The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-04-29

| ton began it's annual convention in
| New Orleans, Prof. w. P. Mason OF
Rensselaer, Polytechnic institute pre-.
| siding.
The annual convention of the United
Confederate Veterans opened in Nc
bile, Ala.
An effort was made by the defense"
in the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation
to show that Clifford Pinchot and his
associates had conspired to overthrow
Secretary Ballfnger because he op'
posed "Pinchot's way of serving.
George Otis Smith, director of the
| geological survey, related a conversa'
ton he had with Mr.. Pinchot last July
| during which the latter is said to have
characterized Mr.. Ballinger as "a vel
| low dog" and to have threatened to
lead a fight against the secretary If
there was any criticism of former Sec
rotary Garfield at the Spokane irriga.
4, ton congress.
Nailed to an improyised cross, with
huge spikes driven through his hands,
with a crown of thorns pressed down
upon his head, George Rabish, mine
official at Avella, Pa, hung for two
hours while crowd of foreign mine
laborers danced and sung about him.
The mob hurled stones against the
mans body and slashed at his legs
with knives until they were cut in
dozens of places.
Under tent on the grassy slope of
the Langdon plot in Woodlawn GENE
terry at Elmira, N. Y, with rain beat
ing fiercely against the canvas cover,
a little group of mourners silently
watched as the body of Samuel l..
Clemens was lowered into an ever
green lined grave beside the bodies of
his wife and children. Rev. Samuel
Eastman, pastor of Park church, and
a close friend of the late humorist,
conducted brief and simple service.
Sixty persons were rescued from the
Cledan apartment building, Chicago,
by an evening dress brigade Of men
and women attending a house party
near by, when fire attacked the big
building. Mrs. E. E. Ballard was
burned probably fatally and several
others had narrow escapes from
DEATH
Famed by high wind, fire swept
over twenty or more blocks of Lake
Charles, La, destroying several hun
dred buildings and resulting in prop
erty loss estimated at about $3,000,0OO.
Two thousand persons have been rem
dered homeless. The fire followed a
northeasterly direction from the bust
ness section, and finally reached the
outskirts of the city, burning itself
out.
While Chicago struggled and suf-
fered in fresh ouburst of what will
go down as the worst vernal blizzard
in decades, Illinois and practically all
the middle west and Mississippi val
ley states piled up further losses-al-
most calamitous in some sections.
Lives were lost, crops totally or par
TALLY destroyed in many states, trans
portation on land and on the great
lakes paralyzed and live stock in the
open suffered. The loss is placed at
between $3O,OOO,00O and $50,0O0,0OO.
Three persons are known to have
lost their lives and at least half a
dozen others are missing and are be-
lieved to have persisted in fire which
practically destroyed the Hotel Thoma
at Cincinnati.
immigration to the United States
for 1910 promises to reach 1000, 900
people for the first time since 1907,
when the record was 1,285,349 aliens.
Eugene Hayes, a wealthy cattleman
well known in the southwest, died at
Pawhuska, Okla, of wounds received
April 9. when he was shot three times
by Amos Hays near Pawhuska, Okla.
Eugene Hayes was under indictment
in Kansas City for killing his partner,
Edward Hays.
Fire in a lumber mill at Ridgeway,
Pa, destroyed the mill, seven business
blocks and several dwellings. causing
loss estimated at 100000.
Prince Tsai Tao, uncle of the Chi
nese emperor, became weary at San
Francisco banquet, just as a silver
punch bowl was to be presented to him
and bolted from the room.
Nearly million more barrels of
beer were consumed by the people of
the United States last month than in
March, 1909. This is shown by the
statement of the internal revenue re-
ceipts for March. The total consuInp-
ton of beer during the month amount
ed to 4,993,793 barrels.
A fire which, famed by fierce
gale, ragged for hours in the Burling-
ton railroad yards at Lincoln, Neb.,
caused loss to the railroad of $780,
900.
Albert Wolter, charged with the
killing of Ruth Wheeler, the pretty
young stenographer, in his apartments
in New York city on March "a, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree by the jury.
Two men were killed in a wreck at
Sanford, Ind, on the Big Four rail-
way, according to official reports re-
ceived at Cincinnati.
Plans for promoting immigration
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