The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26


for seven days. They were found in
the second vein and there is hope that
others are still alive in the third vein,
but they cannot be reached until a
great mass of coal and debris has
been removed. The rescued miners
fatal flames and fumes from reach
ing them.
Col. John Jacob Astor's yacht which
has not been heard from for fort
night is reported by the captain of the
steamer Caracas as being safely at
anchor in San Juan porto Rico) har-
Dor, on November Is.
DR.. Haldane Cleminson, charged
with wife murder at Chicago, was
found guilty by jury and sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
Andrew He'll, 81 years old, was stab
bed to death by Charles Benfield at
Chicago, while defending an old man
from an attack by Benfield. The lat
ter narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of an angry crowd.
After a conference with President
Taft concerning the Nicaraguan situa-
ton, Secretary of State Knox said
that the government will at once pre-
pare a demand on Nicaragua for repair
alton for the execution of Leroy Can
non and Leonard Crosse upon orders
of President of Zelaya. The transport
Buffalo was ordered to proceed from
California to Panama with all posi-
BILE haste.
Seven fires in as many d1Herent
parts of the town were discovered in
Independence, Mo-, in one night.
The three-story elevator at Shaw
neetown, ILL.,, owned and operated by
Gale Bros. of Cincinnati, O., was de-
stroyed by fire.
The Coliseum building, an immense
amusement hall in San Francisco,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
100000
Internal revenue figures show that
the total receipts since June 30 last
have been $106,6OS,353, which is an in
crease over the same period of 1908
of $6,043,773.
The gross receipts from the sales OF
public lands in North Dakota during
the fiscal year 1909 amounted to ST.
2S2,6S6, of which $1,197,740 went to.
the reclamation fund. \
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
cats were on exhibition when Pitts
burg's (Pa.) annual cat show was for
mally opened by the mayor.
Washington.-The tense situation
resulting from the reported execution
of two Americans, Leroy Cannon and
Leonard Grace by the order of Presi-
dent Zelaya of Nicaragua, for their al
legged participation in the revolution
now in progress in that country, has
become aggravated by the failure to
receive definite news of their fate and
caused the state department to make
the announcement Friday that in the
future every American citizen abroad
will be as safe as though he was in
his own home.
The present heads of the depart
ment have chafed under the old-time
statement that a British citizen was
safe anywhere, but that if an Ameri-
can crossed a frontier he had to put
himself under the protection of the
British minister or consul before he
could go out and look at the scenery
with an unruffied mind
Impatient over the inadequacy of
the information received in two tele-
grams from the American consul at
Managua, Secretary Knox dispatched
a peremptory order for full and com
plete advices.
Immediately ascertain and cable
full and positive information as to
the fate of the two captured Ameri-
cans says his message. This gov
eminent" the dispatch continues, "can
scarcely credit the report of the sum-
mary execution of two American citi-
zens taken with the revolutionary
army. The charge daffaires of Mica
ragua here has also been asked tele-
graphically to demand full informa-
ton for this government, which will
not for one moment tolerate such
treatment of American citizens"
This is a pronunciamento to the
Central and South American govern
ments in particular that care must
be exercised in their treatment of
questions affecting American individ-
ualS and American interests.
Sheriff F. r. Davis of Alexander
county, Illinois, from whom the Cairo
mob took the negro Will James and
lynched him, has been removed from
office by Gov. Deneen, In accordance
with mob violence act, which leaves
him no discretion.
The first body to be removed from
the st. Paul mine at Cherry, ILL.,, was
that of Ollie Freiberg. Searchers
saw 10 other bodies but were unable
to recover them. The fire is under
control.
No trace of the murderers of little
Hedwig Zenda, at Milwaukee, has yet
been obtained by the police. A big
reward will be offered for their cap
ture by the city council.
The inquiry instituted by the de-
partment of the interior into the va
lfdity of coal entry lands in Alaska,
around which the Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy centers, has begun at Sc
attic, Wash.
Richard Watson Glider, the author
and editor of the Century Magazine,
is dead of heart failure at New York,
aged IS years.
Rev. j. c. Hathaway, rector of ST.
Paul's Episcopal church, at Maryville,
Mo-, committed suicide by hanging.
No reason can be assigned for the
deed.
The National Association of Rail-
way Commissioners have adopted a
uniform code of demurrage rules ap-
plicable alike to state and interstate
transportation.
Robert Morrison head If tho BROOK