The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-03

uan soil, they state additional gravity
has been added to the situation by
threats made by President Zelaya
against Caldera, the American vice
consul. The latter has sought re
rescue will be effected if it requires
the landing of an army in addition to
the marines and jackies now around
Nicaragua.
Alfred P. Klots, an American artist
who has just arrived in New York
from Paris, declares that a Russian
grand duke killed the husband of Nine.
Steinheil when M. Steinheil discovered
him with his wife. He says Nine.
Japy, Nine. Steinheirs step-mother,
choked to death when she swallowed
her false teeth through fright at the
| sight of the slain man.
: Miss Juanita C. Howard and Irving
Elliott, an attorney of Chicago. were
married at the side of the casket con-
tanning the body of the young woman's
father, James Howard, the well-known
| horseman. This strange occurrence
| was prompted by the fathers dying
| wish that he should be present at the
| wedding ceremony.
A prominent business man of New
York has written Senator Borah at
Washington that the sugar trust has
robbed the government of fully $780,
100000 In the past Is years. He vol
unteers as a witness before the inves-
tigation which the senator will seek to
have instituted as soon as congress
opens.
Federal Judge Smith Mcpherson, at
Des Moines, Ia, has granted a tenn
porary Injunction forbidding the Cedar
Rapids & Iowa City Railway G Light
Company from complying with the
Iowa two-cent fare law
Alabama rejected the prohibition
constitutional amendment by an esti-
mated majority of 10000.
One miner was killed and 100 res
cued with difficulty when gas exploded
in a mine near Marion, Ill.
Edward Pardee, construction super
intendent at Mariana, Pa, was saved
from probable lynching by mob of
negroes by the timely arrival of the
police. In quarrel Pardee had killed
negro.
American sympathizers of Carlo de
Forricero, the caricaturist, sentenced
to years Imprisonment in New York
for libeling Reyes Espinola, Mexican
editor, held meeting and requested
Gov. Hughes to pardon the artist.
Of
Saloon League of America began in
Chicago, the program providing for
superintendent conference to last
five days and the national convention
to occupy four days.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
his annual report said that 1909 was
the most prosperous of all years for
the farmer, the value of farm products
being $S,76O,O0O,OOO. He gave the re-
suits of an investigation into meat
prices which showed the stock raiser
did not get his share of increased
prices.
The Iowa Implement Dealers asso-
citation met in it's fourteenth annual
session in Des Moines.
Tribute to the memory of the late
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
was paid by President Taft, Gov.
Hughes, former United States Sen
ator Charles A Towne and others at
meeting in New York city under the
auspices of the MISUNDERSTANDING
Wan society.
Not since the downfall of the ad-
ministration has the political atmos-
phere of Cuba had such a troubled out
look as at present Vice-President
Zayas and his faction of the Liberals
are endeavoring to secure the retire
ment of President Gomez through per-
suasion or compulsion.'
Walter Wellman, in a statement
issued at Washington, analyses the
claims of Commander Robert E.
Peary and DR.. Frederick A. Cook and
declares that of the former is "cred-
ible in every particular" but stamps
that of Cook as "self-evident and
deliberate imposition"
A man, believed to be insane, shot
and seriously wounded Gen. Verand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental.
Paris, just after President Fallieres
had left King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling.
According to the "blue book" for
1909 100000 persons are employed
by the federal government. This is
an increase of 20 per cent. as COM
pared with 1907.
1t is officially reported at Bluefields,
Nicaragua, that President Zelaya is
willing to resign and leave the selec-
ton of his successor to congress. The
proposition is absurd, for the reason
that congress in reality does not exist
and his statement is regarded as
merely another instance of Central
American diplomacy.
One human being is killed every
hour and one injured every ten min
utes of the day on American railroads,
according to a statement of w. L.
Park, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, at
the annual meeting of the New York
and New England Association of Rail-
way Surgeons.
In a gas explosion in the Scott
shaft, near Shamokin, Pa, seven an
thracite mineworkers were badly
burned.
Ten persons were seriously injured
and 20 slightly hurt at Joplin. Mo-, by
a gas explosion in a laundry. The
building was badly damaged.
Virgil Weaver, merchant of Ven
ice, O., convicted of arson. cut his
throat with razor in the Jail and
died Immediately.
When an auto struck a street car
suuarely in the side in Portland, Ore,