The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-06-09
DOMESTIC.

george hepSn1re anu HIS SOu I1tTUcIt,
aged 43 and Is respectively, were
drowned at Shady Bend, Kan, in the
Saline river.
While driving from Primghar, Ia, to
his farm between Sibley and Ocheydan
f. d. Frey, an aged man, was frozen to
death.
Constantine Kerr and Corporal Hockin,
of the mounted police, and Ernest Grun-
dy, postmaster of Duck Lake, Man.,
were shot dead near that place by In
dams.
A tally-ho, with a party of 81 persons
from the Greene Avenue Baptist church,
Brooklyn, N. Y, was struck by train
at Valley Stream and five of the young
people were killed.
The Hubbard Milling company at
Mankato, Mimi, failed for $500, 900.
Maria and Frances Butler, unmarried
sisters about so years of age, committed
suicide at their home in Lowell, Mass,
because of financial losses.
Miss Mildred Brewster, 1S years old,
shot Miss Annie Wheeler, also IS years
of age, at Montpelier, VT, and then sent
was the cause.
Snow fell at Oshkosh and other por
tons of Wisconsin and in some places
In Minnesota.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 31st uIt were: Baltimore,
.:42; Cincinnati, .676; Pittsburgh, .672;
Boston, 600; Cleveland, 567; New York,
$40; Louisville. 800; Philadelphia, ASS;
Brooklyn, .4s4; Chicago, 1888; Wash
ipgton, 300; st. Louis, .1SS.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the LIST was: Wheat,
29,S89,000 bushels; corn, 10 ,217, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 8, 100000 bushels; rye, 2,621,-
600 bushels; barley, 1, 414,OOo bushels.
The government receipts during May
were 9,797, 800 and the disbursements
were 500, 109,259, leaving the surplus
for the month $6S8,131. The deficit for
the II months of the present fiscal year
amounts to $32,273,12 1.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt decreased
$1,560,OS0 during the month of May.
1867, 1926. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $996.6S4,O52.
Samuel A. Jervis, switchman, A
years old, stabbed to death Mrs. Bertha
Johnson, aged 30 years, at New Orleans,
and then killed himself. Jealousy was
the cause.
To, 49, II IL 20 4
children were killed by an engine at a
railway crossing near Alma, Ill.
The Merchants bank at Lincoln, Neb.,
closed it's doors with liabilities of $780,
900.
Griswold & Gillet, bankers and brok-
ers in New York, have made an assign
ment with liabilities of 100000.
Five children were burned to death in
the residence of j. Fl. White, two miles
from Keystone, w. Va, during the abb
sence of their parents.
A railway engine blew up near Chris
tiansburg, w. Va, killing Joe Waskie,
engineer. Jim Gillespie, fireman, and
Flagman William Byrne.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops tHTOuSHOut INC couHIy SHo"
that cold weather has caused slow
growth.
Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the house,
received letter warning him that un-
less certain specified legislation was
promptly expedited he would be as
sassinated.
Mr.. Preston, the director of the mint,
says the production of gold in 1896 was
$53,o0o,0OO, an increase Of over $6,25O,-
900 as compared with 1895. The pro-
duction of silver was 57,700,000 fine
ounces, an increase of 100000 ounces
over 1895.
Six persons were fatally burned
and seventh trampled to death during
fire panic in a circus at Lynn, Mass.