The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-04-23


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A report received at Danville, ILL.,,
his home, said Uncle Joe" Cannon is
! learning to play golf.
Mrs. w. w. Mitchell and her hus.
| band exchanged shots with bandits
who robbed bank at Panama, Ill.
A hail storm in Iowa is believed to
have caused much damage to fruit
| trees.
Anthracite mine operators met in
New York to discuss plans for set
Ting the differences with the work
men.
Col. Jacob Augur, whom President
Taft intended to promote to brigadier
general died of apoplexy at Fort NC
Kinley, Philippines.
Action to prevent the collection of
taxes upon Creek Indian lands was
instituted at Wewoka, Okla, by the
Creek national attorney, M. l.. Mott,
and the result may affect Greek land
holders to the extent of $7,00O,OOO.
The steamer Guadeloupe arrived at
Port Limon, Costa Rica, with Sonora
Castro, wife of the former president OF
Venezuela, on board. She did not
land, but expressed her intention OF
proceeding to st. Nazaire to meet her
husband.
Under the will of the late Charles
E. Ellis, the millionaire street railway
magnate of Philadelphia, who killed
himself accidentally with a revolver
on April 6, more than $2,500,000 is
given for the establishment of home
for fatherless girls.
Democratic senators held a confer
ence and decided not to delay the pas
sage of the tariff bill.
Indictments charging the Cudahy
Packing Company with violating the
oleomargarine laws were returned by
the federal grand jury at Topeka, Kan.
sensation was created in Tokyo
when nine members of the Japanese
diet were arrested on charges of &C.
cepting brides.
Joan of Arc, the heroine of France,
was beatified in st. Peters, Rome, in
the presence of many Catholic dig
nitaries.
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the University of Michigan honored
DR.. James B. Angel, the retiring pres
ident.
The Altoona County Savings bank at
Altoona, Mich, was robbed by burglars
who blew open the safe and stole
$4,000.
Cigarette" Baker, who fed from
Indiana when charged with attempt
ing to bride member of the legisla-
ture, returned to Indianapolis and sur
rendered to the sheriff.
Mrs. Marie Bartels of Chicago was
beaten and almost killed by thieves
who looted her apartments in Paris.
Adolphus Busch, president of the
Annheuser Busch Brewing Company
of st. Louis, limited that the company
would move to Illinois if Missouri
votes on statewide prohibition.
Fire in the stockroom of McCurdy
Brothers department store, in Phila-
delphia, caused a loss estimated at
s150,O00.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has designated Muskogee, Okla,
as a reserve city, under the national
banking law
Attorney General Wickersham said
he had not decided whether he can
take action against James A. Patten
and other brokers who have cornered
wheat
By issuing invitations to tea, Mrs.
James S. Sherman, wife of the vice
president, stirred up the row in the
Daughters of the American Revolution
over the election of a president gen.
eral.
Two men were killed when a nitro
glycerin factory at Gordon, ILL.,, was
blown up. The roar was heard %
miles away.
Former President Roosevelt and his
party arrived at Alden, Arabia, and
went ashore while the Admiral was in
port.
Society women of Washington
turned white wings" and helped to
clean the streets of floating paper and
debris.
Gov. Carroll signed the bill which
will prohibit Salome dances and inn
moral shows in Iowa
Richard c. Hughes, president of
Ripon college at Ripon, Wis, has re-
signed to become a farmer.
James Shepard Cabanne, seven
years old, was kidnapped from the
home of his grandmother in ST. Louis
John Barrett, director of the Inter
national Bureau of American Repub-
lies, gave banquet in Washington in
honor of Secretary Knox, chairman,
and other members of the governing
board of the organization.
The Billings bill giving Illinois wom-
en- the right to vote was reported out
of committee with a recommendation
that it be passed by the senate, after
several hundred suffragists had
stormed the capitol.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, successfully defended his
title against Yusiff Mahmout, Turk,
whom he defeated in two straight
falls.
The steamer Virginia was wrecked
and sank in the Ohio river at Wells
vile, O., the crew saving the lives of
so panic-stricken passengers.
Margaret Clark, supposed to have
been from Brooklyn, and Annie Miller.
whose residence has not been learned.
committed suicide on the liner Lucania
at sea.
The police of Danville, ILL.,, arrested
David Reynolds, whom they charged
with plotting to blow up his grandpar-
ents, a former policeman and himself
with 20 pounds of dynamite.
The United States court of appeals
affirmed the sentence of one year in
the penitentiary imposed upon Marion
Grey of Elgin. who was convictad If