The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-03


Fire caused by the explosion Of
| kerosene lamp destroyed the Green
Mountain Falls hotel, at Green Noun.
tain Falls, summer resort Is miles
west of Colorado Springs, Col.
Sixty inmates of the Maryland
school for boys revolted and escaped,
score being recaptured.
Matthew Ford, town marshal of o.
borne, Mo-, killed a robber in an ex-
change of shots.
Five persons were drowned in
flood near Wellington, Kan, caused
by a cloudburst.
An explosion and fire in San Fran
cisco grocery store caused the death
of four persons and the injury of
three others.
The California limited on the Santa
Fee went through burned bridge near
Hardy, Ariz., two trainmen and a pas
senger being killed and 20 persons
hurt.
William D. Sloat, a New York pa
per merchant, committed suicide while
respondent because of ill health.
Charles R. Rose, son of James A.
Rose, secretary of state of Illinois,
eloped from Springfield, ILL.,, with Miss
Blanche Conner of Princeton, ILL.,,
stenographer for the state board of ag-
riculture, and the two were married in
Chicago.
Fire at Ionia, Mich, destroyed two
passenger depots, a church and other
buildings.
Thomas L. Bagby, while standing
at his sweetheart's window near
Huntsville, Mo-, was shot and killed
by her brother, E. j. Carter. Jr.
Engineer Aaron Raub was killed and
several passengers injured at Lofty,
Pa, by the wrecking of a Pennsyl-
vania train, believed to have been de-
rallied by the spiking of the tracks.
The first night rider conviction in
Kentucky was secured when the jury
returned verdict of one year in the
penitentiary in the case of DR.. E.
Champion at Benton.
Two men were killed and five per-
sons injured when their automobile
was struck by an interurban car at
Indianapolis.
A second son was born to Lady Suf-
folk, formerly Miss Daisy Letter of
Chicago.
Miss Georgia Sullivan of Chicago
was drowned while wading in Black
lake at Holland, Mich.
Gov. Patterson of Tennessee won
the gubernatorial nomination over ex-
Senator Carmack in the Democratic
primary, the result being a victory for
local option.
Three delegates to the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs at Boston
were seriously injured at Newport, R.
l., when a tally-ho coach was upset.
Another delegate, Mrs. Sarah Shute
of Coon Rapids, Ia, died of heart fail
ure.
Over million dollars in property
was consumed within two hours at
Duluth by fire which RACED elevator
D of the Consolidated Elevator COM
pany and destroyed a dock and sheds
of the Northern Pacific.
Mulai-Hafid, the usurping sultan of
Morocco, summoned the caids to his
palace at Fee and peremptorily in
structed them to raise an army of
$4,000 men from the neighboring
tribes.
The Democratic state convention of
Vermont refused to instruct its dele
gates for Bryan.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the order of Chefakat on Mrs Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt
Raymond Wells, son of a Chicago
bank president, fell from a fourth
story window and was killed.
John Welsh, a farmer, fatally
wounded his wife at Colfax, Wis, by
stabbing her with pair of scissors.
Five persons were killed in wreck
on the Chicago & Northwestern road
near Chadron, Neb.
Harvard won the varsity boat race
from Yale. Griswold, the Yale stroke,
collapsed mile and half from the
finish Secretary Taft and the family
of President Roosevelt were among the
spectators
The list of honors accorded on the
occasion of the official celebration of
King Edwards birthday was issued
Four new peers have been created, ten
new privy councillors, IL baronets and
% knights.
Five persons, including a mother
and her three children, persisted in a
fire in Chicago that followed an ex-
plosion in cehmical works.
Every claim set up by the state of
Illinois against the Economy Light
| and Power company in the litigation
over the Desplaines river dam was
knocked out by Judge Mack at Chi
cago and the injunction dissolved.
Iowa Democrats in convention at
Sioux City Endorsed the state ticket
and William j. Bryan for president.
Two burglars blew the safe of
| grocery in Springfield and took
| $3.50, but were caught
The United Norwegian Lutheran
Church Of America docidod to oroot q