The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-30

of the Illinois Grain Dealers associa
ton, said: 1.-THE best crop prospect
that 1 ever saw is now between Pom
tiac and Kankakee."
At the annual meeting OF the
United States League of Local
Building and Loan associations in
Philadelphia, Secretary Cellarius re-
ported that the membership and total
assets had grown considerably in the
past year, despite the general finan.
cial depression.
Rear Admiral William Thompson,
United States navy, retired, who has
been dangerously i'll at Sunnyside, on
the eastern shore of Lake Washing.
ton, for the last month, has been
taken to Seattle and is at Providence
hospital.
The General Biscuit Company, with
$6,00O,00O capitalization, has filed or
ganization papers at Hartford, Conn.
1t is to be a rival Of the National
Biscuit Company.
Two members of a party from Hill
nois were killed and two badly hurt
when caught by cloudburst in Two
Mile canyon, near Boulder, Col.
Urged by his bride to tell the truth,
J. l.. Byrd of Memphis, Tenn, con-
fessed to the Denver police that he
had killed man in Memphis two
years ago.
Madarial Dhinagri, the Hindoo STAY
er of Lieut.. Col Sir William HUT
Curzon Wyllie and DR.. Canvas Lalcaca
in London, was convicted and SEN
fenced to die, in less than an hour. He
thanked the court.
Cornelius Shea; former head of the
Transfers union, when sentenced to
from five to twenty-five years in prison
for attempting to murder Alice Walsh
in New York, was denounced by Judge
Foster as a traitor to labor.
Mrs. Amos P. Dorrence, wife of a
wealthy coal dealer of Helena, Mont,
was slain in hotel in Hot Springs,
Ark, while her husband, an invalid,
looked on, unable to aid her.
Max Ozzine was caught in laundry
machine at Hoboken, N. j., and liter
ally wrung to death.
Richard Cannon, nephew of Speaker
Cannon, and John NOone, a brewer of
Danville, ILL.,, were hurt in an automo-
bile accident at Charlottesville, Ind.
Forty workmen were buried and 20
killed by the collapse of building in
st. Petersburg.
Detective James Griffin of the Chi
cago police force was indicted as the
collector Of brides from resort keep
ers, several of whom are also under
indictment.
1t is reported from Mexico City that
Presidents Taft and Diaz will meet at
San Antonio instead of Ell Paso, Tex.
Robbers boarded an Erie train in
New Jersey and, at the point of pis.
tolls, robbed passengers of their money
and jewelry.
The American Telegraph & Tele.
phone Company has taken over the
Central District and Printing Tele-
phone Company, the local Bell tele-
phone concern of Pittsburg, Pa.
Fargo, N D., rejected the commits
sion form of government by 80 ma
jority.
Adam God," who was sentenced at
Kansas City to 25 years in the peni-
tertiary for the murder of Patrolman
Nicholas Mullan last December, was
taken to the penitentiary at Jefferson
City.
Twenty workmen were killed by the
collapse of building under construc-
ton in st. Petersburg, Russia.
"Habitual aviators' have been
barred as risks by the Travellers In
surance Company of Hartford, Conn.
Fred G. Jenkins, teller of the Far.
KY, and prominent Baptist, shot and
killed himself.
Creditors of former wealthy resi-.
dent of Latrobe, Pa, forced the sale
by auction of tomb at Greensburg,
Pa, containing several bodies. The
sale was conducted in cemetery, de-
spite pleas of persons whose dead
rested in the lot put up for sale.
Wisconsin militia was ordered to be
ready to go to Kenosha, where three
men were shot in a riot of tannery
strikers.
To protect themselves in the event
of the death of E. H. Hartman, in
vestors in securities of his railroads
took out insurance policies on his life
to more than $1,000,000.
Three lives were lost when a cloud
burst flooded Duluth, Mimi, and
caused great damage to property
Capt. Peter C. Hams, slayer of Will
liam E. Annis, since his Incarceration
in Sing Sing penitentiary, has per-
fected an invention which will reduce
the cost of cleansing city streets.
Advices were received in Washing
ton that Argentine and Bolivia are en-
deavoring to settle their differences
without going to war.
Fgureheads that are to be removed
from warships of the navy are to be
loaned to the states for which the YES
sells are named.
Reports received in Houston, Tex,
SAID Il persons mad lost their lives,
scores were hurt and Ii were missing
in the gulf storm.
Mrs. Agnes Mayfield was arrested in
Chicago on charge of shooting her
mother, Mrs. H. G. Hinkley, following
a quarrel over a Mexican mining deal
in which they were interested.
The comptroller of the currency has
designated South Omaha as one of the
reserve cities for government money.
President T. L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers, has received a tele-
gram at Wilkesbarre, Pa, announcing
that the dispute between the miners
and their employers in northern Wyo-
ming was settled.
Twenty Russian political exiles
forced company of deported Rus
SLAMS at East Cane Sihoria to soizo