The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-24
DOMESTIC.

The wholesale dry goods house of Ely,
Walker &, Co., the largest in ST. Louis,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
Sl,00O,O0O, and George Gutewald, n fire
man, was killed and others were injured
by falling walls.
Seven tollgates were destroyed in
Mercer county, Ky, by regulators.
The Jail at Dover, Tenn, was de-
stroyed by fire and three colored prison
ers were cremated.
Chairman Dingley, of the ways and
means committee, says the new tariff
bill is expected to increase the revenue
Sl12,O00.OOO.
Secretary Sherman informed the
Spanish minister, Senior de LONE, that
this administration will insist upon
Americans in Cuba being amply pro-
tected.
In South Dakota over 600 miles Of road
have been practically abandoned for
fully two weeks because of a snow block
ade.
A train was wrecked at Wolf Creek,
nor and J. P. Meador, passenger, were
killed and six persons were injured.
John Cramer, aged Is, son of Jacob
Cramer, of Duryea, Pa, died of hydro
phobia and his father while witnessing
his sons struggles dropped dead.
The Headley Grocery company (whole-
sale) at Springfield, Mo-, failed for $780,
OGO.
PostmasterGeneral Gary says that
the administration has decided to adj
here to the four-year-tenu office
policy for all postmasters.
John O'Rourke, John Burns and An
tonic Molinaskj were fatally burned by
explosions of molten iron at the Emma
blast furnace in Cleveland, o.
For the eight months ended February
2s there has been gain of over $132,
100000 in the amount of merchandise
exported and decrease of nearly $119,-
100000 in the amount imported.
The First national bank of Sioux City,
Ia, which suspended payment Novem-
Der 10, 1896, has resumed business.
The five new state senator's, four re-
publicans and one democrat, were
sworn in by the Kentucky legislature,
and this will insure the election of re-
publican United States senator.
Charles Rodatinsky and his wife and
baby were burned to death near Omaha,
Neb., by the explosion of q gasoline
stove.
The piano and organ firm of Estey &
Camp, which has been in. business in
. Chicago for so years, has decided to re-
tire.
Gen. James NJ. Warner, aged CO, a
prominent resident of Albany, N. Y,
and postmaster under Harrison's ad-
ministration, died while attending a
theater.
Brodie Williams, the high diver,
jumped from u 75-foot tower into Lake
Worth at Palm Beach, Fla, struck the
bottom, broke his neck and died within
a few hours.
1t is generally believed by cattlemen
that Is per cent. of range animals in
North Dakota and Montana have sue
cumbed to the winter. Pierre Wibaux
a big cattIeman of Wibaux, Mont, puts
his loss at 81 100000.
The steamer de st. Nazaire, which left
New York on March 6, has gone down
somewhere off the Carolina coast, and
ss far as is known only four of the so
people who took passage on her remain
alive.
Nearly 1000 homeless and half-starved
persons rescued from the overfowed
districts of eastern Arkansas are being
cared for in Memphis, Tenn.
The United States weather bureau
says that 500 square miles of the state
of Arkansas is under water. Thou
sands of people are homeless and de-
pendent on charity and many have been
drowned.