The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-12-25

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they are part heirs to an estate in the
heart of Wilmington, Del, worth
| $50, 100000.
1t is feared that the anti-fofeign
/ movement at Canton, originally caused
| by the death of coolie on the steam
er Falshan, will eliminate in all cut
break against all foreigners.
Two little children were cremated
when the home of Edward Toner was
burned in the village of Interlachen,
Mich.
William R. Kelley, cashier of the
Union Pacific railroad at South
Omaha, committed suicide at his home
in that city by sending bullet
through his brain.
Abe Raymer, alleged mob leader in
the Springfield Qll) riots, was con-
victed of the larceny of colored off,
GERS sword.
Robbers raided the State bank at
Ceresco, Ia, and secured $4,000.
Edward Parks, who threw bottle
at the opening baseball game of the
Central league season at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, last May and killed Willie
Haverkamp, a small boy, was found
not guilty of manslaughter.
The Virginia & Rainy Lake Lumber
Company was formed at Duluth, Mimi,
with $20,000,000 capital and Edward
Hines of Chicago as president F. E.
Weyerhauser is treasurer.
The nine-hour day law for workers
in the British coal mines was passed
by parliament.
Six robbers, after dynamiting the
safes of the Farmers State bank at
Keene, Neb., and the Commercial bank
of Gibbon, Neb., engaged in a pitched
battle here with a number of citizens
and escaped in an automobile with
$500.
Enraged because his former sweet
heart, Miss Maud Hartley, had reject
ed him, James B. Harmon, the 1S-year-
old son of Police Sergeant James M.
Harmon, shot and killed her on the
street in Somerville, Mass.
The four men convicted in the Penn
sylvania capitol fraud case were SEN
fenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary, $500 fine and costs, the maxi
mum punishment allowed by law, and
were released on 100000 bail on SUI
persedeas.
Frank Cain, city marshal of Higbee.
Mo-, was shot and probably fatally
wounded and Elmer Magruder was in
stantly killed in the city Jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on
charge of robbing a railway station at
Salisbury, Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and 10
men are seriously ill at Keithley
camp, Mindanao island, as a result of
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
drinking calumbic acid, vegetable
compound extracted from the calumbe
root.
Six hundred pupils calmly marched
out of the high school at Altoona, Pa,
which was on fire.
The Council of Jewish Women,
through DR.. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man of the committee on purity of the
press, has issued an appeal to newspa-
pers for the elimination of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
On a charge of criminal libel, made
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., S. s. Car
valho, president of the Star Company,
publishers of William R. Hearst's New
York American, was arrested in New
York.
Frederick A Storm, a real estate
dealer, testified in the trial of Thorn
ton ]. Hams, as principal with his
brother, Capt Peter C. Hams, in the
killing of William E. Annis, that the
defendant had inquired as to the
whereabouts of Annis shortly before
the latter sailed up to the dock where
Re was shot Charles Birchfield,
friend of Annis, declared that Thorn
ton Hams drove him back with
drawn revolver when he sought to
stop the shooting
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounced that he would not renew his
order, issued in December, 1907, per-
hitting delivery to charitable organi-
cations of letters addressed to Santa
Claus"
Oregon Railroad & Navigation train
No. 1, known as the Chicago -Portland
special, was held up and the express
car dynamited by four masked rob-
bers nine miles east of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger o. H. Huff said
the robbers secured little of value.
Nine companies, with their subsid-
iaries, are named as constituting an
illegal combination in the final de-
cree, filed in the United States cir
cult court at New York, putting into
effect the judgment recently OBJ
tanned by the government in its suit
to dissolve the so-called tobacco
trust
The Dutch battleship Jacob van
Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship % de Mayo and towed it to
Curacao. In Berlin President Castro
called on the German chancellor and
was examined by physician.
In an encounter with five unknown
men Marshal F. C. Woods of Green
witch, o., was fatally wounded and
killed one of his assailarts.
Men cried and women tainted in
the streets of Napoleon, O., when they
found notice of assignment posted
on the doors of the Citizens State
bank.
| Rev. Joseph L. Sullens of Spring
| field Mo was shot and killed acct