The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

mining town of Rawhide, New. Three
thousand people were rendered home
less and the business district was
wiped out. The property loss is over
$750,0O0.
Salt Lake City won over Washing
ton for the forty-third encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic next
year by a vote of 461 to 104.
The Republican campaign in Ohio
was opened at Youngstown with
speeches by Gov. Harris of Ohio, Gov.
Hughes of New York and Senator
Beverage of Indiana.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Melbourne for Albany, West Aus
tralia.
Daniel Godell of Omaha shot and
killed Miss Edna Kennett because she
was about to marry another man.
The executive board of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Street and Elec-
trio Railway Employees of America de-
clared itself in favor of general
strike of the $4,000 members of the
association in New England.
The business section of Sumner,
Miss, was burned and one man lost
his life.
Gov. Hanly issued call for an
extra session of the Indiana legiSla-
ture to meet in Indianapolis Septem-
Der Is to consider the county local op-
ton law and to give him power to deal
with the night-rider troubles.
Fire in the city of Niigata, near
Tokyo, Japan, destroyed 1000 houses.
A. S. Waters of Tampa, Fla, killed
himself at Hot Springs, Ark, by jump
ing from a hotel window.
Peter ]. Schollert of st. Paul, Mimi,
his wife and her brother, Lewis Chris
tiansen, were asphyxiated by illuminat.
ing gas.
Mrs. Walter Allen, wife of hotel
keeper of Wichita Falls, Tex, shot
and killed Lille Wheatley who was in
a carriage with Allen.
Chief of Police Maurice Fitzgerald
of Ware, Mass, was fatally shot by an
alleged horse thief, who then commit
ted suicide.
Germany's policy in the Morocco af
fair has annoyed British officials ex
cessively, and they feel that the kaiser
is trying to secure an advantage over
the other powers. Great Britain in.
tends to recognize Mulai Hafid after
he has pledged himself to accept all
the obligations of the former sultan.
Col. Henry M. Nevius of Red Bank
N. j., was elected commandments
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Mrs. w. L. Gilman of Roxbury
Mass, was chosen president of the
: Womans' Relief Corps.
Chester Jordan, an actor, killed his
wife Honorah, an actress, during a
quarrel in their home in Somerville,
suburb of Boston, and then dismem,
bered her body and tried to take it
away in trunk.
More than 100000 was left to
charitable institutions, the Metropoli.
tan Museum of Art and Yale univer.
sity by the will of Frederick Cooper
Hewitt, who died at his home in
Owego, N. Y.
Daniel Walser, a Detroit confec-
toner, was shot and killed by burg
lars at his store.
Mrs. Earl Hallam of Springfield,
ILL.,, declared that George Richardson
was not the negro who attacked her.
1t was his removal from the city
which caused the bloody race riots.
DR.. Frederick T. Rustin of Omaha
Neb., one of the most famous sur.
geons in the west, was shot and killed
by an unknown person.
Frederick Cornelius of Muskogee
Okla, and his sweetheart, Miss Bah
bic Metcalf of Tulsa, were drowned
while boating.
Forest fire threatened the destruc-
ton of the famous Calaveras group of
giant sequoias.
The members OF the American team
which captured chief honors at the
Olympic games in London were re-
ceived by President Roosevelt at Sag.
amore HILL
The Nevada Democratic state con
vcntion nominated Francis G. New
lands for United States senator and
George A. Bartlett for congressman
A new comet was discovered at the
Yerke's observatory at Lake Geneva
Wis, by Prof. d. w. Morehouse oil
Drake university.