The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17
GENERAL NEWS.

Speaking in support of his resolu-
ton authorizing the president of the
United States to apprehend President
Zelaya of Nicaragua, and bring him to
trial on a charge of the murder of
Groce and Cannon, the two American
citizens recently executed in Nicara-
qua, Senator Rayner of Maryland adj
dressed the senate at length. His
speech, stirring and denunciatory in
tone and characterized by dramatic
fervor, was an unsparing arraignment
of President Zelaya, whom he desig
mated as one of the criminals of the
age.
n report on steerage conditions
based on information obtained by spe.
cial agents of the immigration com.
mission, travelling as steerage passen.
gers on different transatlantic steam.
ers, was made public at Washington
through presentation to the senate
with recommendations for legislation
to better conditions. Conditions found
in many of these vessels are de-
scribed as appalling.
Barnett Greenberg, 40 years old, a
pawnbroker, was shot and instantly
killed in his place of business, S43
South Halsted street, by highway.
man who entered the store on the pre-
tense of wanting to purchase some
iewelry.
A telephone message from Dills
boro, n. c., received at Asheville
states that woman named Belle
Cole Bard, seriously wounded by
Elijah Children with shotgun.
With three rousing meetings, one in
the afternoon to inaugurate total alb
stinence in the army and navy and
two at night, at which prominent men
spoke in favor of temperance, the re
formers conclave got under way al
Washington.
William Lake of Redwood, O., q
student in the Ohio state university
and George H. Reed of Bowling Greer
we're indicted at Toledo for counter
feiting. They were arrested last
summer while working as bell boys al
a hotel in Put-in-Bay, charged with
manufacturing imitation quarters
with which they played the slot ma
chimes.
The National Geographic society
will have to receive more proofs Of
DR.. Cooks claims to the discovery oil
the north pole before it can attempt
any decision as to DR.. Cooks right tt
make such claims. This according tt
q statement made in Washington by
Prof. James H. Gore, the commission
er appointed to go to New York tt
gather more evidence as to the trutf
or falsity of DR.. Cooks story of dis
covery.
David George Mackenzie, son O.
Mundo Mackenzie, millionaire cattl,
king and one of the largest land own
ers in the west, was shot and killed
at La Beau, S. D. bud" Stephenson
the slayer, was arrested and is helt
in Selby on charge of murder. Thu
cause of the killing is unknown.
A cry of fire" started when a WON
an fell downstairs from the balloon.
of the Majestic theater at CLEVELAND
caused a panic in the crowded house
President Taft spoke on foreign mis-
sions before the closing meeting of tn,
Methodist African jubilee in Carnegie
hall, New York.
The Farmers Hall of Fame at the
University of Illinois was dedicated
and portrait of Cyrus Mccormick
inventor of the reaper, was unveiled
by his granddaughter.
The thirty-eighth session of the
State Grange of Illinois was held IL
Rockford.
Two women and three children los
their lives and seven other person.
were seriously injured in tenemen
fire at Cincinnati. The fire occurred
in a building which was occupied By
about dozen families. 1t was caused
by the upsetting of kerosene lamI
in a hallway on the second floor.