The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-12

plainants in the case of $4,000 Choc'
taw and Chickasaw Indians excluded
from the citizenship rolls by Secretary
Hitchcock of the interior department
March 4, 1907. The Indians had asked
for redress.
Trapped in an inferno of exploding
and lava-like celluloid, nine persons
persisted in 100000 fire which de-
stroyed the Robert Morrison & Son
comb factory at Brooklyn, N. Y. Many
others were injured in the panic or
employees and in attempts to save
the injured.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor was granted
an interlocutory decree of divorce by
Justice Mills, sitting in the supreme
court at New York city.
The board of managers of the Ma
tional Geographic society at Washing
ton appointed a committee to pass on
the question whether the north pole
was discovered before 1909. DR..
F. A. Cook claims he reached the pole
in April, 1908.
The victims of an automobile acct
dent at Chicago, when car went
| through an open draw into the Chica-
go river, are believed to be Miss Bea-
trice Shapiro, Max Cohen and Ernest
| Camp, chauffeur. Miss Shapiro and
Cohen were lovers and it is thought
they were about to elope when they
started on their fatal ride.
Packey Mcfarland of Chicago was
given the decision in a whirlwind ten
round fight at Kansas City over "Cy-
| clone Johnny" Thompson of Sycamore,
Ill. Mcfarland outclassed his oppon-
ent in science but did not have the
punch to put him out.
George G. Gilbert, who represented
the Eighth Kentucky district in con-
gress from 1898 to 1906, is dead at
Louisville, Ky.
To teach pupils money matters, the
Mount Clair On. j. school board has
decided to start bank in connec-
ton with the high school.
Destructive forest fires are reported
in east Tennessee. A section of 20
900 acres has been burned over near
Greenville.
ing at the Unitarian church in Salt
Lake, called in honor of the late Prof.
Ferrer, executed at Barcelona.
The supreme court of the United
States has advanced for hearing jan
uary 10, 1910, the cases of the gov
eminent against Capt. Oberlin M. Car
ter, in which the government is seek
ing to obtain possession of the money
held by Carter at the time of his ar
rest for defalcation in connection
with the improvement of the harbor
at Savannah, Ga.
The death of Cadet E. A. Byrne of
West Point, in a football game with
lied as murder" by Rev. Cortland
Myers, pastor of fremont temple, Bos-
ton, in public address.
At a banquet of the Commercial
club Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, chair
man of the national monetary COM
mission, said that a comprehensive,
scientific plan for changing of the
American monetary system is to re
suit from the work of the committee.
The preparation of the plan, he said,
could only come after the completion
of detailed study of the worlds
banking system and minute consid-
GRAFTON of the financial needs of the
country, which was now being made.
Notices posted in the cotton mills Of
New Bedford, Mass, informed more
than $1,000 operatives that the
production of cotton cloth would
be curtailed two hours in the week
The curtailment will result in reduc
ing the output 31a per cent while it is
in force.
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and "a seriously injured by automo-
biles and horse-driven trucks in New
York city during October. This is
twice as many as in any other month
and forms the largest list of casual
ties resulting from such accidents of
of any city in the country for the
same time.
Government troops defeated the
Nicaraguan revolutionists in sharp
engagement. Many of Gen. Estrada's
followers were killed, wounded or cap
tured. The government lost Is men,
including Gen. Castillo Chammoro.
John Stewart Kennedy, one of
Americas little-known rich men, who
recently died of whooping cough in
his New York residence, left requests
of more than $25,OOO,OOO to 60 reli-
gious, charitable and educational in
situations in his will. The gift is the
largest single contribution of it's kind
| ever made.
Former President Roosevelt has lost
| his record as the highest paid author.
| For the narrative of his hunt in Africa
| it is generally understood he is to re-
ceive a dollar a word, but compare
lively new magazine announces it has
| contracted to pay Commander Robert
E. Peary $1.20 a word for north
| pole story of about $4,000 words.
Following the donation of $1,O00,O00
| by John D. Rockefeller to be used in
| fighting the hook worm disease in the
south, Washington officials have re-
| ceived information that two other ST.
| 100000 donations are likely to be
| Forthcoming very soOn-one from Mrs.
| Russell Sage, to be used in extend
| ing the work for the eradication of
| tuberculosis, the other from Andrew
| Carnegie, for fighting pellagra.
| The Chicago police are searching
for E. j. Goshorn, a prominent bust
| ness man of Charleston, w. Va, who
disappeared from his home on Octo-
Der 20 with about $4,000 in his pos
session. On the day he vanished
Goshorn wrote letters to his wife and
several confidential acquaintance