The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-05-02
Domestic

Domestic
Gail Borden, the millionaire con-
densed milk manufacturer of New
York and his seventeen-year-old Ro-
mona, are in seclusion in Boston.
Miss Borden is said to be in highly
nervous state caused by her expert
ences since her dramatic escape from
the sanitarium at Pompton, N. j., and
her flight to this city.
The Lake st. John levee on the
west bank of the Mississippi river,
twelve miles north of Ferriday, La,
broke despite all efforts to hold back
the waters. An area of about 900
square miles will be flooded shortly
and more than 100000 persons will be
driven from their homes.
Robert G.. Fowler, an American
aviator, made a brilliant flight across
the isthmus from Panama beach to
Colon. Fowler drove a hydro-aero-
plane and carried passenger. Fow-
ler's motor stopped dead over Cristo-
bal, but he came down easily and
gracefully.
Telephone reports from Amadee,
Cal, are that Game Warden Frank p.
Cady and another warden were seri-
ously wounded in a fight with eleven
Indians near Likely.
The United States, as owner of the
Panama canal, has the right to fix
such terms as it pleases, and the neu-
trality of the waterway applies to its
users only and not to the United
States. This was the view expressed
by Richard Olney, former secretary
of state, whose speech was read be-
fore a meeting Of the American So
ciety of International Law in Wash
ington.
Irwin Frazer and Francisco Granda-
do, murderers, were hanged in the
county Jail at Socorro, N. M.
In a recall election-the first ever
held in San Francisco-Police Judge
Charles Weller was removed from the
against Weller grew directly out of his
action in reducing the bail of man
charged with attacking a girl. allow
ing the man to escape.
Ortie E. Mechanical, the confessed
dynamiter and chief witness against
the Mcnamara brothers, who has been
prisoner here since April, 1911, will
be released within thirty days.
The plant and building Of the
owned and edited by Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy, was
destroyed by fire.
John Harris Ccolored) was hanged
at Uniontown, Pa, for the murder of
Thomas Jones.
Women entertainers were barred
from Kansas City cabaret cafes by an
order issued by Wentworth E. Griffin,
chief of police.
Floyd Sheets, aged nineteen years
the street car bandit and murderer
entered plea of guilty to the killing
of Ernest Balldorf Davenport ia
grocer who offered resistance when
he was held up in his store and smiled
when he was sentenced to life impris.
onment.
Following quarrel with his sister
in-law, Mrs. Lizzie Harrison of Chi
cago, John Clifton, a carpenter of
Danville, ILL.,, fired shot into the
body of the woman, and then turned
the weapon upon himself, the bullet
going through the brain.
Because he had revealed secrets OF
the Masonic order, Ernest Louis John
son, mining engineer of Tucson
committed suicide in a Douglas
(Ariz.) hotel by taking poison. He
left a note explaining the cause TO,
his selfdestruction.
John Doak, who escaped few
weeks ago from an Oregon insane
asylum, shot and probably fatally In
iured his brother, L. S. Doak, in the
lobby or the Hollenbeck hotel in Lo:
Angeles, CAL, and shot Frank Mertz
by-stander, through the ankle.
Striking miners Of the Kanawh;
coal fields in special convention a
Charleston, w. Va, voted to accep
the proposals Of Gov. Henry D. Hat
field for settlement of the trouble
The strike has been in progress owe,
year.