The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-12

Acosta by government officers at FL
Paso, Tex, following the investigation
conducted by the inspector of Mexi
can consulates, who blames Acosta as
the aggressor.
The Yaquis of Sonora have begun to
threaten Americans. Desertions of the
Indians from the state troop ranks
continue. The insurgent forces are re.
treating before a federal advance
north Of Guaymas.
Foreign
A son was born to the duchess of
Roxburghe Of England. The baby Is
boy principally because his mother,
who was Miss May Goelet Of New
York, ate no food containing sugar for
months before his advent.
The German aviator, Senge, fell
while making fight and was killed
in Prussia.
Gus Lawson, an American cyclist,
and Scheuermann, German rider,
were killed and Meinhold, the Ger.
mans pacemaker, was probably fatal.
ly injured at Cologne, Germany, in a
motor-paced bicycle race for the 100
kilometer championship.
A mob of $4,000 persons seized
Habiya park at Toxic, Japan, cheered
while its leaders denounced the Uni
ted States and then marched upon
the foreign Office, where it demanded
that aggressive action be taken at
once against America because of it's
attitude toward Japanese citizens.
The meeting had been called as a
public protest against the slaughter
Of Japanese by Chinese at Marking.
The streets Of Rome were guarded
by police, carbineers and troops, from
the Church of st. John Lateran, where
the Catholic athletes heard mass, to
st. Peters cathedral, to which edifice
they marched to be received by the
pope.
The competition for designs for a
new German embassy building at
Washington, D. c., by the German
government was won by Prof. Bruno
Moehring, the leading architect OF
Berlin.
The Zionist congress at Vienna end
ed in disorder. The president, David
session, owing to the tumult. The
trouble arose over an attempt of the
inner executive committee to get con
troll of the two Zionist financial insti
tutions, the Colonial Trust and the
National Fund.
Fire destroyed a big bonded ware
house in Manchester, England. The
damage is put at $1,250,000. The
warehouse was owned by the Man
chester Ship Canal company.
Personal
Mrs. Walter B. Smith, a society
woman, granddaughter of Marvin
Hughitt, the railroad builder, left her
home at Lake Forest, ILL.,, for a stroll
to the beach, where she made a
mound of sand and later plunged into
the water Three hours afterward she
was found dead
James w. Gerard of New York took
the oath of Office as ambassador tc
Germany at Washington.
George M Cohan, one of the most
popular actors on the American stage
and his fourteen-year-old daughter
Georgetta, were seriously injured
when their automobile crashed into
farmers wagon near Hartford, Conn
Albert Trosi, who suffered two
broken legs when he jumped from a
speeding automobile in the Reno
(Mo.) road race, died at Reno of hem
orrhage of the brain, superinduced by
the injuries.
Miss Ella H. Lurkins, a Chicago mil
liner, and Mrs. Ida H. Bartel, a dress
maker of st. Joseph, Mo-, pleaded
guilty in New York to charges of
smuggling and were released after
paying fines of $3.50 and $3.50.
Riley Shepherd, ninety-four years
old, of Noblesville, Ind, the father of
20 children, is dead at his home. He
was born in North Carolina and came
to Indiana in 1910. Shepherd had
been married three times.
William F. Havemeyer, son of the
founder Of the Havemeyer sugar rein
cries and himself one of the organ
izers of the American Refining com
pany, was found dead in bed at the
home of his son-in-law, William R.
Wilcox. recently chairman of the New
York public service commission.
Heart disease is given as the cause
of death.
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