The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-11-11

| helpers or the express companies,
who have practically tied up express
business in and through New York
city for nearly two weeks. A spread
of the strike to drivers of all vehicles
in the city except food-supply wagons
, seems imminent.
More than 1000 prominent surgeons
of this and other countries gathered
in Chicago for two weeks Of clinics
and discussions of various phases of
their science.
Former Judge Simeon E. Baldwin,
Democratic nominee for governor, said
he will bring suit against former
President Roosevelt on account of GER
tain statements reported to have been
made by Mr. Roosevelt relative to Mr..
Baldwin's attitude to labor legislation.
By practically unanimous action 49,
900 striking garment workers at Chi
cago repudiated an arbitration agree
ment signed by President Thomas A.
Rickert of their own national organi-
cation and officers of Hart, Schaffner
& Mark. The rejection of the agree
ment puts the strike back where it
was before the peace negotiations
were started.
The population of Iowa is 2,224,771,
according to the enumeration in the
thirteenth census. This is a decrease
of 1882, or O3 per cent. under 2,231,-
$50 in 1900 The increase from 1890
to 1900 was 319,572, or 1871 per cent.
Unable to control her feelings when
she forgot her lines in her lecture on
"Shakespeare's Heroines" in fremont
temple, at Boston, Miss Ellen Terry
covered her face with her hands and
wept.
w. C. Hart, deputy clerk of the
United States district court at Los
Angeles, Cal, escaped death when,
by chance, another clerk opened a
vault door which had closed and
locked behind Hart.
Serious damage was wrought at
army posts in the Philippines by the
typhoon which swept over the island
October 81, according to a cable re-
port received at the war department.
Break rock for 100 days or go to
church every Sunday for six months"
was the sentence imposed by Will
liam Volker, head of the Kansas City
(Mo.) public welfare board, upon two
boys convicted of throwing egr- at
pedestrians.
In repor.. to the United States de-
partment Of commerce and labor,
Consul General R. M. Battleman of
Buenos Ayres, Argentine, says that
the Argentine capital should be taken
as model in municipal decoration
by American cities.
The United States gunboat Prince
ton, at anchor off Amapala, Honduras,
is cleared for action and its guns are
trained on the governors residence,
occupied by Gen. Jose Valladares,
leader of the revolt against the Da-
villa government Commander Hayes
of the Princeton sent word to the
revolutionist that if foreigners were
molested he would shoot the COVER
nor's place full of 4oles.
Earl Loeschel, the two-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs c. F. Loeschel of
Denver, Col, died in commissions
caused by fright, his parents say,
when ''tick-tack" used by a Halo
we'en noisemaker was pressed
against the window.
The first station of the United
States aeronautical reserve has been
established at Columbia university,
New York. The station will furnish a
series of lectures on aeronautics next
winter
An edict from the academic senior
council at Yale university, New
Haven, Conn, orders the discontinue
ance of studying during chapel exer-
else under pain of a penalty which
may involve suspension.
Six men were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at Spokane, Wash,
charged with conspiring to defraud
the government of coal lands in Alas
ka valued at S20O,00O,0OO Among
those who were alleged to De as
signees of one or more of the claims
are Gov. James N. Gillett, California;
Congressman McLaohlin, California,
and Henry T. Oznard, president of the /
American Beet Sugar company.
A citizen of Fullerton, CAL, has sent
ten cents to the postoffice department
at Washington, with letter in which
he explains that he used several
stamps which had been used but not
Cancelled.
Herbert Jackson, negro of Athens,
Ga, showed two pieces of his skull to
a judge when Ed. Dimson, the alleged
assailant of the complainant, was
called to trial. Jackson said Dimson
struck him on the head.
A legal battle for the $3,000000 es-
tate of Gen. Thomas T. Eckert of
West End, N. j., for long time pres
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
company, is to be fought by one of
his sons, Clendennin Eckert, and the
generals brother, William Eckert.
Sherman S. Brady. a well-known
financier of Houston, Tex, was
crushed to death when his automo-
bile, which was being tried out for
speed. was overturned a few miles
east of Houston.
Wardens r. w. McClaughry and ].
K. Codding of the Leavenworth fed
eral and the Lansing state prisons,
respectively, are considering the plan
of introducing moving pictures as a
means of informing convicts of events
in the outside world.
A storm of midwinter intensity rode
I'M the Atlantic coast on a gale that
brought at least one death and heavy