The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-10-13


dam at Hatfield, which destroyed the
business district of Black River Falls
Wis, rendered many people homeless
and caused an estimated property loss
of S1,200,000. Two companies of state
militia patrol the town to prevent loot
ing.
Dragging them from their beds and
loading them into the streets, nuns
saved the lives of $50 girls when the
home of the Good Shepherd at Edg
ington Lake, near Wheeling, w. Va.
| was destroyed by fire. The flames are
believed to have originated from a
spark in incense used at benedtction
in the chapel.
Southwestern Colorado and northern
New Mexico are devastated as a re-
suit of the heaviest storms and most
severe floods this section has expert
enced since 1884. Miles Of railroad
track, several railroad bridges, many
scattered houses, and at least two
towns have been washed away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, proprie-
tors of a roadhouse seven miles from
Detroity Mich, were murdered. A
daughter claims Charles Fuller, for
mer employee, shot at her and missed.
and then killed her parents.
After an hours running revolver
fight Frank Amos, believed to have
been one Of three bandits who held ur
Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger
train near Bartlesville, Okla, on Octo
Der was killed by sheriff's posse.
Delegates Of the United Mine Work
ers of America and the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners at Denver, Colo.
will ask Samuel Gompers to resign
from the National Civic federation.
Postmaster General Hitchcock in hif
estimates for the next fiscal year in,
cludes an item for $4,000 for expert,
mental parcels post in cities and coun.
try districts and for an investigation
for the establishment of general
parcels post on all railway and steam.
boat transportation routes.
Each citizen Of the United States
would have S34.35 under an equal di.
vision, that being the per capita circu-
lation October 2, according to the
statement of the treasury department.
The total money in circulation amount
Led to s3.242,1S2.715.
All Japanese servants at the New.
port Or. - naval station have been
dismissed, following the discovery
that various service plans had disap
peared coincident with the departure
Of two Japanese.
The commission in charge of the
Illinois farmers hall of fame has ac-
cepted the name of B. F. Harris, for
merly of Champaign, ILL.,, for a place
in the hall of fame at the University
of Illinois College of Agriculture.
Governor Baldwin Of Connecticut
has asked the attorney general to pass
upon the validity of a law recently
passed over his veto. giving every
Civil war veteran in Connecticut a
yearly pension of $50.
Capt. John Bradie, giving exhibitions
at the South Georgia fair at Triton.
Ca, was killed when he fell from his
balloon and plunged 700 feet to earth.
Senator Stephenson must make
satisfactory showing as to exactly
what became of every dollar of the
S107. 900 expended in his campaign
for the senatorial nomination in 1903
This ruling was made by Senator
Hepburn, chairman of the senate in
vestigating committee. at the hearing
in Milwaukee.
The innovation Of picking cotton
by moonlight has been introduced by
a farmer near Americas, Ca, because
of his desire to harvest the crop
quickly as possible The unusual sight
of pickers in the field at night has at
tracted wide attention.
The legal contest to determine
whether New Hampshire or Massachu.
sets is entitled to the Inheritance tax
upon the estate of Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, valued at $2.O0O,OO0. is being
waged before Justice Morton in the
supreme judicial court OF Boston.
James Leonard, eleven years old,
and his brother, Henry, fourteen,
were brought to Washington, D c.,
by Marshal Tyree of West Virginia
to serve two years in the government
reform school for making coins The
boys are said to be clever counter
letters
Eight indictments against four wall
paper manufacturers and four wall
paper jobbers. members of the So
called wall paper trust" charging
them with conspiracy in restraint
of trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law, were returned by the
federal grand jury at Cleveland. o.
Sporting
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ball championship series between the