The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-11-21
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opSdhluS DClOIC IIlC oluuShto VI SAAS
Hill school at Pottstown, Pa, William
Howard Taft, former president, alluded
to his pardon of Charles w. Morse,
the New York banker, from prison and
intimated that possibly he had been
imposed upon.
Mayor Riddle of Atlantic City, N.
j., wants the public to join him in
abstaining from eating eggs until the
price is reduced so the poor can
again afford to buy them.
Lloyd Osbourne, step-son of Robert
Louis Stevenson, was made the de-
PENDANT in an action for divorce
brought in the superior court at San
Francisco by Katherine d. Osbourne,
charging desertion and asking GUS
tody of their two minor children.
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens Of
Mississippi was unanimously elected
president-general of the United Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy at the con-
vention held at New Orleans. Mrs.
Cornelia Branch Stone of Texas was
named honorary president-general.
T. H. (Tommy) Burns, international
ly famous as a jockey, either jumped
or fell beneath an elevated train in
Brooklyn and was ground to pieces.
No one witnessed the tragedy.
Word was received at Bangor Me-,
of the fatal shooting Of Alonzo Bacon,
federal fish hatchery employe in
| Springfield. According to the report
Bacon was mistaken for deer.
Second Lieutenant c. Perry Rich of
the Philippine scouts was killed in an
aeroplane accident in the Philippines.
He was a native of Indiana.
Henry Spencer was found guilty Of
numbering Mrs. Mildred Allison Rex.
roat, and his punishment was fixed at
death by jury in the Dupage county
circuit court at Wheaton. Ill.
John Purroy Mitchell, Mayor-elect
of New York, sailed for the West In
| dies and the Panama canal for a
| three weeks rest after the rigors of
the campaign. Mrs. Mitchell accom-.
panied him.
Lady Strathcona, wife of the veneer
able high commissioner of Canada,
died at London. Death was the result
of bronchitis. Lady Stratcona was
eighty-nine years old.
The trial of Hans Schmidt, former
priest, for the murder of Anna Aumul-
Ter, parts of whose dismembered body
were found in the Hudson river, was
set in New York for November 10.
Virgil Stamps, deputy sheriff and
city marshal, and two negroes are
dead and more trouble is imminent as
result of a race riot at Bassfield,
Miss
Attorney General Lucey of Illinois
rendered an opinion to the state
board of railroad and warehouse com,
missioners that the act of 1913 pro.
viding for the semi-monthly payment
of railroad employees in Ilulinois was
not in conflict with the interstate
commerce law.
Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, the Connec
ticut murderess, who is under sen
tence of wealth for the Staying of hel
husband, appealed to Miss Jessie Viii
son, who is to be the thirteenth White
House bride.
Joseph E. Bell, mayor-elect of Indi
annapolis, who is the guest of Tom Tag
CART at French Lick, Ind, was acciden
tally shot when on a quail hunt.
In showing friend the workings
Of his new rifle, Roy Haskins, TWEEN
ty years old, shot his mother, Mrs
Fred Haskins, near Bennett, Wis Mrs
Haskins died few minutes later.
7 George McCarl, sixty, of Mapleton
, Pa, shot his wife in the abdomen
: then killed himself because his wifi
refused to get him his breakfast