The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

a wholesale jeweler of New York.
When Foster was searched by the po-
lice $4,000 worth of unset diamonds
$1,000 worth of diamond jewelry and
$500 worth of watches.
United States Senator Elkins Of
West Virginia denied that his daugh-
ter Katherine was engaged to the
duke of the Abruzzi.
Mrs. George Collier of Occidental,
Cal, fell into a vat of wine and was
drowned.
Harry Cahill, alias James Cole, said
to be the son of an Alaskan delegate
in congress, was arrested by the Chi
cago police on charge of robbing a
bank at Ladysmith, Wis, of $4,000
Capt. Monroe and five of the crew
of the British schooner Sirocco, who
were supposed to have been lost when
da coast on October 1, were landed at
Boston by the fruit steamer Hora-
| thus.
The first two games in the worlds
championship series between the Chi
cago National league and Detroit
| American league teams were won by
| Chicago.
With all nine justices present, the
supreme court of the United States
went to work again after vacation of
more than four months. 1t will con-
tinue in session until June of next
| year.
Greensboro, N. c., began the cele-
bration of the centennial of it's found
ing.
A. Holland Forbes and Augustus
Post, American aeronauts, had an es-
cape from horrible death that was lit
tie short of miraculous. They started
in the International balloon race from
Schmargendorf, near Berlin, and at a
height of 1000 feet their balloon, the
Conqueror, burst. For 1000 feet it
shot down like bullet, and then the
torn silk bag assumed the shape of
parachute, and the rapidity of the de-
scent was checked, the men landing
on house-top, little injured.
James Oliver Curwood, the we'll
known author of Detroit, Mich, who
went into the Hudson bay wilds for
Detroit publishing firm, was killed by
Indians in the Lac La Ronge country.
Three companies of South Carolina
militia fought a mob of 1000 persons
in Spartanburg and saved negro
who was accused of assaulting a white
girl.
A mailman climbed to the pinnacle
of the Brooklyn tower of the Will
liamsburg bridge, was cornered in a
men and bridge employee, and, after
terrific struggle, was prevented from
slashing his throat and then throwing
himself into the river.
Luman Mann, the son of Orville G.
Mann, prominent and wealthy citi-
zen of Oak Park, suburb of Chicago,
is locked up on the charge of being
the murderer of Mrs. Fanny Thomp-
son, who was found strangled and
bound hand and foot with clothes
line in rooming house at 1912 Mich
igan avenue July 1.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at Milwaukee, in reviewing
the federal court injunction issued
several years ago against the striking
iron molders of Milwaukee, held that
the lower court went too far in prohib-
iting peaceful picketing.
A tradesman at Trelon, France,
committed suicide before a moving
picture machine which he had TO-
cussed and set running.
Before concluding it's nineteenth an
nual session in San Francisco the
Mississippi congress defeated in
dorsement of the parcels post PROPOSE
ton, 140 to 60.
Approximately 10000 deaths from
cholera in the Philippine islands since
January 1 of this year are announced
in detailed report made to the pub
lie health service by Chief Quaran-
tine Officer McClintic at Manila.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Banes of Brooklyn,
N. Y, fastened themselves together
with a wire, jumped into jamaica bay
and were drowned.
All the great events of Philadel-
phia's 225 years were set forth in
historical pageant, the most magnifi-
cent thing of it's kind ever planned in
America and the eliminating feature
of Founders week.
Charges of discrimination in award
ing the galloway contracts for the
Panama canal were denied by Col
George w. Goethals, head of the 18th.
milan commission, at the inquiry be-
fore Inspector General Darlington.
Ora Lee, 81 years old, handsome
factory girl, was found shot to death
on the road between Wadsworth, O.,
and the hamlet of Custard Hook Guy
Rasor, whom Miss Lee was to have
married, is detained by the Sheriff
pending developments of the police
| investigation. Rasor denies all knowl-
edge of the tragedy
With drafts and money on his per-
son to the amount of $4,000, and
drove of horses, F. H. Peters of Rog-
ers, Ark, has disappeared
Five Harvard men who sailed in the
old cup defender Mayfiower to recover
the treasure from long-ago wrecked
Spanish galleon, were wrecked in the
hurricane that swept the West Indies
and were rescued with difficulty.
Frank Keiser, who escaped from the
Illinois penitentiary at Joliet Septem-
Der rs, was captured in Chicago.
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