The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-02-19
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7 by large crowd.
! The National Civic federation ha'
appointed a committee to bring abou
uniformity of the laws of all states.
The Anti-Saloon league and othel
temperance forces want a special ses
sion of the legislature called in Ken
| lucky to aid them in their battle tt
make the state, which stands seconC
| in the production of whisky, dry.
Indorsing the view of former Secre
tary of State Root that Liberia is ar
American colony, Booker T. Washing
ton declared that the situation in the
African republic was serious and that
the United States was in duty bound
to render practical assistance to Lii
beria
Fifty-two bodies have been recov
cred from the wrecked steamer Pen
gum of the Union Steamship Company
of Wellington, which went on the
rocks off Cape Terawhiti. Six Of those
aboard the Penguin are unaccounted
for.
With the wind blowing gale and
driving sleet in their faces, Toledo CO.,
firemen carried Is women down lad
ders to safety when blaze routed out
the tenants in a four-story apartment
house.
A wireless message from the fleet
which is on its way home after the
voyage around the world, shows it to
have been 1000 miles from Hampton
Roads.
The Republicans of Michigan nom
mated candidates for state offices in
Charles A. Blair and John w. Stone
are the supreme court nominees.
In every city and in nearly every
town of the United States exercises
commemorating the birth of Abraham
Lincoln were held. Ambassadors from
foreign nations Joined in the tributes
to the martyred president, and Presi
dent Roosevelt spoke at Hodgenville
Lincoln's birthplace in Kentucky.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
left Berlin where they have been Wis.
iting Kaiser Wilhelm for four days.
Sixty-seven were missing after the
steamer Penguin sank off Cape Teraw-
hiti and are believed to have persisted.
An unidentified British steamer sunk
after running on a rock off Quessant,
France, and seven were drowned.
A new political party has been
formed by the Liberals in Norway.
Among the organizers are the former
premier, Nicholson, DR.. hansen and
Prof Sars.
Mrs. Edwin S. McCook, 60 years old,
widow of Gen. Edwin S. McCook of
the famous Fighting McCook family"
was killed by an automobile in New
York city. Her husband was murdered
in Yankton, s. D., in 1873.
The Porte has notified Russia of its
acceptance in principle of Russia's
latest financial proposal for settle
ment of the Turco-Bulgarian dispute.
Following a number of alleged
blackmail plots by the BLACK hand" at
the Canadian 500 the body of Giovanni
Ciotti was found in the street at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich. The murder is be-
lieved to be the work of the society.
Allen Depue, financial secretary of
the Roseland Central Presbyterian
church in Chicago, committed suicide
in the church parlors, after being &C
cused of embezzling it's funds.
Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas
of Philadelphia and Rev. Benjamin
Brewster of Salt Lake City were
elected bishops of Wyoming and west
ern Colorado, respectively.
1t was announced in Berlin that Chan
cellor Won Buelow and Under Secre-
tary Hardinge agree on the questions
upon which they conferred and now
the Germans are anxious to know
what the questions were.
General Manager Bottomley of the
Marconi Wireless Company in New
York says the disaster to the steam
ship Republic, and the proposed legis-
lation with regard to wireless, is now
bearing fruit, outfits being ordered for
many ocean steamers.
Within less than two hours after
argument of counsel had ended at
Denver the jury in the case of Burdett
Pell, who shot Cubier Dury to death
a month ago because he stole his wife,
returned a verdict of guilty of volun-
tary manslaughter.
The British government has decided
to lay down five battleships of the i'm
proved Dreadnought type the coming
year. The building of the sixth bat
tleship will depend upon the progress
of Germany's new construction.
Thirty-two medical students of the
University of Louisville volunteered to
give bits of their cutic1e to save the
life of Luther Clifton, aged 81, who
was burned badly at East st. Louis
about month ago. Doctors began on
the work of grating.
The warm welcome given to King
Edward and Queen Alexandra, who
are visiting the kaiser in Berlin, has
pleased the English people who see
in it closer friendship between Great
Britain and Germany.
Denmark held great national feast
in celebration of the two hundredth
and fiftieth anniversary of the final
repulse of the Swedish assault upon
Copenhagen under King Charles Gus
tavus.
A series of interesting letters and
documents relating to the American
war of independence, four of them
signed by Gen. Washington, are to be
offered for sale at Sotheby's in Lon
don on March 1. The letters are
chiefly addressed to Col. Israel
Shreeve, commanding in New Jersey.
Tho qualification of cahleprams which