The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

was killed when an automobile In
which he was riding with ]. B. Little
of Hartman, plunged into creek
near Kingston, Tenn.
The Pacific Mail liner San Juan is
in port at San Francisco with the
bodies of seven men of the United
States navy, who were killed In the
revolution in Nicaragua month ago.
Three were killed in the engagement
of Barranca hill and four We're
boloed in Leon.
The Washington walters strike,
which embarrassed several big hotels
and several cafes, virtually is at an
end, according to the managers of the
restaurants. ...
A strike involving several thousand
employees of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way went into effect over great
stretch of country traversed by that
line. More than five thousand men,
consisting of freight employees and
clerks, are out. The men demand
higher wages and recognition of the
union.
Extracts from the Iron Workers
Union Magazine concerning a demand
made upon the American Federation
Of Labor to impose tax of one cent
month on all it's members to union
ize Los Angeles, three years before the
Times building was blown up, were
read by the government at the "dyna-
mite conspiracy trial at Indianapolis.
Charles N Kramer confessed that
he killed Sophia Singer, the Baltimore
heiress found murdered in Chicago.
Kramer, whose stage name is Con-
way, said that he knocked Miss Singer
down in self-defepse when she at
tackled him with razor after he had
rebuked her for making a suggestion
to Mrs. Kramer to go out and meet
some men. Kramer exonerated his
wife from all blame.
Pansy Ellen Lesh, twenty-four years
old, who said she had been deserted
by her husband, surrendered to the
police at Los Angeles, declaring that
she had murdered two women in Mis-
souri,, one at Greenridge and another
at Sedalia. The victims, she said, were
Mrs. Quaintance and Mrs. Coe.
Following charges preferred by an
escaped prisoner that he had been
aided in his escape from the work
house by Superintendent John Carey,
Manager William Walters and County
Commissioner Tice Judge Fowler
called these officials into court at Fond
du Lac Wis. The officials denied the
charges.
George Bakhmeteff, Russian ambas-
sador to the United States, has ex-
tended an invitation to American mo-
tor car manufacturers to exhibit at
the automobile exposition to be held
in ST. Petersburg in the spring of 1913
under the auspices of the Imperial
Automobile club of Russia and is I'M
der the patronage Of the car.
Martin Halter, clerk in the store of
Fries & Schuele Of Cleveland, o., was
shot and instantly killed in the store
by Antonio ]. Patta, disappointed
lover. Patta then shot himself. Many
women customers in the store were
panic-stricken.
Friends of the family of District At.
torney Charles S. Whitman of New
York have learned that a price of ST..
900 has been put upon the head of
the prosecutor who dared to expose
the New York police department and
the underworld characters who killed
Herman Rosenthal
Mrs. Louise Lindloff, spirit medium
and crystal gazer. was found guilty by
a Chicago jury of poisoning her son,
Arthur Lindloff, for the purpose of col
lecting $500 insurance on his life.
Punishment Is fixed at twenty-five
years in prison.
New York has become billion dol
lar city, according to data made pub
lie by the Merchants association. The
municipal debt is now over 81, 037 ,000,-
900. This is several millions more
than the national debt.
H. E. Campbell and Joseph G. Gavin,
who were arrested at Columbus, O.,
in connection with the bank robbery
at New Westminster, Canada, several
months ago, probably will be released
for lack of evidence.
Jack Johnson, heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, announced that he had
retired as saloonkeeper in Chicago
when he sold the Cafe de Champion
to Henry Starrett, the man who had
formerly managed the place for him.