The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-19

for women was held in Carnegie hall
New York, under the auspices of the
American Woman Suffrage associa
ton, the president of that organiza
ton, Rev. Anna Shaw, presiding.
The fourth Christian Endeavol
worlds convention opened in Agra,
India, with delegates present from
nearly all lands. DR.. Francis E. Clark
founder of the society and president
of the Worlds union, was in the chair
President Taft has officially pro-
claimed Thursday, November 25, as
Thanksgiving day. Gov. Deneen OF
Illinois also has issued like procla'
nation.
When the news that the court OF
| appeals at Washington had refused TO
| grant a stay of proceedings, asked
| for by the labor leaders, was received
at the convention of the Federation of
! Labor in session at Toronto, it was
| proposed that all delegates should ac-
company, as an honor escort, Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers and his asso-
ciates to Washington when they go to
| give themselves up to serve their SEN
| fences for contempt.
Former Treasurer of the Big Four
Railroad C. F. Warmer was indicted
by the grand jury at Cincinnati on
charges of grand larceny and embez-
| Element in the amount of $4,000 ON
| each count
Attorney General Wickersham is
convinced he has sufficient evidence
in his possession to convict one or
more of the officers and several OF
the directors of the American Sugar
Refining Company of fraud in connec-
ton with the weighing of sugar at the
port of New York.
Gov. Deneen has issued an urgent
appeal for funds to aid the destitute
families of the miners trapped in the
burning mine at Cherry, Ill.
The supreme court of the United
States has sentenced former Sheriff
Shipp and five other men from Chat
tanooga to 60 and 80 days in Jail for
contempt of court when they failed to
prevent the lynching of negro whose
execution had been stayed by the
court.
The mine at Cherry, ILL.,, in which
more than 300 miners are entombed
is again on fire after an unsuccessful
attempt by rescuers to explore the
drifts and it has again been sealed.
All hope of rescuing any of the poor
unfortunates has been abandoned. 1t
is feared that it will be several days
before entrance to the shaft can be
effected.
The work of the New York civil
courts was brought to a standstill and
records were threatened when fire
started in the basement of the court
house. Quick action was necessary
to keep from flooding the bulky ex.
hibits used in the trial of the Ameri.
can Ice Company. The fire was put
out with little loss.
The annual report Of Samuel Grab
fielder of Philadelphia, president OF
the National Jewish Hospital for Con-
sumptives at Denver, shows that the
death rate among patients has been
decreased in ten years from 7.8 to 81
per cent.
The body of Earl Ross Bullock, the
Eud,ora (Kan.) boy bank robber who
shot himself Friday to avoid capture,
was buried secretly in cemetery at
Kansas City. There were no religious
ceremonies, pallbearers or flowers
and the boys father was the only
mourner.
The appeal for a new trial by Ches-
ter S. Jordan of Somerville, Mass.
who was convicted last May of MUIR
dering his wife, Honora Jordan, was
denied in the superior court.
John D. Carbaugh and E. ]. Klein,
contractors, were awarded a verdict
for $2,233 damages against the Fort
Smith (Ark.) Bricklayers' union on
charge of boycott.
Alleging nonsupport and desertion,
Mrs. Frances Roster Kip, wife of
Henry Spies Kip, wealthy New York
broker, filed a complaint in the dis
trict court at Reno, New, asking a de-
cree of divorce.
A decision by Judge William c.
Hook at Guthrie, Okla, blocked the
states attempt to prevent the hearing
of suit brought by railroads to en-
join the enforcement of the two-cent
fare regulation. He ordered the hear
ing for December 81, at st. Louis.
Delegates from % states and COM
mittee from England were present
when the annual convention of the
American Socity of Equity opened in
Indianapolis.
Earl Bullock, the boy bandit, whc
held up the state bank at Eudora.
Kan, and afterwards when threat
ened by mob, shot himself, is dead
having succumbed to his injuries.
The state Sunday school association
of Michigan convened in Saginaw and
that of Missouri in Moberly. The
Kansas-Missouri Hotel Mems associa-
ton held two days convention in
Kansas City.
The National Municipal league and
the American Civic association began
their annual meetings in Cincinnati
with a joint session at which ad
dresses were made by Charles J.
Bonaparte and j. Horace Mcfarland,
presidents of the organizations.
President Taft delivered an address
at the installation ceremonies of max
ing Dr. William Arnold Shanklin pres
ident of Wesleyan university, at Mid
dletown, Conn.
That Samuel L. Clemens is the
greatest living literary man was the
opinion voiced by Prof. Brander Mat
thews of Columbia university during
his fourth lecture on "Moliere" at the
Cincinnati university. This opinion
was called forth by a series of ques-
lions from one of the students in the
audience