The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-08
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
The biennial convention of the Ma
tional German-American alliance was
held in Cincinnati, more than 800 dele
gates attending.
The thirty-second annual meeting
tional German-American alliance was
held in Cincinnati, more than three
hundred delegates attending.
The Amalagamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America met in annual convention
at Toronto, Can, about $40 officers
and delegates being present.
Richard Updyke Sherman, second
son of Vice-President Sherman, and
Miss Eleanor Miller, of Utica, N. Y,
were married in Utica. The groom is
professor of mathematics in Hamilton
university.
Charles R. Crane, the new American
minister to China, sailed from San
Francisco to assume his duties.
The celebration of the centennial
of the American Humane association
opened in st. Paul, Mimi, with Presi-
dent Stillman of Albany, N. Y, in the
chair.
The celebration of the centennial
anniversary of the incorporation of
st. Louis is in full swing and the
fetes will continue throughout the
week.
1t is reported that John R. Walsh,
the former Chicago banker, is prepar-
ing financial coup and regain his for
mer power.
DR.. Frederick A. Coon announced at
Washington that he will acquiesce in
the proposition that the University of
Copenhagen be asked to waive it's
claim to a prior examination of his
records in order that American tribun-
ais may review them
President Taft officiated at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the First
Universalist church at East Portland,
Ore.
Eight men were killed and three Sc
riously injured in mine at Roslyn,
Wash, by the explosion of gas.
Daniel D. Davies, immigration in
spector in charge at Chicago, has
been suspended, and charges of seri-
GUS nature against him are being in
vestigated
A Mexican alien was deported by
the Brownsville (Tex) immigration
officers, who found that he was suf-
fering from leprosy.
Four residents of Columbia, Mo-,
were injured when Wabash passen-
ger train collided with a car loaded
with stone near Columbia.
T. L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, has sent
out circular letters to the members
showing that the average monthly
paid membership is 262,747.
News of the probable death by
starvation in the Baffin land of Nor
rison, one of the crew of the wrecked
Dundee whalter Snowdrop, was
brought to ST. Johns, N. F., by Will
fred Grenfells missionary schooner
Lorna Doone.
Frank Brown, E. c. Moore and Rus
sell B. Herman, alleged members of
the group of fake racing events
swindlers of which James c. Maybray
is said to be the chief, were brought
to San Francisco from San Jose,
where they were arrested, and com
mitted to await acquisitions from
Iowa.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the United Boys Brigade of America
opened in Pittsburg. Young men rep.
senting brigades in every state in the
union are in attendance.
New York had spectacular fire
when the Durham chocolate plant in
Pearl street was damaged 100000.
Rear Admiral Schley, retired, has
Cancelled all his engagements in New
York on account of his health and
will return to Washington and seclu-
sion.
President Taft visited the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Wash, and was the center of interest
for the great crowds at the fair.
The meeting between Presidents
Taft and Diaz will be strictly inter
national affair, according to the official
program just issued.
Two million people viewed the big
Hudson-Fulton parade at New York
Twenty thousand men were in line.
The street car service in Omaha
and Council Bluffs was almost normal
following the strike. The Omaha citv
council has by resolution, urged the
car company to agree to arbitration.
United States District Attorney
Sims has unearthed evidence that
white slave traffickers are operating
again on large scale in Chicago.
Raids and prosecutions are probable.
Bush fires are raging in the Sas.
katchewan districts and are threaten.
ing the property of the settlers.