The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-06
GENERAL NEWS.

After confessing their guilt to the
police John Kurka, teamster, and
Mrs. Anthong Schultz were arraigned
before Justice of the Peace Gerhard
in Hamtranck township, Michigan, and
pleaded guilty to the charge of MUIR
dering Mrs. Schultz husband, who was
a half-brother of Kurka. The latter
said that the crime was attributable
to an illicit affection between himself
and his half-brother's wife.
Charles A Hengerer, son of the late
William Hengerer and former vice
president of the William Hengerer
Company, one of the largest depart
ment stores in Buffalo, n. Y, commit
ted suicide by jumping into the river
and going over Niagara falls.
A spectacular fire that was marked
by many thrilling incidents destroyed
the lumber yards of R. A. & ]. ]. Will
liams, in Philadelphia, entailing loss
estimated at $750,000.
H. w. Strubble, an employee of the
Call airship, was instantly killed at
Girard, Kan, while the propellers on
the ship were being tried out. One of
the rear propellers struck the victim
on the head.
News was brought by the steamer
Antilochus of heavy floods and great
loss Of life in Formosa. All the rivers
in the neighborhood of Keeling, Ciram
and Tanko oerfiowed and 40 junks
were wrecked.
Jimmy" Britt, the California fight
er, defeated Johnny Summers of Eng
land in the tenth round at London.
The Westinghouse Electric & Manu-
featuring Company was given a con-
tract for the identification of the
Pennsylvania terminal in New York
and the lines in New Jersey and Long
Island connected with it, The initial
amount of the apparatus required un-
der this contract will aggregate $5,000,-
900.
AS the result Of a livery stable fire
in st. Paul, Mimi, 100 horses per-
ished and one man was missing.
Safe-blowers secured $4,000 worth
of jewelry at the store of Samuel j.
Hahn in Boston, but they overlooked
a bag containing diamonds valued at
$4,000
Harry Sampson, nephew of the
late Admiral Sampson, was found shot
to death in his residence near Pal
myra, n. Y.
At Heidelberg, Lee county, KY,
Ephraim Angel and Harvey Ross en-
gagged in a fight, and as a result Angel
was shot and killed and Ross was ia
tally injured.
AS the battleships of the Atlantic
fleet proceed to the navy yard they
will be painted slate color.
A mob Of about 80 men attacked
the Roane county Jail, Kingston,
Tenn, and killed George Cook, held
on the charge of numbering John
King, ferryman at Southwest Point
The body of murdered man was
found in sack at Lapham's Lane,
Mich
Fire broke out in the History Neave
building at Race and Fourth streets,
Cincinnati, and in the panic that en-
sued about twenty persons were in
jured.
Two squadrons of cavalry and a
band were ordered to Hawaii as an ad-
dition to the garrison there.
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the steamer
Yarmouth foundered while crossing
from the Hook of Holland to Harwich.
Her crew of % men was lost.
The Farmers Society of Equity was
organized at Indianapolis, Ind, at a
convention of representatives from a
number of states.
The executive council of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union decided to hold its 1909 session
at Omaha. Neb.