The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
DOMESTIC.

The Lexington savings bank of Bal
timore closed it's DOORS
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, chairman of
the appropriations committee of the
house, says the appropriations of the
Eifty-fourth congress amounted to ST.
,O43, 437,0 18, which is $49, 797,S12 more
than the appropriations for the preced-
ing congress.
Jelenke Bros. & Loeb, the largest de-
partment store in Charleston, w. Va,
failed for 100000.
The German American bank at iona
wanda, N. Y, which suspended about
ten days ago, has resumed business.
The entire village of West Boylston,
Mass, is to be destroyed to make way
for new waterworks for Boston.
Clara Rawson Jaccard died of starva-
ton in New York. In two months she
would have inherited $4,000.
In Philadelphia Capt. John D. Hart
was sentenced to two years in prison
and to pay q fine of $500 for taking part
in filibustering expedition against the
Spanish government in Cuba.
1t is said that the amount of money
involved in the inaccuracies of the books
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men while Eugene V. Debs was grand
secretary and treasurer is $4,000.
The first formal meeting of President
McKinley's cabinet was held and affairs
orf state were considered, including the
presidents message to congress.
Leslie Combs, the most noted moon
sinner in Kentucky was found dead
near Hazard with his throat cut. He is
said to have killed so men.
A train struck Orlando Howe and
two sons on .trestle near Oliphant,
Ark, instantly killing Howe and one son
and fatally wounding the other boy.
A Louisville & Nashville north-bound
mail train was held up by six masked
men near Calero, Ark, and the ex-
press car was robbed of $4,000.
Anderson e. Co.'s private bank at
Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, was Quilted by bur-
glars.
Three persons were killed and one
other fatally wounded by fire in a
apartment building in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The first official order issued by Sec
rotary Wilson, of the department of ag-
riculture, concerns the expectation of
beef to foreign countries and provides
for assurance to foreign purchasers that
they receive just what they buy.
The will of the late Cornelia V. r.
Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass, bequeaths
100000 to charity.
The Youngstown CO., council passed
n curfew ordinance, and at nine o'clock
nightly fire-alarm whistles will be blown
10 warn boys and girls IA years old and
less to go home.
A family by the name of Wilson was
drowned in Richland creek near Wash
ington, Ind, while trying to escape
from a flooded house.
Damages by freshet in the vicinity
of Bedford, Ind, will reach $2,000,000,
ALI the county roads having been washed
out and swept away and farm lands
ruined.
At Louisville, Ky, the Germania Safe
ty Vault e. Trust company made an as
signment with liabilities of $271, 900.
The one hundred and thirteenth ses-
sion of the "Mother" conference of
Methodism in America came to an end
In Baltimore.
The great strike of the metallic
miners of Leadville, COL, which has
been in progress since June 10 last, was
called off by the miners union.
The California Mortgage, Loan and
Trust company at San Diego failed for
$4,000
A cyclone mile wide struck Ralston.
o. T., and nearly every house in town
and in the path of the storm was blown
,a1swn. Many persons were wounded.