The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-24

oughly Investigated by a subcommit
tee of the committee on privileges and
elections, under the craftsmanship OF
Senator Burrows of Michigan. The
investigating committee will sit in
Chicago, according to present plans
but work is not likely to be begun I'm.
! til fall.
Ninety-five cases of ptomaine poison
ing from eating impure ice cream have
been reported to the health depart
ment of Houston, Tex, from various
parts of that city.
Four new divisions of the Japanese
| army are to be recommended for
| Korea by Gen. Terrachi, following his
appointment as resident general OF
| that country.
An anti-foreign revolt is feared in
western China, resulting from fanatical
| reports that children are to be sacri-
| feed to prevent accidents on a new
| railroad.
The chances of verdict" from the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigating com
mittee during the present session of
congress are remote. The committee
held meeting behind closed doors,
but 1t was announced at it's conclu-
sion that no action had been taken.
Out of class of 80 at the Yale Med
ical school it was made known that Il
did not pass the required examinations
for graduation and have been told that
they would not be permitted to try
again.
Robl of Munich, who in June, 1902,
won the 100-kilometer bicycling cham
pionship of the world and who had
many other championships to his rec
ord, was killed at Stettin, Germany,
while making an aeroplane flight. The
machine fell from height of $50 feet.
James A. Patten and seven others
were indicted by special federal
grand jury at New York city, charged
with conspiracy in restraint of trade
under the Sherman antitrust law. 1t
is alleged that the accused men
formed a pool for the purpose of cor
nering and arbitrarily fixing the price
of cotton.
The senate placed it's final stamp
of approval on the administration rail
road bill, which has been pending in
one stage or another almost since the
beginning of the session, by adopting
the report of the conference commit
tee on that measure.
The house of representatives fur
nished the remarkable spectacle of
passing, with only one member voting
in opposition, strongly worded re
form" rule, designed to correct an
acknowledged legislative abuse-the
"smothering" of legislation in COM
mittee Democrats, Republicans and
Insurgents" Joined hands harmoni-
ously in adopting the rule.
A mutiny on board the British
steamship Highland Monarch, outward
bound from Philadelphia for Auckland,
N. H., followed by a dash for liberty
by dozen Chinese members of the
crew, resulted in the drowning of four
and the narrow escape of three others.
Nine Ricciardi, formerly Princess
de Chimay and later Nine. Rigo, who
was Clara Ward of Detroit, reports in
Paris that her husband has disap-
peared.
Walking in his sleep, P. T. Brudder,
retired New York business man,
seventy-nine years old, fell through
an open window in his sixth-floor
apartment and was instantly killed.
Relatives said that he had been
somnambulist since childhood.
Mrs. George Fulkerson, as a men,
Der of new Canton CO., cult disbe-
lieving in the use of food or medi-
cine to cure ills, ended a fast of 81
days by eating piece of toast.
Fearing lynching if he reached Still
water, Okla, where Sheriff w. A. Fox
was taking him to answer charge of
murder, James Chaplin, negro, leaped
from a speeding train near Shannon,
Ia, and was badly injured
1t was unique bequest that Rob-
ert Reidel of Detroit, Mich, who
fought through the Franco-Prussian
war, left to the Detroit survivors of
his old company. He willed them SIS
with which to buy beer after they
marched to the cemetery to his
funeral.
The widow of Charles T. Yerkes
will receive $163,362 from his estate.
which has been in the hands of re-
ceiver in New York.
Charles Plantus has been convicted
in Detroit of concealing himself in a
trunk designated as jewelry and then
escaping in order to defraud an ex-
press company.
Oberammergau, the scene of the
Passion Play, is cut off from railway
communication with outside points by
the flood that has invaded the district.
OF the 600 strangers in the place to
witness the sacred performance. 900
are Americans.
In an address on "The History of
the Northwest Territory" President
Taft, speaking at the diamond jub1-
lee anniversary of the founding of
the Marietta CO., college, referred to
the ordinance of 1887. for the govera-
ment of the territory, as the greatest
instrument OF fundamental law, except
the Constitution of the United States,
which has ever been enunciated by
men.
Mrs. Ruth Smith, Divorce, TWEEN
ty-five years old, followed her f1ance
to his trysting place near st. Louis,
Mo-, on the banks of the Mississippi
river and, finding him entertaining
another sweetheart, ran to the side of
the boat and jumped into the water.
She drowned before aid could reach
her.
A bust of Samuel L. Clemens mark
Twain), which is to adorn the pro-