The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
While or,ile Wright was making

Lieut.. Thomas E. Selfridge of the
Army Signal corps, who was with
Wright, was SO badly injured that he
died a few hours later. Wright sus
| tanned very severe but not fatal in
| juries. The tragical mishap was wit
messed by about 1000 persons.
Negroes shot and killed Charles
Jones, member of their own race
who killed a white man and two
negroes at Eden Station, Miss.
Anxiety is filling the heart of the
New England farmer for drought
which is pronounced to be one of the
| seVerest in many years, has spread it
self over the New England states
causing suffering to people, cattle and
| crops.
Panic seized the passengers on the
| giant liner Mauretania during storm
at sea when an accident to one of the
| propeller blades caused the mighty
vessel to bob about for about five
minutes in most terrifying manner.
Newspapers of Lisbon declare King
| Manuel is arranging to marry an Eng
| lish princess.
A dispute which arose over nickel
during the progress Of a dice game
eliminated in the shooting and instant
killing OF Clabe Payne by Brack John
son, near Maysville, Ky.
Gov. Hoke Smith signed the bill,
passed by the Georgia legislature.
which practically ends the convict
lease system.
1t is reported in Paris that Prince
Miguel of Braganza, eldest son of Dom
Miguel, pretender to the throne of
Portugal, was recently secretly mar
ried to Mrs. Samuel Sloan Chauncey,
rich American widow.
The board of signal officers was con-
vened at Fort Myer by Maj George
o. Squier, acting chief signal officer
of the army, and made an official in
quiry into the aeroplane disaster,
which resulted in the death of Lieut..
Selfridge and the injury of Orville
Wright. 1t blamed no one for the acct
dent.
With masts and smokestacks brok-
en-, boats washed away and upper
works badly smashed, the steamship
Colon limped into port at Colon, Pan
anna, after most trying experience
in the West Indian hurricane. During
the storm three members of the crew
who were repairing a water tank in
the hold were killed.
The will of the late Giovanni P.
Morosini distributes the entire for
tune of the former banker and art
collector among his five children.
w. W. Reamer of East st. Louis
tried to burn his house and family and
then made two attempts at suicide.
Lured to a lonely spot in Oklahoma
City, Okla, Mrs. Harry Pearson was
shot and killed by Harry Parker, a
grain inspector from lola, Kan, be-
cause she wouldn't elope with him.
DR.. George Morton of New York
was arrested in Philadelphia on flu
gitive warrant from New York, charg-
ing him with securing 100000 by
means of fraudulent notes.
A cablegram from Tanning island
said the long missing British steamer
Aeon was wrecked on Christmas is
land but all the passengers and crew
escaped and were camping comfort
abby ashore.
Many towns in Maine were threat
ened by forest fires.
Dispatches from Tabriz said the
bombardment of that city by the
shah's forces was imminent
Tilted by an Is year-old girl, John
Smith of Calhoun, Wis, shot and fatal
ly wounded the mother of the girl,
Mrs. Augusta Grabow, wounded the girl
herself, and then wounded the sheriff,
who came to arrest him.
The explosion of $50 gallons of
gasoline on board a barge at the Mare
Island navy yard resulted in the death
of Chief Machinist Teddy May and
injuries to three other men.
The American Atlantic fleet, under
the command of Rear Admiral Sperry,
left Albany, Western Australia, for
Manila, $500 miles away, where it is
due to arrive October or 3.
Heavy rainfall In northern Michigan
and Ontario checked the forest fires
and insured the safety of the threat
ened towns.
Maj. Gen. Charles Edward Lizard,
retired, whose wife was mysteriously
murdered near London August "a,
committed suicide by throwing him.
self in front of railroad train. He
had received letters accusing him of
killing his wife.
Forty men were overcome by smoke
in fire which threatened the destruc-
ton of Swift & Company's packing
plant in South ST. Joseph Mo. The
loss is about 100000.
The home of Mark Twain at Red
ding, Conn.,, was entered by TWO bur-
glars. Later the men were captured
and in making the arrests Deputy
Sheriff Bangs was shot in the leg.
Three hundred and five cases and
lis deaths from the Asiatic cholera
were reported for one day in st.
Petersburg. The municipal admins
trations are under fire from all sides
for their criminal inefficiency in han
ding the epidemic.
Joseph James, the negro murderer
whose crime helped start the race
riots in Springfield, ILL.,, was convicted
and sentenced to death.
Dense fog in Chicago caused ac-
cidents on steam and street railways
that resulted in the death of two
men and the injury of many others.