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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20

frank statement of the world policy
of the German empire, and also with
being very good friend to Great
Britain. The publication was fol-
lowed by furious outbreak in Ger
many against his majesty. He was
most severely criticised in the German
press and in the reichstag for his in
discretion, and for unwarranted inter
ference in the state affairs of the ma
ton. Prince Won Buelow replied to
these criticisms in the reichstag, and
said that the emperor in the future
would refrain from a repetition of his
action
Teuton Tempers Aroused.
During the meeting the chancellor
explained clearly to his majesty the
temper of the German people on the
matter. Whether or not the chancel-
lor remained in office depended on how
the emperor accepts his statements.
Official Paper Tells All.
The Reichsanzeiger, the official ga
zette of the empire, published Tuesday
with the sanction of the emperor the
following statement:
I'm the course of the audience
granted by the emperor to Chancellor
Won Buelow the chancellor described
to the emperor the mood of the ma
ton and explained his position with
reference to the debate in the reich
stag of last Tuesday. The emperor
listened to these explanations with
great earnestness, and expressed his
will as follows:
Needless of the obvious incorrect
exaggerations, his majesty consid-
cred his principal aim to be to secure
the continuance of the imperial poll.
cies under the safeguard of constitu.
tional responsibilities; he approved
the chancellor's address in the reich.
stag and assured the prince of his con.
tinued confidence"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
BALLOON SCARS OVER sIERRAs.
Then "United States" Is Hurled Back
Toward Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. 1S.-The big
racing balloon United States" which
started from here in an attempt to
cross the mountains for long eastern
flight, encountered adverse winds,
and after soaring 125 miles over the
tops of the snow-capped Sierra Madre.
was hurled back to within so miles of
Los Angeles Tuesday. They made an
other start Tuesday from Ontario.
A telephone message from Merrills
ranch, 21a miles froom Ontario, a
point about so miles due eastward of
this city, said the United States"
started over the ranch in a westerly
direction. Pilot Wild in the balloon
called to the sranchers to catch his
guide rope, which was trailing on the
ground. The rope was secured and
the balloon anchored. Wild and his
assistant spent the night on the
ground at the ranch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
SEVERE HEMoRRHoIDS
Sores, and Itching Eczema-Doctor
Thought an Operation Necessary
-Cuticura's Efficacy Proven.

'T am now 80 years old, and three
years ago I was taken with an at
tack of piles (hemorrhoids), bleeding
and protruding. The doctor said the
only help for me was to go to a
hospital and be operated on. I tried
several remedies for months but did
not get much help. During this time
sores appeared which changed to a
terrible itching eczema. Then I began
to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and
Pills, injecting quantity of Cuticura
Ointment with Cuticura Suppository
Syringe. 1t took a month of this
treatment to get me in fairly healthy
state and then treated myself once
day for three months and, after that,
once or twice week. The treatments
I tried took a lot of money, and it is
fortunate that I used Cuticura. j. H.
Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y, Apr
26. 1907"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
WARNED OF THE CYCLONE.
Telephone Just a Few Seconds Ahead
of High Wind.

Once upon a time a Kansas zephyr
broke loose and meandered about the
country, picking up various things.
Bill Baumgartner's telephone, 20 miles
away, rang:
as that you, Bill?" yelled an excited
voice.
Eyes. What's the matter?"
'"This is Frank We've got a cyclone
down here, and it's headed your way.
Look out! L" Franks voice broke
off suddenly. Bill heard crash and
sputtering, then all was silence. He
gathered up his family and rushed
them to a deep ravine. They were just
in time to dodge funnel-shaped cloud
that wrecked the house, picked up his
barn, two cows, and couple of miles
of fence.-Hampton's Broadway Maya
zine
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Hastings.-Andrew J. Anderson, a
well-known young man of this city,
was accidentally killed at Gold Creek,
Mont.
st. Paul.-Fire department called on
to rescue a woman who drops
twenty feet into an excavation on
Eighth street.
Duluth.-The Indians on Fond du
Lac reservation received their install
ment on annuity this week amount
ing to $3.50 per head.
st. Paul.-William Smith, who has
saloon at 300 East Sixth street,
was arrested by United States mar.
shall on a charge that he had violated
the revenue laws by refilling whiskey
bottles bearing government stamps.
Duluth.-Thomas McGraw, aged
nineteen, living with his parents at
Sixth, West and Fourth streets, was
fatally hurt by the passenger elevator
in Stocks & Co.'s store.
Rosemount. = Martin McDonough,
farmer shot by a coahman on Dodd
county road, tells of terrible expe-
riences through the night.
Minneapolis. Frank Shercliffe, no
torious desperado, is in Hennepin
county Jail after eventful flight from
authorities of many states; makes
desperate struggles to escape.
Minneapolis.-E. G. Beauvier, q
switchman, is charged with illegally
securing three pairs of hose for 9
friend; duplicates railroad employees
in organized thievery.
Washington.--Jacob G.. Schroeder
has been appointed regular carrier
for Mountain Lake, Mimi, and WI
liam F. Schroeder is named az sub
stitute.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
UPWARD START
After Changing from Coffee to Postum

Many a talented person is kept back
because of the interference of coffee
with the nourishment of the body.
This is especially so with those
whose nerves are very sensitive, as is
often the case with talented persons.
There is simple, easy way to get rid
of coffee evils and Tenn. lady's ex-
perience along these lines is worth
considering. She says:
almost from the beginning of the
use of coffee it hurt my stomach. By
the time was fifteen I was almost
nervous wreck, nerves all unstrung, no
strength to endure the most trivial
thing, either work or fun.
There was scarcely anything ]
could eat that would agree with me.
The little did eat seemed to give me
more trouble than it was worth. I
finally quit coffee and drank hot
water, but there was so little food
could digest, was literally starving;
was so weak I could not sit up long
at a time.
"Tt was then a friend brought me q
hot cup of Postum. I drank part Of 1t
and after an hour I felt as though l
had had something to eat = felt
strengthened. That was about five
years ago, and after continuing Post
um in place of coffee and gradually
getting stronger, to-day / can eat and
digest anything want, walk as much
as I want. My nerves are steady.
81 believe the first thing that did me
any good and gave me an upward
start, was Postum, and I use it alto
gether now instead Of coffee" There's
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, truce and full Of huma1
interest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
ROAD DEMURRER is SUSTAINED.
Attorney General Receives Body Blow
in Massachusetts Court.

Boston, Nov. 1S.-The demurrer of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad to the bill of information by
Attorney Geenral Malone of Massa-
chusetts, to prevent the New Haven
railroad from holding stock of the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad, was sustained
Tuesday by Judge Loring in the
equity session Of the Massachusetts,
supreme judicial court for Suffolk
county. The court sustained the con-
tention of the railroad that the bill of
information is not sufficiently specific.
The attorney general is given two
weeks in which to amend the orig
inal bill
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20

ternational gathering at Washington
in the fourth week of September is far
more important in it's world aspects
than peace congress at London or an
arbitration meeting at The Hague.
The common enemy of the nations
is the white plague. 1t is being studied
by the ablest of the worlds investi-
gators. Already they feel the exulta-
ton of victory. The program of topics
for the congress reveals the lines of
battle and tells its story of encourage.
ment. The white plague must co.
Chicago Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
OBITUARY..

Tsze Hsi An, dowager empress of
China, died a few hours after the de.
mise of the emperor and Prince Pu-Yi,
three years old, was placed on the
throne.
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, an
uncle of Emperor Nicholas, died in
Paris of pneumonia, aged So years.
He had lived in Paris almost continu-
ously since 1905, the year of his re-
tirement from the position of supreme
director of the navy. which position
he had held for "a years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
cONFEssEs HUGE FRAUDS
CHICAGO REAL ESTATE MAN Is
SENT TO PENITENTIARY.
Peter Van vIissengen Admits That for
Years He Has Been Forging
Securities.

Chicago, Nov. 18.-Confessing his
authorship of an endless chain of
forgeries involving more than 100000,
Peter Van Vlissingen, for many years
a prominent real estate mar and once
reputed wealthy, was indicted, tried
and sentenced to the penitentiary.
The confession of the real estate
man revealed scheme of systematic
and cunning forgery of notes and real
estate trust deeds and mortgages ex-
tending over period of Is years.
The genuine paper and securities he
counterfeited so artfully as to defy
detection, and both the genuine and
the spurious he sold in widely-scat-
tered parts of this country and in Eu-
rope. The forgeries were tracings
made with the aid of an electrical
tracing device.
For nearly two decades he managed
to liquidate the fraudulent paper when.
1t fell due and in that way avoided
exposure, but recently he became
unable to meet the demands of this
endless chain, and, despairing of fur
ther immunity, confessed his guilt to
two friends he had swindled. 1t is es-
timated that the spurious paper and
securities outstanding at this time are
scattered among about rs holders and
amount to about 100000.
All records for dispatch in the
states attorneys Office were broken
in the indictment and trial of Van
Vlissingen. Within an hour and a
half after the charge was laid before
the grand jury the real estate man
had been sentenced to prison.
Van Vlissingen would loan a sum of
money and take a mortgage or
trust deed as security. The notes and
securities would be made out in due
form, signed by the parties, approved
by Vanderpoel, and recorded with the
county recorder. The real estate man
then would lock himself in his private
office, where he had desk specially
designed to aid his forgeries.
In the top of this desk was a large
hole covered by piece of plate glass
and beneath which was an incandes-
cent electric light.
Placing the genuine mortgage on
the glass he would cover it with a
similar blank form and turn on the
light beneath the desk. Instantly the
signatures. and notations on the genu-
inc instrument would be outlined on
the blank. 1t then was simple mat
ter for Van Vlissingen to trace the
signatures on the blank and turn out
copy that even he himself had great
difficulty in distinguishing from the
original.
Sometimes he made two, three and
even more copies of each original doc
ument and then proceeded to sell the
securities many times over. The gen.
uine he would sell in Chicago, one
spurious one he would sell in New
England, another out west, another
down south, and another in Germany
or Holland, his native country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

In the Lamphere trial at Laporte
the state introduced three letters writ
ten by Mrs. Belle Guinness to A. K.
Helgelein during March and April, this
year, in which references to that
crazy Lamphere" are made.
Two arrests were made in the $751;
600 South Bend post Office robbery
case.
The contributions of the Demo
cratic national committee during the
presidential campaign recently ended
were not sufficient to meet the ex-
penses of the campaign, according to
Norman E. Mack, chairman of the
committee. Mr.. Mack said that he
would make the deficit good out of his
own pocket.
Six men were instantly killed and
another dangerously injured at Ellis
worth mine No. 1, in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, when a cage
fell 2S5 feet down the shaft.
Two trainmen were killed and two
badly injured by the explosion of a
freight engine at Hayti, Mo.
Muskingum, Tuscarawas and Han
cock counties, Ohio, voted out the
saloons.
Secretary of War Wright told the
house ways and means committee that
he favored limited free entry on
sugar and tobacco from the Philip
pines.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the National Municipal league, the six
teenth national conference for good
city government and the fourth annual
meeting of the American Civic associ-
atson assembled in joint convention in
Pittsburg, Pa.
Peter Van Vlissingen of Chicago,
well-known real estate dealer, con-
fessed to wholesale forgeries of trust
deeds and notes amounting to about
100000, and within four hours was in
dicted, convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary for term not less than
one and not more than IA years.
George M. Kellogg, florist we'll
known all over the United States,
died at his home at Pleasant Hill, Mo.
The appointment of Col George H.
Torney as surgeon general of the
army to succeed Surg Gen. r. M.
OReilly was announced by the secre-
tary of war.
Fire in the business district of Ben.
ton Harbor, Mich, destroyed property
valued at $125,000.
Four children persisted in fire that
destroyed the country home of John
Wampfer near Alliance, o.
The jury in the Lamphere murder
case at Laporte, Ind, was completed
the states attorney made his open
ing statement and the introducing OF
evidence was begun.
George S. Terry of New York has
been appointed assistant treasurer Of
the United States to succeed Hamilton
Fish.
The Illinois state board of equaliza
ton fixed the total assessed valuation
of property in the state at $1,263,
515,156, against $1,251, 974,S06 in 1907
The Register and Leader of Des
Moines, Ia, has bought the Daily Trib
une. an afternoon Democratic daily.
President Roosevelt Thursday re
ceived at the White House about sol
farmers and their wives. who were at
tending the convention of the Nationa
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
The Fight for Humanity.

The great modern wars are fights
for humanity. The old-style war
brought sorrow, and evil and death.
1t was often fought for the interests
of an individual or a dynasty. The
warfare of to-day is carried on for
the good of the millions. Its success
will mean happiness, prosperity and
life.
The holiness with which men Of
science are attacking disease is no
more notable than the faith they seem
to have in ultimate triumph. The in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Uncle Ben Liked Her.

A Kansas City girl recently married
q man who lives in one of the smaller
nearby towns, and went there with
him to :. live. The bridegroom was
naturally eager that his relatives
should like his bride and as one, an
old farmer, voiced no complimentary
opinion in his hearing he at last
asked:
Uncle Ben, what do you think OF
my wife?"
oval, for fact, George" responded
the old fellow, you shore outmarried
yourself."-Kansas City Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
NEWS Of A WEEK
IN
TENTED FORM
Epitome of the Most
Important Events
Gathered From All
Points of the Globe.
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Secretary of State Root said he
would serve as senator from New
York if elected, though he was moi
seeking the office.
The pope celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of his joining the priest
hood.
c. w. Burton, former cashier of the
Tri-City State bank Of Madison, Ill.
was indicted for embezzlement.
President-elect Taft announced tina,
he would call special session of con
gress soon after March 4 to take UP
tariff revision.
Senator Elkins made the emphatic
announcement that no engagement ex
lists between his daughter, Miss Cath
crime Elkins and the Duke d'Bruzzi.
Rather than suffer the disgrace OF
arrest on charge of forgery, Rollo 7.
Sturgis, one of the states chief wit
nesses against Abe Raymer, alleged
leader of the Springfield Qll) race
riots, shot and killed himself.
The German politician and theolo-
gian, DR.. Adolf Stocker, we'll known as
an anti-Semite leader, resigned his
seat In the reichstag after almost 20
years continuous membership in that
body
Secretary of the Navy Victor H.
Metcalf rendered his resignation to
the president to take effect December
1 on account of ill health. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Truman H.
Newberry will be named as Mr.. Met
calls successor.
William Arnold Shanklin, president
of Upper Iowa university, Fayette, Ia,
was elected president of Wesleyan
university, Middletown, Conn.
Dean Thomas Frederick Crane of
the Cornell university faculty, who
has been connected with the uni
versity for Al years, has resigned.
Gov. Hughes filed his certificate OF
election expenses with the secretary
of state of New York, giving his total
expenditures as $369.65.
Prof. Richard MacLaurin, head OF
the physics department of Columbia
university, was appointed president OF
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Julius is First,

st. Paul.-Julius A. Schmahl, Sec
rotary of state, set good example to
other state candidates by being the
first to file an election expense &C.
count. He did not have to go far
as the law prescribes that the &C.
counts shall be filed in his Office.
Mr.. Schmahl states that he spent
$834.75. Of this sum, $500 went to
the republican state central commit.
tee; $50 to the Redwood county re-
publican club; $50 for filing fee,
and the balance for railraod fare,
hotel bills and incidentals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Wilson Is Attorney General.

Trenton, N. j., Nov 1S.-Gov. Fort
Tuesday announced the appointment
of Edmund Wilson of Monmouth as at
torney general to succeed Robert H.
McCarter, resigned. Mr.. Wilson was
one of the state railroad commission
ers and Gov. Fort has appointed in his
place Frank S. Sommers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Nav Be Adopted,

Minneapolis.-If ten counties are an
indication of what the other seventy
five have done, the constitutional
amendment providing for educational
qualifications for county superintend-
ents of schools is the only one Of
the four submitted at the last cleo
ton that passed, although the good
roads amendment came quite close
to getting the necessary majority of
the votes cast.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Girl Shot in Play.

Hibbing. edna Geary, IL years
old, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Geary, was accidentally shot
and killed while rehearsing with
other children in an amateur play.
She was the "villianess" and Rus
sell Barrett, aged IL, was the "hero."
While reciting the lines of the play,
young Barrett aimed gun, not sup
posed to be loaded, at the girl, and
pulled the trigger. The little one fell
dead.
The tragedy occurred at the home
Of W. G. Barrett, father of the boy,
livery man.
The play had progressed to the
point where the villianess stole the
valuable papers,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Official CHARGED with Theft.

Columbus, Ca, Nov. 18.-E. B. AL
monds, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the
Beach Hardware Company, was ar
rested on an indictment charging the
embezzlement of $4,000 from the
company's funds. He was released on
$4,000 bail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Probe Acquits Accused Officials.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-The investi-
cation into the charges of pernicious
political activity against Archie D.
Sanders, collector of internal revenue
at Rochester, N. Y, and John A. Mer-
rift, collector of customs at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, has been completed and it
is understood that the facts brought
out are not considered serious enough
to warrant the removal of these Of
ficialS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Must Enroll coIored Students.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Nov. 49,
Judge Perkins in the Kent circuit
court Tuesday issued a mandamus di-
recting the Grand Rapids Veterinary
college to accept the entrance appli-
cations of Felix D. Booker and Wes-
ley ID. Mccoy, two colored students.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Boy Confesses Brutal Murder.

Hamilton, Ca, Nov. 1S.-Gene Dou-
dell, 16-year-old negro, confessed to
killing Ernest Walsh, IL years old, al
so colored, beating linn on the head
with a rock and throwing the body
into creek, after robbing it of So.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
NOT EXACTLY.

Flossie Footlight-Part of the JAP
anese wedding ceremony consists in
the burning of the discarded toys Of
the bride.
Winnie Wings-Horrors! You don't
mean cremating her cast-off lovers, do
you?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Boy Murderer.

Brainerd.-John Bushaway, Jr., the
10-year-old son of John Bushaway of
West Brainerd, was instantly killed
by Ralph Murray, the 11-year-old
son of neighbor.
The boys had quarreled and young
Murray and companion went to the
house and got rifle and loaded it,
Murray then shooting Bushaway in
the throat, killing him instantly. The
only witness to the crime was Frank
Bushaway, an 8-year-old brother of
the victim
The two Bushaway boys were pill
ing brush across the street from the
Murray bSne when the tragedy oc.
Cured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
Boy Drowned.

Eveleth.-William Rosila, "a ten
year-old boy, fell through the ice
while playing on the Fayal mine
pond. John Benson, workman,
tried to save him, but both were
drowned. Joe Muhick, sixteen years
old, who with Benson attempted to
rescue the lad, had very narrow es-
cape.
1t was the old story of venturing
on the ice too early. Owing to the
low temperature of the past few
weeks thin, sheet of ice has formed
on all small bodies of water. On the
Fayal pond it was quite extensive and
tempted the boy. He was walking
and sliding when the ice gave way
and he fell through.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-11-20
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered In the
GOpI.es State
Gored by Bull.

st. Charles.-Lying on cot in
the general hospital at Winona, the
surgeons working heroically to stop
the flow of blood from gaping wounds
in her thigh and hip, Mrs. Thomas
Griffith of Homer, Winona county, is
the survivor of the most frightful
experience that has ever befallen .
resident of this vicinity.
Mrs. Griffith, who is the wife of
well-to-do farmer, was crossing pas
ture accompanied by a small dog,
wher a bull which had never before
displayed any dangerous tendencies
stopped right in her path.
The dog barked and the bull
charged at him full tilt. The dog
quickly swerving to one side, how
ever, the engraged beast turned up
on Mrs. Griffith, and before the un-
fortunate woman had an opportunity
to get out of his way, struck her full
on the side with both horns, bearing
her down and tearing frightful
wounds through her thigh and hip.
The Robesonian., 1908-12-07
Death of Mrs. J.H. KinIaw.

Mrs. Minnie Smith, wife of
Mr.. J. H. Kinlaw, died at her
home in Howellsyille township
Thursday morning about 5 clock
after an illness of about eight
weeks. She was the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Smith, also
Of Howellsville township, and
had been married less than a
year. Besides her parents and
some brothers and sisters, she
leaves her husband and an infant
eight weeks old.
The deceased was a good Chris
tian woman who was held in
high esteem by all who knew
her. The funeral took place Fri
day about noon from Regan's
Methodist church, services being
conducted by her pastor, Rev. F.
F. Eure, and the remains were
inferred in the cemetery at the
church. She was about 20 years
old