The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-27

fire.
In San Francisco the Golden Rule
bazaar. owned by Davis Bros. failed for
$25O.Ooo.
Gus Williams, John johnson and
Archie Joiner were lynched by a mob
at Amite City. La., for the murder of the
Cotton family. five in number.
The Youths Temple of Honor, an in
surance organization in Minneapolis,
failed for 100000.
John Dacey, aged 20, and Benjamin s.
Dryman. aged "a, fought duel over
girl near Cynthiana. KY. and both were
killed.
The entire west side of the public
square at Waxahachie. Tex, was burned,
the loss being 100000.
The trump" legislature of Delaware
adjourned sine die after issuing a mani
festo declaring that the rights of the
people are continually denied in Deia-
ware.
Charles Il. Rumsey, boot and shoe
manufacturer at Lynn, Mass, failed for
100000.
Some one made an attempt to wreck
n Santa Fe passenger train near Ster-
ling, Kan, by placing ties on the track,
but fortunately no damage was done.
The Texas legislature has passed
bill prohibiting Sunday baseball play
ing in the state.
The German savings bank of Des
Moines, Ia, closed it's doors with la
bilities of $554,000.
A Southern railway express train was
held up at Bankston, Ala, by three
masked men and robbed.
Robert G. Ingersoll has given up the
practice of law in New York and here
after will devote his time entirely to the
lecture platform.
The schooner Nahum Chaplin. of Rock
land, Me-, was wrecked near Quogue
L. l., and the crew of nine men persisted
in sight of hundreds of people gathered
on the shore, who were powerless to
render any assistance.
Gov Leedy, of Kansas. has pardoned
Fl. c. Wilmoth, who was serving ten
months sentence for bigamy. Wilmoth
has wives in II cities.
Prof. John u. Dow, formerly a men,
her OF the faculty of the University of
Wisconsin, committed suicide in Madi-
son.
Alfred j. Baker and jefferson Foster
were drowned at Crisfeld, Md, by the
upsctting of boat.
William w. Stickney, one of the orig
inal '49ers, died at his home in Boston,
aged "a years.
The Cuban League Of the United
States is rganizing branch league in
every town or city in this country of
5000 or more inhabitants.
Miss Sophronia Breckenridge, daugh-
ter of Col. w. c. P. Breckenridge, has
been admitted to the bar at Frankfort,
Ky, by the court of appeals.
There were 400 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, against 453 the week
previous and 373 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
In fight at Shreveport, La. Rainey
E. Carter and S. Fl. Murphy, prominent
men. killed each other.
"Ben," horse owned by the late B.
G. Clarke, and the oldest carriage horse
in New Jersey, died at Elberon, aged AZ
years.
Four men who attempted to rob a
bank in New York were captured, tried
and sentenced to ten years each in
prison, all in less than SO hours.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated ST.
042, 412, 1s0, against $1,Ot7,s6O,662 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was SO.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes
or cigarette paper in the state.
The legislatures of Indiana and Ne
braska have taken steps toward abolish
ing the game of football in those states.
Matthias Settler died at Decatur, Ind,
after fasting, it is said. for eight
months.
The jail at Jeffersonville, Ca, was
broken open by masked men and two
negroes. William White and Charles
Forsythe. implicated in the murder of
Mrs. Rowland at Adams Park, were
taken out and hanged.
The village of Mingo Junction, O.,
was nearly wiped out by fire.
The Indiana Republican State Edi-
tcrial association in annual session in
indianapolis elected as president James
A. Kemp, of Salem.
1t was decided at a cabinet meeting
in Washington to begin foreclosure pro-
ceedings against the Pacific railroads
at once.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gov. Charles A. Culberson and Lieut..