The Ely miner., 1909-05-07

AS result or recent county option
elections in Michigan 3S5 saloons were
closed and ten breweries quit busi-
ness.
Tippecanoe county in Indiana went
'wet" in an option election. Jefferson,
Martin and Washington counties went
dry"
DR.. G. X. Boyajian, an Armenian,
killed his nephew in a court room at
Detroit.
A report received in London said
Abdul Hamid, deposed sultan of Tur-
key, may be tried by court martial.
Thirty-one Persians were slain in a
battle between the forces of the shah
and nationalists.
Stuart Mcnamara, assistant district
attorney of the District of Columbia,
started proceedings in Indianapolis
for the extradition of Delavan Smith,
who is charged with libel.
Reports received in Chicago said the
head hunters who killed Dr. William
Jones, an anthropologist, had been
arrested.
The fifty-frst annual Minnesota
Sunday school convention was held at
Crookston with large attendance.
The consolidated grand lodge of
Oklahoma knights of Pythias held it's
third annual session at Chickasha.
Railroads operating in California
are endeavoring to ascertain the con-
stitutionality of the Wright act, passed
by the recent legislature, which pro-
hibits them from giving free passes to
any person.
c. C. Lewert, superintendent of the
state insurance department of Ohio,
reported shortage of $1,942.5S in the
accounts of the Ohio Underwriters
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Columbus.
1t has been discovered in Rome that
a satchel containing jewelry valued at
$4,000, which was recently stolen
from train there, was the property
of Princess Won Buelow of Berlin.
The W. C. T. U. of Cincinnati will
ask Mayor Markbreit of that city to
forbid the moving-picture shows to
present scenes showing the electrocu
tion of women.
]. w. Fowler, receiver for the First
National bank of Carroll, Ia, brought
suit for $264,292 against the estate of
w. F. Culbertson, former president
of the bank, who committed suicide
last October
The twentieth annual congress CT
the Sons of the American Revolution
was held in Baltimore, delegates be-
ing present from AZ states.
John A. Benson of San Francisco
was acquitted in Washington on a
charge of bribery in connection with
land frauds.
William H. Reynolds, a Brooklyn
millionaire, who sailed for Europe, took
a negro quartet with him to entertain
him and his guests aboard ship and IL.
his tour abroad.
New York is to have a hotel at
Forty-second street and Madison ave-
nue. 81 stories high, to cost S2,500,00O
Hiram Webster, 65 years old, a sec
ton boss on the Michigan Central, lost
his life at Hastings, Mich, while try
ing to remove hand car in the way
of an approaching special.
Six hundred feet of the west wall
at the Indiana state prison at Mich.
igan City were blown down by a cy-
clone. The prisoners made no attempt
to escape, but the militia has been
ordered out.
Porter Smith of Chicago shot and
killed Miss Helen Marden at Sommer-
vile, at Smith college, Northampton,
Mass, and then killed himself because
she had Tilted him.
Nadir Pasha, an aide to Abdul
Hamid, deposed sultan, was hanged
and 250 other conspirators shot at
Constantinople.
Mrs. Harry Thaw was fined $3.50 for
contempt of court in New York and
given five days to pay the amount or
go to Jail.
Four men were killed by an ex-
plosion in a powder factory at Rey-
nolds, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Griffen, a widow,
was slain with flatiron in her home
at Winnebago. near Rockford, Ill.
Two Chicago fremen were killed
while fighting flames which destroyed
an Illinois Central elevator which had
been struck by lightning.
President Taft officially recognized
Mehmed ", the new sultan Of Tur-
key, in message sent to Ambassador
Leishman
The Red Cross society has sent
$1,000 to relieve the suffering of refu-
gees from the massacres in Asiatic
Turkey.
Beach Hargis was convicted and
sentenced to serve life term in the
penitentiary for Staying his father at
Irvine, KY.
The body of Maj. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, who laid out the city of
Washington, was taken from the
grave at Digges farm, Maryland, and
buried in Arlington cemetery.
Policeman Kroeger of Logansport,
Ind, and an unidentified pickpocket
were slain in pistol duel following
the performance of circus.
The miners in the tri-district con-
vention at Scranton, Pa, decided to
accept the old agreement with the an
thracite operators and authorized
their officials to sign it.
Abdul Hamid H., for 33 years ruler
of Turkey was denOsed and hia