The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-08

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the officer of the guard. Crear was
tried and found guilty of making a
false statement and was dismissed.
Chief Justice Melville Weston Full
Ter, for nearly twenty-five years the
presiding officer of the United States
Supreme court, died suddenly July 4
at his summer home in Sorrento, Me
His death, which was wholly unex-
pected, was caused by heart failure.
All the rooms of the White House
will be accessible to the public during
the coming summer for the first time
in many years. Before leaving Wash
ington President Taft gave instruc-
tons that the buildings should be
thrown wide open.
Members of the Order of Red Men
from northern Indiana and Ohio went
to Roanoke, Ind, to celebrate the one
Revarre, an Indian princess whose ma
tive name Is Kil-so-quah.
Five thousand regulars took part in
Chicago's sane Fourth" parade and
opened a big military tournament to
last ten days.
The Catholic Educational association
began it's annual meeting in Detroit,
among the notable persons present be-
ing Mgr. Falconio, the apostolic dele
gate.
Angelo Hamilton, convicted of MUIR
dering Mrs. Sallie B. Hix at Lynchburg,
Va, last June, was el%ectrocuted at
Richmond, Va.
Many of the cotton mills of the Uni
ted States were shut down until July
IL to curtail production. One hundred
thousand operatives are affected.
Freight rates on lemons from south
ern California to eastern destinations
were reduced from $1.15 to 81 by the
interstate commerce commission, to
take effect September 1.
Engineer E. b. Jolley and Fireman
H. Mitchell of west-bound passenger
train No. 5 of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, were killed at Cedar
open switch.
John William Hallahan Ill, a promi-
nent junior member of the Philadel-
phia bar, husband of a daughter of the
late Daniel O'Day, Standard Oil mil
lionaire, was killed by being caught
between the floor and an elevator in a
hotel at Cape May, N. j.
Two negro men who robbed and
killed a white man were taken from
the county Jail at Charleston, Mo-, and
lynched by a crowd of $50 whites,
most of them being farmers.
The failure of the First National
bank and the First Trust and Savings
bank at Billings, Mont, which closed
their doors, came as a great surprise
to commercial and industrial circles
of the state. 1t is believed they will
pay every dollar.
Meat prices will remain high till the
fall at least. The best authority in
the country made that statement-the
man who has more to do with fixing
prices the packers send out than any
other in the country. Ogden Ar
mour, when he returned after eight
weeks in Europe.
Pleading for a united party and
urging the elimination of rancor and
strife, many county conventions in
Iowa adopted resolutions calling upon
President Taft to remove from his cab
met those who have attempted to read
out of the party the Insurgents.
w. j. Bryan returned to Lincoln,
Neb., from his six weeks trip to Eu-
rope. He will remain ten days in Ne
braska, devoting his time to state poll
tics. Just what form his political &C
tivity will take Mr.. Bryan is not pre-
pared to say.
cation association in Boston began
with sessions of the National Council
of Education.
A masked bandit held up the mail
and express stage which runs between
Placerville and Norwood in San Mi
guel county, Colorado. Several pas
sengers were lined up along the road
and compelled to surrender their val
uables.
Prof. William F. Babe of the Uni
yersity of California will soon under
take an expedition into the Klamath
region of Asia Minor to excavate
cities of the ancient tribes of Hitties,
which flourished several thousand
years before the Christian era.
Collector Loeb's figures for the fiscal
year just ended show he collected in
duties and fines at the port of New
York 1924, ESQ., 0O.01.
Reports from London say that Mrs.
Anthony j. Drexel, Jr., who before
her marriage a few weeks ago was
Miss Marjorie Gould, is suffering
from an abscess in the ear, which may
make a dangerous operation necessary.
Philip Schanz, secretary and cash
Ter of the Aldo Sommers Drug COM
pany at Quincy, ILL.,, has disappeared
and expert examination of his books
is alleged to show a shortage of more
than 5000.
Prince Henry of Prussia and a party
OF scientists sailed for the Arctic
to prepare for Count Zeppelin's
proposed dirigible balloon expedition
to the pole in 1912.
When the parachute in which he
was attempting to come to earth after
q balloon ascension at Albany, Ind,
failed to open Ray Bradley, twenty
five years old, dropped 1900 feet and
met instant death.
Three persons were killed, twenty
or more were injured nd a number of
buildings were destroyed by a pow
der explosion in the store of the