The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

burned to death in their home at Cur
winsville, Pa, during the absence OF
their parents.
Melville w. Fuller. chief justice OF the
United States supreme court, and David
j. Brewer, associate justice, have been
nominated as commissioners to serve on
the arbitration tribunal to determine
the boundary line between Venezuela
and British Guiana.
w. j. Morrison and Edward Denni-
son were blown to atoms by dyna-
mite explosion at Cygnet, o.
Thousands of cattle persisted in the
Indian territory in the recent blizzard.
Gov. Bushnell has appointed COM
mission to receive funds and build
monument to Gen. Phil IL. Sheridan at
Somerset, D.
Joseph Boxell, 25 years old, fatally
shot Miss Ora Brotherton, 16 years old,
at Dundee, Ind, and then killed him
self. 1t was a case of unrequlted love.
The two infant children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wilkie were burned to
death in their home at Linton. Ind,
during the absence of their parents.
For the last quarter of the year 1896
there was a net decrease of $33,370 in
the postal receipts throughout the
country. The total receipts were S.
CTS, 1890; the total for the correspond
ing quarter of 1895, $S,712,699.
The National board of trade at its
annual meeting in Washington declared
in favor of the gold standard and for
the establishment of consistent and
deliberatively planned financial system.
An explosion In the Smock mines at
Uniontown, Pa, killed Peter Houser
and Charles McQuister, and injured
eight other men.
The Teckensaw, a small packet ply
ing between Evansville, Ind, and Hart
ford, KY, was sunk by floating ice and
six lives were said to have been lost.
Goepper's malt house in Cincinnati
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$35O.OO0.
The First national bank of Holidays
burg, Pa, which suspended payment
December ii last. has resumed business.
Five men were killed by freight
railway station.
The Nationai Association of Manu-
facturers at it's annual meeting in Phil
adelphia adopted resolutions favoring
pl election and reciprocity.
In a collision between steamers at
New Orleans IL. p. Hester and f. Bios
SIM, newspaper reporters, were
drowned.
The National Association of Manufac-
f,,r 81 f>air n ,oI ~, To-
delphia reelected as president Theodore
C. Search. of Pennsylvania.
The Van Emster block in Bay City,
Mich, was burned and Mr.. Van Emster,
aged Sc, and Theodore During, aged IS,
persisted in the flames.
More than 1000 head of horses and
cattle persisted in Lyman county. S. D.,
in the recent blizzard.
The four children of Mrs. Lee Wade
were burned to death in their home at
Centerview. Mo-, during the absence of
their parents.
1t is announced that the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight will take place in the
state of Nevada on the 18th OF March
next.
c. K. Rash, farmer near Wayne, Neb.,
in fit of insanity Drained his wife and
three children with an ak and then
hacked the bodies to pieces.
James r. Hawkins, proprietor of the
iron works at Springfield, Mass, failed
for 100000.
Lyman j. Gage, president of the First
national bank of Chicago, was formally
rendered the treasury portfolio by
President-elect Mckinley and accepted
the same.
Morris Jackson, of Little Falls, N. Y,
shot Fred Mcintosh and Miss Ella M.
Ausman and then shot himself. Miss
Ausman's wounds were probably fatal.
Michael McDermott, an attendant,
and Joseph Hall, patient at the state
hospital for the insane in Morristown,
Pa, were killed by the cars.
A family named Norton, consisting of
father, mother and three children, were
frozen to death in their home near Mt.
Ida, Ark.
Eleven men were injured. one. Louis
Folger, fatally, by an explosion in coal
mine at Foster, la.
The recent cold snap will cost the
truck and vegetable growers of Florida
100000.
The "Tomboy" mine in Colorado has
been bought by the Rothschilds of Lon
don for 81 100000.
The Wautauga bank of Johnson City,
Tenn, closed it's doors with liabilities
of $4,000.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Goth aggregated
1901, 245,22S, against $1,042.412. 1S0 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was rs.
The senate of the legislature of Okla
homa passed bill to prohibit the max
ing of gold contracts in the territory.
There were 331 business failures in