The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-15


feelings fixed at $150,O00, has been be-
gun in the superior court of Cook
| county by DR.. Kirke Stanley of New
York against Mrs. Jeanette Deere
Chapman of Moline, ILL.,, and Pasadena,
! Cal. Mrs. Chapman, who is 20 years
| old, is said to be worth 100000 in
her own right.
1t was asserted in Omaha that E.
H. Hartman had gained control Of
the New York Central
The Kansas supreme court affirmed
the verdict and fine of the district
court for Shawnee county against the
International Harvester Company. The
| company must pay fine of $12, 500 on
AZ counts, each count charging a vio-
lation of the Kansas antitrust laws
Six of the Tennessee night riders
were sentenced to be hanged Friday,
February 10.
Justice Tompkins decided that Harry
K. Thaw was entitled to trial as to
his sanity.
The Kansas prison board ordered
all Oklahoma convicts removed from
the Kansas penitentiary by Janu-
airy 81.
The entire western coast of Mexico
was shaken by an earthquake.
The committee investigating the
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
was shown just how the old prison
punishment called the 'Alakazan de-
gree" was inflicted. The committee
laughed and was rebuked for it's
levity by Miss Kate Barnard of Okla.
homa.
By means of two false teeth it was
definately established that Gideon
Browning of Adair, Mich, was the
man who was butchered in the little
Rattle Run" Methodist church. The
supervisors Of st. Clair county imme.
diately offered a reward of $500 for
the arrest of Rev. John H. Carmichael
of Adair, pastor of the church. who
was at first supposed to have been
killed, dismembered and then burned
in the stove.
Five lads in st. Louis were arreated
for stoning peddler to death.
Kang Yu Wei, the well-known Chi.
nese reformeI. who was expelled from
Pekin after the coup d'etat of 1898,
declared that Yuan Shi Kai had
been dismissed from his high position
as member of the grand council of the
Chinese empire because he was in.
strumental in the death of the late
emperor.
The body Of Lieut.. Foertsch, ths
German aerOnaut who lost his life at
sea last October, was picked up in
the North sen by the fishing steamer
Orion.
The distress in Anatolia because of
the failure OF the crops has reached
an acute phase in the districts of Err
eroum, YoZgad, Kaisarieh and Mardin.
and hundreds of persons are actually
starving.
A $15,000,000 merger of moving pic
ture interests was announced in New
York
Fire in Springfield, Mo-, DESTROYED
the Baldwin theater and threatened
the business section of the city.
The Russian steamer Sviatoslav
was sunk in collision and "a men
were drowned.
Paul c. Finn of New York, a com.
position, murdered his mother and
gave himself up to the police.
A mail sack containing bonds, etc..
worth 100000, was stolen from a de.
livery wagon in the Chaussee d'Antin.
Paris, in broad daylight.
F. B. Signor of Oakland, CAL. was
arrested on complaint of James H.
Murray, a multi-millionaire banker ON
charges of committing forgeries az
gregatin,s about $1,OO0,0OO. He con-
fessed.
Count" Louis Hamon, formerly
known in America and Europe as
"Cheiro, the Palmist," and before that
as plain John Warner, is a fugitive
from France, being charged with en-
bezzlement.
Melvin w. Sheppard, Fred Bellares.
George v. Bonhag, Charles ]. Bacon
Harry Porter and John Lee, the anna
teur athletes who recently were sus-
pended by the registration committee
of the A. A. U. for alleged profession.
alism, were reinstated.
A party of Dominion government
surveyors, who arrived at Winnipea
from Fort Churchill, Hudson bay,
brought with them report of the dis.
appearance of party which was sent
out by Maj Moody of the mounted
police in search of Inspector Peltier
and his party of Eskimos, who also
have apparently bean lost.