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

Judge Grosscup in the United
States circuit court appointed receiv-
ers for the Chicago Railways COM
pany.. The company is not insolvent
and the receivership is believed to be
a mere legal move in connection with
Judge Balls recent decision holding
the railways company liable for bonds
of the moribund Consolidated Traction
company.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in
America, lost her first case before q
jury in New York city. The amount
which the jurors decided Mrs. Green
must pay the Safe Deposit company
of New York, the corporation that
sued her, is $569.25.
The trump card in the prosecution
of Charles R. Heike, secretary Of the
American Sugar Refining company,
was played at the sugar trust under
weighing conspiracy trial when Prose-
cutor Simpson called as the govern
ment's first witness Oliver Splitter, SUI
perintendent of the Williamsburg
docks. who some months ago was con-
victed of underweighing and sentenced
to two years in the federal peniten-
tiary.
1t appears to be not unlikely that re-
sponsibility for the huge robbery Of
the Durant & Elmore Grain company
of Chicago, through its local offices in
Albany will be traced to employees in
the freight offices of several railroads
and that gigantic scheme of system
attic swindling of the firm through this
source will be uncovered.
While flames ragged in an East side
tenement in New York Mrs. Mary
Miller died in a fireman's arms from
smoke inhalation after she had been
dragged to safety. Forty persons were
saved by being dropped into life nets.
As a result of what the Chicago
police charge was a fight among
thieves over the division of their
spoils, one man was shot and killed,
another is believed to have been
wounded, and third is under arrest.
Mrs. Jacob Cooper of Baldwinsville,
n. Y, was killed and five others were
injured when the carriage in which
they were riding was thrown against
telegraph pole when the horses ran
away.
After standing unclaimed for seven
years embalmed as a mummy, arrayed
in full evening dress, with hat and
cane, the body of Sidney Lascelles,
better known as Lord Douglas" has
been shipped from Macon, Ga, to
Washington.
Mrs. B. Clark Hyde, wife of the ply
stefan convicted at Kansas City, Mo-,
of the murder of Col. Thomas Swope,
has filed suits asking for a division of
the Swope estate.
A charge of manslaughter was filed
by the police against Miss Theodore
Stark, eighteen years old, who while
driving an automobile ran down and
killed S. B. Shotwell, a st. Paul
(Minn.) broker.
Incensed because three of their
race had been wounded as the result
of a pistol duel between two negroes,
500 inhabitants of the negro section
of Atlanta, Ca, attacked one of the
duelists and were about to lynch him
when they were dispersed by the ar
rival of the police.
Montclair, N. j., will vote next
Thursday on the adoption Of the
municipal art commissions plan to
spend $1,500,00O for "city beautiful"
Rev. Charles Little of Wabash. Ind,
was elected moderator of the Presby.
terrain general assembly of the United
States at Atlantic City, N. ].
The department of justice at Wash.
ington is investigating the subject of
the price Of lumber in the United
States with the view to determine
whether or not the so-called lumber
trust may be reached by the Sherman
antitrust law on the ground that it is
a combination in restraint of trade.
The United States gunboats uu
buque and Paducah landed 100 blue
Jackets to protect American interests
in Bluefields. Nicaragua. and to pre-
vent fighting within the town limits
The American force is prepared fol-
any emergency. having taken ashore
several field guns and rapid frers.