The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-25

Masonic lodge by the COntorr1ng OF the
third degree on Lawrence Washing
ton. collateral descendant of the
first president, who also was the first
master Of this lodge. Prominent Ma,
sons from all parts Of the country
were present and laid plans to erect a
building in Washington to house the
Masonic relics of the father of his
country.
The sixth annual convention of the
National Association of Cement Users
opened in Chicago.
Managua Is in danger. Gen. Cha
MORO. the insurgent general. is with
In few miles of the capital city. His
troops fired on the steamer Managua
about 25 miles northeast of Managua,
but the vessel escaped without dam
age.
| Rioting in every section of Phila-
delphia followed the attempt Of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
whose employees to the number of
$500 have struck, to operate its lines.
Passengers were driven from cars,
and crews and police assaulted by in
furiated mobs of strike sympathizers.
According to officials of the company
297 cars were wrecked. 1t Is said
more than one hundred persons were
more or less seriously hurt.
When the committee inquiring into
the Ballinger-P inchot controversy ad-
1ourned to meet next Friday the pros.
ecution had been practically closed.
| Clifford Pinchot will probably make a
statement before the case is ended
and counsel for Mr.. CLAWS will offer
some additional corroborative evil
dence
On the urgent appeal of Sheriff Mel
Ism, conveyed to Gov. Deneen by long
distance telephone. additional troops
were rushed to Cairo. The reinforce
ment consists Of Company H of Shell
byville. Further rioting is feared. Evil
dence was given that the slightest
cause would precipitate an actual race
war, with the combatants almost
equally divided. Deputies are search
Ing for a negro who is thought to have
been the accomplice of John Pratt, the
purse-snatcher the mob tried to get
out OF the jail when Alexander Halla-
day was killed and several others in
Jured. If he is caught It is feared he
will be lynched
Cal. Perry, city marshal of BIanch.
ard, Okla, was shot and seriously
wounded In battle with seven rob-
bers who had blown up the vault of
the First State bank of Blanchard. The
robbers escaped on handcars.
The Italian ship F. s. Ciampa. with
all OF her crew, was lost in a gale or
Dunwoody bay. The wreckage came
ashore at Queenstown. The crew num-
bered 20. Some of the bodies have
been recovered. ,
Traffic In Europe's paraf1n-coated
eggs. which began to arrive in New
York last week, has been checked sud-
denly by orders from the department
of agriculture.
Miss Agnes Leslie Elkins, niece of
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West
Virginia, who shot herself at the Will
lard hotel in Kansas City, Is dead,
Inc young woman apparently was on
the road to recovery when suddenly
she relapsed into unconsciousness.
All OF the directors of the National
Packing Company, commonly called
the beef trust" with one exception,
were indicted by the grand jury of
Hudson county. N. j., sitting at Jersey
City, on the charge Of conspiracy. The
indictment charges that the defend,
ants conspired to raise the price OF
foodstuffs by putting them in cold
storage and releasing them from time
to time.
Another tong plot, according to the
New York police, is responsible for
the murder of Sam Wah. Chinese
laundryman, who died in the Harlem
hospital.
With three companies of National
Guards on the ground. under the per,
sonal charge of Adjt. Gen. Dickson, the
riot situation resulting from a mob
attempt to break into the county jail
at Cairo, Ill, and lynch negro charged
with picking women's pockets, is well
In hand. The negro, John Pratt, who
was the cause Of the trouble, pleaded
guilty on two counts for robbery and
was sentenced to the penitentiary at
hard labor for an indeterminate sen.
tence not to exceed IA years under
each count, the second term to begin
at the expiration of the first.
SPANS new premier, Canalejas, lie
| hU frfondo ~
dent Moret, who are demanding the
return of Capt. Gen. Weyler. former
minister Of war, to form a new cab
| met.
| Louisianians have subscribed $780,.
600 to the Consumers Household Sup
ply Company, which has been given a
charter at New Orleans for the pur.
pose of buying a farm and supplying
stockholders with vegetable, dairy and
other products, in the hope of solving
the problem Of the high cost of liv,
ing.
Osborn, strenuously resisted the eff,
forts of counsel for Senator Aids and
other senators in the investigation Of
the bribery scandal at Albany. NJ Y,
to get from Conger what he knew
about the distribution of the 81 900 all
legged to have been paid to Assembly,
man Burnett to defeat highway legis
lation which the bridge trust opposed
That more than million persons ii
New York are strangers to the bath
| tub Is the report of Lawrence Veiller
director of the tenement-house com
mittee of the Charity Organization SO
| ciety