The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-10


successful and new government was
set up with DR.. Naveiro as president
About 500 persons were killed OF
wounded in the fighting in Asuncion.
Four hundred buildings, including
the courthouse, Jail and arsenal at
Port Au Prince, Hayti, were destroyed
by fire.
Count STANDARDIZATION, the eldest
son of Prince Yussupoff, was killed by
Count Manteuffel, an officer of the
horse guards, in duel with pistols at
st. Petersburg.
Mrs. Nathaniel B. Treat of Monroe,
Wis, wife of Capt. Treat, widely
known state politician, capitalist and
banker, jumped from runaway hack
and was so badly injured that she
died.
Nine balloons which started from
Chicago all descended, without loss of
life, though the occupants of one were
nearly drowned in Lake Michigan, an
other fell in Quinte Bay, Lake Ontario,
The long distance record was claimed
for the Fielding-San Antonio, which
| landed at West Sefford, Que. about S95
miles
Bishop Potter of New York showed
so much improvement that his ply
sicians began to hope for his recovery.
The battleships Alabama and Maine,
preceding the Atlantic fleet, arrived at
Guam day ahead of schedule time.
An electric car struck carriage
| near Los Angeles, Cal, killing four
children.
C. A. Ballard of Springfield, ILL.,, was
killed by negro who had invaded the
bedroom of Billiards. daughter.
The wife of Enrico Caruso, the IA
nous tenor, eloped with a young Ital-
ian.
Six persons were killed and 80 in
jured in a railway collision at Oak
land, Cal.
for president of Panama, leaving
Senior Obaldia clear field and insur-
ing peace on the isthmus.
King Wilhelm and Charlotte of
Wurttemberg assembled in Count Yep
penlin's Siderable balloon at Fried
richshafen and were in the air one-half
hour. 1t was the first instance of the
kind in history.
Scores of persons were injured by
the collapse of the bleachers at the
ball park at New Bedford, Mass.
Joe Cans, the colored lightweight
fighter, was defeated in II rounds at
San Francisco by Battling Nelson of
Hegewisch, ILL.,, who thus became
lightweight champion.
Regarding the condition of the Uni
ted States treasury Secretary Cortel
you issued a statement which was op-
timistic.
The bodies of PA persons recov-
cred from the Rikovsky mine at Yoso-
vo, European Russia, which was the
scene of of an explosion of gas, were
buried. The horror of the situa-
ton was added to by fire.
The United Box Board and Paper
company is in bankruptcy. Receivers
were appointed. This is $2S,967, 400
corporation, managed and owned main
ly by Chicago interests.
Two men were burned to death and
ten others were injured in fire which
followed an explosion on a barge at
Philadelphia. .......
Mrs. Ida May Wolff, at st. Louis,
turned on the gas jets and almost
asphyxiated herself, her husband and
three other members of the family.
Judge William Howard Taft, the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency,
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and their
son Charlie, went to Hot Springs, Va.
Seven persons were killed, at least
two others were fatally injured and
fully 80 more were severely hurt as
the result of fire in Cleveland, o.
The fire followed an explosion of fire.
works on display in the store.
Five persons were killed, 40 injured
and many rendered homeless by tor
nado at Fort Summers, Guadeloupe
county, N. M.
Premier Marquis Saionji of Japan
rendered his resignation. He consult
ed with the members of his cabinet,
who decided to lay down all their port
folios, also, and all the designations
were rendered to the emperor.
| AS a climax to a series of mysteri-
GUS hold-ups on railroad tracks west
of Coldwater, Mich, Libro lombard
was found dead with nine cuts in his
throat and Cascanzo Di Clio has two
bullets in his arm.
An Internal machine, the explosion
of which would have wrecked the
courthouse, killed Sheriff Beck and
family, as well as prisoners in the
Jail, was received at the courthouse in
Houghton, Mich.
At least 200 miners are believed to
have lost their lives in fearful disas-
ter in the Rikovsky mine at Yusovo,
Russia, caused by an explosion of gas.
Mexico will ask the United States to
punish severely the local authorities
of Del Rio, Tex, and possibly others of
the state under whose authority they
acted, on the grounds that the officers
knowingly failed in their duty by al
lowing persons who partook in the
Las Vacas raid to return to the Texas
side of the river and to bring with
them their wounded.
Shocks of earthquake were felt at
San Diego, Cal, and in Mexico.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for II hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout Of "a miles
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