The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-06-04

lily, ana relatlVeS In chicago are &c
enjoy incomes from 100000.
Three Omaha boys helped the pc.
lice to capture three men who are
suspected of being those who robbed
a Union Pacific train. They will
share in reward of $4,000.
Dispatches from Paris report that
the scandal over alleged poor quality
in French naval supplies and con-
struction is growing.
The liberals, radicals and socialists
walked out of the reichstag in Berlin
when the conservative coalition at
tempted to pass an increase in the d.
rect taxation of tea and coffee.
A court in Redding, CAL, held a
night session in order that 1t might
grant decree of absolute divorce to
Mrs. Bernice Winchell, who said she
wished to wed Albert Fraser before he
was operated upon for appendicitis.
A letter signed by George Washing
ton and written by Alexander Hamil-
ton on April 5, lit, brought $113 at
auction in New York.
The general synod Of the Reformed
DUTCH church met in Rochester, N.
Y, for weeks sessions.
Retail grocers from all over the
United States assembled in Portland,
Ore, where the yearly convention Of
their national association opened.
England is interested in report
that Ambassador Bryce at Washing
ton is trying to bring about an alli-
ance of the British and American
navies.
Twelve trains, carrying mail but no
passengers, the first run in Ave days,
were started from the terminals of the
Georgia railroad.
At local option elections in Indiana,
Floyd and Laporte counties voted
wet" and Harrison county went
"dry."
The federal grand jury at Tulsa,
Okla, again indicted Gov. Haskell and
five others for alleged town lot frauds.
Thirteen Turks, making 81 thus ex-
ecuted, were hanged in the streets of
Constantinople.
Dalton, Mich, was nearly destroyed
by a forest fire and 100000 feet Of
lumber was consumed.
Rudolph Lederer, Edwin Hertler,
Henry Schroeder and Edward Riem,
students of Northwestern university,
while loading shells for sham battle
at Watertown, Wis, were badly burn
ed by powder explosion.
GeorgS w. Thompson shot and
killed his wife in Indianapolis, Ind.
He says he mistook her for a bur-
glar. He is frantic with grief.
The senate set June 10 as the date
for vote on the Bailey income tax
amendment to the tariff bill.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Denver decided that its clergymen
and laymen should not use tobacco,
but refused to bar judges of the
church from issuing saloon licenses.
A divorce to every four marriages
is the record of Los Angeles county,
California, since January l. If the
ratio is maintained it is expected a
new divorce record will have been set.
Burglars got $4,000 worth of loot
from the home of Thomas Shields
Clark in New York while the family
were in Europe.
A Cincinnati tailor, giving his name
as Mariana Fusano, was arrested on i
charge of pinching IL women in q
crowded street.
The coast artillery at Pensacola,
Fla, set a new record when, with r.
inch disappearing guns, six hits out
of six shots in five minutes were
made.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
at Seattle was formally opened when
President Taft at Washington pressed
a golden telegraph key. The cere-
monies included land and water pa
rades, speech-making and general re-
joicing.
A man giving the name of James
Williams is being held by the police
of Las Vegas, N. NJ, as the slayer of
Peter Dieter of Chicago on a ranch
near Pueblo, CAL, some months ago.
The interstate hquor-shipment bill
prepared by the National Anti-Saloon
ate by Senator Curtis of Kansas.
The State Fire Marshals' Associa-
ton of America began it's yearly meet
ing in Indianapolis, Edward Peterson
of Minnesota presiding.
President Taft visited Pittsburg
and participated in the dedication of
a public fountain, after which he was
entertained by Yale alumni. He then
went to Gettysburg where he deliv-
cred the Grafton at the unwilling of a
monument to the regulars who partici-
pated in the Gettysburg campaign.
Miss Helen Taft unveiled the shaft.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln was
unveiled at Hodgenville, KY, his
birthplace. The orator was Henry
Watterson, and Robert T. Lincoln was
the guest of honor.
Five railway coaches full of mem
bers of the Chicago Association of
Commerce left on a trade-getting pill
grimage through the northwest.
Reports from Springfield, ILL.,, said
friends of Hopkins may ask an in
vestigation of the election of William
Lorimer to the United States senate.
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Missouri were shaken
by an earthquake which caused in
jury to several persons.
Six men were killed by the ex-
plosion of boiler in the Geesey Hoop
mill at Dowagiac, Mich.
Three girls and a young man were
drowned at Grand Rapids. Wis, when
a launch was carried through the
sluice gates of a dam.
Face powder and beauty spots"
have been prohibited to the girl pu-
pills of branch of the Washington
Irving high school in New York by
order of Miss Rachel Reniamini the