The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-06

Sioux City, Ia, failed with Liabilities OF
S135.OOO.
The factory of the Jacksonville CO., Sew
er Pipe company was burned. the loss
being 100000.
Mrs. Elias Tucker, aged 81 years, and
her step-daughter, Mrs. William Siebel,
aged 80, were killed by an explosion Of
dynamite at Reading, Pa.
Stories are again told by passengers
arriving in Key West, Fla, from Cuba
that Antonio Maceo is not dead, but
that he is in hospital recuperating
from his wounds.
Levi p. Wyman, aged Ga, famous
restaurateur and the founder of IVY
mans sandwich depots," died in Boston
from exhaustion produced by three
weeks violent hiccoughing.
Williau, Ii" aenbcrg, q months old,
and his ten-weeks-old brother Jacob.
were suffocated by coal gas at their
home in New York.
The Bankers exchange bank at Min
neapolis, Mimi, has suspended pay
ment.
The Commercial state bank of Selma,
Ald, ClOScQ It's uOOTS Will liabilities VI
100000.
At the annual meeting in ST. Louis of
the Western Commercial Travellers as
sociation Robert b. Dula, of ST. Louis.
was elected president.
The Farmers & Merchants state bank
at Beatrice, Neb., went into voluntary
liquidation.
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels
says that he feels no apprehension over
the bank failures which have occurred
of late throughout the country.
Joseph b. McCullagh, aged "a. editor
of the Globe-Democrat. threw himself
from a window in the third story OF
his residence in ST. Louis and was
killed. He had been in poor health for
long time.
After a short absence the wife of
George Duttera returned to her home
near York, Pa. and found her three
children burned to death.
There were IA 800 commercial failures
in 1896 in the United States. against
1897 last year, with liabilities of
about $225,OOO,OOO, against $173, 1876 $50
last year.
Moses Dent and Arthur Clement were
drowned at Faribault, Mimi, while skat.
ing on thin ice.
The total number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
during 1896 is $500, as compared VITA
5,75S in 1895.
The Collinsville Qll.) zinc works,
owned by Mesker Bros, of ST. Louis,
were damaged by fire to the extent of
100000.
The total number of murders COM
mitted in the United States in 1896 was
10,052, against 10000 in 1895, and the
total number of hangings was 122,
against 1872 in 1895.
Joseph Betz, wife and child were
found dead in bed at Struthers, o., hav-
ing been asphyxiated by gas from a
stove.
In a drunken frenzy at his boarding
house near Decatur, Ga, Tom Flanagan
shot and killed Il. w. Allen and wife and
Miss Ruth Slack.
The Second national bank at Grand
Forks. N. d., closed it's doors with liza
bilities of $15O,O0O.
AS accurately as can be estimated
246,546 persons lost their lives in 1896
by disaster, accident, epidemic. war and
massacre, against 275.391 in 1895.
The five children of Jacob Vogel, of
Sandusky, o., died in ten days from
diphtheria.
Two close friends, Charles A. Weyrich,
aged "a, and Charles ID. Carpenter, aged
90, ended their lives in the Planters
hotel in ST. Louis by taking poison. No
cause is known for the deed.
Ex-Congressman Augustus W. Cutler
died at his residence in Morristown, N.
j., from the effects of a surgical opera
ton. aged 81 years.
Edward Wright (colored) was hanged
at Wilmington, Del, for killing Ida
Crummel (colored), of whom he was
jealous, on July 30, 1896.
The production of precious metals in
Colorado in 1896 was: Gold, $780,
OO0; silver, $12,05s,000. In Utah the pro-
duction was: Gold, 93,S96 fine ounces;
silver, s,728,7O fine ounces.
Helen M. Cougar, of Indiana, the
PioHccl chdhploH u PIohiDilion anu
universal suffrage, and a member of the
central committee of the national prohi-
bition party, has been expelled from
that committee.
At the capitol in Lansing Hazen S.
Pingree was inaugurated governor of
Michigan.
Frank S. Black was inaugurHted at
Albany as governor of New York.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Arthur Lingard died at Lancaster,
Pa, aged 107 years, leaving a fortune OF
So, O00, 900 and no kin.
Mrs. Lucy Aldrich died at Butler, Ind,