The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-03

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j., was struck in the right eye Wild
piece of broken glass oil cup and the
eye cut squarely in two. Calling ms
fireman to his side in case he should
collapse, he ran his train to Summit
before relinquishing the throttle.
The Turkish government has decid'
ed that it is impracticable to send
warship to the approaching Morse
Fulton celebration in New York, but
will be represented by an official or It's
embassy in this country.
Tenants of the Ardsley Hall apart
ments in New York, many OF them So
ciety persons, were thrown into
panic when Joseph Harding, colored
elevator boy, was fatally wounded by
George E. Gethin, a telephone opera
tor. Women became historical and
physicians were called to quiet them.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the United
States forestry service, held a con-
ference in Seattle, Wash, with lead
ing lumbermen of the northwest to
devise methods of gathering accurate
information and quotations, to be used
in monthly and quarterly reports on
the forestry service.
The fiftieth anniversary of the first
oil we'll in the world was celebrated
at Tftusville, Pa, where Col. Edwin
w. Drake struck petroleum by drilling
on August %, 1859.
Fire, following an explosion In the
Kelly canning factory at Waverly, Ia,
caused the death of George McRob-
erts, fatal injury to Mrs. Walter
| Davis, Irene Lockley and George Mil
Ter and the manning of score of
others, the loss being 100000 and
100000 cans of corn
A man said to be Santo Grace, is
now in Jail at Johnstown, Pa, charged
with being one of the quartet whU In
July, 1904, held up Patrick F. CAMP
bell, mine paymaster, and secured
$4,000 after killing Charles Hays, the
driver, and seriously wounding Camp
bell
twenty-five kegs of beer defied
the anti-canteen law by floating into
Fort Slocum, near New York, on an
ocean wave. The beer was seized
quickly by the thirsty soldiers. Fifty
kegs had been carried overheard from
small steamer.
A death pact, entered into because
Frank E. Williamson, aged 10, could
not obtain work, will result in the
death of the young man and his
sweetheart, Florence Lillian Wood, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Williamson shot the
girl and then himself.
Harry S. Bates, member of San
Francisco shipping firm, will test the
law forbidding the chartering of a
foreign vessel to carry cargo be-
tween two American ports.
Alarming reports were spread con-
corning the condition of Edward H.
Hartman, one being that a surgical
operation for cancer had been per-
formed upon him.
Elvert w. Shirk, president of the
First National bank of Upton, Ind,
the assistant cashier of which, Noah
r. Marker, recently fed, leaving a
large shortage, was arrested in Chi
cago, charged with misappropriating
$4,000. He gave bond.
Coroner Blackwell of Indianapolis
placed the responsibility for the death
of William Bourque and Harry Hol.
comb, killed in one of the auto races,
upon the motor speedway commits.
sion.
Mrs. Sarah Nagler of New York,
of of r,,io oil
cat driving one toward her, leaped
on to chair for safety" tipped it
over, and fell out of the window and
was killed.
Bertha Rocha. 16 years old, an In
dian girl, ran away from the house
where she had been employed, to
camp in Golden Gate park, San Fran
cisco. She was found in hiding, her
camp fire attracting a policeman. She
said she had tired of civilization.
M. Paulhan, a French aviator, in a
thrilling flight in a rainstorm at
Rheims, France, lowered the record of
Wilbur Wright for time in the air to
2 hours, SO minutes and "a seconds,
which is 33 minutes better than the
Americans mark.
The 1sthmian canal commission
will receive bids September 16 for
the French junk which has accumu.
lated along the line of the canal. The
amount is estimated at from $4,000
to 100000 tons.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice.
president of the United States, and
Rear Admiral G. B. Harder were re-
celved by the prince regent of China
in private audience within the For
hidden City,
The fourth warning of an impending
hurricane given ships on the Gulf of
Mexico within a month reveals the
fact that in September and October
OF each year number of devastating
storms strike that section of the
tropics.
The national insurance commission
ers in convention at Colorado Springs,
COL, decided not to interfere with fra
ternal insurance methods, but to al
low the fraternals to work out their
| own salvation
The police of ST. Louis denied the
kldnapers of the two Viviano children
had written second letter to the
parents demanding that negotiations
be resumed. The Vivianos declare
they have obtained no news of the
| children.
Surgeon General Wyman has been
informed by cable from the American
consul at Rotterdam that there is
cholera on board the Dutch shin
Andyk, which is due at Baltimore
September 8.
The convention of the Association