The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-01

Of three-cent fares.
The secretary of the treasury an
nounced further call upon the ma
tional banks for approximately $45,
100000, $20,000,000 to be paid on OF
before May 9, and the remaining $25,
000,0 900 on or before May %, 1908.
The tri-centennial of the coming o.
the Dutch to America was celebrated
at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stone ant
Boyd Ward were drowned at Muske
gon, Mich.
The Banco Espanol-Filipino a
Manila has been the victim of exten
sive frauds, totaling over $4,000 pesos
or about 100000 in gold.
Returns from the districts in the
south ravaged by tornadoes show thai
at least $50 lives were lost and Al
towns were badly wrecked.
Half the little French hamlet Of
Notre Dame De Salette, 16 miles from
Buckingham, Ont, on the Lievre river
was buried under sliding mountain
and at least 80 of it's small population
are known to have persisted.
A severe blizzard, with snow, gales
and cold, ragged over Great Britain
doing much damage.
For the first time in 80 years, and
the second time in the history of the
science of medicine, an operation for
the extraction of venom from the dead
ly lance-head viper, said to be the
most poisonous of all known reptiles,
was performed at the Bronx Geological
park in New York. The third of a
teaspoonful of the fluid obtained will
meet the demands of the medical
world for so years.
The British cruiser Gladiator col
lided with the American liner st. Paul
off the Isle of Wight and was beached.
Five of the cruisers crew are known
to have persisted and % are missing.
1t was stated in London that two
bags of mail from there, whose con-
tents were valued at 100000, were
stolen in New York
Fire in Joliet, ILL.,, destroyed the
Boston store and damaged an Office
building. Loss, 100000.
Robert Harrison and his six-year-
old son, Thomas, were killed by light
ming at their home near Huntington,
w. Va.
Catholics of the New York archdio-
cese began a weeks celebration of
the church's centennial in New York.
E. F. Carly, one of the aldermen of
Rockford, ILL.,, accused of boodling,
was arrested and two other council
men resigned.
Herman H. Peters of Port Huron,
Mich, committed suicide because he
lost $4,000 by the failure of the
United Home Protectors fraternity.
At Lordsburg, N. NJ, Oliver CARR
son shot and killed his wife, shot
George Allen through the abdomen,
wounding him fatally, and then COM
mitted suicide
About 225 persons, mostly negroes,
were killed and nearly 800 were in
jured in a tornado that swept over
parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama. Dozens of small towns
were wrecked.
The battleship fleet sailed from Los
Angeles to Santa Barbara for five
days stay.
Capt. F. B. Hart, a Minneapolis at
torney who severely criticised the Min
nesota supreme court, was disbarred
for six months.
Many buildings in Eagle River,
Wis, were shattered by the explosion
of 600 pounds of dynamite in burn
ing warehouse.
T. A. Mcintyre & Co., members of
the New York stock, cotton and
produce exchanges, with branches in
many cities, failed for about $1,000
600.
An attempt was made to burn the
Allis-C Chalmers plant at West Allis,
Wis.
Burglars dynamited the safe of
Scion Kugler's store In Pinckney-
vile, ILL.,, taking about $1,000.
Joseph Miller, a wealthy oil opera
tor of Butler, Pa, was shot by a
burglar.
Tornadoes in Texas, South Dakota
and Nebraska resulted in several
deaths and great destruction of prop
erty.
The Illinois Democracy adopted the
unit rule and instructed it's delegates
to the national convention at Denver
to vote for William J. Bryan and to
"use all honorable means" to secure
his nomination.
President Cabrera of Guatemala is
authority for the statement that Is of
the ringleaders in a conspiracy
against him have been shot to death
and that probably more executions
will follow.
The murder of policeman in Lub-
lin, Russian Poland, was followed by
the arrest of 800 workmen in local
factories where the police found stores
of arms, ammunition and mellenite
bombs.
A remarkable woman's rights petit
ton has been received by the Rus
sian duma from the Mohammedan
women of Orenburg province, demand
ing that the Mohammedan deputies
take steps to free them from the "des-
potism" of their husbands and give
them their share of the privileges
granted by the emperor to the peo-
pie
Fire destroyed nine business blocks
in the town. of Richmond, VT.
Residents of Skidoo, California
mining camp, lynched Joseph Simp-
son for murder.
Fire at Cape May Point, N. j., de-
stroyed dozen buildings, the loss be-