The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-03-18


Theodore Roosevelt, former president
of the United States. arrived In Khar-
tum from his big game hunt in the
jungles Of Africa. In the great crowd
that welcomed the former chief execu-
tive of America. his son Kermit and
the members Of his expedition, were
Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter, Miss
Ethel. The crowd waited for Mrs.
Roosevelt and Miss Ethel to greet the
mighty hunter. and then rushed for
ward In an effort to shake his hand.
Some succeeded. but hundreds were
doomed to disappointment as the SOL
diers and police drove them back.
A crisis has developed in the dis
pute between the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen and
the railroad managers, representing As
western lines. officers of the brother
hood declare that the men will refuse
to arbitrate the question of wages un-
less the managers concede point by
agreeing to settle the dispute concern
ing two rules relative to promotion by
seniority and the demand that en-
gineers in the flremen's organization
be granted the right of representation
on negotiating committees.
With President Taft among the
mourners at the graveside. the body
of Thomas K Laughlin. Mrs. Taft's
brother-in-law, was inferred in the AL
legheny cemetery. The funeral serv-
ices of the millionaire who found life
SO burdensome that he brought it to a
speedy end with pistol shot. were
private and without ostentation.
The Central Labor union Of Philad-
delphia, in a secret meeting Sunday,
issued final call to all union labor
men within the city. They are or
dered to join the general strike, under
penalty of ostracism from union labor.
This move is particularly directed
against the brewery workers, the
bakers and the printers, three power
full union bodies which up to date have
played the part of spectators in the
affair."
Clad only in the nightgown she wore
when she disappeared, after escaping
from her nurses, the body of Miss
Helena Bloodgood, daughter of Will
liam Bloodgood of New York and heir
ess to a large fortune, was found in
Lake Carafalgo by two townsmen who
had been dragging the bottom for three
days.
The naval tug Nina probably went
down in the storm off the Delaware
capes without giving the crew of 81
men time even to lower boat. The
condition of the lifeboat from the
missing tug, found near Metompkin
inlet on the Delaware coast, seems to
show that the boat was torn away
from the davits, either as the Nina
went down or after it sank.
At Renk. African Sudan. on the
edge of the jungle a corps of Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents greeted
Col. Theodore Roosevelt and party re-
turning from a years hunt in the
wilds of Africa and appearing fit, hard
and strong.
Former Senator William D. Ed
wards appeared in the court of gen.
eral sessions in Jersey City and
pleaded not guilty to the indictments
found against the National Packing
Company. Armour & Co.. Swift & Co..
and Nelson Morris & Co. The Ham
mond Packing Company and the G.
H. Hammond Company were not rep
resented.
Pupils of the McKeesport. Pa.
schools have smashed their states
against the walls of buildings follow
ing health order barring their use
because they were germ breeders.
Benjamin Bundy. negro of Cincin-
natl. who passed an examination for
the consular service, has relieved
the state department at Washington
of an embarrassing situation by his
agreement to accept a secretaryship.
Depositors gathered before the
doors Of the Society for Savings bank
at Cleveland. O., and demanded their
money, but the run on the institution
is believed to be over.
Barney Oldfield, driving his 200
horsepower Hemmery Benz. covered
a mile over the Daytona (Fla.) beach
in :28 fat. one-fifth of second faster
than the worlds record made by a
freak steamer on the beach four years
ago.
Thomas Farrell is in Flower hos
pital, New York, with dislocated
shoulder and internal injuries as a re-
suit of being run down by two baby
carriages.
Announcement was made at New
York that Putnam's Magazine had
been incorporated with the Atlantic
Monthly and that the number for
April will constitute the final separate
issue of Putnam's.
George A. Capron, the absconding
cashier of the United States Express
Company's Englewood branch Office,
Chicago, was sentenced to an indie.
terminate term of Imprisonment Cap.
ron pleaded guilty to charges of EN-.
bezzlement and the sentence, which
implies one to ten years in Joliet, was
pronounced.
According to report received at
Erie, Pa, the wrecked Marquette car
ferry No. Of the Bessemer & Lake
Erie railroad, which went down in q
storm on Lake Erie the night of De
cember z. 1909. with 80 men on board
has been located under the ice off Port
Bruce, Ont. IA miles from Port Stan
ley.
1t developed that during the trial o.
DR.. B. C. Hyde, on charge of poison
ing Col. Thomas H. Swope, a
Kansas City. Mo-. the prose
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