The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29

Joseph ScnuetCe, prosperous IdTIHel
and a member of the church, who Is
believed to have become suddenly de-
| mented.
Lipman Kessler of Brooklyn shot
and killed Miss Nina E. Doane because
she rejected him, and day later
killed himself.
Texas was swept by terrific wind
and rainstorm that cost number of
lives and did immense damage to
crops In Oklahoma torrential rains
caused floods that stopped railway
traffic and destroyed much property.
Secretary w. F. Saunders of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway asso-
citation issued call for the third an
nual convention of the association to
be held in Chicago October 6, and g..
The week beginning September 81
was announced as the time for the an
nual convention of the American
Bankers association in Denver.
The proposed ocean yacht race in
August from Palos to the Canary is
lands to- commemorate the four hun
dredth and sixteenth anniversary Of
the sailing of Columbus, which, it was
expected, would attract many yachts
men from the United States and South
America, probably will be abandoned
The big Morrell airship at Berkeley,
Cal, collapsed and fell 800 feet, seven
of her crew being severely injured.
Justice Budenbender of Hoboken, N.
j., says he married Nine. Anna Gould
and Prince de Sagan before they
sailed for Europe.
With distinguished men as speakers
the bronze statue Of United States
Senator Marcus A. Hanna was I'M
yelled in Cleveland, o., by his daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick and
Mrs. Mabel Hanna Parsons.
President Fallieres of France went
to London to return the visits of
King Edward and others of the Brit
ish royal family.
B. Kvasnicka, Chicago jeweler,
was murdered at his country home
near North Judson, Ind, and work
man whom he had discharged was ar
rested for the crime.
Two persons were killed and AZ in
jured by an explosion in sugar re-
finery in Paris, France.
Old Christ church, Philadelphia, an
historical edifice, was badly damaged
by lightning.
Two bridge workers were killed and
three injured in Detroit by the fall of
a steel girder.
That Mrs. Guinness was dead was
made certain by the finding of her
false teeth in the ruins Of her home.
near Laporte. Ind.
The Laporte county Qnd) grand
jury returned seven true bills against
Ray Lamphere. Mrs. Belle Guinness,
also was indicted, in order that a
true bill might be found against
Lamphere as accessory in the murder
of Andrew Helgelein.
The Lusitania broke all trans-Atlan-
tic records for average speed and for
time over the long course.
Lightning struck the shaft of the
Superior Coal mine at Ogle Station,
near Belleville, ILL.,, and imprisoned
the night shift of 100 men for almost
an hour.
Mrs. Rosie Aronwall, an inmate of
the Home Of the Daughters Of Jacob
at New York, celebrated her one hun
dred and seventh birthday with
party. One man present was LOG
years old, and the oldest woman there
was 112.
Mayor Mcbride of Paterson, N. j.,
ordered suit for libel begun in behalf
of the city against New York maya
sine which calls Paterson the home
Of anarchists"
a bill in equity to restrain the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
company from exercising any control
over the Boston & Maine railroad, and
the various trolley lines it has &C
quired, was filed in the United States
circuit court at Boston.
Zenas Crane of Dalton, Mass, gave
$4,000 toward equipping Commander
Peary's arctic expedition.
A new moderator of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States
was elected at Kansas City in the per-
son of Rev. DR.. Baxter P. Fullerton of
| ST. Louis. He succeeds Rev. DR.. Will
liam H. Roberts of Philadelphia
The Illinois supreme court issued a
writ of mandamus against the mayor
and members of the city council of
| Alton requiring the city officials to
permit Ambrose and Minnie Bibb,
negroes, to attend the same school in
which white pupils are taught.
Strikers in Cleveland again resorted
to violence, blowing up several cars
with dynamite. Two persons were
seriously injured and eight others
hurt.
| About 60 persons were killed and
100 injured at Contich, six miles
southeast of Antwerp, in one of the
most disastrous railway collisions
that has occurred in Europe for MANY
| years.
The big United States collier Vestal
was launched at New York and
christened by Admiral Goodrich's
daughter.
Rioting became more serious in
Cleveland. Strikers burned car ant
in a pistol fight with guards four mer
were shot.
The marriage of Miss Helen Ma
loney of Philadelphia to Arthur H. Os
borne was annulled by order of Justice
Mccall of the supreme court of New
York. This leaves her the wife Of
Samuel Clarkson.
Fire destroyed half the bushes:
section of Russell, Man., the loss be