The Ely miner., 1912-04-12


started in the vessels hold. After
desperate fight against the flames the
steamer was run ON the rocks off
Montauk Point. l.. l. The passengers
We're taken off by tug.
A break in the levee at Helena,
Ark, shot a flood of water 20 feet
deep into the valley of Modoc, Ark,
completely depopulating the town and
washing out even the strongest houses
in the valley.
The annual report of the New York
fire commissioner, sent to the mayor,
shows that the years fire loss in the
greater city was $12,475,OOO. In 1910
the loss was SS,5OO,OOO.
The dream of wealth of Henry L..
Moorland, a farmer living between
Ashland and Iron River, Wis, is dis.
s1pated. Some time ago he caught
alive three black foxes, whose peIts
are worth $1,000 each. He built a park
surrounded with solid concrete wall,
and started fox farm, expecting to
clean up" $4,000 this summer. The
foxes escaped.
In statement addressed Ito the
people OF Michigan" given out at Ian.
sing, Gov. Chase s. Osborn announces
he will not be a candidate for re-elec.
ton.
Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, u.
5. A, commanding the eastern di.
vision of the army, will not return to
Governors island to resume com
mand of the division. That General
Grant has suffered an almost complete
breakdown in health is admitted by
many of his army friends.
After arguments in the National
Register company's case, in Cincin-
natl, Judge Hollister took the demurrer
under advisement.
Three men with revolvers held I'D
Harold Ffnkelstein, a jeweler, in his
store ir Williamsburg, n Y, but were
scared away. Finkelstein, however,
captured one man.
In long statement issued at New
York, bitterly assailing President Ma
dero's administration of affairs in
Mexico and declaring that his tactics
are slowly but surely wrecking the ma
ton. the three special ENJOYS sent
by General Orozco, the leader of the
Mexican revolutionists, present to the
American public their side of the pres
ent trouble.
After eight hours of deliberation
the jurymen who tried Mrs. Louise
Vermilya at Chicago for the murder
OF Richard T. Smith, a railroad con-
ductor who boarded at her house and
who died from arsenical poisoning in
March, 1911, reported that they were
hopelessly deadlocked, and they were
discharged. A poll indicated they
stood to for conviction.
Federal Judge Angel at Detroit,
Mich, signed an order appointing re-
ceivers for the Pere Marquette Rail-
road company as follows: Frank w.
Blair OF Detroit, Dudley E. Waters of
Grand Rapids, and Newman Erb of
New York. The state denied the ap-
plication Of the railroad for a $4,000.
600 bond issue
The government levee, a short dis.
tance below Hickman. KY, on the Mis-.
sissippi, protecting the famous fertile
Reelfoot lake district, gave way and
over 100 square miles Of splendid
farming lands were swamped under
the sea that rolled in like tidal wave.
The board OF directors OF the knights
Of Columbus announced that S3S5,0OO
of a S50O,000 endowment fund for the
Catholic university in Washington is
in hand.
murdered DR.. Helen Knabe at Indian
apolis, Ind. last October, according to
his admission to the jailer at Ports.
mouth, n. II. He said he had been
laboring under great mental strain,
due to the death of his wife. This &C.
counted for the confession" he had
made.
The residence Of Senor Sebastian
Mier in Paris. former Mexican min
lister to France, was robbed. Thieves
obtained jewels valued at $4,000.
The American Association Of Pathol
ogists and Bacteriologists elected
Prof. Herbert U. Williams Of the Uni
versity of Buffalo as president and
Prof. E. r. Lecount of the University
of Chicago as a councillor at Phila
delphia.
The jury in the 100000 slander suit
of Miss Esther Mercy against Miss
Marion Talbot, dean Of women at the
University Of Chicago. awarded Miss
Mercy $4,000 damages. Miss Mercy
brought suit against Dean Talbot for
slander and being ousted from the
university of which she was a stu
dent
The alumni Of the University Of
Michigan from the middle west viii
meet in ST. Louis April 27.
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