The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-04-24

engrossed parchment invitation to at
tend the Pacific Coast Saengerfest In
Los Angeles during July and August
of next year.
Foreign
Five hundred miners were thrown
out of work and 100000 damage was
done by fire which destroyed the
plant of the Trieukasin. near Charlie
roi, Brussels.
Militant suffragettes renewed the
campaign of the firebrand in the north
Of England. The big grandstand at
Hull football grounds was burned.
Domestic
The Fidelity Title &c Trust com
pany of Pittsburgh was granted a
citation on Harry X. Thaw to show
cause why there should not be a sus
pension of proceedings regarding the
distribution of $16O,733 income from
the estate of William Thaw until the
court issues further orders.
Mayor Mitchell of New York escaped
death at the hands Of an assassin by
barely a few inches. A bullet aimed
at the mayors head by Michael P.
Mahoney. a crazed blacksmith, missed
its mark and hit Frank L. Polk, the
corporation counsel, In the chin in.
fiicting q serious but not fatal injury
Mahoney shot at the mayor, he de-
clared, because he felt aggrieved al
the city executives "extravagant ex.
penditures"
When General Coxey's two divi.
sions of his army" completed their
first lap of the proposed hike to Wash
ington, the force had dwindled down
to 60. or this number SO were high
school boys who had given Coxey a
sendoff from his home town. They will
go back home.
Charles S. Mellen, formerly presi.
dent of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad company. may be-
come the active head of federated
body supreme among the various or
CARNATIONS of the United States, with
which 100000 railroad employees are
affiliated.
Possible basis for appeal of the case
of Leo M. Frank of Atlanta, Ca, un-
der death sentence for the murder of
Mary Phagan, a fourteen-year-old en-
ploye in his pencil factory. to the
Supreme court of the United States,
was laid in a motion for annullment
of his sentence, filed in the superior
court.
Investigation by federal grand jury
at Philadelphia of alleged custom
frauds was completed when the jury
recommended that the government
proceed to recover the duty losses suf
fered because of alleged irregularities
IN the importation of personal goods
by Wanamakers.
NJ. O'Brien, engineer of a Lake
Shore passenger train, tagged g
speeding east-bound Pere Marquette
flyer at Indiana Harbor and prevent
ed a collision with his own train
which had been derailed. The heroic
action of O'Brien prevented a second
and more serious wreck. Severa
persons were hurt.
The two wage scale committees o.
the Illinois miners and coal mine op
orators have concluded the task o.
hearing the 700 demands and referred
the subject as whole to a sub-com
mittee composed of IL men. Ths
wage scale committee will not NEE
before the subcommittee is ready t.
report.
Heirs Of Adolphus Busch, includin.
his widow Mrs. Lilly Busch, and he
six children, have filed in the superior
court at Los Angeles, Cal contes
against the $4,000 inheritance ia,
fixed on the $1,1S4,7677s estate lef
In California by the dead brewer.
A tornado that swept southern Okla
homa caused the death of one person
and tore many houses off foundations
A $4,000 barrel oil tank near San,
Springs was struck by lightning Tn
oil is burning.
Depression following his arrest TO
the illegal sale of liquor is believed t
have caused Frank d. Dempstel
prominent druggist of Rockford, III
to commit suicide. Formerly h
owned two drug stores in Chicago.
Mother" Mary Jones, held as a mi
itary prisoner in the Walsenburg la
near Denver. Colo, was released, az
cording to an announcement by Go,
ernor Ammons. A writ of habeas col
pus issued by the Colorado suprem
court was returnable April is.
DR.. William T. Kirby. former hea
of the defunct Kirby Savings banl
died in Wesley hospital at Chicago
He made a dying request that an al
topsy be held for the purpose {
making scientific examination of hi
brain.