The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Sensational developments are ex-
pected in the jury-tampering scandal
at Chicago. States Attorney Way
man has discovered much new evil
dence and drafts of more indictments
are being prepared and the present
grand jury is expected to return them.
The Spanish ambassador to France
has again formally assured Foreign
Minister Pichon that Spain has no in
tention of departing from her original
program regarding Morocco as COM
municated to the powers.
The Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association in session at
Winona, Mimi, has adopted a resolu-
ton requesting congress to appropri-
ate $2O,OOO,0eO for six-foot channel
in the Mississippi river from Mime
apolis to st. Louis.
The Mayor of Marshalltown, Ia, and
six members of the police force and
sheriff's office have been indicted by a
federal grand jury for placing an In
dian service officer in Jail and keeping
him there for more than "a hours.
The old-fashioned lord mayors
show. which for many centuries
has been one of the most picturesque
functions to be witnessed in England,
will be abandoned this year by the
new lord mayor-elect, Sir John Knill.
Kings Mountain day." the anniver-
sary of the victory over the British in
1880 at Kings Mountain, N. c., was
celebrated in South Carolina and
Tennessee.
Costly war in Morocco ir rapidly
precipitating crisis in Spa n, which
may bring about the overthrow of
King Alfonso. Spanish affairs are
causing much uneasiness among the
other powers.
Aviator Wilbur Wright announces
he will hereafter direct his efforts to
the commercial exploitation of his
machines and will make no more pub
lie flights.
AS each graduating class at West
Point is about eighty men short of the
number OF officers needed by the
army, an effort will be made by Presi-
dent Taft to persuade congress to in
crease the number of cadets to be ap-
pointed.
Lieut.. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, re-
tired, does not believe enforced idle
ness is causing the high death rate
among retired army officers, accord
ing to statement he made at Los
Angeles.
J Pfttsburg rendered DR.. Frederick A.
Cook such a warm ovation that the
northern explorer was visibly affected.
He announces that the facts In the pole
controversy will be given to the pub
lie soon, and everything settled with.
in six months.
Prominent public men who were to
have been called by the government
in the Panama libel case against Della
van Smith and Charles R. Williams of
the Indianapolis News have not been
summoned to the hearing next Mon
day at the Indiana capital.
The birthday of the late John H.
Reagan, who was postmaster general
of the confederacy and who was the
last member of the cabinet to die. was
celebrated in Texas.
The thirty-fifth meeting of the Mis-.
sissippi Valley Medical association
opened in st. Louis with large at.
tendance.
A $1,0O0.00O exhibit of heavy ma.
chinery and street car appliances is
feature of the street and interurban
railways convention now in session
in Denver
The National Nut Growers associa
ton held its eighth annual convention
in Albany, Ga.
Ray Lamphere of Belle Guinness
murder farm" fame is reported
dying of tuberculosis in the Michigan
City (Ind.) prison.
More than three billion fishes and
fish eggs were distributed by the bu.
reau of fisheries of the department OF
commerce and labor in the last year
Action has been begun at Washing
ton before the interstate commerce
commission by the Federal Sugar Re
fining Company of New York against
several eastern railroads in which al
legations of unjust and unreasonable
charges for transportation of sugar
are made.
A dense fog at Detroit caused many
collisions between street cars
in which several persons were in
jured. One boy was killed.
"Near-beer" dealers in Tennessee
must pay tax of $1,000 a year. col
lection of which is to be begun a
once.