The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-05-14

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were drowned at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by
the capsizing of row boat.
John X. Gore told the Actuaries' So
ciety of America, of which he is presi-
dent, at it's twentieth annual meeting
in New York that he knew of no rea,
son why the life of man of the future
should not be $50 years.
Charles w. Morse, the former ice
king, now prisoner testified that his
fortune estimated at $30,0OO,0OO is all
gone.
The steamer Adelia Shores, with 81
| persons aboard is believed to have
sunk in Lake Superior. all being lost.
| Herman Kraft of Superior, Wis,
shot three policemen in an attempt to
escape at Windsor, Ont.
| An investigator who returned to
Beirut, Asiatic Turkey, said Moslem
raiders had destroyed all the property
of Americans at Kessab.
Sixty persons were hurt when a bal
cony fell in an armory at Seattle.
| Wash.
President Taft got something in his
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forced him to wear a shield.
State conventions of the Knights of
Columbus were held in Appleton, Wis.,,
and Chicago, Ill.
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota and
the allied organizations convened in
st. Paul.
The Grand lodge of Iowa, Ancient
nrIn IF ha1 nc
thirty-fourth session at Burlington.
The national Communicates of the
naval and military order of the Span
ish-American war began a three-day
meeting in Cleveland. More than 100
officers who served in the conflict
were in attendance.
Francis L. Wellman, noted cross.
cedure, declared in a speech to the
Catholic club in New York that per-
jury by witnesses was increasing at
an alarming rate.
In default of payment of hotel bill
in Paris, France, the trunks and cloth
ing of Princess Louise of Belgium,
which have been seized, will be sold
eASSoA
John Bradley was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in Kenosha,
Wis, for killing Clifford l.. Smith, a
Libertyville Qll) contractor, on June
81, 1906.
A fierce electrical storm swept over
northern Indiana and lower Michigan
and the high wind dashed rain and
hail, cutting crops and stripping fruit
trees. Great property damage was
done.
Harry Josephs, who alleged he was
falsely imprisoned in Belleville, Ill.,,
at the instance of Harry Rosenberg,
a rival merchant, sued for 5000 and
obtained verdict of one cent, or one
mill for each pound of flesh he had
lost while in Jail.
Mothers day" was celebrated gen.
orally throughout the country and con-
tributions were taken up in the
churches for destitute mothers.
The American Federation of Musi-
clans met in annual convention at
Minneapolis, with about three hun
dred delegates present.
The arrival of a British battleship
at Suadia, Asiatic Turkey, brought re-
lief to the survivors of the recent
massacre.
James Boyle was convicted al
Mercer, Pa, of kidnapping Willie
Whitla, and the trial of his wife began
Immediately.
Advocates of international peace
through arbitration met in Washing
ton at dinner in honor of Secretary
Knox's fifty-sixth birthday anniver-
sary.
Mrs. Harry Thaw paid the judgment
obtained against her by milliner and
avoided going to Jail for contempt of
court.
Canon Arthur w. Behrens, chaplain
of st. Adams School for Boys at
Galesburg, ILL.,, fearing insanity, COM
mitted suicide.
Several farm houses, much stock
and other property were destroyed by
a prairie fire which swept ten town.
ships near North Platte, Neb.
The fiftieth anniversary of the dis
covery of gold was celebrated with
fetes in Denver and other Colorado
cities and towns.
An ice skating rink is to be installed
in the Plaza hotel, New York, for use
of patrons in hot weather.
A crystal spring which was favored
in the early days of San Francisco for
its medicinal virtues but lost to sight |
for many years has started to flow
again on one of the main streets.
Three thousand silk worms sailed
on the steamer Mauretania in charge
will take them to the south of France |
for breeding in an effort to produce a
hybrid which will spin silk superior to
that of China.
Dr. T. E. Graham resigned as assist
ant physician of the state hospital for
the insane No. at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and asserted that inmates were sub
jected to gross outrages on the part
of the attendants.
The Missouri senate passed reso-
luton to submit statewide prohibit
ton amendment to the constitution to
the people.
The trial of James Boyle, charged
with kidnapping Willie Whitla, was be-
gun in Mercer, Pa.
The buildings of the Northwest
Stove works at the Oregon state peni-
Tertiary, at Salem, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
King Edward, who has been travel
ing in the south of Italy, arrived in
Paris on his way to England.
Ex-President Castro of Venezuela
says his physicion had advised him
to go to the Canary islands.
bronze statua of Henry Wads.