ca, destroyed the
building occupied by the Savannah
Grocery company, the loss being
$4,000.
Maude and Mary Campbell were
burned to death in their home at New
Cumberland, w. Va, their clothes TAX
ing fire from CRATE.
The heaviest April snow within the
memory of the earliest inhabitant fell
at Bloomington and other Illinois
towns.
The cotton mills at Douglassville, Ca,
were burned. the loss being $125,000
The British ship Blairmore, while
riding at anchor in the bay at San Fran
cisco, was struck by violent squall and
capsized and six seamen lost their lives.
Fire destroyed the business center OF
Lyons, o.
At the depot in Millican. Tex, John
Brooks shot and killed his daughter,
Mollie Brooks, and also shot her lover,
A. C. Worrels, as they were about to
elope, and then sat down on box OF
dynamite, which he exploded and blew
himself to atoms.
The new ST. Louis directory gives that
city an estimated population of GIL, 26S,
an increase of 145,O59 since 1890.
The state of Ohio on and after July
next will inflict capital punishment by
electricity.
In central and southern Kansas there
90 i, ~.oparol monument of trarnDS iowa rd
the mining districts of Colorado.
George Owens, an ex-soldier, cut the
throat of Cora Barton in Leavenwortb,
Kan, because she refused to marry him,
and afterward committed suicide.
1t was reported that two whites and
Is blacks were killed in riot at the
polls in Mallet, La.
Samuel T.. Langdon, who was held in
Philadelphia on suspicion of being inn
plicated in the death of Annie j. Nc
Grath, was discharged from custody.
Potatoes were selling at two cents a
bushel in western New York, and in
some places farmers were giving them
away to get rid of them.
Harrison, Townsend & Co., carpet
manufacturers at Norristown, Pa,
made an assignment in consequence of
the general trade depression.
It was reported that President Cleve-
urging Spain to submit the Cuban
question to mediation, and offering the
good offices of our government to aid
in restoring peace.
A non-political tariff convention Will
be held in Detroit, Mich, May &c, to
discuss ways and means for taking the
tariff question out of partisan politics
and making it a business question.
Hall G. Garrison, manufacturers of
picture frames in Philadelphia, failed
for S25O,OOO.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
$926, 2O,255, against 1881 ,976,7Ss the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was CO.
Capt. James Watts, a prominent cit
izen and veteran of the late war, was
organizing a company at Lebanon, Ind,
to go to Cuba to assist the insurgents.
There were 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 259 the week
previous and 207 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Crazed by financial difficulties, S. r.
Minshall, prominent insurance man
at Pentwater, Mich, assassinated Will
liam B. o. Sands, a wealthy lumber
dealer; then went to his home and
killed his wife and three children, and
after that blew out his own brains.
The volume of business has not in
creased throughout the country nor
have prices appreciably advanced since
April 1, when the range for all commodi-
ties was the lowest ever known in this
country.
Counterfeit quarters were in circula-
ton in Elwood, Ind. in large quantities.
Arthur Schneider, 20 years of age,
was hanged in New Orleans for the MUIR
der of Herman Schroeder, his rival in
love.
Capt. John Faunce and his son, Percy,
of Washington, were drowned with their
crew of seven colored men by the capsiz-
ing of boat near Cape Henry, Va.
The schooner Otello, which sailed
from Boston February Is for Savannah,
was given up for lost with it's crew OF
seven men.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The republicans elected their entire
| tickets in the towns of Evanston, Lake
View, Jefferson, Cicero, Lake and Hyde