The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-14

the national committee.
Senator William B. Allison was
buried at Dubuque, Ia, after simple
services at the family residence.
During a riot at camp of Austrians
near the smelter town of Garfield,
Utah, Constable Ben Culley and Sam
Nekis were shot and a baby was
killed.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Auckland, New Zealand, and
was given an enthusiastic welcome.
The Western Passenger association
refused to grant reduced rates for the
Bryan notification meeting at Lincoln,
Neb.
Boston was struck by severe
storm that deluged the city, doing
much damage.
Ten municipal officials of Mile End
parish, London, charged with grating,
were convicted otter trial lasting a
month.
The National Anti-Asiatic Immigra-
ton league of the United States was
formed in Washington, and declara-
ton of principles and constitution
adopted.
Capt. Baldwin made a successful
flight of five miles in his dirigible bal
loon designed for the army, and de-
clared himself ready for the official
tests.
An Italian boy at Newton, Mass,
MIXED a neighbours cow and in bat
tie that resulted he and his mother
were shot.
The steamer Premier was burned
to the waters edge at Warren's Land
ing, the northern terminus of Lake
Winnipeg, and six passengers and two
of the crew lost their lives.
Robert Kinney, aged 10, was arrest
ed at his home near jamestown, Mo-,
on the charge of having murdered his
father, Coleman Kinney, on July 80.
The Pittsburg & Cincinnati Packet
line failed because of low water in
the Ohio river.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured when a Frisco passenger
train went over an embankment near
Imboden, Ark.
William W. Sherwood of New York,
aged II years, was frightened to death
by bolt of lightning.
The forming of new cabinet has
made complete the triumph of the
Young Turks. The sultan abandoned
his claim to name the ministers of
war and marine, and most of the new
ministers are nominees of the Young
Turks
Half a million dollars out of an es-
tate of 100000 is given to charity by
the will of the late Mrs. Annie L.
Lowry of Philadelphia.
After an explosion and fire which
destroyed his home in Toledo, o., the
dead body of Charles Polscher was
found in the ruins. Polscher was
merchandise broker.
Electricians of the Canadian Pacific
union men, and in consequence all the
shops of the system were dark.
Myths Erickson, the Danish ex-
plorer, and two companions were
caught in storm on an ice foe off
northeastern Greenland and persisted.
The First National bank of Belle
PLANE, Mimi, was closed by order of
the comptroller of the currency upon
advice received from National Bank
Examiner Frank o. Hicks that the
bank was insolvent, followed by the
suicide of the president of the bank.
j. G. Lund.
Paris was. plunged in darkness for
two hours because of an attempt OF
electricians to carry out a general
strike similar to that of March, 1907.
John Tribbey, a farmer near Rush.
vile, Ind, vas beaten, tortured and
tsrred and feathered by white caps.
Fifteen people were slightly injured
and windows in all houses and fac
tories within the immediate neighbor.
hood were destroyed and the Harrison
avenue viaduct in Cincinnati suffered
a $4,000 damage as a result of all
attempt to destroy the viaduct with
nitroglycerine.
Mrs. Eva Jones fell 900 feet from a
balloon at Abbottsford, Wis, when her
parachute rope snapped but lit in a
tree and was not killed.
Robert Turnbull, a well-known real
estate man of New York, killed him.
self while deranged by the heat.
Said Pasha, the grand vizier, and
the newly-formed Turkish ministry re-
signed and the sultan invited Jemalle.
din Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and
Kiamil Pasha to form a new cabinet.
1t was reported that the sultan was
stabbed in the breast by minor pal.
ace official, but that his vest of mail
turned the point of the weapon.
Count Zeppelin's monster dirigible
balloon blew up and was ruined at
Echterdingen, where it was being re.
paired after nearly completing a Won
derful flight from Friedrichshafen to
Mayence and return.
Charles w. Westerfeld, an assistant
bookkeeper of the Produce Exchange
bank of New York, committed suicide
by shooting in the book room Of the
bank just as two worthless checks
bearing his signature, were presented
at the paying teller's window.
Representatives of most of the lead
ing Italian societies of New York.
many of them Italian bankers and i'm
porters, met to organize a society. for
the suppression of violence, particu-
larly by members of the Black Hand.
Ten thousand members of the uni.
form rank, Knights of Pythias, parad
ed in Boston.
The hacked legs and mutilated tor.