The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29

| W. F. Webster was in the chair.
The western section of the Northern
/ Illinois Teachers association met in
Galena, ILL.,, with Cyrus Grove of Free
| port presiding.
A report reached Shanghai that
Prince Ito, the Japanese statesman.
was killed by shot fired by a
Corean at Hardin, Manchuria. The
Japanese consul general and president
| of the Manchurian railroad were in
jured.
Fifty thousand people greeted Pres1-
dent Taft upon his arrival at Cairo,
ILL.,, during his trip down the Missis-
! sippi.
Frederick Gebhardt, alias Otto Muel-
Ter, piano maker of Astoria, L. L.,
has confessed he murdered his newly
made wife. Anna Luther, in April,
|, 1908, that he might return to his first
| wife and child.
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish ex-
plorer who has reached Copenhagen,
reiterates his former statement that
he believes DR.. Cook reached the
sician's diary and cannot believe it
was false.
Rumors are in circulation at Chica-
go that final steps looking to a
gigantic merger of the various Hawley
and allied lines into one compact rail-
road system have been contaminated.
According to the new minister of
war Spain has decided not to push
further the Moroccan campaign.
A brewery combine of $10,000,000
in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, is
said to be backed by the steel trust,
in an effort to curb drinking habits of
employees in the mills. The corpora
lion would stop the sale of beer in
kegs.
Forty passengers were thrown into
panic at Detroit and nearly a score
we're injured when an electric car
jumped switch at Jefferson and
Mount Elliott avenues, struck the curb
anG was overturned.
The leading newspapers of Sweden
have opened Offices throughout the
pose of preventing emigration. 1t is
felt that Sweden no longer can afford
10 lose its life blood in the shape of
young workers.
Justice Rufus w. Peckham of the
United States supreme court died at
his summer home at Altamount, near
Albany, N. Y, from a complication of
diseases. He was 81 years of age.
The body of a woman, lying half
submerged in brook, was discovered
by hunters near Indian Well, three
miles north of Bridgeport. Conn. Part
of her clothing was found so feet from
the body. Nothing indicated her iden-
tity.
Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver of Har-
ward university declares the Ten Com
mandments need revising to meet the
wants of the more modern conditions
existing to-day
While towing the big steamer She
mango out of the harbor at Ashtabula,
o., in the storm, the tug William D. of
the Great Lakes Towing Company was
overturned and sank. The crew were
rescued
Articles of incorporation were filed
at Lexington, KY, by the Burley To
bacco Insurance Company, with cap
ital of 100000. The company will
finance the white hurley crop of Ken
lucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Indi-
ana.
The Spanish cabinet. headed by
Premier Maura. resigned and is super
ceded by one formed by Senior Moret,
former premier. This change resulted
from the outcry over Revolutionist
Ferrer's execution.
The American Ice Company of New
York is on trial in the criminal court
on the charge of violating the state
law preventing monopoly. The con-
Germ is charged with creating an arti-
fetal ice famine.
A dam at Lake Derkos, which sup
plies Constantinople with water, burst
and rs persons were drowned.
Calcutta dispatches to London say
10000 people have persisted in ter
rifle storm which swept the plains in
the delta of the Ganges and Brahma-
putra, in Bengal, India.
According to a report from United
States Consul General Griffiths. at
London, the army Of unemployed in
Great Britain has grown steadily and
has now reached proportions that are
causing the government great uneasi-
ness.
The grand jury at Chicago has
caused a stir by joining States Attor-
ney Wayman in his demand that the
judges of Cook county courts clean
out the county jury commission in
such a drastic manner as will prevent
any opportunity for jury tampering in
the future.
A copy of book written in 1910
by Robert Fulton, inventor of the
steamboat, and entitled. Torpedo
war and Submarine Explosions" has
been sold at auction in New York for
$50.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Whitlock Of
East Orange, N. j., were so affected at
the prospect of losing" their two
daughters by marriage that they went
TO their country home to escape being
present at the double wedding. They
are said to be well pleased, never
theless. with their sons-in-law.
William Fason, blind negro, who
killed two men in a Paterson IN. j.
saloon. when he was denied a drink.
was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
A family of five, 1t is feared, have
persisted on the Mojave (Cal.) desert
A rancher discovered the trail of a
man. woman and three children and
from the appearance of their tracks
they were in search of water.
The Minocqua (Wis.) bank was rob-