The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-04-14


wrecked the train on which they were
riding. according to word received at
San Antonio. Tex
Domestic
A verdict in favor of the defendants
in the Youmans $255,000 damage suit
against Governor Hanna, other state
officials. and several local bankers, was
directed by Judge Keneshaw in the
district court at Minot, N. d.
In a fire which destroyed the home
of Homer Dieble at Detroit, Mich,
Mrs. Dieble, twenty-five, and her two
children, Irma and Evelyn, were burned
to death.
The big naval observation balloon
which escaped and fell near Argyle,
Fla, was so badly cut up by souvenir
hunters that it will have to be re-
turned to the factory.
A large flour milling company an
nounced that it would build 3,000,-
000-bushel fireproof grain elevator in
the railroad yards at Minneapolis,
Mimi, to supply the mills.
The street car strike at Toledo, o.,
was ended when the men were given
an increase in wages of three cents
an hour They will not be permitted
to wear union buttons and the open
shop rule will prevail.
wild Bob" Burman of Detroit
Mich, Mechanicin Eric Schrader of
Chicago, and Track Policeman w. H.
Speer, dead, and five spectators in
jured, three of whom may die-that
made up the tragedy that wound up
the third annual road race at Corona,
Cal.
A number of leading artists and car
toonists at New York proffered their
services to the government, free of
cost, in drawing posters to awaken
the country to the need for industrial
preparedness.
The farmers won the milk war in
Chicago and the consumer will not be
the victim. This was the gist of an
announcement at the conclusion of ne
gotiations between representatives of
the distributors and producers. The
producers will get $1.55 a hundred
pounds.
An anarchistic plot to assassinate
the rulers of European countries was
uncovered in Chicago by States Attor-
ney Maclay Hoyne, and another plot
of a secret organization to assassinate
j. P. Morgan has been discovered by
federal agents, according to dispatches
from San Francisco
An official count may be necessary
to decide definitely the status of the
Wisconsin delegates to the Republic
an national convention. Figures re-
ceived indicate that the conservatives,
or Governor Philips faction, have
elected eleven of the district delegates
and the La Toilette wing nine, with
the Eleventh district still in doubt
+. X. Jackson, former cashier of the
Northwestern university at Evanston
Ill.,, who disappeared on November -
with $4,000 belonging to the univer-
sity, surrendered to the police at Chi
cago. He was released on $4,000 bail
Warren G. Harding, United States
senator from Ohio, was elected tenn
porary chairman Of the Republican ma
tional convention Of June by the sub
committee of the Republican national
committee, in session at Chicago.
The bodies of Mrs Hattie Crogan
and her two daughters were recovered
from an automobile that was engulfed
in food waters at Winona, MINI. The
body of Ben Crogan has not been re-
covered. The Crogans were residents
OF Galesville, Wis.
Dr. Arthur Warren Waite was ar
raigned before Judge Grain in general
sessions court at New York, and en-
tered plea Of not guilty to the indict-
ment charging him with the murder of
his rich father-in-law, John E. Peck of
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A preliminary statement of the gen.
eral results Of the census of manu-
features for Danville, ILL.,, issued by the
census bureau at Washington, shows
an increase in population from the
1910 census to July /, 1914, of almost
1000.