The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22


kaddon and wife were found dead II
their bedroom in South Norfolk, Va.
The supreme court of the Unite'
States affirmed the decree of the stat
courts of Texas imposing fine o
! $1,623,000 on the Waters-Pierce Oh
Company of st. Louis and ousting /
from the state on tho charge of vic
lating the Texas antitrust law.
A strong undulatory shock in Mes
sina caused much alarm and resulted
in the fall of the remnants of a mum
Der of shattered walls. So far as il
known no one was killed.
Snydertown, Pa, was thrown into 6
panic by the collapsing of an aban
doned coal mine, causing shock like
an earthquake.
The Spring Hill college at Mobile
Ala, the largest Jesuit institution In
the south, was destroyed by fire.
The supreme court of the United
dent Meyer of the Western Federation
of Miners in the damage suit brought
| by him against former Gov. Peabody
| of Colorado.
]. D. Wood of Salt Lake, millionaire
mine owner, and perhaps the largest
sheep owner in the west, was instant.
ly killed by a Union Pacific engine.
Seven foreigners, who are said to
have been stupefied from liquor Sc
cured at a wedding celebration, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed three houses at Goodtown, Pa.
Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth,
whose mysterious disappearance a
short time ago caused a great deal
of excitement because Of her remark
able career and her intimate associa-
ton with extensive stock deals, has
been found at Oban, Scotland.
Fire in the most extensive automo-
bile storage and repair plant in Bos-
ton, Mass, destroyed 34S automobiles,
valued at s75O,0OO.
Heroism of nurses saved the lives
of Is patients of the Trull hospital in
Biddleford, Me-, when fire Quilted the
institution.
Twenty-one persons were killed and
30 injured, many of them seriously, in
the head-on collision between a pass
enger train and freight train on the
Denver & Rio Grande near Dotsero,
Col
The schooner Swallow of st. Johns,
N. F., was wrecked off the coast Of
Long Island and her crew of about II
men lost.
Lee Quinn tried to rescue his
brother from an officer on train near
Fort Smith, Ark, and in the resulting
pistol battle Irwin Brassfield, a pass
enger, was fatally wounded
A triple tragedy was discovered in
Seattle, Wash, when w. L. Seeley, an
attorney and former national bank ex-
aminer for Illinois under Comptroller
of Currency Eckels, his wife, Mrs
Kate M. Seeley, member of the ma
tional society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and his daugh-
ter, Miss Rena Seeley, student at the
University of Washington, were found
dead in bathroom of their home. 1t
was believed Seeley killed the two
women and committed suicide.
The navy department began the
work of loading vessels with building
material and sending them to the
earthquake survivors of Italy for the
erection of small houses.
Frederick Herreshoff, Yale man, golf
champion, and youngest son of ]. B..
Francis Herreshoff, a wealthy manu-
facturer of New York, astonished his
parents by announcing he had Sc
cretly married Miss May Faulkner, a
show girl, last August.
After reviewing the evidence for %
hours and taking Is ballots before all
Thornton Jenkins Hams at Flushing,
N. Y, found the prisoner not guilty as
principal with his brother, Capt.
Peter C. Hainss, Jr., in the killing of
William E. Annis. 1t was believed
Capt. Hams would not be put on trial
Brig. Gen. Robert NJ O'Reilly, who
has been surgeon general of the army
for the past seven years, was placed
on the retired list after As years serv-
ice with the advanced rank of major
general.
Miss Frances Livingston of Boyd,
Wis, who advertised in papers in all
parts Of the country for a husband and
received 1000 proposals of marriage.
has chosen Louis Struvanz of Dor
chesetr, Wis.
The National League for Industrial
Education, designed to foster national.
state and local cooperation in the pro-
motion of Industrial training in
schools, has been organized in New
York with James ]. Hill of st. Paul as
honorary president.
In fire that completely burned the
residence of Samuel Higgins, general
manager of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad at New
Haven, Conn, yesterday his mother,
Mrs. Higgins. lost her life.
Thrilling escapes, many injuries,
and one death accompanied the de-
struc ton by fire of the famous Cope
land hotel in Topeka, Kan. Isaac E.
Lambert of Emporia, familiar through
out Kansas as attorney and politician,
was burned to death. Fifteen persons,
a number of them we'll known in the
state, were injured. 1t is likely all
will recover.
Mrs. Lizzie Hardin, aged Al, was
shot and killed at her home in Wash
ington by Fdererick ]. Kraemer, who
then killed himself.
Mrs. Nathan Sherrard and four chill
dren were burned to death at lum-
Der camp 20 miles from Ashland.
Wis.
Cyrus Campbell, IA years old, a
pioneer resident of Cherryvale, Kan,
was burned to death and his wife
fatally in inred in fire that DESTROYED