The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20

:. charge OF the EDUCATIONAL Work Oh INC
Illinois conferences, was created in the
| Illinois Methodist conference at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, Saturday. The two organiza-
lions have agreed to raise $5,000,000
in five years, and in the last year OBJ
tanned 100000 for educational work.
appointed to the secretaryship with a
salary Of $4,000 yearly for four-year
term.
Six boys were drowned when the
recreation cutter of the United States
naval station, near Lake Bluff, Ill, was
swamped on a sand bar 300 yards Off
shore. The fatalaccident occurred with
in view of a number of men and wom-
en-. The furious gale that was blow
ing from the northeast had whipped
the water of the lake into such bill
lows that rescue was impossible.
Every effort by the police of Buffa-
10. North Tonawanda and Niagara
Falls to solve the mystery Of the
! shooting of Mr.. and Mrs. George Han
ner of Buffalo while they were motor
ing through Tonawanda Thursday
night has so far been unsuccessful.
head, will recover, and Mrs. Hammer
may undergo an amputation Of leg.
Part of the money out of which the
people of Oberlin, o., were fleeced by
the late Cassie Chadwick has come
back to them. The United States FL
deity and Bonding company of New
York paid into court at Elyria, O.,
$22,S75, which represents the $4,000
bond, with interest, of the late Cashier
A. B. Spear of the National Bank of
Oberlin, which was wrecked through
it's dealings with Mrs. Chadwick. The
payment followed long litigation. The
money will be divided among stock
holders of the bank, who were assessed
100000 to pay the depositors' losses.
A mysterious tunnel just discovered
ton, is thought to have been made by
prisoners attempting to escape from
jail cells of three-quarters of cen
fury ago in the old court house, re-
Gently demolished to make way for a
city hall annex.
In revenge for the attention their
husbands are alleged to have be-
slowed on Miss Minnie Lavally, a
pretty twenty-two-year-old girl of
GAINESVILLE, near Norwalk, o., eight
wives Of that place. all dressed in
mems clothing, took the young wom-
an to lonely spot on road and
stripped her and applied coat of
tar and feathers.
The jury which heard the evidence
against Victor Allen, charged with
firing the shot that caused the death
Of Commemorative Attorney W. NJ.
Foster, in the Hillsville, Va, court
house tragedy of March IA, returned
verdict of mot guilty" at Wytheville
This ends the Allen cases, except as
to Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,
fugitives from justice. I'D.
The liner Lusitania, about which
there was much anxiety because of
its failure to get into wireless COM
munication with United States sta
tons, passed Nantucket lightship.
Its delayed arrival is thought due to
heavy weather or arrangement of
machinery.
Reused from their beds at an early
hour in the morning, two students
were dragged to the parade grounds
of the University Of North Carolina
at Charlotte by band of hazers and
subjected to such severe indignities
that one died in a few minutes while
the other has badly cut leg.
That Mrs. Jack Johnson, wife of
the pugilistic champion, who commit
ted suicide in Chicago did so while
temporarily insane, was the verdict Of
a coroner's jury.
The financial embarrassment of the
United States Motors company came
to a head when receivers were ap
pointed for the s42 ,5OO, 900 corporation
by Judge Hough in the United States
district court at New York. w. E S.
Strong and Roberts Walker, former
president of the Rock Island railway,
were named as receivers.