The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-02

| occupants of New York apartment
house which was destroyed by fire.
Dana Estes, publisher, who has JUS
'eturned from Africa, says the biz
game is so tame that Theodore Roose
velt's hunt will be like shooting COW.
in back yard
1t is reported from Vancouver thai
| the Japanese, under the guise of en-
| forcing the country's pure food law
have started boycott on American
goods.
Thousands of women and children
marched through the streets Of
Springfield, o., in demonstration
against the saloons of the city.
William Grant Eyester Of McKees
Rocks, Pittsburg suburb, says he be
lieves he is Charlie Ross, who was kid
mapped from Germantown, Pa, in 1874
and never found.
James Vango, young negro, who
after his arrest in Chicago, confessed
that he had murdered Isadore de Val
liant, night clerk in the Eastern hotel
New York city, for the purpose Of rob
berry, strangled himself to death in the
Tombs prison.
James Boyle and the woman he calls
his wife, kidnapers of Willie Whitla
were placed in Jail at Pittsburg fol-
safe keeping, the authorities fearing
for their safety at Sharon.
The woman who planned the Whitla
kidnapping and is known as Mrs.
James Boyle, was Anna Overton,
daughter of former fireman of Chi
cago.
Mrs. Jessie Overton Culbertson OF
Vincennes, Ind, committed suicide
and was not slain, according to latest
developments in the strange case.
President and Mrs. Taft entertained
at dinner at the White House warning
factors in the house of representa-
tives.
The Is railroads of Missouri have
decided to put into effect April l., a
three-cent passenger fare.
The original affinity" wife, Mrs.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, has sued for
an annulment of her marriage, de-
claring her husband is lunatic.
The new military post to be con-
structed at Waiano, Uka, Island of
Oahu, Hawaii, has been designated
Schofield barracks, in honor of the
late Lieut.. Gen. John M. Schofeld.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., wife of
the tobacco magnate, committed sui
eide in Washington. Illness is be-
lieved to have caused her act.
Unopened notes, buried with Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., the Washington
society leader, carried to the grave
the secret of her suicide.
The First National bank of Gibson,
Okla, has closed it's doors. 1t is CAPT
talized at $25,OOO All the deposits
have been transferred to the Citizens
State bank. Depositors will be paid in
full.
Frederick d. Prentice and Miss
Hope Yeager were returned to Toledo,
o.. from Oklahoma to answer to
charges growing out of the investiga-
ton of the German Fire Insurance
Company, of which Prentice was Sec
rotary and treasurer, and Miss Yea
ger department manager.
Representative Cox of Ohio called
on President Taft to discuss plans for
the delivery of the gold medals
awarded by the Aero Club of America
to the Wright Brothers of Dayton, o.
Mrs. Lloyd C. Griscom, wife of the
American ambassador to Italy, who
has been ill, underwent slight opera
ton which, although successful, will
prevent her leaving Rome until May.
More than 10000 persons demanded
seats in the Milwaukee hippodrome
where the liquor debate between
Mayor Rose and Samuel Dickie was
held. The building holds 1000.
Gen. Cipriano Castro, former presi-
dent of Venezuela, has sailed from
Havre for home and, it is believed, in
tends to attempt to rule the country
again.
The French chamber of deputies
unanimously adopted M. Delcasse's
motion to appoint a parliamentary
commission to inquire into the state
of the navy before fresh credits were
voted.
King Edward has appointed the
earl of Granard knight of the Order
of st. Patrick in place of the earl of
Howth, deceased. The earl of Granard
married Miss Beatrice Mills of New
York in January of this year.
Adjt. U. T. Webb, head of the Sal
walton Army of Youngstown, O., COM
mitted Suicide by swallowing NOR
phine. He knelt in earnest prayer
with his wife after taking the drug.
Frederick Richardson, wanted on
charges of fraud amounting to $780,
600, committed suicide in Harrisburg,
Pa, just as the police were about to
arrest him.
The miners convention at Scranton,
Pa, decided that there will be no
strike on April 1, when the present
agreement with the operators expires.
Gov. Hughes has dismissed the
charges filed with him against District
Attorney William T. Jerome of New
York city by William T. King, repre-
senting committee of stockholders of
the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany Of New York.
The lower branch or the Connecti-
cut general assembly adopted reso-
luton instructing the Connecticut
delegation in congress to favor chang
ing the date of the presidential in
auguration from March 4 to the last
week in April.
Attorney General Wickersham has
asked Wade H. Ellis of Ohio to con-
tinue in his present position of assist
ant attorney general. and II was off.