The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The grand jury at Springfield, ILL.,,
returned indictments against six more
alleged leaders of the mob. At Kan
kakee, Private Klein of Chicago, who
killed Earl Nelson, was released on
$4,000 bail.
Gov. Deneen ordered home all the
state troops in Springfield except the
Seventh infantry and First cavalry.
Negroes were in great fear of renewal
of attacks. Arrangements were COM
pleted for surrendering Private ]. B.
Klein to the civil authorities at Kan
kakee for trial on the charge of kill
ing Earl Nelson.
Abraham Raymor and Kate Howard
were indicted at Springfield as lead
ers of the mob.
Through the treachery of his tribes
men, Abd-elAziz, sultan of Morocco,
was utterly routed by Mulai Hafid,
who was proclaimed sultan in Tan
gier and was accepted as ruler by all
the large cities.
Minneapolis detectives in a pistol
battle with bandits killed one of them,
d.
About 40 persons persisted when the
Norwegian steamer Folge Fonden was
wrecked and sank near Skoneviks.
Fire in STEAMBOAT, the Mohammedan
part of Constantinople, destroyed
$500 houses and shops.
Miss Wilifred Parsons of America
killed herself in Paris, because of grief
over the death of her fiance.
Catholics of Sydney gave a banquet
to 1000 officers and men of the Amer
lean battleship fleet.
Tommy" Burns, the American
heavyweight pugilist, won from 'Bill''
Squires in the thirteenth round of
their fight at Sydney, N. S. w.
Two men arrested in Detroit on the
charge of passing counterfeit money
gave the names of Lucien p. F. Tull,
auditor of the New Amsterdam Gas
company of New York, and Richard
w. Meacham, Dayton, O., traffic man
ager for the National Cash Register
company.
John Stansberry, farmer aged 70,
who lived near Columbus, O., died
within 20 minutes after he had been
stung by bumblebee.
Daniel Rhoeder, grocer of
Streator, ILL.,, and William H. Wright
were arrested for raising two-dolar
bills to $40 and confessed their guilt.
Heavy frosts were reported from
Minnesota, North Dakota and north
ern Wisconsin, the flax crop being
badly damaged.
Striking cap makers and strike
breakers engaged in a fierce riot in
Cleveland, o., and police were COM
PEELED to fire on them.
Mrs. Joseph Mackey rescued a
friends little daughter from a train
in Peoria, ILL.,, but in doing so was
struck down and killed.
The Lusitania lowered her own
transatlantic record by nearly four
hours.
Rev. George S. Fitzhugh of Virginia
took out license to wed Lulu v.
Frazier, ten years old, explaining that
he intended to marry the child to
make her his heiress.
The Southern Indiana railroad,
owned by John r. Walsh of Chicago,
went into the hands of a receiver.
President Roosevelt received the
members of the team which piloted
the American automobile to victory in
the New York-to-Paris automobile
race.
United Suites troops stationed in
Yosemite park were called out to
fight a destructive forest fire in
Tuolumne county, Cal.
Thirteen men were seriously in
jured in lower Detroit river, when a
charge of dynamite exploded under
the drill vessel, Destroyer.
John Pedman Reid, said to be a
wealthy American, committed suicide
in Bournemouth, England.
Two companies of regular troops
broke out of their cars at Atlanta
Ca, and started a riot that was not
suppressed until soldiers had been
summoned from Fort Mcpherson.