The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-22

Hot Springs, Ark, adopted resolutions
condemning the liquor traffic in all its
poses.
Rev. S. A. Coffman of Fairmont, w.
Va, killed his wife by cutting her
throat He said he was temporarily
insane
Two men lost their lives and prop
erty valued at $350,O0O was destroyed
by fire in the plant of the Lake SUI
perior corporation in the Canadian
500, across the river from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich.
Mae C. Wood, who is suing Senator
Plat for divorce, testified in New
York, and identified copies of letters
she says she received from Plat.
Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas
of Cleveland, o., one of the graduating
class in the Annapolis academy, was
drowned and Midshipman Carl d. Hib-
bard of Mortified, Mimi, nearly lost
his own life in an effort to save that
of his friend.
Fire destroyed the electric light and
water plant of Mayf1eld, KY, causing
loss of $4,000.
Rioting in Cleveland, due to the
street car strike, almost ceased and
efforts to bring about arbitration were
continued.
| An inmate of the soldiers home at
Dayton, o., fought with another and
flung him from a second-story win
dow, killing him instantly.
| oxl~ ~ a
Second Florida district was caned by
ex-Gov. w. S. Jennings, cousin of
| w. J. Bryan, in the lobby of the Hotel
Aragon, Jacksonville, Fla, because he
called Jennings a CRATER.
Peter Rathgaber of Chicago lost
$500 by the wire tapping" swindle.
Deputy Sheriff w. H. Farmer Of
| Dawson, N. M, was arrested in con-
| nection with the robbery of the strong
box of the Wells-Fargo Express COM
pany of $4,000 at French, N. M.
Three persons met death and an
other was fatally injured near Flora,
| Ind, when a Pennsylvania railroad
passenger train struck carriage.
The Atlantic fleet sailed from San
Francisco for Puget Sound and the
Pacific feet started south.
| Inmates of the overall factory Of
the state reformatory in Pontiac, Ill,
mutinied against their foreman and
tried to kill him, with the result that
| Henry Williams, a negro, aged rs, is
in the hospital with three bullets in
his body.
After plunging into the lake at Chi
cago with the intention of committing
suicide, Walter E. Ferguson of New
York changed his mind and shouted
| for help. He was rescued.
L. E. Cartwright of the Santa Fe
secret service has captured one of the
robbers who looted the Wells-Fargo
company of $4,000 at French, N. H.
Flames destroyed the plant Of the
Sendelbach Wheel company in East
| st. Louis and the Hohenstein-Hart-
| metz furniture factory in Evansville,
| Ind.
James Clear of Peru, Ind, fatally
slashed his wife with a razor and
| then attempted suicide.
Command of the great Atlantic
fleet of battleships passed to Rear Ad-
miral Charles Stillman Sperry, who
succeeded Rear Admiral Thomas.
The conference of governors at
| Washington on conservation of the
nations natural resources ended after
the adoption of a declaration of CO.
operation and suggestion that the
| president call the conferees together
again in the future.
The right of President Roosevelt
| summarily to dismiss a negro soldier
of the Twenty-f1fth infantry for al
legged participation in the riot at
Brownsville, Tex, was sustained by
Judge Hough in the United States dis
trict court at New York.
A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa
containing $500 barrels of whisky was
burned
The Democrats of Minnesota in
dorsed Gov. Johnson as presidential
candidate and at the same time, by
vote of 772 to 166, refused to declare
in favor of Bryan as second choice.
Wyoming Democrats Endorsed Bryan.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
the trophy winner in the recent target
practice at Magdalena bay.
The Reserve Trust company and the
American Savings bank of Cleveland,
O.. closed their doors.
| Three former aldermen of Rockford
ILL.,, pleaded guilty of accepting brides
and were fined $4,000 each.
| lanes 7 Hill and others addressed
the conference of governors in the
White House on the dangers of forest
and soil depletion.
An attempt made by prisoners to
break out of the government Jail at
Yekaterinoslav, Russia, after making
breach in the wall OF the guard
room with bomb, resulted in the
deaths of 20 of the fugitives.
Four miners were killed and three
injured by fall of rock in a colliery
at Midvale, Pa.