The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-27

twenty-five passengers, among
them many women and children, and
crew of Is, had narrow escapes
from death when the steamer Fred
Swain burned to the waters edge on
the Illinois river near Averyville.
| When President Taft steps across
the border into Mexico October Ii
he will be the first of the nations
chief executives to visit a foreign
country during his term of office. He
will be invited to attend bull hght
In the second days races on the
Indianapolis speedway Strang proKe
the 100-mile speed record and Zengel
set new mark for ten miles.
w. D. Mahon, president of the Anal
| gamated Association of Street Rail
: way Employees, arrived in Chicago to
/ take up the fight for the union men,
which threatens to result in strike.
A report from Santiago, Chile, said
many persons had been killed In col
lision of trains near that city. No
details were given.
Maj. George Tate, U. s. A., has
again visited the Gettysburg battle
field to place a rose on the grave OF
his left leg which was shot of in that
memorable battle between north and
south.
Miss Virginia Paul, Pennsylvania
society girl, was drowned as she tried
in vain to save the life of w. Brooke
Lessig, Philadelphia lawyer.
Daniel Hayes was killed and Misses
Addie and Ola Porcher were injured
near Brunswick, Ca, when a freight
train struck handcar on which they
were riding.
After three years. work the commits
sioners on uniform laws throughout
the United States, now meeting in De-
troit, completed the draft of a pro-
posed law to regulate the transfer OF
certificates of corporation stockzs.
The Porte will recognize King Ferdi-
nand's title as King of the Bulgars.
Chile-Two trains were completely
destroyed and many killed and injured
in a collision 80 miles north of Santi-
ago.
Through a memorandum signed at
Mukden, August 10, by both govern
ments, China agrees to assist Japan
in construction of Antung-Mukden
railroad, thus closing the recent rup-
ture.
Orders have been issued to officers
of the Great Northern steamship
Minnesota, which is bringing to this
country a party of Japanese business
men, that the vessel shall make the
trip to Seattle in record time.
Jean CASTOR Darboux, secretary of
the Academy OF Sciences in Paris,
will represent France at the Hudson.
Fulton celebration in New York
A general strike of cloakmakers
has been ordered in New York city.
Wages is the main question at issue.
Litigation, after a lapse of 25
years, has been resumed in New York
over the Hamersley estate, amounting
to about $5,000,000. Arthur Hamers-
ley, aged IA, asks for an accounting.
More than 1000 friends of William
Grevel, for 25 years general manager
of Fleischmann's Model bakery, ia
nous for it's bread line, attended his
funeral in New York when he invited
them to be present by means of a
death notice printed in newspapers,
which he had written before he died
In holding Argyle Lett to the grand
jury for the killing of Durwood Dent
wood. the court at Henderson, KY.
decided that killing was sometimes
justifiable, but that Lett had chosen
the wrong time.
Otis Geary and his wife of Clear
Lake, Ind, were instantly killed when
Lake Short train struck their buggy
near Montgomery, Mich. Their three
year-old daughter had a wonderful es-
cape from serious injury.
The opening of the indianapolis au-
tomobile speedway was marred by the
killing of William A. Bourque and
Harry Holcomb, driver and mechan-
lean of Knox car, which crashed
through fence in the 250-mile race.
A bulletin issued by the United
States census bureau shows that out
of church membership of nearly 49,
100000 in this country, males form
considerably less than half the total.
1t is estimated that the wealth Of
John D. Rockefeller, whose income
now is S2,400 an hour, will reach the
billion dollar mark when he is 80
years old, which is only ten years off.
With one of its pastors, two girls
and two men reported missing within
five weeks, the town of Williamsburg.
Kan, is greatly wrought up.
William H. Wright, a former mer-
chant of Neosho, Mo-. who had been
declared dead after his disappearance
eight years ago, has returned to the
hospital at Nevada, from which he es-
capped.
Abolition or curtailment of general
delivery was the principal feature dis
cussed in the first days session by the
National Association of Postmasters
at Toledo, o.
Following the shooting of an on
locker during fight between strike
sympathizers and imported workmen
of the Pressed Steel Car Company,
near Pittsburg, special precautions
are being taken by the state constabu-
larry to prevent recurrence of trou-
BILE.
After being on for four months, the
lid" in Wichita, Kan, has been pried
loose and the town is again wide
open. But one restriction is placed on
the dealers, and that is they must op-
crate only on the second floors of
buildings.
James Shaw Maxwell, senior magis-
trate OF Glasgow, Scotland, who had
made trip over America. declares in
an interview in New York that Cana.
dian cities are ahead of those in this
country. He finds them cleaner.