The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-05-09
Domestic

upon Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrl-
son and John Mitchell, officials of the
American Federation of Labor, were
sustained by the court of appeals for
the District of Columbia, which, how
ever, revised the sentences to give
Gompers thirty days Imprisonment
and fine Mitchell and Morrison $500
each, with no Jail term.
Forty thousand pounds of powder
was exploded in one blast near st.
Louis, Mo, shattering 100000 tons OF
rock and smashing a steep precipice
into mass of small stone. The blast
was the third largest ever fired in the
United States.
Twenty-one indictments against
eight men have been returned by the
grand jury at Denver, Colo. Three OF
them are based on charges of extor-
ton from a woman of the street, made
by Sheriff Sullivan against Patrolman
A Sidney Tebbs.
L city Cdl anu thS PcAhI oiiop ~
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad were
destroyed by fire at Peru, Ind. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The California antialien land hold
ing act, which passed both houses OF
the legislature within twenty-fouI
hours, after bringing about one of the
most unusual situations in the history
of the nation, will lie on Governor
Johnson's desk without his signature
until Secretary of State Bryan can
confer with President Wilson in Wash
ington.
Leon LIE Count was shot and instant
ly killed in Chicago by Joseph w. Will
liams an art student lie Count resent
ed attentions which Williams paid Mrs
lie Count, a bride of three months.
j. K. Codding, warden of the Leav
enworth (Kan) penitentiary, for
warded to Governor Hodges a list OF
the names of all convicts in the
prison who showed heroism in fight
ing the recent fire there. He aske
that some of them be pardoned.
The trial of President William
Wood of the American Wooden com
pany; Frederick E. Atteaux and Den
mis- J. Collins, indicted for conspiracy
in alleged planting" of dynamite in
a tenement house during the textile
strike at Lawrence, Mass, was fixed
for May 10.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
by creditors against the Folies Der
gere restaurant on Broadway, New
York Counsel for the petitioners saiG
that the liabilities were $4,000, the
assets about $4,000. Mayor Gaynor's
turkey trot" edict, which cut off after
midnight festivities, was given as the
reason for the failure:
A lone robber who boarded Kansas
City Southern passenger train at ~:
depot in Kansas City, Mo-, lined VI
and robbed the passengers soon after
the train left the station, securing
about $500 in money and jewelry
Jesse e. Short of Joplin, Mo-, one OF
the passengers and millionaire, fireG
at the robber and wounded him. The
bandit then wounded Short.
New York city schoolboys have been
asked to start and continue until June
at least, test in which they will
abstain from using cheap candies, un
wholesome pies, crullers and greasy
pastry and soda water favored with
highly colored sirups.
Charles Carlson, aged twenty-four
an aviator, whose home is in Milwau
kee, was instantly killed at Akron, O..
when the engine of his aeroplane
failed as he was making a spiral
ascent for flight Practically every
bone in his body was broken.
Miss Violet Edmands, daughter Of
Moses Grant Edmands of Brookline
Mass, who was to marry Rev. Clar
ence V. T. Richeson, who murdered
Miss Avis Linnell, his former fiancee
is now in Japan doing missionary
work
The entire silk industry Of the coun
try was tied up when 2,400 weavers il
the silk mills of West Hoboken, Unior
Hill and Jersey City Heights, N. j.
went on strike and demanded an eight
hour day and 90 per cent. increase