The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-04-07
Domestic

Domestic
Howard Chandler Christy, the artist,
filed suit for divorce at GAINESVILLE, o.,
charging his wife with gross neglect of
duty.
Ignatius T. T. Lincoln, former mem
Der of the English parliament and con-
fessed German spy, made second at
tempt to escape from Jail in Brooklyn.
Three men were killed and fifteen
injured in an explosion at the Otis
Elevator plant at Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Theodore B. Sachs, for six years
president and member of the board of
directors of the Chicago Municipal
tuberculosis sanitarium, committed
suicide. He swallowed a fatal dose
of morphine and heroin at the Edward
sanitarium in Naperville, III. Doctor
Sachs offered his life as his defense
against charges made against him.
Glenn H. Curtiss said that Steve Nc
Gordon of New York established a
cross-country passengercarrying flight
record when he flew 800 miles in four
and half hours.
Clee Smith of Duquoin, ILL.,, who shot
and killed Conductor Ira Jones Of
Christopher died as the result of
gunshot wound inflicted by Chief of
Police Cook when Smith attempted to
escape.
Injunction suits have been filed at
Butler, Mo-, by Prosecuting Attorney
Dewitt G. Chastain, seeking to prevent
three railroads from transporting in
toxicating liquors into the county.
The Royal Blue Limited passenger
train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
was wrecked mile west of Flora, ILL.,,
and Engineer Rea Robinson of Wash
ington, Ind, was scalded to death.
Engineer Herman Hess has been dis
missed by the New York Central rail-
wreck at Amherst, o. He is held re-
sponsible for the disaster by the rail-
road. Towerman Albert Ernst and
Flagman Perry Beach were eXonera-
ted.
Charles M. Schwab chairman of the
board of directors of the Bethlehem
hoc hn Dol
timore Sheet and Tinplate company,
the 100000 enterprise recently pro-
NOTED by j. E. Aldred
Many of the 10000 milk producers
in northern Illinois and Indiana and
southern Wisconsin even carried out
their threats to dump milk into the
bitches rather than permit it to reach
Chicago dealers who have refused
their demand for an increase of %
cents hundred pounds in price.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
company was fined 100000 in the fed
eral court at Trenton. n. j., for accept
ing rebates on coal shipments from
the Central Railroad company of New
Jersey.
The West Texas Bank and Trust
company at San Antonio, Tex, a state
supervised institution. failed to open
fits doors, having been ordered closed
by State Banking Commissioner John
S. Patterson. Mismanagement of the
banks affairs was charged.
A section of the business district in
the lower part of New York was threat
ened by a spectacular fire which
burned two five-story buildings at Is
and Is Beekman street. occupied by
paper dealers. The loss was estimated
at 100000.
At the conclusion of testimony at
the preliminary hearing of Oscar Mar
tin, a negro charged with attacking a
white girl, mob of 500 stormed the
courtroom at label. Okla. seized the
prisoner and hanged him from a bal
cony of the courthouse.
The treasury awarded a silver honor
medal to Frank w. Crilley, United
States navy, for heroic conduct in div
ing $50 feet to rescue another diver
who had become caught in a cable
while trying to salvage the submarine
F-4 at Honolulu.
Edward P. Cummings, superinteat-
ent of schools of Lansing, Mich, shot
himself to death in the Stratford hotel
at Chicago. At practically the same
time DR.. Herbert Cummings, his broth
er, swallowed poison in Grand Haven,
Mich.