The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-06
Robert Ward, living near Henshaw,

Robert Ward, living near Henshaw.
Ky, fatally shot his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. Mrs. Ward was at
tractive and only 20 years old. Ward
was 40 years old and jealous.
The Farmers Advocate of Malone,
n. Y, the official organ Of the Patrons
of Industry of the United States. was
placed in the hands of receiver.
The Baltimore d Ohio cannonhall ex-
press was derailed near Washington,
Pa, and Patrick Flaherty, fireman, was
killed and Henry McBurncy, engineer,
and j. NJ. Nicely, baggagemaster, were
fatally injured.
A fire among business buildings in
Quincy, ILL.,. caused loss of 100000.
At the annual congress in Richmond,
Va, of the national society of the Sons
of the American Revolution Gen. Horace
Porter, of New York, was reelected
president.
Four persons lost their lives in the
great fire at Cripple Creek, COL, 10 were
injured and % were missing. Great
distress prevailed among the people.
The village of Mayor, Mo-, was sold
at public auction to satisfy eastern cred
itors.
The 1000 miners in the bituminous
field in Indiana struck for an increase
in wages.
The great eight-hour demonstration
by the trades unions of the country
scheduled for May did not take place,
only very few strikes being reported.
The City savings bank at Hot Springs,
Ark, closed it's doors.
The twenty-second quadrennial con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church convened in Cleveland, O., with
537 delegates.
The body of ex-Secretary of State
Gresham was taken from Chicago to
Washington, where it will find a resting
place in Arlington, the national ceme-
terry.
OK. WILDER, for ten years the efficient
western passenger agent of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway,
has recently been promoted to the posi-
ton of assistant general passenger
agent of the same road, with headquar-
tiers in Chicago.
The Bank of Falkland, ILL.,, closed it's
doors with $4,000 due depositors.
Official treasury figures make the gov
eminent deficit for the ten months of
the fiscal year $23, 100.
The national bank note circulation
outstanding is 500, 1O1 ,345, an increase
during April OF s., $685.
Coinage executed at United States
minis during April aggregated $3,471.-
$40. of which gold amounted to 81 $780,
600 and silver to 81 1871. 900.
The J. L. Hudson company, clothiers
in Detroit, made an assignment with
liabilities Of 100000.
The business portion of the town of
Indianola, Miss, was destroyed by fire.
The public debt statement issued OF
the 1st showed that the debt inc1 eased
$5,545,417 during the month of April.
The cash balance in the treasury was
Ss6S, 799.556. The total debt, less the
to $94S, 2S7 $40.
The exchanges a. the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
W eek ended on the 1st aggregated $685..
1851, against 81 .012, 800 the pre-
&ious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1895,
was 1912.
Bob Ward shot and fatally wounded
bis wife, Ella Ward. and killed himself
in sawmill camp near Henshaw, Ky.
There were 23S business failures in
the United Staes in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 23S the week
previous and 231 in the corresponding
periOd of 1895