The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-19
Domestic


fight every inch of the road to New
York state, which may lead to Mat
teawan or to Jail. Lines for the legal
struggle had been drawn even before
Stanford Whites slayer had been pro-
nounced out of danger by physicians
at st. Mary's hospital at Philadelphia.
Clarence M. Wood, county surveyor
of Coffey county and former student
of Kansas university and Baker univer-
sity. was shot and killed at Burling
ton, Kan. Across his body when it
was found lay that of Miss Josephine
Holmes, a maid at his home, who also
died from the same weapon.
Weldon II. Wells, former Kansas
City brokers' clerk, confessed to COun-
ty Prosecutor r. Z. Duncan at Column
bus, o., that he shot and killed Mona
Byron Simon in a room in hotel.
His statement, according to the author
tiles, says he killed the girl in self-de-
tense. Wells was arrested in Hunting
toa, Ind.
The estate of Col William F. Cody,
which had been estimated at over ST.
100000 was estimated by Judge w. L.
Wall at Denver, for years Colonel
Cody's attorney, at not to exceed $780,
900.
Breckenridge Long of st. Louis was
INV q
Washington to be third assistant Sec
retary of state, succeeding William
Phillips, who was nominated first as
sistant.
dispatch received at Washington
says Lieut.. j. K. Bolton was killed and
Lieut.. ]. r. Henley was wounded re-
Gently by shots fired at a landing party
of United States marines by native
boy at Macoris, Saanto Domingo.
Four hundred thousand pounds of
smokeless powder exploded at the Du
POnt Powder works at Haskell, n. j.,
and for the second time in SO hours
New York, northern New Jersey,
"eSleTH anu NlUSSuShu-
sets were Jared and frightened by a
/, munitions disaster. Haskell is 81
miles northwest of New York. Dam
age estimated at 81, 100000 was caused
by the series of blasts. Two men were
killed and II hurt.
Anarchist plots to assassinate Gov.
Hiram w. Johnson, United States SEN
atOr-elect from California, We're re-
yealed at San Francisco in letters
seized in the office of Alexander Berk-
man. Assistant District Attorney Ed
ward Cunha told Judge Griffin in the
Mooney murder trial.
Harry Thaw, wanted in New York
to answer to an indictment that he
kidnapped and whipped Frederick
Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, cut his
throat in West Philadelphia. Doctors
say he will recover.
Franz Bopp, German consul general
at San Francisco, and four of his at
taches or employees, were found guilty
d
court of having violated this country's
neutrality.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago ap-
pointed Herman &. Schuettler chief
of police to succeed Healey, who is
charged with graft.
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ambassador, informed the state de-
partment at Washington in note that
he had relieved from duty Franz Bopp
and E. H. Won Setback, consul general
and vice consul, respectively, at San
Francisco, recently convicted of vio-
lating the neutrality of the United
States by conspiring to destroy NUM-
lions consigned to the entente allies.
Fire in the ammunition plant of the
Canadian Car and Foundry company,
near Kingsland, N. j., destroyed the
factory, with loss estimated at So
100000, forced the evacuation of a
large part of the town of Kingsland
and made 1000 people temporarily
homeless. SO far as could be learned,
there were no fatalities.
The German underSeaS freighter
Deutschland started on a return trip
to the United States on January 2, ac-
cording to a report to New London
Conn.