The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24


ing the rules by wearing specially pre-
pared shoes, made a protest, which
was overruled, and then withdrew.
Canadian and French athletes also
were dissatisfied with the management
of the games.
Martin ]. Sheridan of the Irish
American Athletic club of New YORK
and Ralph Rose of the Olympic club
of San Francisco were the star per-
formers in the Olympic games at Lon
don, winning two gold medals Tor
America. Sheridan was first In the
discus throwing and Rose was first In
putting the shot.
The third day of the Olympic games
Great Britain won two gold medals
and France and Sweden one each.
America won second place In team
race.
American athletes captured two gold
medals on the second day OF the
Olympic games in London. John J.
Flanagan won the hammer throw,
breaking the Olympic record, and M.
W. Sheppard won the 1,5O0-meter run.
An effort to regain possession OF
thousands of acres Of public school
lands sold in Kansas during recent
years is to be made. Evidence mas
been obtained of fraud by spectators
in getting valuable lands at $l.Z5 per
acre.
Supreme Court Justice Morchauser
of New York made permanent an In
junction restraining the Improved Be-
nevolent and Protective Order OF Elks
Of the World from using it's present
name and title. The order is COM
posed of negroes.
Princess Amelie Louise Of FursteIs"
burg and Gustav Kozian, an employee
of an automobile firm, with whom she
eloped last May, were married in the
castle chapel at Kammerberg, Aus
tria.
Several fatal encounters between
strikers and officers took place in
Alabama and Gov. Conner ordered out
the state troops.
Persian revolutionists routed the
government forces at Tabriz and
sacked the houses of officials.
President McCrea of the Pennsylva-
mia company said the decision of the
conference of railway presidents in
New York was that the time was not
opportune for raising freight rates.
Waldorf Astor, the eldest son Of
William Waldorf Astor, was chosen
as conservative candidate for member
Of parliament from Plymouth at the
next general election.
Frank Johnson, colored, was hanged
at Moundsville, Va, for the murder of
Mrs Beulah Martin. He confessed to
five other murders.
William Hill, a barber at the Sol
diers' Home in Milwaukee, killed him
self after he had killed Mrs. Kimbell,
said to have been his wife, though
known by the name of former hus-
band, and Joe Biettner.
Three thousand two hundred men of
the Atlantic battleship fleet, all wear
ing leis, paraded the streets Of Homo.
lulu.
The Farmers & Merchants Banking
company of Cleveland, o., failed after
a run by it's depositors.
Fire believed to have been of incen-
diary origin destroyed the plant of the
Elk Tanning company at Everett. Pa,
the loss being $350,O00.
Charles w. Hamilton, assistant dis
trict attorney of Allegheny county;
Pennsylvania, residing at Elizabeth,
committed suicide because of i'll
health.
Olga, Wilhelmina and Frederick,
triplets born January 10 to Mrs. Adolph
LEOPOLD, wife of the gardener of the
Lutheran cemetery at Newtown, N.
Y, are dead, as the result of the heat.
Mrs. Frank ]. Gould's divorce suit
was not dismissed, as reported, efforts
of friends to effect reconciliation be-
ing futile.
A freight steamer ran down the
schooner Lilley off Lorain, o., and the
crew of the schooner jumped into the
lake and were saved.
Mrs. John Dietz, wife of the famous
defender of Cameron dam, near Win
ter, Wis, finished fast of Sc days to
cure appendicitis and according to her
husband she succeeded.
One woman was killed, two were
perhaps MORALLY injured, and nearly
dozen persons were seriously hurt
when the White Mountain Express, of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, was wrecked near Greenwich,
Conn.
A terrific earthquake occurred in
the Province of Tacna and africa, in
Chile, the southern part of Peru and
Bolivia. Considerable destruction of
property, but no loss of life, is re-
ported.
Posing for years as white girl,
negress of great beauty, killed her
self by firing bullet into her right
temple because her Course of blood"
had left a trail of disaster and death
in it's wake.
Circuit Judge Reynolds of ST. Louis
ruled that steam laundries may go
as far as they like in combining to
maintain prices, as, owing to other
methods of washing clothes, such a
combination would not be in restraint
of trade.
Alfonso Costa, Republican leader in
the Portuguese house of peers. wound
ed Count Penha-Garcia in the arm in
a duel.
OBITUARY.
Capt. Martin E. Brown, one of the
best-known steamboat men on the