The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-17

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Gus wars
Youngs Corners, N Y, was destroyed
by fire. 1t contained many revolu-
tionary relics.
About 1000 persons persisted in
floods at Hankow. China.
Mrs. Kate Pelter was found strangled
throat cut, in New York fat Charles
Berger, who was stabbed seriously,
was put under arrest
Under the direction of William F.
Hazen, former chief of the secret serv-
| ice, a concerted movement was started
to rid the country of alien criminals
and anarchists.
| Harry Herold was arrested in Jer-
SEVILLE, ILL.,, on a charge of embez-
zling $4,000 from William Coates of
| Plattsmouth.
Judge Afford, at Mobile, declared
unconstitutional the Alabama law
against playing baseball and other
games on Sunday
Hiram G. Willard, brother of Bailey
Willard, the author and novelist, was
killed at Alumni Creek canyon, CAL,
by a fall over a 10O-foot cliff.
Mrs. Bridget E. Mullaly, an aged ST..
Louis woman, was found murdered.
Windows were smashed and houses
for distance of ten miles were
shaken when 400 pounds of nitro
slycerin exploded and scattered the
splinters of a separator mill of the
Aetna Powder company at Aetna, Ind,
over a quarter of mile.
The official announcement by the
Illinois Central that the new Birming.
ham division would be opened for
traffic April 10 called attention to the
completion of the link in the great
Hartman transcontinental route, for
bNHcontrolling the Union Pacific, Hi.
noS Central and Central of Georgia,
this system will extend from the Pa.
cific to the Atlantic.
The "open shop" policy will be ad
hered to by vessel owners, in the op-
Grafton of boats upon the great lakes
this season. A stand of this character
in dealing with organized labor was
unanimously agreed to at the annual
meeting of the Lake Carriers associa-
ton in Cleveland, o.
Six hundred paper hangers and
painters in Minneapolis struck for the
CLOSED shop"
The governor of Florida sent the
entire state militia to Pensacola to
protect the street cars from the
strikers.
Count Andreas Potocki, governor of
the Austrian Polish province of Galicia,
was assassinated b. a Ruthenian stu
dent ......
Two treaties, settling the Canadian
boundary and lake fishery questions,
were signed by Secretary of State
Root and Ambassador Bryce.
The Standard Oil company was
ousted from Tennessee by decision
of the state supreme court, finding it
guilty of restraining trade.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy announced
that she believed navies were neces-
sary to preserve peace.
The United States National museum
has received as gift from DR.. w.
Hutson Ford, now residing in Wash
ington, 40-pound cannon ball fired
from Fort Sumter at the beginning of
the engagement on April IL, 1861,
which marked the opening of the
civil war;
Creosote which Miss Lulu Bright
nf al
ache cure caused her death.
The importation of strike breakers
from st. Louis to work on the Pensa-
cola railways caused fierce rioting
in which Is of the non-union men were
injured.
Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham, rec
tor of the Roman Catholic Church of
the Blessed Sacrament in Albany, N.
Y, shot himself twice in the heart and
died almost instantly.
Massachusetts Republicans elected
an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional convention, but a plank in the
platform admitted Taft was the choice
of majority in the state convention.
One man killed, railroad traffic i'm
peded, cave-ins on the electric and st.
Louis & San Francisco lines near Jop-
ling and mines in the Badger-Peacock
district inundated were some of the
features of the flood that swept south
west Missouri
Charles A. Murphey, a prominent
lawyer and real estate dealer of New
York, committed suicide in a room in
the Aston house by shooting through
the head. His suicide is attributed to
financial troubles.
At meeting of the board of trus-
tees of Princeton university announce
ment was made of the gift of $250,0O0
from Mrs. Russell Sage for a dormi-
tory building to be used by members
of the freshman class.
Gov. Hughes of New York, whose
anti-gambling bills were defeated, told
the legislature he would not give up
the fight and intimated he would call
a special session to adopt the legisla-
ton.
Because his mother, Susan Carlin,
had sent him to various reformatory
institutions in which he was a prison
er for many years, Bernard Carlin
shot and instantly killed her at her
home in Brooklyn.
Judge Phelan in Detroit scored a
jury for acquitting Percy Bowin of
murder to which he had confessed.
In order to present military service