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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Badly Burned.

Franklin-Mrs. A. J. Olin received
painful burns while cleaning a gaso-
line stove. She was pouring fresh
supply from a five-gallon can, which
was partly filled, into small vessel,
when the fluid became ignited by com.
ing in contact with a heated stove,
causing an explosion and setting fire
to Mrs. Olin's dress. Her hair was
singed and her face, hands and other
parts of her body were severely
burned. She ran out Of doors and
neighbors helped her to smother the
flames in her clothing. An infant
child was sleeping in a baby carriage
close by, but when the vehicle took
fire the baby was rescued uninjured
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Forgery Charged.

ochester-Charged with a series of
bold forgeries, Mrs. Aimee Lloyd, OF
San Francisco, twenty-five years old
and endowed with a charming person
atty, is a prisoner in the county jail.
Mrs. Lloyd was Miss Sickle before her
marriage and was well known here
during her childhood and early girl
hood. She is unusually pretty.
Several days ago Mrs. Lloyd came to
Rochester from the West. She had
not been in this city for ten years,
and her old friends gave her cordial
welcome.
She made numerous purchases about
town, and it is in connection with
these transactions that it is alleged
the laws were transgressed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
NEGRO LYNcHED IN ALABAMA.
Result of Murder of Police Official at
Talladesa.

Talladega, Ala, Nov. 4.-As a re-
suit of the murder of Tom Thompson,
assistant chief of police, here Satur-
day night, Fred Singleton, negro,
was riddled with bullets by a posse
early Sunday. In the shooting, Po-
liceman Orwell, who was member of
the posse, was shot in the leg. Two
other negroes implicated In the kill
ing of Thompson were caught and
placed in the Jail at Sylacauga for
safe keeping.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Brilliant Kate Chase.

While United States senator he mar
ried Katherine Chase famed as Kate
Chase, the beautiful daughter of Sal
mon P. Chase, Lincoln's secretary of
the treasury. With this brilliant mar
riage began the social career which
sent the name Of ChaseSprague to the
greater salons of Europe and America.
Kate Chase in that day was account
ed the most brilliant woman in the So
ciety of her own country. She was
beautiful, she was diplomat of mar
velous methods, the homage of the
greatest statesmen of that time was
hers, she was the queenly leader of
Washington's social and official life.
And what was her quest? The older
generation will recall the plot and the
Interpreting of those years to make
Salmon P. Chase president of the
United States. The fact that this great
ambition of daughter was never graf
flied was probably the precursor Of
that adverse fate which has relent-
lessly pursued and gnawed the heart
of every Sprague ambition felt since
that time.
Early in her married life Kate Chase
Sprague built Canonchet, on an estate
of $50 acres at Narragansett pier
The house was at that time
the grandest mansion on the
coast 1t stands on the favorite
camping ground of Canonchet, chief of
the Narragansett tribe of Indians. 1t
cost a million dollars. It's furnishings
were brought from the stores of many
countries. 1t is a palace within,
strangely, voluptuously featured, a
labyrinth of halls, hooks, salons,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08

and made her debut with the Boston
Symphony orchestra. Among other
numbers she sang the suicide aria
from the opera "Gioconda." Boston
critics caused Mrs. Sprague to quit
her proposed tour and return to
France. Defeat lay in ambush wher-
ever Sprague ventured forth. That
same year Mrs. Kate Chase died in
poverty in Washington.
There was, for instance, the case of
Orestes Alvord Weed, brother of Mrs.
Inez Sprague and her sister Mrs. Gerrit
S. Wheaton, who, in 1903 eloped with
Miss Katherine D. de Roulhac, of New
York. Last year young Weed was
found dead at the Grand Union hotel
in New York from morphine poison
ing. His young widow and two hand
some children are all that remain Of
his little Households household
founded after many affairs of the
heart in which young Weed was the
debonair hero.
Five years ago Gerrit S. Wheaton
died and left his large interest in
Standard Oil to his young widow, sis
ter of Mrs. Inez Sprague, one time
wife of Willie Sprague, and mother
of Inez Sprague the second. The lat
ter was beautiful girl. And she has
just blasted the great hopes of the
little war governor" and his wife, by
clipping with Harry Williams Stiness,
son of Chief Justice John H. Stiness,
Sprague's implacable enemy in the
Rhode Island supreme court, between
whose family and the clan Sprague
feud has existed since 1874.
Marriage Promised Much.
Many had courted the girl. Finally
last year, when she was 81, she be-
came engaged to young Winpenny,
member of prominent Pennsylvania
family. By this marriage, the
Wheaton fortune, coupled with Canon
Chef and its acres, might yet make the
score even between the Spragues and
their enemies.
But fate was against it.
One day last spring Miss Inez an.
nounced the breaking of her engage
ment to Mr.. Winpenny. On a day in
June she left Canonchet to go shop
ping in Providence. There on June
Il, at st. Stephens church, she mar
ried Harry Williams Stiness without
previous announcement. Rev. Her
bert Barker performed the ceremony
w. G. Rhoades and Wurst White were
witnesses. The spirited young lady
was not to be bothered with the forms
and frills of conventional marriage
1t is merely matter of theory that
the acquisition of husband on her
shopping tour was the item of chief
concern to Miss Inez. There was a
new hat, for instance.
And because of it Canonchet goes
under the hammer at once. The
Spragues are to quit Rhode Island and
America forever.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Fairbanks Calls on President.

Washington, Nov. 5.-Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks paid his respects to
President Roosevelt. Monday. He said
that with Mrs. Fairbanks he had come
to Washington to remain for the ses-
sion. Mr.. Fairbanks said he did not
talk politics or legislation with the
president and had no political state
ment to make at this time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Pay Women Small WAGES.

About so tons of wooden rags are
collected annually at Smyrna and
shipped chiefly to England and France.
They are sorted in Smyrna by women,
who get % to 30 cents day working
from dawn to sunset.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08

bilious man, Salmon P. Chase, in his
cabinet as secretary of the treasury;
a time when Kate Chase dominated
Washington society and Influenced her
fathers eminent associates by the
force of her beauty and the spirited
brilliance of her wit.
Then and there William Sprague, a
dashing young fellow from Rhode
Island-its civil war governor and
later it's United States senator-brave,
handsome, clever, entered upon ca
reer which makes fiction seem tame
and tragedy commonplace.
Kate Chase is dead-She died in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Suicide.

st. Paul-Miss Rachel Goldstein, 148
State street, returned home with por-
ton of the wedding trousseau she had
purchased during the afternoon, and
saw, thru window, the body of her
father, Samuel Goldstein, hanging
from a rope. She gave the alarm, and
several neighbors broke into the house
and cut down the body. It was
thought that Goldstein was still alive.
A physician was called and pro-
nounced him dead. Coroner A. w.
Miller decided that it was case Of
suicide.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
NEWS NOTES.

st. Paul-Judge Orr rules that wife
cannot testify against husband in lar
ceny case.
Washington-The application of W..
J. Smith, of Eveleth, and others to
organize the First National bank of
Gilbert, with capital of $4,000, was
approved by the controller of the cur
rency.
Faribault-Hog cholera has again
become prevalent among some of the
hogs in Rice county. A farmer living
east of here lost Is head of fattened
hogs in short time.
st. PauL-Kicked by broncho, Mrs.
Annie Perkins, lower st. Lawrence
street, West Side, was seriously in
jured
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Unfortunate Willie spraque.

After few silent and pathetic years
down there by the sea, the household
of Sprague was again disrupted. Willie
Sprague had again come under the in
fluence of his mother He became a
reporter on Washington paper, then
shifted to similar position in New
York. A beautiful girl was born to his
wife-Inez Sprague-and the present
Mrs. Sprague became at once an aunt
and grandmother.
Willie's wife procured divorce from
him and married Gerrit S. Wheaton,
welcome guest at Canonchet for
three years. WheatGs. was a million
aire; Willie Sprague was an cratic
genius, at times exceptionally bril-
liant, always impulsive, loving and af-
fectionate.
Canonchet was having its house par
ties and the halls were aglow with
oriental splendor. The Florentine
fountain off the dining-room was trick.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Fate's Relentless Pursuit.

A few years after this, Ethel
Sprague, one of the daughters of
Kate Chase, adopted the stage. After
a short time she quit the profession
and, marrying, went to live in Balti-
more. Meantime, Canonchet had
again been startled by an elopement.
In the autumn of 1897 Mrs. Inez
Sprague, having studied grand opera
with some of the best French and
Italian masters, appeared in Boston
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Historic Canonchet,
"House of Tragedy"
Will No Longer Be
Home of Spragues

direst poverty. Her only son lies in a
suicides grave. Her daughters tried
the stage, but did nothing of conse-
quence. But the life of Gov" Sprague,
as they call him still in Rhode Island,
is as eventful to-day as it was in the
times of war.
William Sprague's membership in
the A. e w. Sprague Manufacturing
company, doing business in all parts
of New England in the sixties, afford.
ed him in wealth the power which
made him at the age of % the gov
ernor of Rhode Island. This was in
1860. His advent as such and as COM
mander-in-chief of the Rhode Island
soldiery, put him into the eye of the
country as a subject altogether out of
the ordinary.
The civil war was on.
Sprague was a mere youth, and one
of the heads of business enterprises
involving the employment of $4,000
workmen. His shops, mills and foun-
dries beclouded the sky with their in
dustry, until it was said, Whenever
you see smoke in Rhody, it belongs to
the Spragues."
He was governor-the youngest war
governor. AS chief in command of the
states military forces he insisted on
taking the field in person. He was
always dashingly brave; so said his
soldiers. The masses hailed him as
their hero; others looked on in won
der
He went to the United States senate
in 1863 and served IL years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Lid Is Tilted.

East Grand Forks-SiX aff1davits
were mailed to Attorney General
Young to call his attention to the fact
that Mayor John OLeary has failed to
put the lid on open gambling in East
Grand Forks. The affidavits are
signed by parties who claim to have
gambled in resorts openly conducted.
A communication was served on the
mayor telling him Of the affidavits and
making a demand that he enforce the
law. It Is claimed that the mayor
has wholly failed to keep his promise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Dropped Dead.

Duluth-Charles w. Potter, of 1424
West First street, dropped dead at
Lake avenue and Third street while
marching with the local bodies Of the
Ancient Order United Workmen from
their hall to the First Methodist
church to listen to the annual me-
mortal service, this being the thirty.
ninth anniversary Of the order. Mr..
Potter was 5 years old, and is sur.
vived by a widow and five children
He was a steamfitter by trade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Suicide In Court.

Minneapo1is-Ra than again
face a prison sentence William Black.
man, 26 years old, Els Twenty-second
street south, Minneapolis, paroled
prisoner from st. Cloud, shot himself
thru the head while standing at the
sergeant's desk at the Central police
station. The ball, a 32-calibes ,passed
thru his right temple, killing HIM in
stantly, a portion of the brain oozing
out on the floor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Separated by Divorce.

quiry resulted in his discharge
Separated by Divorce.
Meantime, Kate Chase brought her
sensational suit for divorce. Gov.
Sprague filed counter charges. So
ciety glutted itself with gossip of the
case. A compromise was finally effect
ed by which both these charges were
withdrawn and charge of cruelty in
terposed. On May q, 1882, Kate
Chase-Sprague got the decree divorc-
ing her and giving her the right to re-
sumo her maiden name and the GUS
tody of the three daughters, Ethel,
Portia and Kitty.
On March s, 1888, the governor mar
ried his present wife. She was Dora
Inez Weed, of Virginia She was then
rs and Gov. Sprague SO. They imme-
diately went to Canonchet, where Mrs.
Sprague has since reigned as it's chat.
elaine.
For while this romance seemed to
work revival of the governors olden
power. The Independent state con-
vention nominated him for governor
on March IA, 1888, few days after he
had come north with his bride. On
March Fl, the Democrats also nomi-
mated him, and it looked as if the little
war governor would retrieve his for
mer place.
Soon after the governor married his
present wife, his son, Willie, married
her sister, Avice Weed, of Whining
ton, Del The governor then became
his sons brother-in-law, and Willies
wife was at the same time his sister,
in-law and his daughter-in-law, and the
governors wife was Willie's sister-in-
law and stepmother. Meantime, Kate
Chase had retired to Washington with
her three daughters.
There was hot campaign But the
old-time war governor was not reflect
ed. 1t almost broke his heart-he,
governor of Rhode Island in the civil
war, leader of her troops, United
States senator for two terms, defeated.
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episode, which eliminated IN Conkling's
flight from the governors gun by way
of a window and . barred and bolted
boudoir door.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
Can Never Forgive Her.

He did his utmost to accomplish
my financial ruin" declared William
Sprague, who was war governor of
Rhode Island when the north and
south decided to discuss their differ
ences at the lannon's mouth. 81 can
never forgive her.
The governor and Mrs. Sprague, his
second wife, retired to Canonchet to
make their plans. In order to gain
time they said not word when it was
asserted that they had forgiven the
clipping bride and that she and the
bridegroom would be welcomed there,
and that eventually she would inherit
the house of tragedy, the home Of a
thousand memories of bygone days.
But their silence did not mean con-
sent. For when all their plans had
been formulated, Gov and Mrs.
Sprague instructed their lawyer,
Henry Wellington Wack, of New York,
to arrange for the sale of the historic
estate, just as it now stands. A great
inheritance has been forfeited because
young girl saw fit to make shop
ping trip to Providence and then sud-
denly make up her mind to get mar
ried
Fall back Al years and march along
with the events of the time, a time
when Lincoln had that able and am
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08

TIA OR SALE. - A HIGHLY I'M
ia proved estate at Narragansett
Pier, X. l., consisting of $50 acres
of land, with a beautifully furn-
lshed mansion. upon which and the
stables greenhouses and other buildings
s5out Sl,O00,000 have been expended. This
property is historically known as Can
onchet," the palatial home which Kate
Chase Sprague daughter of Salmon p.
Ebase) built about 35 years ago at the
cost stated
So runs the circular-the house OF
tragedy goes under the hammer! Who
wants TO buy it?
You may have it, with the story of
the loves and hates of men and wom-
en- of a half century ago. With it go
memories of other days; of duels and
divorce; of Opponents, suicides, scan
dals and law suits without number
Here Roscoe Conkling was once an
honored guest; and here law, diplo-
macy and political strategy were made
and unmade. Blaine Garfield, Beecher,
Tilden, Ben Butler Greeley, Dana.
Grant were all honored guests here
Its rooms and halls are redolent with
memory to-day as they were three de-
cades ago.
Who wants to buy? Name your
price.
Canonchet, once the handsomest es-
tate on the Atlantic coast, is for sale
to the highest bidder. 1t is on the mar
ket because a girl chose to defy her
parents-IneZ Sprague has eloped with
the son of her grandfather's bitterest
enemy.
AS last of the direct line of the
Spragues, she was to have inherited
this baronial estate, worth at least ST.
000,0 to-day. But she broke her en-
gagement with j. Harold Winpenny, of
Philadelphia, stayed in seclusion a
year and then eloped with Harry Will
liams Stiness, son of Judge Stiness,
associate justice of the supreme court
of Rhode Island
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-08
H1ZE CzzzJE JCQR4GZIE.

his mother. On November 6, 1883
Willie was arrested for shooting at
Thompson as he attempted to visit
Canonchet. The boy was largely given
to impulse all his life. A court in
quiry resulted in his discharge.
Evening journal., 1907-11-25
MISS EL1zABErn BURcHENAL.

director of the girls branch of the
Public School Athletic league. This
organization is misleading as to its
name, for it is not a part of the public
school system. It is a philanthropic
society carried on by group of char
liable women who have permission to
use the gymnasium of the various
schools. The methods of the league
are unique. Miss Burchenal alone re-
ceives a compensation for her work.
She instructs such teachers in the ele-
mentary schools to dance as wish to
avail themselves of the privilege, and
they pass on their knowledge to their
little pupils. Both lessons take place
out of the regular school hours. The
work of the school league is at the be-
ginning Of the second year. over 6.00O
little girls from crowded tenement
homes were taught the joy of playing
last year.-Delineator.
Evening journal., 1907-11-25
What's In a Name7

Perhaps you may have heard OF the
celebrated divine who could move a
congregation to tears simply by repeat
ing the word "Mesopotamia." 1t was
in the sound. Some words have indi-
viduality of their own. You cannot
twist .Aiesopotamia" to mean any
thing but a sleepy, sun-kissed land.
You could not, for instance, endow
those soft vowel sounds with the rug
ged quality of another unmistakable
word, Saskatchewan
saskatchewan Spoken as though
it came always from the full ridged
chest of a tall red man, thin in the
flank, hard in the leg. spoken as
though with the exhalation Of lungs
full Of rugged northern air. What
word in the glossary Of rivers sur
passes this in the virility of its sheer
sound? 1t reeks of kinnikinic and
dried white fish and smoked breasts of
wild geese and service berry and penn
mican. You cannot avoid seeing dog
sledges, or help hearing the honk OF
wildfowl. Ut refrain from noting the
blown breath of men running in the
cold, when you hear the mere name.
Wild, mysterious, Of this river, one Of
the trails Of the young men.-Emerson
Hough in Outing Magazine.
Evening journal., 1907-11-25
CHulD's ONEPrECE DRESS.
Closed at Centre-Back.
Paris Pattern No. 2iSS

To obtain this pattern or any Of
the others heretofore described In
The Journal, I'LL out the following
coupon and inclose it with 10 cents
In an envelope addressed to the
Fashion Editor. The Evening Jour-
nal, Fourth and Shipley streets.
Wilmington, Delaware.
Evening journal., 1907-11-25
DISPOSITION CHANGED

We tell this as a warning to the wo-
man who has a hankering to break
up housekeeping and 80 to boarding.
Once upon time there lived a woman
who was thoughtful Of others. gener-
Gus In all her dealings unselfsh and
kind. She never measured or counted
in lending to her neighbors or when
they returned what they had borrow
ed. This. however. was when she was
keeping house. She went to boarding,
and after boarding a few months this
is the burden of her TALK Il nay
as much as Mrs. x. and this morning
Mrs x got ten Strawberries and j
got only nine. Did you see those
hot cakes they gave Mrs. NJ. at break
fast? There were three. and they
never gave me over two. I had
a notion to remind her-referring to
the landlady-this morning that pay
Just as much as Mrs. B. She gave
Mrs. B real cream. and when the
pitcher got to me there was nothing
but milk in it. 1 always reach
Evening journal., 1907-11-25
Punching haa For Women.

Throw open the windows and punch
a bag This is the latest beauty ad
vice.
A we'll known writer on athletics in
sists that by punching a bag for ten
minutes a day for a week a woman
can do more to reduce her weight and
preserve a good IRE than by OBJ
serving n strict diet for six months.
Bag punching develops the chest.
neck and shoulders and reduces the
waist. 1t exercises every muscle.
gives thin women curves and makes
stout women thin. II a woman has n
poor complexion the exercise will give
her the tints of peaches and cream IL
anything will The object of all exer-
else is to make the blood circulate
rapidly and well, and bag punching
does that to perfection.
Unlike fencing, bag punching re-
qulres no instructor, yet its advocates
say it will make a woman just as
graceful and as light on her feet as the
other exercise She viii learn to poise
and balance herself, and this will give
her a springy step and an easy and
graceful carriage. Unlike fencing. too,
no antagonist is required This is an
other strong point in favor Of bag
punching.
These are the rules Of the punching
contest as laid down by an authority
suspend the bag on a level with the
shoulders and strike straight from the
shoulder This stroke brings intaplay
a greater number Of muscles than any
other, tends TO expand the chest and
gives a good poise to the neck.
Ten minutes a day is long enough
for the average woman. but twenty
minutes viii be better IL she wants tc
reduce weight rapidly. Punch the bag
twenty-five times with the right arm
swing, rest a few moments and then
try twenty-five strokes with the left
hand.
Strike with the greatest regularity
possible. Don't exercise an hour one
day and then forget all about it for q
week.
Evening journal., 1907-11-25

that viii last throughout eternity.
Flrst-rhere must have been nrst
cause
second-Thls first cause must have been
intelligent. is stn intelligent and stil
dominates the universe.
After driving home bis comments on the
folly OF trying 70 argue around these two
vast and incontrovertible truths. the Ne
braskan ga detail descilhed the attr butes
OF the character Of Christ. "The Prince OF
Peace" The four greatest OF these. he
said. were purity. humility. a forgiving
spirit and boundcss love. First among
these he put the spirit that could for
give any injury.
"Mr. Bryan then took Christ as tho
Prince OF Peace His gospel Of love was
the greatest platform that had ever been
devised, greater than al platforms OF
Democrats. Republicans popu'ists. So
cialists or Prohlbltionists He spoke OF
courage and faith as unlfang man.
In the Gospel Of Christianity. when ap-
piled. man could find peace. Men think
they can purchase peace by riches. but
thcy are mistaken. Men spend many years
trying 10 get money from other people
go they viii have enourih TO be- happy and
they then ana hey have 10 spend their
remaining years trying 10 keen other peo-
PIE from getting their money SO. too in
society. There is no peace n social life.
And tho same iH true of political htnors.
Mr. Bryan spoke a good word fo- fcrei7n
missions relating h's % pcrie ir travel
ing around the world ard how a Oh stisn
life Influences those unde- other rci gions.