The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-16

was shown in the annual report by
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The National Civic Federation's an
nual meeting opened in New York
with Seth Low in the chair.
At open hearth mill No 2 Of the
Homestead steel works, Pitsburg, Pa,
there was cast what Is said to be the
largest ingot of Krupp steel in the
world. The ingot is Is feet 4 inches
high, 10 feet inches wide and feet
4 inches thick and weighs 1876 tons.
Bedouins have massacred the Turk
ish garrison at Kerak, a town in the
Turkish villayet of Syria, and killed
more than 100 Christian inhabitants
of the place In revenge for the exc
cution of a Bedouin chief.
mot guilty" was the verdict OF the
, jury in Vincennes, Ind, in the case OF
Menlo Moore, manager of circuit OF
theaters, who was charged with muir.
der in the killing of Charles E. Glib
son, a wealthy operator In the Indiana.
Illinois oil fields.
Political differences led to street
duel in Havana between Severe Mole.
on and Sanchez Figueras, in which
the former was killed and the latter
probably fatally wounded. Both were
liberal members of the Cuban house
Of representatives.
]. P. Morgan & Co. of New York
announced that Edward F. Whitney
and George w. Perkins will retire
from the firm on January 1, 1911. and
that William H. Porter, president Of
the Chemical National bank, and
Thomas w. Lamont, vice-president OF
the First National bank, will become
partners in the firm.
There are heavy foods in northern
Portugal. The Souza river. normally
q small stream, Is raging torrent &c
feet deep.
After a battle with the censor last
ing five years, "Saloms" was produced
at Covent Garden theater in London.
The name of John the Baptist was not
mentioned, being replaced by the eu-
phemism THE Prophet"
According to the terms of the will
of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the
Christian Science church, the source
from which it came, will get the ma
jor portion of her estate. including the
value Of copyrights, which Is about
$1,000, 900.
A revolutionary outbreak Is threat
ened in Honduras and intense excite
ment prevails throughout the country.
Martial law has been proclaimed and
the larger cities Of the republic and
the jails are filed with political pris-
oners.
The United States district court for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania de-
cided that there is no general conspir-
acy among the anthracite coal carry
ing railroads or coal companies to re-
strain trade or commerce, or to mo-
nopolize the trade or to maintain GER
tain prices, but it did decide that the
Temple Iron company is combination
of anthracite coal carrying railroads in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law.
Information reaches st. Paul, Mimi,
from Menominee, Mich, that Nan Pat
terson, who was tried three times on
the charge of murder, was married to
Sumner Prescott, young manufacture
er of Marinette, Wis, at st. Paul on
October "a last.
1t costs SO much per capita to edu-
cate the children of Montclair, N. j.,
that the school board has engaged
Prof. Paul H. Honnis of Harvard uni
versity at $50 a day to investigate
and report as to how the expenses of
the schools may be reduced.
Five votes elected w. N. Ruby to
the Colorado supreme court because
the parties neglected to put up candi-
dates to fill the unexpired term of
the late Chief Justice Robert w.
Steele.
George D. Horras, formerly bank
er of Sioux Falls, S. D., was released
from the Leavenworth federal peni-
Tertiary after serving three years for
violation of the national banking laws.
Horras was only twenty-six years old
when he went to prison.
An anti-treating ordinance was
adopted by the Tacoma (Wash.) city
commission, making the buying of an
intoxicating drink for another person
a misdemeanor.
Eighteen men, including three po-
lice officers, were injured, IL street
cars reduced to scrap and the win
dows in over 200 more smashed in a
riot of Toronto, Ont, citizens follow
ing mass meeting called by Mayor
Geary to protect against the installa-
ton of pay-as-you-enter cars.
The treasurer of the Portuguese
ministry of finance has been arrested
charged with paying the debts of
Queen Maria Pia, grandmother of
King Manuel.
Prof. Charles Otis Whitman, head
of the department of zoology at the
University of Chicago since 1892, and
known as one of the greatest Ameri-
can biologists, died of pneumonia at
his residence in Chicago.
While Mrs. Joseph Tener of Hemp
stead, N. Y, attended the funeral of
her husband, burglars entered her
home and stole $4,000. This sum rep
resented the savings of her husband,
who just before death converted all
his property into cash.
Reports from Funchal say that the
situation growing out of the cholera
epidemic is serious throughout Ma
deira. Cholera riots occur daily. The
food supply is running short.
A mob burned the headquarters of
the Industrial Workers of the World
at Fresno, CAL, severely beat members
of the organization and surrounded