The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-10-04
Domestic

Mary Field, aged eleven, was killed
at White Plains, n. Y, wnen an army
airplane from Mineola ,oilided with
a tree and fell on her. The aviatOrs
were unhurt.
Five boys riding on the top of box
car were killed and sixth sustained
a sprained ankle when six cars of
fast north-bound freight train went
into the ditch at grade crossing near
Hammond, Ind.
After he had shot and killed two
persons and probably fatally wounded
another, Edward Bittinger, seventy
five years old, was killed by member
of posse at Harrisburg, Ill.
Lieut.. F. N. Carlson Of Lodi, H., was
seriously injured and two airplanes OF
squadron of eight machines from
Ellington field, Houston, were badly
damaged and one virtually demolished
at Philipsburg, Tex.
A call for the mobilization of all the
gold in the United States and for a
campaign against boarding. which is
attributed to German propaganda, was
given to the national bankers of the
nation at Chicago by w. P. G. Harding,
governor Of the federal reserve board,
who spoke before the national bank
section Of the American Bankers as
ISOLATION at the Congress hotel.
In terrific hurricane that ragged off
the lower California and northwest
coast of Mexico two United States ship
ping vessels on their maiden trips were
sunk; fleet of other craft was badly
battered and the lower California town
Of La Paz was partly destroyed.
Pledges of the nations last dollar
and it's last drop of blood to winning
the war were made by the bankers Of
America in a great patriotic demonstra-
ton at the Auditorium theater in Chi
cago when the climax CT the forty
fourth annual convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers association was reached
in a session that ran riot with thrills.
Returns from New Jersey show
Charles O'Connor Hennessy to have a
slight lead over his opponents for the
Democratic nomination for United
States senator.
Alleged by federal agents to be the
directing head of German espionage
and propaganda work in western Penn
sylvania, Charles F. Bannin, reputed
millionaire, was arrested at the Du-
quesne club in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Because of epidemics of Spanish in
fiuenza in army camps, Provost Mar
shall General Crowder Cancelled calls
for the entrainment between October z
and II of $4,000 draft registrants.
Real estate and buildings on River
side drive, New York city, owned by
Mrs. Lilly Busch of st. Louis, are to
be sold by the federal custodian Of
alien property at private sale.
A falling off of 80 cases of Spanish
influenza in the last "a hours, COM
pared with the previous "a hours, was
reported by the New York health de-
partment,
Second Lieuts. George w. Killorin
of Wakefield, Mass, aged twenty-five,
and Herbert Huck of Wadesville, Ind,
aged twenty-four, were killed wnen
their plane fell at Taliaferro field, near
Fort Worth, Tex.
The California supreme court rem
uered decision upholding the consti-
tutionality of the State primary law
and eliminated Francis ]. Heney and
Mayor James Rolph Of San Francisco
from the Democratic nomination for
governor.
Directors of the Pacific Mills mott
fed the New England Liberty loan
committee at Boston that the corpora
ton would take $1,5OO,OO0 in bonds.