The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02


Roumania, who recently was said to
have been suffering from an abdom-
inal affection.
Five men were killed by an exrlo-
sion in the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad tunnel at Tobyhan-
ma, Pa.
Nat Goodwin's divorce suit was
thrown out of court at Reno, New, be-
cause of confusion as to the real
name of Mrs. Goodwin.
Mrs. John Oliver, an inmate of St.
Mary's Mission house, Chicago, acct
dentally set fire to her clothing and
was fatally burned.
Justice Mills of the New York SUI
preme court denied Harry Thaw's mo-
ton for a lunacy trial by jury, stating
he would hear the case himself.
Twenty persons were killed and 10
seriously injured as the result of a
collision on the elevated railway in the
center of Berlin.
Nineteen. persons were killed, II
seriously injured, and about 80 more
or less hurt in g collision between the
east-bound Burlington flyer and west
bound freight train at a point known
as Young's ~nint, about 80 miles west
of Billings. Mont, on the Northern
Pacific road.
Fire in Fond du Lac, Wis, destroyed
several churches, seven dwellings and
other buildings, the loss being $780,
900.
James w. Paul, banker and financier
phia; j. p Morgan e Co., New York,
and Morgan, Harjes Company of
Paris, died at Hot Springs, Va.
A savings bank at Cotton, S. D., was
robbed of about $1,000 by thieves, who
escaped in an automobile.
Count M. Thue Won Bentzen, Dan
ish nobleman, was married to Miss
Alice NJ. Baer of st. Louis.
The shah issued a manifesto order
ing new elections and calling for the
converting of the assembly and senate
November IA. In a fierce battle at
Tabriz the Nationalist were worsted.
Horace J. Ray, aged Is years, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Philadelphia in the presence of 10
year-old Florence Marshall, his school
girl sweetheart, because he had been
forbidden to pay attention to her to
the neglect of his studies.
At West Union, Ia, Walter Whit
beck was convicted of murder in the
first degree for the killing of his ia
Their, Arrow Whitbeck
jeremiah Lynch, SO years old, night
foreman for the Wisconsin Bridge
& Iron Company, was mysteriously
murdered near a new bridge which
the company is erecting in Chicago.
The police lay the crime to labor trcu-
bles.
Five members of the failed broker
age firm of A. o. Brown & Co. were
charge.
The International Fishery congress
decided to meet in Rome, Italy, in
1911.
A large portion of the town of i'asig,
near Manila, was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed lum-
Der yard, several houses and other
the loss being $125,000.
An order of Judge r. W. Archibald
of Scranton, Pa, adjudging Harry X.
Thaw in contempt of court, was filed
in the United States district court at
Pittsburg.
The control of the Washington Life
Insurance Company passed from the
hands of Levi P. Morton, Thomas F.
Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a
Pittsburg syndicate headed by Will
liam C. Baldwin, president of the
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company.
Raymond w. Pullman of the forest
service, who is in Minnesota investi-
eating forest fire conditions for the
government, estimates the loss in that
state at s5,OOO,OOO to $1O,OOO,OOO
The supreme court of Washington
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers.
Declaring her disgust with modern
fashions, Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, aged 40.
widow, returned to nature and APP
peared in the street at Dayton, O.,
nude. When the police were summoned
the woman entered her home and ia
tally shot herself.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements in
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
to be spreading rapidly in the Adiron-
dacks.
Justice Gerard in the supreme court
of New York signed the final decree
OF absolute divorce in favor of Elsie
French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt
A typhoon of terrific velocity swept
through the central portion of the Phil.
ippine group, weeaing part of the
island OF Samar. northern Leyte,
southeastern Imzoa, northern Panay,
Masbate and part of Romblem. Hun
dreds were reported dead.
A st. Louis & San Francisco pas
senger train was derailed near Car
thage, Mo-, and rolled into the ditch,
the engineer and fireman being killed
and 40 passengers injured.
The Asiatic cholera in st. Peters.
burg is spreading among the upper
classes of society. Deaths are so
numerous the bodies lie unburied.
A big brick kiln at Kenmare, N. D.,
burst and two men were buried in the
red-hot bricks and roasted to death.
Delegates to the International Fish.
cry congress were given souvenir
paintings of the Roosevelt golden