The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-31

| Nearly the entire detective force OF
Pittsburg is seeking solution OF the
death of James Lawrence Friel, IA
year-old boy, whose body was found
in an abandoned house on the North
side frozen and with the throat LAGER
| ated with a knife.
! William E. Ritter and wife, aged 10,
were found dead in their farm house
near Washington, Ind. The furniture
was disarranged and evidence points
to foul play The Ritters are known
to have kept large sums of money at
| their home.
Angelina Schiavone, 17-year-old Grip
! pied daughter of Pasquale Schiavone,
, an Italian banker of Chicago, declared
| in her testimony as a witness for the
| state in her fathers prosecution of
her uncle and relatives, who are on
| trial charged with inducing her to
| steal money, that she had taken near
! ly 100000 from her fathers bank to
pay to the defendants on their promise
| that her cousin, Michael, also Grip
| pie, would marry her.
The breach between the striking
| switchmen and the railroads of the
| northwest was widened instead of
settlement of the strike being effected
| as a result of the conference between
representatives of the union and the
roads. Although the men seem to
have the worst of the clash so far and
1000 of the $500 who quit work have
hnir re a
ley and other union leaders are talk
ing about a general strike by all of
the allied orders belonging to the rail-
way branch of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
The Mexican gunboat Gen. Guer-
zero, having on board eX-President Ze-
laya of Nicaragua, who fed from
Managua by way of Corinto on Christ
mas eve, has arrived at Salina Cruz,
Mexico. Zelaya left for Mexico City
to see President Diaz.
A startling market movement on
the New York stock exchange that
had all the ear marks of corner"
came when the common stock of the
Rock Island company, in five min
utes from the opening rose from 5O5s
to 81. Then it settled to so after
heavy trading. The governing board
appointed a committee to inquire into
the alleged corner"
That the people of the United
States have been the complacent vic
Tins of system Of plumber OF the
public forestS-crimes often perpe-
trated by men of high station in COM
mercial and social life-was the open
declaration of Chief United States
Forester Clifford Pinchot in an ad-
dress before a number of prominent
publishers at the University club at
New York.
By the terms of a $7O,OOOO,OOO trac-
in Chicago south of Madison street
and line extending beyond the city
and state to Whiting, Ind, were
merged into one ownership, that of a
syndicate of local magnates and ].
P1erpont Morgan was eliminated as a
factor in Chicago transportation
lines.
That DR.. Frederick A. Cook, arctic
explorer, regarding whose strange dis
appearance there has been such mys-
terry, fearing a plot to take his life,
shaved his mustache and in disguise
left for Europe under the assumed
name of Frederick Hunter was the
gist of statement issued by Charles
Wake of New York, one of Cooks
most intimate friends.
The new president of Nicaragua,
Jose Madriz, is taking hold of affairs
the legacy of an empty treasury, and
soon after President Madriz had pub
llcly announced, in effect, that the
country was practically on the verge
OF bankruptcy, Joaquin Passes, Ze-
laya's son-in-law, and Ernesto Marti-
nee, Zelaya's last finance minister,
were arrested and charged with mis-
appropriating public funds.
After drinking a pint of pure alco-
hol in an attempt to commit suicide,
Joseph Bowden, a wealthy merchant
of Salmon, Ind, succeeded in dying
by stabbing himself in the neck with
pair OF scissors at Hot Springs, Ark
He was respondent over i'll health.
The definition of the word whisky"
by the highest legal authority was
given when President Taft rendered
the final decision on the subject in
connection with the construction of
the pure food law with reference to
labelling. The president held that
whisky made of neutral spirits is
whisky when reduced to potable
strength
Entering the chapel of ST. Joseph's
church, Lexington, KY, where he was
to officiate at early mass, Rev. Father
Edward Wiesner, rector of the church,
was attacked by drunken negro, with
whom he was compelled to fight in
defense of his life. The priest was
painfully wounded. The negro es-
capped.
Musicians from all over the country
gathered at Northwestern university,
Evanston, ILL.,. for the meeting of the
Music Teachers National association.
The Kansas State Music Teachers as
ISOLATION also met in Wichita
An exposition will be held in New
Orleans to celebrate the opening of
the Panama canal and incidentally the
two hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the city.
A $4,000 monument to firemen of
New York city who died at their posts
of duty will be built in Union square
next year.
Declared to have no equal afioat as
first-class fighting machine, the bat
tleship Utah, the greatest warship
ever built in the United States, was
launched from the yard of the New
York Shipbuilding Company at Cam