The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-09-10

| entered into with the Mexican gov
eminent, will control practically the
entire express business of the re-
public.
James Burns was wounded and sur
| rendered to posse at Mingo juno
ton, o., after he had set barn on
| fire twice and had held every one at
bay while the flames ragged.
When surgeons in the city hospital
at Newark, N. j., examined the APP
pendix taken from Jacob Deisler they
found in it % bird shot. Eating rab-
bits is believed to have caused him to
swallow the shot.
John F. Hayner, who shot former
Senator Summerville at Sleepy Eye,
Mimi, committed suicide by hanging
in cell in the Jail at New Ulm, Mimi.
Eastern Pennsylvania has had no
real rain in the last several months
and crops and pasturage have been
destroyed by drought. Several fac
tories have been closed because of the
lack of water.
Ten thousand American and Next
can children will sing the national
anthems of both nations at Ell Paso
when Presidents Taft and Diaz meet.
Spokane, Wash, plans to give Presi-
dent Taft "ciderfest" that will
eclipse the possum dinner in Georgia.
Thirteen persons were injured, two
perhaps fatally, when Rock Island
train struck street car at Des
Moines, la.
A circular sent by the Turkish gov;
eminent to all its provincial author:
tiles discredits the reported sedition
of Armenians and asserts that the puri
pose of Turkey is to treat Moslem and
non-Moslem alike hereafter.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Cornwall, for 20
years Presbyterian missionaries in
Foochoo, China, are reported dead from
cholera.
President Taft is wise, just,
secure for the colored people their full
rights" declared DR.. William NJ Alex
ander of Baltimore, secretary of the
Lott Carey Colored Baptist Foreign
Missionary conference.
The color line was obliterated at
the state convention of Spanish war
veterans at Pasadena, Cal, when a
negro delegate said the black mems
right to carry musket beside the
white gave him the privilege of COM
radeship.
A monument to Rev. James Lemen,
CT nj DO or min icfA
unveiled at Waterloo, Ia.
Squatter Town, New, ten miles from
Rawhide, was practically wiped on
the map by a cloudburst, a wall of
water ten feet high tearing down $50
buildings.
Four thousand policemen will pro-
tect trees and shrubs in Riverside
Park, New York, from the crowds
which will watch the international
naval parade at the Hudson-Fulton
celebration.
Secretary Dickinson at Nashville,
Tenn, intimated that investigation of
the case of ]. H. Booker, charged with
hazing at West Point, will be re-
opened.
Through conference between the
operators and the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers of
miners in the Pittsburg district has
been settled, and 1000 men now ON
strike will return to work
At Sleepyeye, Mimi, George w.
Sommerville, former state senator,
lawyer and politician, was shot and
fatally wounded. in his private Office,
by John S. Hayner, manager of large
business block, in dispute over mon
ey matters.
A message received by relatives at
White Plains, N. Y, announced the
death from cholera at Foo Choo,
China, of Rev. and Mrs. George Corn
wall, for 20 years Presbyterian mis-
sionaries in that country.
Through a deal involving millions
the United States Steel Corporation
has taken over the property known as
the Kelly lands and Mines in Danville,
ILL.,, district on which it held an option
from the Hammond Company.
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is to be the
place of exile of Alexander Lopukine.
former chief of the Russian police de,
partment, who was convicted of activ,
ity as a revolutionary.
John R. Myrick, who enlisted in the
union army as a private at the out,
break of the civil war, and who was
retired as brigadier-general in 1903,
is dead in New York.
While playing with a shotgun at
Nicholasville, KY, James Littrell,
eight years old, accidentally dis.
charged the weapon and blew off the
head of his six-year-old sister.
Mrs. Fred Young, wife of a farmer
near Barnum, Mimi, threw their three
children, one, two and five years, into
well. set fire to barn, destroying
it, fired the family dwelling, swal.
lowed poison and then gashed her
throat with knife, afterward being
taken to an asylum.
During the funeral at Seattle of
George E. Eccles, the wireless opera.
tor who persisted on the steamer Ohio,
every wireless telegraph instrument
in the western division was silent for
half an hour.
Mrs. Katherine Miller, formerly Mrs
Kate Soffel, who served a two-year
prison term for helping Jack and Ed.
ward Biddle, the murderers, escape
from the county jail at Pittsburg, died
of typhoia fever.
When questioned about his contro-
versy with Clifford Pinchot, a friend
of Roosevelt and chief forester of the
United States, Secretary Ballinger of
the department of the interior made
the significant remark: 81 intend to
kill some snakes"