The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.

On the tenth anniversary Of the
death of William Goebel, monument
to the murdered politician, erected
by public subscription, was unveiled
at Frankfort, Ky.
President Taft and the leaders Of
the Republican party in the house are
in favor of thorough and exhaustive
investigation of the present high cost
of living, and 1t was determined at a
meeting of the ways and means COM
mittee that that body should assume
the task of making full inquiry into
the whole matter.
That Gen. Chamorro had defeated
the Madriz troops under eGn. Vasquez
at Acoyapa in battle that had con-
tinued since Wednesday was the def
mite news received from Rama, Mica
ragua, confirming previous dispatches.
The losses were heavy.
Following conviction and sentence
in the federal court at Toledo, o., ten
members of Sicilian BLACK Hand"
organization were fastened to the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan, to
serve sentences ranging from two to
sixteen years.
Pennsylvania. flyer No. left behind
1t in two Ohio towns a trail of dead
and dying. At Loudonville the train
ran down Roy Covert and his wife, in
stantly killing Mrs. Covert and fatally
injuring her husband. An hour later at
Crestline the same train crashed into
an automobile, wrecking it and killing
two OF the occupants, while third
member of the party was fatally in
jured.
More startling disclosures and accu-
sations against Secretary of the Inter-
ior Ballinger were made by Louis R.
CLAWS, ousted land department official,
in closing his testimony before the
Ballinger-Pinchot congressional inves-
tigating committee. The witness will
be recalled for cross-examination on
behalf OF the long list of persons
against whom he has made charges.
A resolution of protest has been ap-
proved by Woodbury. post No. As, G..
A. R., of Adrian, Mich, against con-
gress allowing a statue of Gen. Rob-
ert E. Lee to be placed by Virginia in
the Hall of Fame in the national capi-
toll.
The report of State Examiners l.. G..
Tatsman and r. A. Tallman filed
with the state auditor of Ohio shows
officers and former officers of Column
biana county to have received ille-
gal fees aggregating $21,33S9O. A to-
tai of $5,129.2S has been refunded.
After taking his one-year-old baby
from its mothers arms and sending
his six-year-old child to the home of
a neighbor, Claude Fred, wealthy
farmer of Charleston. ILL.,, shot and
killed his wife and, turning the revolver
on himself. committed suicide.
A bill providing a suffrage amend
ment to the Maryland state constitu-
ton has been introduced in the legis-
lature. 1t is similar to the amend
ment defeated at the last popular cleo
ton, but lacks the grandfather
clause.
A corporation which will devote its
energies exclusively to raising pole.
cats is being organized by Connecticut
men with B. M. Mills of New Boston
at its head.
Fire destroyed the First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, at Kansas City. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
A seven-year-old child with hair az
gray as that of an old woman is at.
tracing the attention of physicians
at Atchison, Kan. Recently Fred
Jones. while playing in hay loft, fell
80 feet and the fright so acted upon
his nervous system that his hair be
gan to turn white.
Fifty-three officers and men of the
British torpedo boat destroyer Eden
were rescued of Dover in the breaches
buoy when the vessel went ashore.
Rex, the king cobra of the Bronx
park zoo at New York. is dead. A lit
tie black roach had cut through his
head and entered his brain.
Charging Gov. Charles N. Haskell
and other Oklahoma state officers with
violation of the state constitution In
the manner in which public moneys
have been expended, Representative
Lester A. Maris, representing the Re
publican minority, filed an affidavit IL
the lower house of the legislature