The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-07

I United States military academy at
West Point for hazing.
Grand Army men in Ohio started
movement to raise money by popular
| subscription to build big United
States battleship.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Hamburg-America line pier and
great quantity of merchandise, the
loss being about 100000.
Twenty-four miners were entombed
| by a cave-in in coal mine at Crows
Nest Pass, B. G. Twenty-one Of them
were rescued, having been kept alive
by leaking compressed air pipes.
Mrs. Ralph Harris Of Kansas City,
Mo-, and her five-year-old son were
drowned at Walloon lake, Michigan.
David Lamasuey, dealer in fine
horses, who travelled extensively but
had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method at
Burlington, Ia. he was temporarily
deranged by the heat.
w. B. Whitwell, who kept country
store in Ripley county, Missouri, was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
as deserter.
Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele-
plant ever in captivity, died in his
prison house at the geological gardens
in Philadelphia.
The Hotel Roberval on Lake st.
John, Canada, was destroyed by fire,
all the guests escaping.
A demurrer by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company
as defendant in the action brought
against it by the United States gov
eminent, was filed in the United States
district court at Boston.
The mining town of Stafford, w.
Va, was wrecked by the explosion of
100 kegs Of powder.
Carl Burton, % years old, recent
graduate of the University Of Chi
cago, and heir to property worth
100000 in Aurora, was fatally in
jured in an automobile crash in Chi
cago.
Three masked men held up and
robbed an elevated ticket agent in
Chicago.
Leonard Hendricks of Cranston, R.
l., killed himself and his two little
daughters by means of gas.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
freight house at Chillicothe, Mo-, was
wrecked by robbers, who blew open
the safe and escaped with $500.
After an all-day conference of the
leading government prosecuting off,
GERS and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso.
ia, 1t was announced by Attorney Gen.
eral Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass, that
every effort would be made to secure
a revision Of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States circuit
court of appeals in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
William Oliver, young aeronaut of
Mason, Mich, was killed while making
a parachute drop at Hague park, near
Jackson, Mich.
A woman was killed and nine other
passengers were injured in panic on
trolley car on the Brooklyn bridge
when fuse blew out.
G. Winthrop Sands, stepson of w.
X. Vanderbilt, was killed just outside
the grounds of Mr.. Vanderbilt's coun-
try seat, the Chateau St. Louis de
Poissy, 20 miles from Paris, by the
wrecking of his automobile. He was
pinned under the car, which exploded,
and was shockingly manned and
burned.
One man was killed and a score
wounded in an attempt of mob to
storm the Jail at Pensacola, Fla, and
take out Leander A. Shaw, a negro
who assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis. The
mob finally secured the negro and
hanged him.
Sayyid Muhammed, the Persian Ma
tionalist leader and the foremost ora
tor of the recent parliament, called
the Persian Mirabeau," was assas.
sinated at Hamadan, presumably by
agents of the shah.
Frank T. Wells, aged 81, of Keno
sha, Wis, was arrested in Cambridge,
Mass. as fugitive from justice. He
is wanted at Kenosha on the charge
of larceny of $4,000 from the First Ma
tional bank of that place, on October
-, 1907.
Frank Litzenberger, owner of the
Eaton Lumber company, committed
suicide at Eaton, o., by wading into
the middle of creek and firing a bull
let into the roof of his mouth.
Miss Clare L. McNown, member Of
the Eau Claire high school faculty,
wac drowned in pioa 1oLo NUicoone;,
An adopted daughter of Benjamin
Hart, American millionaire who died
in France, began fight to secure a
share of his estate.
The sultan of Turkey proclaimed
general amnesty to all political fugi.
tives from Turkey in America.
Democrats of West Virginia nomi.
mated Louis Bennett for governor and
Endorsed negro disfranchisement.
The village of Mehrn in the Austrian
Tyrol was destroyed by a landslide,
about 16 persons being killed.
Infatuated because she had filed suit
for the annulment of her marriage,
Grover Willoughby, 81 years old, shot
and killed his 17-year-old bride of less
than week at Lebanon, Mo-, and
killed himself
Joseph Chamberlain returned to
England from the continent in a very
grave condition. His eyesight is seri-
ously affected.
President Castro has issued decree
prohibiting the dispatch of vessels
with cargo for Grenada or other
islands in the Antilles, thereby clos
ing The Venezuelan gulf ports entirely