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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
SUSPECTED OF BRUTAL ATTACK
MAN ARRESTED ALLEGED TO
HAVE TORTURED WOMAN
AND BOY.
Series of Deductions Leads Detectives
Far In Search for Criminal
Confession Is Alleged.

Minneapolis. After a long Sc
ries of deductions that read like a
chapter from Sherlock Holmes, the
police arrested Louis T. Johnson on
farm II miles from Russell, Lyon
county, Mimi, on a charge of attack.
ing Mrs. c. E. MacRae and Leslie
Almquist in grocery here last Sat
urday afternoon.
Mrs. MacRae was stabbed six times
AM poker showed down her throat.
The Almquist boy was beaten and
the poker also showed down his
throat.
Superintendent of Police Martin
son received a telephone message
from Detectives John Irving and Fred
Ohmann, who had run down the clues
in the case and made the arrest, that
Johnson, after stoutly maintaining
that he knew nothing about the case
had broken down and admitted that
he had attacked the woman and the
boy and that his sole purpose was to
rob the cash drawer for cash
to meet the immediate needs of
himself and bride whom he had mar
ried the night before he made the
attack.
1t was on two meager clews, a
newspaper from which a marriage H.
cense had been cut and a remark that
Johnson is said to have made to Mrs.
MacRae to the effect that his name
was Johnson and that he had been
married the night before, that Irving
and Ohmann laboriously built up a
network around the suspect.
The man who brutally attacked
Mrs. MacRae as she was getting few
cents worth of apples for him, had
been lettering in the store for near
ly an hour. Mrs. MacRae thought he
was there to seek shelter from the
cold and wind storm of last Saturday
While he was apparently killing
time" he made remarks, once saying
that his name was Johnson and that
he had been married on Friday night.
These facts came back to Mrs. Mac
Rae after she had recovered from the
effects of the attack sufficiently to
tell the police the story.
Minneapolis T. Johnson,
arrested on farm seventeen miles
from Russell, Lyon county, On charge
of assaulting Mrs. >. e. MacRae and
Leslie Almquist, was taken to the bed
sides of his alleged victims upon his
return to this city and was positively
identified by both as the man who had
savagely attacked them in the MacRae
grocery and forced a poker down their
threats.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
State Fair Attractions Booked.

Hamline.-Among the Seven Won
ders" to be staged on Wonderway at
the Minnesota State Fair, Sept 7-12,
will be complete menagerie of wild
animals, selected from one of the larg-
est geological gardens in the middle
west. In another show, novelty instru-
ments valued at over $4,000 will be
played by versatile band of twenty
accomplished musicians now playing
on the best vaudeville circuit in the
country, various combination of instru-
ments being used. The optical illu-
sions and tricks practiced for centur-
les by the magicians and sorcerers Of
India, the secrets of which none but
these men have ever known, are to
be shown in another. An enormous
auto-drome, in whose saucer-like cup,
around the steep incline of it's sides,
autos will race at different times dur
ing the day is to be another attrac-
ton. Never in the history of state
fairs has such an amusement pro-
gram been offered.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
PLAN TO BOOST MINNESOTA
Land Men Organize to Induce Set
tiers to Take Up Vacant
Land.

Minneapolis land
men of Minnesota, anxious to spread
gospel of the states resources to pro-
spective settlers throughout the union,
organized the Minnesota Farm Lands
association here. j. H. McGilvery of
Milaca was elected president.
A program of advertising and pub
licity that will mean much to Mime
sofa and the future settlement of the
state was mapped out. The associa-
ton will maintain headquarters in
Minneapolis with paid secretary in
charge.
While the land men were enthusiast
tically planning for the fuller adver-
Using of the states resources, James
J. Hill, railroad builder and Mime
sofa pioneer, cautioned them to see
first that the land produced sufficient
to attract settlers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Three men died at Los Angeles. Gu.
from what is said tonhave been the
effect of blood purifying remedy.
This makes a total of seven who have
died from this treatment in two days.
Fire destroyed the Moody church In
Chicago The loss was estimated at
more than 100000 Much of the earlier
portion of the career of Dwight L.
Moody. the famous evangelist, was
devoted to work for this church.
A white list" of appropriate moving
pictures will be placed before the peo-
pie of Los Angeles, Cal, every week
by the Million club, a local organiza-
ton of women. The club appraised
committee of censors.
Twenty persons were injured when
q Twenty-third street car in which
they were passengers was tossed sew
eral feet into the air by the explosion
of gas main at New York.
William Cheney Ellis, former leath-
er manufacturer of Cincinnati, on trial
for the killing of his wife in the Hotel
Sherman October 16, 1913, was found
guilty at Chicago of murder and SEN
fenced to Is years in the penitentiary.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Literally Correct.

The teacher had noticed something
queer about the rendering of a certain
line of a hymn frequently used in
morning school. One morning she de-
termined to get to the bottom of the
mystery. Listening intently, she
traced the popularity to Johnny.
Sing it by yourself, Johnny" she
commanded. Johnny did SO, and in
stead of the line Weak and sinful
though we be- he gave as his render
ing, I'VE can sing, full though we be-"
His chubby appearance might be
taken as evidence of the probability
of his assertion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
SMALL BOY KILLS PLAYMATE
Accidental Shooting Occurs When
Lads Find Loaded Shotgun
While Romping.

Duluth.-Seven-ye liver Ode
gard of Smithville, was shot fatally
by playmate, Waldemar Mortensen,
Z, son of Christ Mortensen.
The accidental shooting happened
while members of the Odegard family
were visiting at the Mortensen home.
The two small boys were romping
about the house. In the kitchen
Waldemar discovered shotgun that
had been left there earlier in the day
by Albert Odegard, II, brother Of
the dead boy. He playfully pointed it
at his playmate and pulled the trig-
ger.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Millionaire Post Wins Race.

Rochester, Mimi, March &c. w
Post, the millionaire food manufacture
er of Battle Creek, Mich, won his race
with death half across the continent
when his special train arrived at the
Great Western station in this city at
three and one-half hours ahead of it's
schedule. Physicians attending Mr..
Post said his condition was favorable
and that he stood the journey well.
Whether or not he will submit to an
operation will not be known until af-
ter a consultation by physicians and
surgeons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Winona. May Not Participate.

Winona-There will be no regular
ly called mass county conference in
Winona county on March IA, to name
delegates to the state delegate con-
vention to be held at Minneapolis on
March 10, when republicans opposed
to the denomination of Governor Eb-
erhart hope to agree upon a candi-
date. George C. Landon, chairman
of the Winona county republican COM
mittee, says he will call no county con-
ference, so if one is to be held the
call will have to come from other
than official sources.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
WOMEN VOTE ON SAL OONS
Vote at Starbuck Saturday With
Furbeiows of Regular
Election.

Starbuck.-The women of Starbuck
held an election of their own on the
saloon issue. AS the state law fails
to give them the right to vote with
the men at the regular election, they
called a special election for Saturday,
lage meeting.
Saturdays election was held at the
same places and conducted in the
same manner as regular elections, but
only women were allowed to vote and
all the officials were women. The
women did not vote on candidates for
office-simply on the license issue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Women Voters object to Smoke.

Portland, Ore, March 12.-Because
they say cigar and cigarette smoke in
the city hall and courthouse, where
they go to register, makes many sick,
Portland women. led by Stella Wilson
of the w. G.. 7. u, have started a
movement to have passed city ordi-
nance forbidding smoking in public
buildings. Miss Wilson said many
women are refusing to register for
the primaries because they have to
stand in line at the courthouse and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
DIGEST Of WORLDS
IMP0RTANT'AEWs
EPlTCME OF THE BIG HAPPEN.
INGS OF THE WEEK.
TO Be READ AT A GLANCE
Items, Both Foreign and Domestic,
That Have Interest for Busy Read
ers, Arranged and Classified
for Their Convenience.
Washington

Former President Frank NJ. Ryan of
The Bridge and Structural Iron Work
;rs' union and % other members Of
hat organization, convicted at Indian
tpolis in the dynamite conspiracy
Eases, exhausted their last legal re-
tource in their fight to escape prison
Ehen the Supreme court of the United
States at Washington declined to re-
REV their cases.
Blame for most of the riots and loss
IF life and property in the Paint and
Cabin Creek districts of West Virginia
n 1912 is put upon the coal operators
md civil authorities in report sub
nitted to the senate at Washington by
Chairman Swanson of the special COM
nittee named to investigate conditions
n the West Virginia mines.
BY a vote of IA to 8, the house inter
state commerce committee at Wash
lngton decided to report favorably the
bill repeating the clause of the Pana-
ma canal act which grants free tolls
TO American coastwise shipping.
Pointing out the peril of national
primary act, Senator Lawrence Y.
Sherman of Illinois, Republican, called
upon the senate at Washington to
enact a measure recognizing state pri-
mary laws. He said he based his OPP
position to a national primary on the
ground that ten states could control
presidential nominations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
DilWorth Will Not Vote,

MOorhead.-ln a flank movement the
anti-saloon forces at Dilworth have
succeeded in keeping the question of
submitting the proposition of license
to the voters off the ballot. A petit
ton, signed by thirteen voters, to have
the matter submitted again this year.
was withdrawn. When the question
was submitted year ago the "drys"
won
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Bemidii Fire; 100000 Los

Bemidji Mimi, March 6.-Fire
Thursday morning completely Destroy
ed the Bemidji Lumber company's
sawmill at a total loss of 100000.
Three hundred men are throws out
of work temporarily. The insurance
amounts to 100000. The mill will be
rebuilt The cause Of the fire is I'M
known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
% Chickens Weigh 1879 Pounds.

Mapleton.-Jacob Meyers marketed
twenty-five chickens last week, their
combined weight being 199 pounds, an
average of over nine pounds. They
brought him about $40.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
wadena Postal Bank Small.

Observation-Disclosures banks have lit
tie to fear from the competition of
the postal savings department. Post
master William bowers last report
shows but $98 on deposit and only
three depositors.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
New Haven Preparing Statement.

Boston, March 12.-Chairman How.
ard Elliott, of the New Haven rail-
road says that the company is pre-
pairing statement showing where
every dollar of the s175.O00,OOO of new
capital raised in the last ten years
was spent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Bemidii to Have New Mill.

Bemidji.-WCrk on the reconstru
ton of the Ben idji Lumber company's
sawmill, which burned March 5, at
loss of 100000, has been started and
a modern mill of the same capacity
as the old one will be in operation
by July /.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Rock County Club Meets.

Luverne. The newly organized
Rock County club held it's first regular
meeting Saturday afternoon. The
speakers were Miss Edia Headley, SUI
perintendent of schools and E. H. Can
field and A. j. Daley.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Veteran State Doctor Dies.

Pine Island.-Dr. Charles Hill, one
Of tae oldest physicians in the state,
and one of the organizers of the Min
nes,,ta Medical society, died at his
home in Pine Island, after short ILL
ness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Will Have Carnegie Library.

Thief River Falls.-The offer of $12,-
500 from the Carnegie library commits
sion for a free public library for this
city was accepted last week at meet
ing of the board here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Metcalf Guilty of Murder.

Red Wing.-Found guilty of wife
murder, William Metcalf was se1tenc-
ed to a life term in the penitentiary.
The trial closed when a motion for
stay of sentence was denied.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Sometimes,

do you think it's always necessary
to send a girl to college, professor, to
give her proper understanding?
well, sometimes nature has obvi-
ated the necessity"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Mexican Revolt

The rebel attack on Torreon by
Villas troops has begun. Immediately
1000 federals were rushed to the town
by special train to reinforce the de-
tenders. A dozen of the leading citi-
zens of Torreon, refugees, were killed
when the rebels blew up a passenger
train near Hernos.
Senator Fall of New Mexico urges
armed intervention to quiet Mexico
and gives list of more than 100 MUIR
ders and outrages to foreigners in that
country in a speech from the floor OF
the senate at Washington. He calls
Wilson's policy inadequate. Senator
Shively, in reply to Fall, declares the
sending of armed forces into Mexico
to protect aliens will mean war and
says waiting policy will bring peace
eventually.
A party of Texas rangers crossed
into Mexico, exhumed the body OF
Clemente Vergara, the Texas ranch
man who was kidnapped and put to
death by a band of Mexican federals
three weeks ago, and brought the
body back to Laredo, Tex. There
were several bullet wounds, the head
had been crushed and the charred
hands indicated that Vergara had
been tortured.
Declaring that General Villas action
in demanding payment of $25O,OO0
from Gen. Luis Terrazas under threats
of sending his son, Luis Terrazas H.,
to the front rank in the attack on
Torreon was creating bad impress
sion in the United States, General Car
rama wired orders to Villa at Chi
huahua Mex, to withdraw the de-
mand.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Blank, All Right.

He-Oh, yes, / have book y'know
that | put down my thoughts In every
night.
She-I see. Sort of blank book. !
suppose.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Constipation causes many serious dis
eases. 1t is thoroughly cured by Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative,
three for cathartic. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Take good care of what little com.
NOR sense you have, for the worlds
supply doesn't begin to equal the de-
mand
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Domestic


the Cancellation of Ulster in the Irish
home rule bill was laid before the
house of commons at London. 1t met
with a cool reception from Unionists.
Sir Edward Carson rejected the offer.
Five hundred members Of the unem-
ployed armies were driven from Sac
ramento, Cal, by 500 deputy sheriffs
after a series of riots in which much
blood was shed, and are encamped on
the Yolo county side of the Sacra-
mento river, swearing vengeance
against the city.
With the exception of one saloon,
the entire business portion of South
Prairie, Wash, a town of $50 people,
10 miles east of Tacoma, was de-
stroyed by fire.
F.. W. Bornmueller, secretary Of the
Missouri Athletic club at st. Louis,
estimated that forty persons persisted
story building of the Missouri Athletic
club ar1l the Boatmen's bank, at
Fourth street and Washington avenue.
The loss Is placed at 100000.
Col. ID. c. Collier has resigned the
presidency of the Panama California
exposition to be held at San Diego,
Cal. Lack of personal funds to keep
up the work is given as the reason. :.
Irregular business methods of Moul-
ton & Ricketts,, one of the best known
art firms in the United States, with
galleries at Chicago, were described
by Robb r. Ricketts, after Federal
Judge Carpenter had placed the con-
Germ in the hands of a receiver. 1t
is estimated that the liabilities will
aggregate nearly $1,000,000. The es-
timated assets are 100000.
Through a snowstorm that made
navigation hazardous, the world-tour-
ing White Sox and Giants came into
New York harbor to the greatest well
come that has ever marked the re-
turn of American athletes from a
foreign shore. With their arrival the
baseball players ended a journey of
1900 miles, during which they made
about 100000 clear and above ex-
penses.
Charges of serious Justification of the
accounts of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul Railroad company and of
its subsidiary, the Chicago, Milwau-
were made in report by the inter
state commerce commission at Wash
ington.
Three men were perhaps fatally in
jured and two others were seriously
hurt in fire at ClarksbuEg, Va, which
destroyed the Lowe building and
damaged the ten-story building of the
Union National bank of Clarksburg,
with loss of 100000.
Following quarrel over the wire
between two operators of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, Thomas
Kerr, telegraph operator at Schleising.
erville was shot and killed by A. La
Point. operator at Rugby Junction,
Wis.
Just as he was being placed under
arrest at Omaha, Neb., for alleged
forgeries committed in Los Angeles.
Muskogee, Okla, and other places, ].
II. Hooper, once a well-known bond
broker of Sioux City, shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly.
Leaders in the reform of prisons and
other correctional institutions from al
most every state in the Union gath
cred in New York to discuss the coun.
trywide movement to treat conyicts
with more humanity and science.
Twenty ancient Chinese porcelains
were purchased recently by John d
Rockefeller, Jr., for S350,0OO, and are
on view at his home in New York
city. They formerly were in the Rich
ard Bennett collection of England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Pere Marquette Chairman Chosen.
Detroit, Mich, March 12.-William
A. Garrett of Chicago, has been chos-
en- chairman Of the new board of d.
rectors Of the Pere Marquette RAILWAY
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Personal

Ferdinand Pinney Earle. American
artist and Miss Charlotte Herman,
found guilty of having kidnapped
Earle's son, escaped prison terms be-
cause they had served some time in
Jail at Romorantin, France.
Frederick Townsend Martin,
wealthy New Yorker, social worker
and author, died at the Berkeley hotel
in London of angina pectoris.
George Sage, seventy years old,
retired farmer of Libertyville, ILL.,, and
his wife, seventy years old, were in
stantly killed by Chicago & Milwau-
kee electric car at st. Mary's cross
ing.
Mrs. Emma Saunders Cummings,
John D. Rockefeller's first sweetheart,
who introduced him to Cleveland
church society when he was wagon
driver for his father, is reported dy-
ing at st. Louis.
w. S. West was sworn in by the
senate at Washington as successor to
the late Senator A. o. Bacon of
Georgia
William A. Huffman, former Terre
Haute councilman, who was convicted
of participating in election frauds
was sentenced TO serve three to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Representative Kinkead of New Jer-
say was nominated by President Will
son for postmaster at Jersey City.
w. H. Wainwright, former county
treasurer of Muskogee county, Okla
homa, was found guilty Of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to ii years in
the penitentiary.
c.. w. Post of Battle Creek, Mich,
arrived in Rochester, Mimi, from Los
Angeles. A consultation of physicians
and surgeons was held and 1t was
not considered necessary to perform
an operation Immediately for appendi
citis.
Charles Edward Vreeland, senior
rear admiral of the navy, will be
placed on the retired list March 10 on
account of age. Admiral Vreeland is
member of the joint defense and
naval general boards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13
Foreign

Count Morlana, brother Of the duke
of Santo Mauro, grand master of the
Spanish queens household, was killed
at Santander, Spain, in collision be-
tween his automobile and a wagon.
Pope Plus received in private audi
ence Rt. Rev. Edmund Michael Dunno,
bishop of Aurora, ILL.,, with whom he
conversed at some length. Bishop
Dunno said after the interview that
the pontiff was In normal health.
Although a state of siege has been
proclaimed at Rio de Janeiro, and in
the cities of Petropolis and Nichthe-
roy, the government announced that 1t
does not consider the revolution of
serious character, and that the disor'
ders soon will be quelled.
Presentation of silver cup and an
address on behalf of the citizens of
Halifax to Capt. Francis Inch, hero OF
the Volturno disaster, took place at
the Halifax city hall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Twenty ancient Chinese porcelains
were purchased recently by John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., for S350,000, and are
on view at his home in New York
city. They formerly were in the Rich
ard Bennett collection of England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Charles Edward Vreeland, senior
rear admiral of the navy, will be
placed on the retired list March 10 on
account of age. Admiral Vreeland is
a member of the joint defense and
naval general boards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Leaders in the reform of prisons and
other correctional institutions from al
most every state in the Union gath
cred in New York to discuss the coun-
trywide movement to treat convicts
with more humanity and science.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Just as he was being placed under
arrest at Omaha, Neb., for alleged
forgeries committed in Los Angeles.
Muskogee, Okla, and other places, ].
II. Hooper, once a well-known bond
broker of Sioux City, shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Following quarrel over the wire
between two operators of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, Thomas
Kerr. telegraph operator at Schleising.
erville was shot and killed by A. La
Point, operator at Rugby Junction,
Wis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Three men were perhaps fatally in
jured and two others we're seriously
hurt in fire at Clarksburg, Va, which
destroyed the Lowe building and
damaged the ten-story building of the
Union National bank of Clarksburg,
with a loss of 100000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-03-13

Ferdinand Pinney Earle, American
artist, and Miss Charlotte Herman,
found guilty of having kidnapped
Earle's son, escaped prison terms be-
cause they had served some time in
Jail at Romorantin, France.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-04-21
Whx rhsIr cIothes pldn,t rla.

The late Admiral Robley d. Evans
during his visit to Japan was received
by Mutsuhito ana his empress at q
court ceremony. In speaking of the
Japanese court he said:
"Hand kissing was not the thing. In
stead, ! received handshake from a
very shapely and beautiful hand
found the empress a woman Of great
refinement and perfect ease OF man
ner, so delicate in appearance and ~
small IN stature as to remind you of
some fine piece of Dresden china She
was Attired In a Paris gown OF hello
trope brocade, the bad fit of which
accounted for just as ! accounted fop
the baggy trousers Of the emperor
After / had been a year IN Japan
was satisfied it was owing to tho fact
that tailor would not permit himself
to touch the persons of their majesties
but just looked at them and guessed
what the measurements should be.