The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-17

lift, aged IL years.
Jack Johnson, the worlds heavy
weight champion, defeated AL Kaui
man in ten-round fight at San Fran
cisco, although he failed to knock hin
out.
Scott Sprague was shot and killet
in Cincinnati and his wife, formerl.
Miss Cross of Rockford, ILL.,, was helt
by the police until it is determined
whether he was slain or had commit
ted suicide.
President Taft summoned Attorne!
General Wickersham to Beverly to dis
cuss with him the Ballinger-Pincho
quarrel.
John Early, who was held in Wash
ington as leper, but later declared
not to be suffering from the disease
was cut off the United States pension
rolls.
Orville Wright, accompanied by the
wife of an officer of the German army
made thrilling airship flight al
Berlin
j. Pierpont Morgan, the New York
banker, has offered, it is said, to fur.
nish DR.. Cook with any money he may
need to bring proofs from Greenland
that he discovered the north pole.
The board of trustees of the Won
ans Home Missionary society of the
Methodist church met in Cincinnati.
The treasurer's report shows 100000
raised for home mission work within
the last year.
The Missouri Waterway commission
elected w. X. Kavanaugh of st. Louis
president and NJ. L. Jones of Kansas
City vice-president.
The post Office department has de-
cided that a mail carrier need not
deliver mail At a house where a
vicious dos is kept.
Despite the efforts of their father
and a small sister and brother to save
them, three children of Robert A.
Walsh died in fire which destroyed
their summer home at White Bear
lake, MINI.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
at Malakoff, Tex, was robbed Of ST.
800 by men who blew open the safe.
William Starr, a bridge builder from
Chicago, was killed near Kenosha,
Wis, by collision of 4 freight train
with a caboose.
A terrific rain and thunder storm
n the vicinity of Harrisburg, ILL.,, did
great damage to fruit and shade trees.
Five hundred delegates will attend
The Baptist state convention which
will be held in South Bend, Ind, DC.
.ober IL to Is.
Jacob Wagner, a wealthy farmer of
'osey county, Indiana, drank a bottle
II carbolic acid in the presence of
MS family and as he did so remarked:
Here is my last drink" He died.
When James Atkinson stepped from
train at Kewanee, ILL.,, upon return.
ng from visit in Nebraska, he was
lorrified at seeing men dragging the
'ody OF his dying son, Samuel, from
lnder freight train. The young
nan had gone, to the depot to meet
lis father and fell under the freight
,ars.
Admiral Won Rooster will sail for
<ew York September II to command
ne German squadron at the Hudson
fulton celebration.
Pieces of the skeleton of a prehis-
ORIG monster have been found on a
arm near Pendleton, Ore. One of the
eeth Is ii inches long.
Nearly 1000 soldiers of the war
Win Spain, representing nearly every
tate in the union were in Tacoma,
wash, for the sixth annual encamp-
nent of the United Spanish War Vet
rams,
AT its annual convention in Birming.
lam, Ala, the Farmers union decid.
d to ask congress to remove the tar.
# on jute bagging, the union also de.
lying that a minimum price of Is
ents on cotton had been agreed upon.
Mount Robson, the highest peak in
he Canadian Rockies, was climbed
uccessfully August 10 by Rev. George
Kinney OF Victoria, B. c., according
an announcement made at Winni-
eg.
Scott Sprague, a machinist. was
ound slain in Cincinnati. and his
ride, whose marriage to Sprague took
lace In Chicago few weeks ago. was
eld by the police. The man was shot
n the side in such a way the police
ay 1T could not have been suicide
1rs. Sprague was a Miss Cross of
rockford, Ill.
Corporal James M. Tanner inform al
he Union Veteran Legion at Washing.
on that organizations of old soldiers
will make a complaint to President
Taft against the policy of dismissing
I'D clerks in the government depart.
nentS.
Announcement was made at Pbila.
lelphia by Samuel M. Clement Jr an
attorney, that the Kentucky RAND
transit Company, with a capital of
100000, was chartered at Dover
Del.
Henry Hill, negro who attacked
Hiss Nettie Jones near Langham
IA, was captured by mob and
drowned in the creek near the scene
If his attempted crime.
Bertha Rocha. 16 years old an In.
liam girl, ran away from the house
where she had been employed to
lamp in Golden Gate park, San Fran.
,iSco. She was found in hiding bor
lamp fire attracting a policeman. She
laid she had tired of civilization.
President Taft and Attorney Gen.
sral Wickersham discussed the Bal
inger-Pinchot controversy and it was
said the president will decide in favor
Of Ballinger, which probably will re.
suit in the resignation of the chief
,orester.
E. Lefebvre, a French aviator, was
killed in a fall with one of the
Wright machines he was testino or