The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-08

Foreign ministers to China were
greatly disturbed and vexed by the
dismissal from Office of Yuan Shi Kai
grand councillor and commander-in
chief of the forces 1t was asserted
the action endangered peace and was
an affront to the powers.
Francis j. Heney of San Francisco,
who prosecuted the graft" cases in
that city, in a speech at the City club
of Philadelphia, declared that E. H.
Hartman of New York, through his
control of the Southern Pacific rail-
road, was responsible for the graft
and corruption in Frisco.
| Three persons in Denver, Col, were
almost killed by poisoned candy sent
through the mails.
| Samuel T. Warfield was convicted in
Chicago of defrauding Mrs. J. A. Pat
/ ten in "de luxe" book deal.
Ralph E. White, IS years old, son Of
wealthy merchant of Lena, ILL.,, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
Charles Weatherhead of Peoria, ILL.,.
was drowned while skating.
With his wife and 12-year-old SON as
horror-stricken witnesses, Rudolph
| er, was stabbed to death at his home
| in Chicago by Daniel Rogers, DC
years old, boarder.
Arizona's output of finished copper
for 1908 was 274,000,OOO pounds. Mich
igan's 22O,OOO,O0O pounds and Mon
tanas 244,0OO,000.
The steamship Texas, on her maid
en- voyage from Christiana, Norway
| to Havana, put in at Savannah, Ca
with her cargo of paper and carbides
afire. The passengers were landed
safely, but it was feared the vessel
would be destroyed.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
inhabitants of Greenbank, small
town in West Virginia, over the stead.
lily increasing appearance of burning
crater of seemingly volcanic nature,
on the side of a neighboring noun.
tain.
The Park opera house at Erie, Pa.
caught fire during performance and
terrible panic was barely averted.
No one was seriously injured.
The two masked highwaymen whu
held up % men near Tulsa, Okla.
were captured
The Tom Jones restaurant in Chi.
cago was totally wrecked by an ex.
plosion of gas.
An aerial warship 700 feet in length
with accommodations for 100 passen-
gers, food and fuel enough for voy-
age across the ocean, and full COM
plement of guns, is to be built immedi-
ately at the Nixon yards, according to
Lewis Nixon, the designer and con-
structor of many warships
Capt. Harvey c. Daily of the schoon-
er Freddie W. Alton, and Philip M.
Springer, Boston florist, were found
guilty in the United States district
court at Boston of conspiracy to snug
gle Chinese into the country.
About so miners were entombed by
an explosion in colliery at Lick
Branch, Va, and it was feared many
of them were killed.
The executive council of the G. A.
r. fixed August to Is as the dates for
the national encampment in Salt Lake
City.
David F. Moloney, wealthy bust
ness man of st. Louis and prominent
in club life, killed himself at the home
of relative.
Fire in the wool warehouse district
of Philadelphia caused a loss of
100000.
Fearing that the governor of Ken
lucky would send troops to Breathitt
county to preserve order, the Callahan
and Deaton factions agreed to truce
and disbanded.
A. w. Troutman, an employee of a
Kansas City, Mo-, produce company,
committed suicide after confessing
that he had embezzled $72O of the
firms money.
John Emerson Stone, aged %, high
ly connected in Boston and New York,
graduate of Holy Cross college, Wor-
| cester, Mass, was shot and killed in
Washington by May Woolard, who
then shot herself twice and may die.