The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
GENERAL NEWS.

Thirty-six negro convicts lost their
lives when the stockade of the Red
Feather Coal company at Lucille mines,
Bibb county, Alabama, about Is miles
north of Centerville, was destroyed by
a fire set by one of the prisoners in
an effort to gain his freedom.
Former Attorney General of Ohio
Booth, both of Columbus, were appoint
ed receivers of the Hooking Valley
Railway company by Judge E. B. Kin
kead of the court of common pleas of
Franklin county, Ohio.
After an exceedingly stormy discus
sion, in which Jack Johnson and Sam
Berger were the principals, Tex Rick
ard was mutually agreed upon as ref
cree of the Johnson-Jeffries boxing
match next Fourth of July.
Representative Michael S. Link Of
Mitchell was purged of his contempt
of court when he went before the
Sangamon county grand jury at
Springfield and answered the ques-
lions put to him by States Attorney
Edmund Burke in the legislative
bribery scandal He did this after be-
ing ordered to do SO by Judge Robert
B. Shirley.
DR.. B. c. Hyde was found guilty of
murder in the first degree and his pun
ishment was fixed at life imprison-
ment That he poisoned his wife's
uncle, Col. Thomas H. Swope, the Kan
sas City millionaire, was the verdict
reached by the jury after three nights
and two days of elaboration.
The trial of Lee O'Neil Browne,
Democratic leader in the lower house
of the Illinois legislature, on a charge
of bribery in connection with the cleo
ton of United States Senator Lorimer
at Chicago was postponed in the GRIM
inal court until May "a.
Through the breaking of a shaft
the Red Star steamer Kroonland, car
rying more than 1000 passengers, has
been compelled to put in at Southamp-
ton, England, for repairs.
Not one midshipman in the class
which was graduated from the United
State Naval academy in 1908 passed
the recent tough" examination for
promotion to the grade of ensign, &C
cording to a statement published in
New York.
Fire destroyed the courthouse and
several business houses at Placer
vile, Cal, causing loss of 100000.
u. G. Walker, former president of
the defunct South Cleveland Banking
company, was sentenced to five years
in the Ohio penitentiary. Walker
was found guilty of perjury in making
false statements to the state exam
liner.
James r. Corrigan, assistant cor
poration counsel of Chicago under
Mayor Carter H. Harrison, shot and
killed himself at st. Paul.
Chauvelt Michelin, young French
aviator, was killed in the races at
Lyons when his machine struck a der.
rick, which fell on him.
A bullet fired at thieves in Philadel.
phia by policeman struck a trolley
pole, glanced off and killed John Gal.
Ion, forty-six years old.
The seventh annual session of the
National Conference on Education OF
Backward, Truant, Delinquent and De
pendent Children began in st. Louis
After six years of American effort
on the Isthmus of Panama it is shown
by figures that 165,388,672 cubic yards
of earth and rock have been removed.
Cotton and corn crops in Georgia
were damaged by hail-and-wind
storm. At Culverton several houses
were blown from their supports.
Taking from the shoulders of Secre
tary Ballinger all the blame for the
''clear listing" of the Cunningham
Alaska coal claims, H. H. Schwartz
chief of the field service in the gen
eral land office. took the entire respon
sibility of the transaction before the
congressional inquiry committee.