The Ely miner., 1909-12-10

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trust customs frauds, and laid much
of the blame for the Generalization
in New York to local politics and to
the disposition of returning travellers
to evade the payment of legal duties.
| The American Breeders association
met in Omaha as the guest of the Ma
tional Corn exposition, with Vice-Pres-
ident William George of Aurora, ILL.,.
presiding.
Thousands of delegates fIom all
| parts OF the country were present
when the convention of the National
Rivers and Harbors congress opened
| in Washington. President Taft made
the preliminary address.
| Representative Sulzer of New York
! introduced in the house of representa-
| tives a joint resolution not only
granting the president full authority
| to establish and maintain satisfac-
tory and stable government in the
| Central American republic. but en-
powering him to use the land and
naval forces in such an undertaking
and to punish President Zelaya for
his execution of two American citi-
zens, demand an apology and collect
an indemnity from Nicaragua.
The supreme court of the United
States granted the petition for a writ
of certiorari in the contempt cases of
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and
John Mitchell, officers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. The effect
of the decision will be to bring the
entire record in the Bucks Stove case
against these men to the supreme
court for review.
M. Fernandez, the aviator, was in
stantly killed at Nice, France, follow
ing the explosion of the motor, when
his aeroplane was being maneuvered
at an estimated height of 1850 feet
The supreme court of the United
States denied the petition of Charles
w. Morse, the New York banker, for
a writ of certiorari. The result of
the decision is to leave in effect
against Morse the sentence of 15
years Imprisonment.
A private cable dispatch received in
New Orleans, from Managua says that
President Zelaya had made all ar
rangements to flee from Nicaragua
and, accompanied by his family, would
board the first steamer sailing from
Corinto.
George P. Sheldon, president of the
Phenix Insurance Company of Brook
lyn and one of the most prominent
fire insurance men in the country, was
deposed by the directors after the dis
covery by the New York insurance
department of financial irregularities
which are believed to have impaired
the surplus of the company at least
million dollars.
The steamship Henry Steinbrenner,
a 450-foot steel vessel, was sunk and
the steamship Berwind seriously dam
aged near Round island in the ST.
Mary's river, Mich, as the result of
collision between the two steamers.
No lives were lost.
Judge Calhoun, at Austin, Tex, over
ruled all technical objections made by
H. Clay Pierce to the proceedings
against him charging false swearing,
and ordered the trial to proceed.
The second trial of Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads of
San Francisco, on the charge of offer
ing former Supervisor John ]. Fury
a bribe of $4,000, began with the ex-
animation of talesmen by District At
torney Langdon.
An effort to obtain uniform automo-
bile speed laws throughout the vari-
Gus states will take up a share of the
time of the national conference on
uniform legislation to be held in
Washington next month. The matter
will be brought before that body by
the officers of the National Civic Fed
Grafton.
Joseph Warren, assistant professor
of history at the University of Chi
cago, whose wife, Maud Radford War
rem, is a well-known literary woman,
died in Chicago of blood poisoning
resulting from an liberated tooth.
In response to call from Sheriff
Amrine of Belmont county, Gov. Har-
mon ordered the entire Fourth regi-
ment of the Seventh Ohio National
Guard to Bridgeport, O., to take
charge of the strike situation at the
Aetna-Standard plant of the Ameri-
can Sheet & Tin Plate Company. The
crisis which resulted in the calling
OF the troops followed pitched gun
battle between 700 strikers and the
guards, which resulted in serious in
Jur1es to at least five persons
Lewis Merickel, 40 years old, is
dead from a rifle wound in the abdo-
men and Joseph Myers, 13 years old,
who shot him is held at the Juvenile
home. The boy says that Mericke
dared him to shoot and that he fired,
not thinking the gun was loaded.
The fishing schooner John R. Brad
ley, which was used by DR.. Frederick
A. Cook in his Arctic expedition and
which was reported wrecked off the
Newfoundland coast, is now safe in
Bonne Bay.
Seven thousand men and boys were
made idle by the shutting down of
most of the anthracite collieries in the
Shamokin (Pa.) region because of the
lack of fresh water and a scarcity of
cars.
Under a writ of habeas corpus Min
ME Sprong of Fresno, CAL, recovered
her four-year-old daughter, Ruth, held
by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank D. Holland for
debt. The Holland couple claimed $50
for care of the girl. Judge Church
said the holding of child under lien
or chattel mortgage is not to De con.
sidered in a civilized community.
The National Society for the Pro
motion of Industrial Education met in
annual session in Milwaukee. dele
gates from more than twenty states
being present Eminent educators dis