The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-13

] sprinkle the prison lawn Charles Uf
| lery escaped from the Indiana peni
| Tertiary at Michigan City.
Alfred Kinard, who has been an
outlaw in Perry county, Pennsylvania,
for years met his match and was bad.
ly wounded by Oscar Heisley In an at.
| tempt to hold up store near Harris.
burg.
Agents of the United States at all
the leading shipping points of foreign
lands are constantly on guard to keep
rats from getting into cargoes COM
ing to this country as precaution
against the plague being brought into
the land.
A quarrel between her stepfather
and mother drove Helen Mattox, 10
years old, to commit suicide with
rifle. Her mother became raving
maniac when told of the girls death.
At Wapakoneta, o., word was re-
ceived that B. w. Layton, assistant
sergeant-at-arms of the national SEN
ate, is dead in California.
Russell Earl was killed and Moses
Harris probably fatally injured at
Mishawaka, Ind, by New York Gen.
trail train They were in an automo-
bile on their way to their homes in
Niles, Mich.
Too many escapes have occurred
recently at the government hospital
for the insane in Washington say the
police. The acting secretary Of the
interior, Jesse M. Wilson, has asked
for report from Superintendent
White. The escapes have menaced
the safety Of the residents.
Storm warnings for the Galveston
district were issued by the forecaster
at the New Orleans weather bureau.
The storm was said to be central over
the gulf several hundred miles south
Of the Louisiana coast line.
Following the death Of her aged
husband, John Gardner, a civil war
veteran, Mrs. Gardner has lost her
reason, refusing to admit anyone to
her home near Ligonier, Pa. When
her husband was dying she barricaded
her house, "to keep death out"
The secretary of war has approved
the recommendation Of Quartermas-
ter General Aleshire for the allot-
ment of funds for barracks and quar-
tiers for the seacoast defenses, aggre-
eating $1,52S,326. The department
has abandoned important work
planned at Fort Winfield Scott, CAL,
and Fort Taylor, Fla.
I'm sure that I'll be Free" said
Harry Thaw as his hearing to test
his sanity came to a close before
Justice Mills.
Thirty thousand men at Barcelona
have prepared to carry on a guerril-
la warfare against Spain and use
bombs as weapons, unless certain pris-
oners are released.
The officials of the Pressed Steel
Car Company at McKees Rocks, Pa,
will ignore the demands Of the $500
strikers and further trouble is feared
there.
A st. Bernard dog saved the lives
Of a woman and three children when
the husband and father in committing
suicide with gas filed their house in
New York with the deadly fumes.
Justice Samuel Doty and Constable
Oscar Welty of Kokomo, Ind, had a
desperate fight, the justice using his
official seal with which to batter the
officers head while Welty pounded
the courts Uranium with a revolver
Circuit Judge John T. Debolt of
Honolulu received a letter threaten.
ing him with death if the Japanese
on trial for rioting in connection with
the plantation strike are convicted.
Gather Ahern Of Laurel Hill, L.
l., awoke to find a dream that her
father had killed her mother with an
ak was true.
John Dugan, when chased by
posse after killing John Jagans, nea3
Danville, ILL.,, committed suicide.
Several thousand Illinoisans cele
brated Illinois day at the Alaska-Yu.
kon exposition.
Frank Nicolai, assistant cashier of
the City National bank, Auburn, Ind,
is missing and the banks books show
a shortage of $4,000 in cash.
Following the finding of four.
month-old dead baby with it's skull
crushed, James Pullman and May
Williams of Mount Carmel, ILL.,, were
arrested. 1t is charged that the man
jumped off train with the infant
after an attempt to have it adopted in
East st. Louis.
Alaska is being inspected by Nor.
wegian experts with view to set,
Element of Norwegians in that dis.
trict.
Higher diamond prices are shown in
figures from southwest Africa. Ameri.
cans, being more prosperous, are said
to be willing to pay the advance.
The Payne tariff bill was passed by
the senate by vote Of AZ to 81, Pres.
ident Taft signed the measure and the
extraordinary session of congress,
which began March Is, was adjourned.
The great National Irrigation con.
gress opened at Seattle, Wash, with
about 1000 accredited delegates pres
ent besides thousands of others who
are interested in the reclamation of
desert lands. Among those in at
tendance are men from England, Ger
many, France, the Latin republics,
China and Japan.
Prominent churchmen and laymen
from all parts of the country gathered
in Pittsburg, Pa, where the American
Federation of Catholic Societies be.
gan it's yearly convention.
Vessels of the United States navy
T. L
one hundred and nineteenth anniver.
sary of the navy organization on Au-
gust 4.
Spies who were sent up in a bal.
loon by the commander of the Span
ish forces in Morocco watched thou
sands of triheSmen as they nrenared