The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-08


capsized near Bykhoff, in the govern
ment of Mohileff, and 100 person.
| were drowned.
Joseph B. Blunt of Battle Creek
Mich, was sentenced to life imprison
ment for the murder of his wife's pa
rents.
Mile. Stolypin, daughter of the Rus
sian premier, was married to Lieut.
Book, the Russian naval attache al
Berlin.
Six persons were killed and foul
seriously hurt in a tenement house
fire in Brooklyn, N. Y.
A tornado did much damage in
Springfield, Mo-, and the surrounding
country.
Two foreigners were found muir
dered in South Columbus, o., and the
police were mystified.
During a gale in the harbor o.
Monterey the battleship Illinois parted
her anchor chain and narrowly es
capped collision with the Alabama.
Monsig. Dennis John F. Cornell
rector of the Catholic university al
Washington, D. c., was consecratet
titular bishop of Sabate in Baltimore.
The town of Antipolo, in the Phil
ippines was destroyed by fire started
by lightning.
The revolutionary outbreak in PERI
was promptly suppressed by the gov
eminent
Thirty-four brokers of Cincinnati
were indicted by grand jury on
charges of running bucketshops.
A gigantic conspiracy of spiritualis
tic mediums and others to defraud
the late ]. T. Crumbaugh, a wealthy
banker, and to induce him to bequeath
his entire fortune to the mediums was
charged in the circuit court at Bloom.
ington, Ill.
Six express companies doing bust
ness in Indiana brought suit in the
United States district court against
the members of the railroad commits.
sion of. Indiana to enjoin them from
reducing express rates.
Harvey Hinkle of Bloomington, Ind,
who killed John r. McClintock be.
cause of jealousy, was acquitted of
murder on the ground of insanity.
Six men were killed by the ex-
plosion of a naphtha tank in a Chi,
cago reduction company's plant.
Police Sergeant James Boyle of To.
ledo, o., was fatally shot by a man
whom he had arrested.
The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived
at Monterey, Cal.
A supposed attempt of the lawless
element in the little town of Verden,
Okla, to take revenge on City Mar
shall Gillespie for his policy of strict
law enforcement resulted in an in
cendiary fire which destroyed the prin-
cipal business section of the town.
Attorney General Bird of Michigan
filed a bill asking for a receiver for
the American Health and Accident as
ISOLATION of Detroit.
Robbers took $4,000 in Mexican
currency from a Wells-Fargo express
car near Torreon, Mexico
The National Prosperity association,
to uplift business interests generally,
was organized by st. Louis merchants.
Conductors and motormen in Cleve-
land began voting on proposition to
strike because they were refused a
wage increase.
1t was reported in Panama that
Honduras was preparing to attack
Guatemala.
The Michigan supreme court af-
firmed the conviction and sentence of
Philip A. McHugh and Charles P
O'Neil, two prominent young attorneys
of Detroit, who were held in contempt
by Judge Connolly Of Detroit for fail
ing to proceed with a murder trial at
the time set by the court.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived 600 New England working
women who were in Washington sight
seeing.
A receiver was appointed for Will
liam A. Stetson of Boston, one of the
best known leather dealers in the Uni
ted States.
Miss Georgia E. Bible of North Caro-
lima, arrested in Chicago, confessed to
the theft of $4,000 worth of diamonds
from Herbert Loeb of Philadelphia.
Fred Auterburn, prisoner at Allan
tic, Ia, locked the jailer in a Gel: and
escaped.
Two train robbers boarded the New
York & st. Louis express on the Pan.
Handle railroad at Pittsburg, over.
powered the express messenger and
got away with four bags of currency.
More than 200 men, including the
captain and many other officers, per.
ished when the Japanese training
cruiser Matsushima was sunk by the
accidental explosion of a projectile.
Mirror Lake, fine fishing place
near Baraboo, Wis, was ruined when
high water destroyed two dams.
The mayor of Fort-de-France, Mar.
Unique, and several other men were
killed in political fight.
DR.. ]. d. Garrison shot and killed
j. d. Williams, an electrician, at Flat
Creek, Ala, in duel.
Eleven thousand pounds of green
coffee which was confiscated by the
United States government on the
ground that it contained deleterious
and adulterous substances, was
burned at Nashville, Tenn:
An attempt was made to destroy the
quarters of the fashionable Phoenix
club in Cincinnati with a bomb.
Two leopards leaped among the
spectators in the Baltimore zoo, bad.
ly injured boy and caused panic.
Serious damage was done in Leon
county, the tobacco section of Florida,