The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20

| CathOllc cnurcn IN America began It's
sessions in Chicago, with Papal Dele
gate Falconio presiding.
The United States government has
sued the American Sugar Refining
Company for forfeitures and customs
, duties amounting to $3,624,121, alleg-
ing fraud in weighing shipments.
The bodies of Deputy Game Warden
Julius Salmonson of Michigan, his
brother Martin and Deputy Sheriff j.
c. Hazeltine were found in White
lake.
The petition of Albert T. Patrick,
the New York lawyer, who is serving
life sentence in the state prison at
Sing Sing, N. Y, on the charge of
having murdered the millionaire, Will
liam M. Rice, for writ of habeas cor
pus was denied by the supreme court
of the United States.
Mrs. E. A. Caulfield of st. Louis
was instantly killed in Kansas City by
falling II stories down an elevator
shaft.
The Cuban elections resulted in a
sweeping victory for the liberal ticket
| headed by Gen. Gomez.
Five buildings of the Indiana state
reformatory and nearly the entire
plant of the Indiana Manufacturing
Company at Jeffersonville, Ind, were
destroyed by fire.
The post Office at South Bend, Ind,
was robbed of $1S,653 in stamps.
A negro desperate in Okmulgee,
Okla, barricaded in his house, killed
four persons, including the sheriff.
wounded ten others and, being shot by
a frenzied mob, set fire to the house
and persisted in the flames.
Morris Haas, who shot Francis ].
Heney, shot and killed himself in his
cell in the county Jail at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Heney was stated to be re-
covering rapidly.
William Reed, 76 years old, of Vine
land, N. j., was murdered in his home
by robbers who escaped with $4,000
worth of railroad bonds.
In football game at Monmouth, Ill.,,
between Knox college and Monmouth
two of the Monmouth players, Nc
Kiterick and Richards, were badly
hurt
George A.. Burnham of Detroit,
Mich, general factory manager for
Morgan & Wright and well known
among automobile men, was accident
ally killed while duck hunting at the
st. Clair flats.
While party composed of Maj.
Hon. ]. P. Veraker, his nephew, Wis
count Gort of England, and William
Prettie and George Gilbert, guides,
were hunting moose at Raleigh, 100
miles east of Winnipeg. the accidental
discharge of Viscount Gort's gun
killed Prettie.
Miss Margaret Lee Conway of Chi
cago brought suit to recover $4,000
because her picture was published in
magazine as corset model.
Rev. George Brinley Morgan, D. D.,
rector for the last % years of Christ
Protestant Episcopal church of New
Haven, Conn, was run down by an
automobile and killed.
Evidence was introduced by the
prosecution in the Lamphere trial at
Laporte, Ind, tending to prove that
bodies found in the ruins of the Gun
ness farmhouse were those of Mrs.
Guinness and her three children, of
whose murder Ray Lamphere is ac-
cused.
In boiler explosion at the Miller
Lumber Companys plant at Pound,
near Pound Gap, KY, four men were
killed and four more severely injured.
Three men were killed outright, two
were fatally injured and two others
were seriously hurt in an explosion at
a sawmill plant in Wise county, Virgi-
mia.
The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year was carried on November
to one.
Francisco L. de la Barra, at present
Mexican minister to the Netherlands,
has been appointed to succeed En-
rique c. Creel as Mexican ambassa-
dor at Washington.
University of Michigan alumni in
New York have subscribed funds for
the erection of 100000 dormitory
with an immense commons" or eating
room in Ann Arbor.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by band of Is Russians to rob
railroad train that was carrying $12,-
100000 to st. Petersburg.
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, former
chief of the United States weather
bureau, who mysteriously dropped out
of sight nearly ten years ago, has
been found, hopeless mental wreck,
in the New Jersey Asylum for the In
sane at Morris Plains.
Three hundred and thirty-nine men
were killed in the Radbod mine near
Hamm, Westphalia, by an explosion
and resulting fire. Thirty-five were
taken out badly injured.
A cold blooded plot by a daughter
to murder her mother for her money
was exposed in the arrest of Miss Mae
L. Otis of Chicago The woman had
arranged to have her mother beaten
to death, but unwittingly hired de,
tectives to do the deed.
Republican members of the Bull