The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05

months In once by presenting re
port which showed that In 230 streets
the weeds were extensively in evi
dence.
Louis Restelh of Quincy, Mass, who
shot down five persons. two of whom
died, succeeded in eluding the search
ers who hunted him all night, and is
still at large.
The Carolina and Northwestern
railway shops at Chester. S. c., were
burned, loss 100000.
John Junkin was hanged at Des
Moines for the murder of Clara Rosen
AS he went to the scaffold he remind.
ed the sheriff that a medical univer
sity was to have his body.
Following the arrival of two mem
bers of the Rusk Mount Mckinley ex.
petition at Seward, Alaska, it was re-
, ported that the American Geological
society's expedition under Prof. Her
schel Parker also failed and has
turned back.
Hundreds of delegates from all parts
of the civilized world were present
when the eighteenth international
Peace Congress opened in Stockholm
Sweden
At the conclusion of a conference
between King Alfonso and Premier
Canalejas, it was announced that the
Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish am
bassador to the Vatican. had been re-
called. At the same time the opinion
was expressed that rupture with the
Vatican was inevitable.
Jurors at the inquest over the body
of Ira Rawn, the late slain president
of the Monon railroad, at Winnetka,
ILL.,, returned a verdict finding that he
was killed by a bullet fired from his
own revolver, held in his own hand,
and that circumstances in connection
with the death made the theory OF
suicide seem probable.
Edwin Johann Wider, the $25-a-week
cashier who admits having stolen Sc
curities to the value of $6S0,OOO from
the Russo Chinese banks agency,
where he was employed in New York,
was arrested and committed weeping
to the Tombs in default Of $25,OOO
BAIL
Senator W. Murray Crane of Massa-
chusetts has been requested by Pres1-
dent Taft to take trip through the
west to the Pacific coast to make
confidential report to the president
upon political and other conditions or
Importance to the administration.
Cholera is raging in AZ provinces
and districts of European Russia.
Summer guests made hurried exits
when the Merrill hotel at South Harps-
well, Me-, was destroyed by fire.
Thousands of dead fish floating in
from the scene of the practise meet
of the north Atlantic batleship fleet
off Staten island are threatening to
put temporary stop to bathing at
neighboring beaches.
To shield a girl friend seven years
old who, playmates say, accidentally
shot him while all were playing sol
dier," George Pelham, six years old, OF
Yonkers, N. Y, told hospital physi-
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dying.
The Niederdeutsche bank failed in
Germany owing $12,500,0o0.
Chicago butchers plan TO start indie
pendent abattoirs and promise to cut
meat prices in half.
Fire destroyed the business district
of Herreid, seat of Campbell county.
S. OAK, causing loss Of $4,000.
Census figures indicate that Rock
Island, ILL.,, has added 1902 in popu-
lation and Columbus, Ohio, 55,98S.
Otto Bernson, believed to be from
Chicago, killed himself today in cell
In the Jail at Geneva, Ill. The man
had been arrested on charge of for
gerry.
The Washington correspondent of
the Indianapolis News writes that the
new postal bank law is full of flaws
and may have to be made over before
it is practicable.
An anarchist plot to murder Dow
ager Queen Margherita was discovered
on the tenth anniversary of the as
sassination of her. husband, King
Humbert. The man who was chosen
to execute the decision of the revolu-
tionary group after confessing his part
in the plot, killed himself in prison.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision to the effect that
Oklahoma's capital shall remain at
Guthrie until the legality of the cleo
ton recently held is determined.
Thirty passengers of a st. Clair
avenue car in Cleveland were near
death when the Pittsburg flyer on the
Pennsylvania railroad crashed into the
car on grade crossing. Twenty were
injured, several fatally.
Following the purchase of the so
called Pearson syndicate's holdings OF
securities in the Rock Island, Lehigh
Valley. Wabash, Denver and Rio
Grande and Western Pacific systems,
the new combine, made up chiefly of
American interests, will soon put into
operation the coast to coast railroad.
This scheme in transportation involves
over 10000 miles of railroad and total
capital aggregating 100000, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Brooks and
Mrs. c. H. Thoring were killed mile
east of Etna Green, Ind, when fast
Pennsylvania freight train, east-bound,
struck the automobile in which they
were riding. Mr.. Thoring was severe
ly, but not dangerously, hurt.
Not a single complaint by the police
Of the illegal sale of liquor in New
York city on Sunday was recorded
during the twenty-four hours ending
at midnight This condition is unpre
cedented and is the climax to three