The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-10-21

bench, the Illinois supreme court de-
| cided against the nominee three"
idea and upheld the number of house
nominations decided on by the sena-
| torial committees in the various dis
tricts before the primaries. The de-
cision does not pass upon the consti-
nationality of the little primary act
covering nominations for the legisla-
ture.
| Henry Pages Dennis of Foxboro,
| Mass, a son of the late State Senator
S. X. Dennis of Worcester county,
Maryland, and Miss Caroline Eaton,
| daughter of President Eaton, Beloit
college in Wisconsin, were drowned in
Pitts creek near Pocomoke City, Md
Mounted on a fleet horse and fit
| ing from mesa to mesa, an incendiary,
officials believe. Offset the combined
efforts of the men who were fighting
/ forest fires covering Is square miles
near Miramonte, Col. A patrol to
| hunt down the man was told off.
Cord Meyer, a leader among New
| York German-Americans and for sew
eral years chairman of the New York
state Democratic committee, is dead
at his home at Great Neck, L. l. He
left fortune estimated at more than
$1,000,0O0.
Alden Anderson, California superin-
tendent of banks, took charge OF the
All-Night and Day bank at Los An
geles. The bank is solvent, according
to the superintendent announcement
Twenty persons were injured when
the grand stand at AUX Vase, Mo-,
occupied by street-fair spectators, col
lapsed. Ten of the victims were seri-
ously hurt, two probably fatally. The
latter are e. L. Boyd and ]. T. Atkin-
son, both internally injured.
From the West Indies to the Flor
ida coast, throughout the region of
the Tortugas and from the Florida
coast to Mexico in the gulf the seas
are in the grasp of a hurricane which
is striking terror to the hearts of the
people of the whole immense area.
Charles Albright, manager, and
three employees of the Sebring Broth
ers' Pottery company, were killed
when freight car on the Stark Elec-
trio railroad hit the automobile in
which they were riding near Sc
bring, o.
The steamship Crawford has been
lost In gale in the North sea and it
is feared all sixty-three persons on
board persisted. twenty-five bodies
were washed ashore.
The French steamer Vile de Roche
fort was wrecked off Noirmoutiers is
lands. The British steamer Peverill
picked up the first and second mates
and the chief steward of the French
craft, but the % others of her crew
were lost.
| Five laborers were instantly killed
and more than score were injured,
| several seriously, when a north-bound
extra freight train on the Grand Rap
ids & Indiana railroad crashed head
on into a work train, seven and a
half miles south Of Portland, Ind.
Claude Grahame-White, the English
aviator, sailed his Farman biplane
over the city of Washington from
Bennings and paid social call to the
army and navy officials landing near
the White House.
A table compiled by New York Gus
toms officials shows that the anti
smuggling crusade of the last two
years has caused the amount of duties
collected to be nearly trebled.
The United States, the greatest cot
ton-producing country of the world.
imported in the fiscal year 1910 &c..
037,691 pounds of raw cotton, valued
at $15,S16,138, the second largest
years importation of cotton in the his.
tory of the country.
The United States embassy in
Paris was endangered when a power
full dynamite bomb was placed near
the building, but was discovered and
removed in time to prevent an ex-
plosion. The police attribute the at
tempted outrage to anarchists, who
sought to put new life into the appar-
emily dying railroad strike.
Benjamin ]. Duveen, one of the resi-
| dent managers Of Duveen Brothers of
New York city, the greatest art deal
| Sio oiio AhPoi SCio III kAhSli0d, w do
arrested on bench warrant charging
him and the other members of the
firm with Systematically swindling the
United States government out of GUS
toms that run high up into the mil.
lions.
Application was made by the Grand
Trunk Pacific railway to the British
Columbia government for permission
to employ Chinese on the railroad.
The request was not granted.
Michael P. Heney, the millionaire
railroad contractor of Seattle, is dead
at San Francisco. He neglected him.
self to care for shipwrecked women
and children when the Ohio sank of
the coast of Alaska in August, 1909.
Brig. Gen. Arthur Murray, chief OF
coast artillery, urges in his annual re.
port that the government increase it's
detail of artillery troops for coast
duty.
which threatens to spread throughout
the length and breadth of France, was
denounced by Premier BRAND as IAN
instruction purely, built upon Grim.
inal foundations" The premier de
clared the strike was called while ne
gotiations were going on through him
self and the minister of public works
for an adjustment of grievances.
Theodore Roosevelt plunged into the
Indiana campaign with trip across
the state, in which he made a vigor
Gus plea for votes to send United
States Senator Albert ]. Beveridge
back to the senate.