The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-27


will add from $6,0O0,OOO to $4,000, O0O
to its annual pay roll expense. The
new scale affects employees engaged
in the company's works and factories
but the Office men will not be bene.
fitted by this increase. Most of the
employees who will get the increase
are laborers, and the advance applies
to all the subsidiary companies in the
United States. The company has ap-
proximately 10000 employees. The
Standard is one of the very few big
concerns Of this country which has
never had strike among it's employ.
ees.
Despite his large vote in the recent
primary election, United States
Senator Charles Dick was refused the
Endorsement of the Cuyahoga county
Republican convention.
Nearly S10,O00,000 will go to Prince
ton university to be used for the bene-
fit of its graduate school under the
will of Isaac c. Wyman of Salem.
Mass, filed for probate.
States Attorney Edmund Burke of
Springfield, ILL.,, opened his investiga-
ton of the alleged use of money in
connection with the anti-local option
bill in the legislature by issuing sub
poenas for seven men prominently
identified with the liquor interests Of
the state.
The first hint of the movement to
GUST Rev. DR.. William H. Roberts of
Philadelphia from one of lis two Of
fees Of state clerk and treasurer Of
tho Presbyterian general assembly,
came In the report of the bills and
overtures committee, which was pre-
sented to the assembly at Atlantic
City, N. ].
Maysville, Okla, a small town.
was wiped off the map by a tornado
and several persons were killed. The
town Of McCarty. near Maysville, was
nearly swept away and three persons
were killed.
The entire region in the depart
ment Of Bouches du Rhone expert
enced severe seismic shocks. Walls
fell at Lambesc and Rognes. The
population Is wild with terror
Denouncing the Payne-Aldrich tar.
LIZ law as transparent humbug." at
lacking the tariff views of Representa-
tive Payne, and vigorously assailing
President Taft for his support of that
law, Representative Champ Clark of
Missouri, leader of the Democratic mi.
nority, delivered in the house at Wash.
[ngton what is regarded as the Demo
cratic keynote speech of the coming
campaign.
Miss Minnie Adlers, pretty twenty
year-old school teacher of Princeville,
ILL.,, was found dead in her bed at the
hotel in Peoria, ILL.,. with
three bullet holes in her body. Her
companion, s. T. Easterly of Chillico-
the. ILL.,, a freight conductor for the
Santa Fe, was detained by the au-
thorities.
Four houses were demolished. sew.
sral others badly damaged, number of
persons slightly injured, several barns
and many trees torn up by
the roots by a cyclone which struck
the northern part of Cairo, Ill.
While A. Holland Forbes, the bal.
loonist, and his wife, Jessie Livingston
Forbes, were celebrating his mirac-
ulous escape from death in Kentucky
at their home near Bridgeport, Conn,
a deputy sheriff served a jail writ on
Mrs. Forbes, following Mrs. Ernest
c. Rowley's damage suit for $4,000.
Vie Chain Yong, the Korean who
stabbed Premier vi. in an attempt at
December %, 1909, was
sentenced to death at Seoul.
With one hand John A. Hall. for
years treasurer of the South Bridge
Savings bank, Worcester, Mass,
reached into the banks funds and
stole large sums of money. With the
other hard he disbursed the stolen
cash to charity and religion. In the
last 20 years. Hall says he has appro-
prated $4,000.
The new international bridge be.
tween Brownsville, Tex, and Mata.
moras, Mexico, will be formally opened
July 81 and %. President Taft, Col
Roosevelt and President Diaz of Mex.
leo have been invited to be present.
Internal revenue receipts continue
to show big increase over last year.
For April the receipts were $21,397,.
1877, which is $2,209,O57 more than in
April. 1909. There were increases of
81, 020,305 in spirits, s692,651 in tobac.
co and $493.522 in fermented liquor.
James M. Anderson, formerly con-
fidential secretary to Emil Winter,
president Of the Workingmen's Sa.
wings Bank and Trust company of Pitts
burg. who pleaded nolle contendere in
the recent graft cases, was fined $3.50
and costs. He was alleged to have
mutilated the banks books.
When Charles De Witt was killed
in the recent explosion at Canton, O.,
his life savings of $500, which he car.
ried on his person, were lost and no
trace Of the money has been found.
Steel manufacturing concerns In
Pennsylvania were characterized as
human slaughter houses" and it was
charged that in the hospitals "wilful
murder" was committed on the theory
that dead men were less expensive
than cripples. at hearing before the
senate committee on public health, by
Arthur E. Holder. legislative agent of
the American Federation of Labor.
Many persons were injured in the
crush along the route of the process
sion attendant upon the funeral of
King Edward. in London. and hun
dreds fell from exhaustion. AT some
points the crowds became so unruly
and boisterous that the police and
troops had great difficulty in main.
tanning semblance of order.