The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-17

| IOr special railroad train ABOVE
which he flew. He sailed from Gov
ernor's island to the Quaker city and
back again, but on the return trip he
was compelled to make a long stop
In his hurry to get away he neglect
ed to clean his spark plugs; they
| fouled, the engine baked and he was
compelled to make a disastrous land
ing in a swamp.
Vice-President Sherman, while al
Utica, N. Y, attending the wedding OF
his niece, said that he believes the
Insurgent movement in political af
fairs is subsiding, basing his opinion
on conditions found in Wisconsin and
Iowa.
The seal of Oklahoma was taken in
the midnight hours of Saturday from
! Guthrie to Oklahoma City, following
the announcement that the latter city
had won the state capital fight by So,
900 votes. Jane Haskell, IL years old
the governors daughter, was stoned
from the street asa result of the cleo.
ton.
In a feud battle in Breathitt county,
Kentucky, two members of the Craw-
ford family were shot to death and a
member of the Johnson family fatally
wounded.
In wild automobile drive in the
midnight hours, the seal of the state
of Oklahoma was brought from Guth-
RE to Oklahoma City, following the
announcement that Oklahoma City
won.in the state capital fight by ma
jority of more than $4,000 votes over
Guthrie and Shawnee. Oklahoma
City probably will be proclaimed the
state capital.
AS the result of President Taft's in
sistence that the new railroad bill
should include some provision look
ing to the control Of the new issues
of stocks and bonds by railroad COM
panies, it was decided at White
House conference that a paragraph
shall be added to the bill providing
for a commission to investigate and
report at the next session of congress
the best means of dealing with this
situation.
In a speech before the Roosevelt
club at st. Paul, Mimi, Clifford Pinchot
prophesied a revolution in national
politics, and in many eplgrammatical
sentences scorched congress and the
leadership in both the Republican and
Democratic parties. He demanded the
absolute divorce of 'the interests"
and politics.
Intent upon wreaking summary ven-
geance upon six negroes who had at
tackled three white men at the Illinois
Central tracks near Twenty-fourth
street, Chicago, a crowd of nearly s.
600 persons tried to lynch two men
they had taken away from the police
The drawing Of clubs and revolvers
by police reserves, who were rushed
to the scene, was the only thing that
prevented a lynching.
Word reached Washington that a
woman calling herself Mrs. Taft is
aboard lake steamer somewhere be-
tween Ashtabula, o., and Duluth,
Mimi. She has been posing as the
presidents wife and has given away
souvenir postal cards with the al
legged autograph of Mrs. Taft The
secret service division of the treas
ury department is looking for the
bogus Mrs. Taft"
At the thirty-third annual conven-
ton of the Danish Evangelical Luz
theran Church Of America, in session
In Ludington, Mich, Rev. X. c. Bod
holdt Of Racine, Wis, the president
for eight years, was reelected for that
Office.
An increase in wages amounting to
more than $4,000 a year and a de-
crease in the working hours have been
granted to the 2,100 telegraph opera
tors of the Southern railway by the
arbitrator appointed by the Erdman
act.
All the night rider trials set for
trial at Hopkinsville, KY, were post
poned until the September term of
court because Milton oliver, the prin-
cipal witness for, the state, who was
recently wounded from ambush, was
unable to appear.
Consolidation of the Commercial
National and the Continental Nation
al banks of Chicago virtually was ac-
complished at a conference of COM
mittees appointed by the board of di-
rectors of the two institutions to work
out the terms.
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Oscar Hammerstein, the impresario
of New York, to visit Russia. 1t was
Mr.. Hammerstein's intention to go to
st. Petersburg to engage Russian
dancers.
The mutilated body of Mrs. Porter
Carlton, wife of Porter Carlton, son
of Judge of Washington, was found
in trunk by fishermen in a lake
near the village Of Moltrasio, Italy.
After the discovery of the body search
was made for Carlton. but he was
found to, have disappeared. An ex-
Russian postal official named Con-
stantin Ispolatoff was arrested, how
ever, on suspicion Of having been an
accomplish in the murder.
In order to obtain possession Of
dutiable property party Of Chicago
and Kenosha women, headed by Mrs.
c. w. Allen. will have to pay $4,000.
according to statements of New York
customs officers.
Charles r. Heike, secretary of the
sugar trust, and Ernest w. Ger
bracht, secretary of the Williamsburg
refinery, were found guilty in the fed
eral court of conspiring to defraud