The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-01-22

man and lived at Gardner, Kan.
Near Fort Holmes. o. T., four outlaws
met death at the hands of vigilance
committee composed of ranchers.
The City bank in Minneapolis. Mimi,
suspended payment with liabilities of
$15O,0OO.
Seidenberg, Stieffel G. Co., cigar man
ufacturers in New York, failed for
$275. 900.
At, the meeting in Washington of the
democratic national committee it was
decided to hold the national convention
in Chicago on July7 Z.
The Irish-American bank closed its
doors at Minneapolis, MINI.
Gen. f. M. Drake was inaugurated
governor of Iowa at the state house III
Des Moines.
Fire destroyed large portion of the
business interests of Nashville, Ind.
Perkins g. Welsh, sugar importers
and exporters in New York, failed for
100000.
Gen. Ballington Booth has purchased
farm in Bergen county, N. j., to be
used as home for worn-out Salvation
Army officers.
Kahn, Schoenbrun & Co., manufac-
turers and wholesale dealers in Gne
clothing in Chicago, failed for $780, 900.
The National Dairy union in session
in Chicago elected w. II. Hatch, of Mis-
couri, as president.
Over 600 women employed by the
Westinghouse Electric company in
Pittsburgh struck because of reduction
in their wages.
The American Protective Tariff
league in annual session at New York
elected Cornelius N. Bliss president
and Wilbur F. Wakeman secretary.
White caps ordered w. NJ. Hertel to
discharge a colored employee in his fac
tory near Lima, o. He did not do so
and VII his property was burned.
The next G.. A. r. encampment of In
diana will. be held in South Bend, May
IS and IA.
Thomas Yost, aged IS, was divorced
at Burlington, Ia, and within 80 min
utes had secured license to marry
Mrs. William Frost, widow of a
Methodist minister.
Misses Minnie and Flora, aged Is
years, twin daughters of James Daven-
port, living at Fayette, Ind, died near
the same hour of typhoid fever. Dur
ing their lives they had never been
separated from each other over night.
Five masked men entered the house of
Joseph Day, an old farmer at Flynn's
Lick, Tenn, who was reputed to have
money hidden away, ard killed MIR.
Day and his wife, but failed to find the
money.
James Hansen and his wife and five
children were buried in one grave in
Oakwoods cemetery in Chicago. All
were suffocated by gas turned on by
Mr. Hansen, who had become despond-
ent over money losses.
The two children of Mrs. George
Spraggins were burned to death in their
home near Petersburg, Ind.
The Farmers national bank at Ports
mouth, O., suspended payment.
Elder S. Davis, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Monroe, La, failed for $780,
900.
Seven negro laborers who were sleep
ing in an underground camp near Will
Hams, S. c., were killed by the earth
above falling on them.
Every business house at Oakland City,
Ind, was destroyed by fire.
The tannery of William Shuttle & Co.
at Louisville, KY, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
Sixteen passengers were badly hurt
and ten others received minor injuries
in Midland Terminal railway wreck
at Victor, Col.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated LOGO, 791 ,224, against 81 ,235, $780,
SIS the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1895, was S..
Simon Wolf, chairman of the Cuban
committee at Washington, said in Bos
ton that congress would recognize the
belligerent rights of the Cubans before
February %.
There were 412 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 131 the week
previous and 37S in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The population of Oregon, according
to the census just completed by the
county assessors, is S64, 762, an increase
of about 10 per cent. over the govern
ment census of 1890.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
FL. Cannon and Arthur Brown were
nominated for the United States SEN
ate in the republican caucus in the Utah