The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-01-14

/ 1911, anu thOuSA UilOl, Woo W eAAS
point. After being translated the re-
port was reviewed by the special com
mittee of the Geographic society ap.
pointed to review the Cook data.
None of the Cook data accompanied
the report.
A tariff war between the United
States and Germany, forecasted to be-
gin at the expiration of the most
favored nation clause in the treaty
between the two countries, which
terminates February next will not
be inaugurated. This information
comes directly from officials of the
German government.
| With the announcement that a
loophole had been discovered in the
new Kansas divorce whereby non-resi-
dents may secure legal separations
without going to the trouble of estab-
fishing a residence, it is expected that
the Sunf1ower state will soon become
the mecca for those seeking quick d.
| vorces.
Thomas P. Reilly, special investi-
gator for the interstate commerce
commission, was arrested in New
York and locked up in the Tombs
charged with the theft of letter
written by George W. Wickersham,
United States attorney general, to
Henry A. Wise, United States district
attorney, the same having been taken
from Mr.. Wise's office in the New
York Federal building.
F. B. Kimbler, living near Ballinger,
Tex, killed his wife, his six-year-old
son and three-year-old daughter, seri-
ously wounded his niece, aged 20, and
ended his own life by cutting his
throat from ear to ear with pocket
knife.
Rev. w. M. Stuckey, formerly a
clergyman at Williamsburg, Kan, who
has been on trial charged with
abducting for immoral purposes, Lo-
rena Sutherland, his 16-year-old par
ishioner, was found guilty by jury.
The case probably will be appealed.
An explosion Of dust in the Old
Shelburn mine at Shelburn, Ind, cost
the life of Harry Potts, "a years old,
a shot firer, who was the only man
in the mine.
Mrs. B. F. Kroeger is dead and nine
members of the families of B. F.
Kroeger and c. Dake, farmers, near
Fairbury, Neb., are i'll from trichina
poisoning, caused by eating raw pork
sausage.
The Norwegian steamer Hiruudo is
tossing helplessly in the North Allan
tic with broken shaft, according to
Cape Race. Steamers are being dis
patched to her aid.
Representatives of the late UDited
States Senator Johnson N. Camden
sent to State Tax Commissioner T. c.
Townsend at Charleston, w. Va, a
check for 100000 N settlement of
the suit of the stat. against the Cam.
den estate for $1,7O0.00O.
E. S. Cooke of Chicago, who is
charged with receiving stolen money
from Charles L. Warmer, former
treasurer of the Big Four railroad,
was granted a continuance until next
Friday, when he appears for his pre-
liminary hearing at Cincinnati.
Miss Mabel Alden, organist in the
Yorkville CHI Baptist church, and
DR.. Arthur Anderson, wealthy physi-
clan, are both missing. The names of
two were connected by gossip before
they disappeared. The girls father,
Nathan Alden, Yorkville merchant,
says that she has been driven from
home by the scandalous talk.
Pittsburg car building companies
have booked more than $55, 100000 of
orders for cars during the year 1909,
according to reports made public.
A sensational crisis in the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy was precipitated
when a defiant letter from Chief For
ester Pinchot was read in the senate
at the instance of Senator Dolliver.
In this letter Mr. Pinchot admits that
his assistants aided CLAWS in attack
ing Secretary Ballinger, praises them
as patriots who were trying to pre-
vent frauds, champions CLAWS as a
vigorous defender of the peoples in
.erests, virtually reproaches the pres
ident himself for having dismissed
CLAWS, and in effect dares the presi-
dent to dismiss himself.
King Georges royal family was
routed from the regal palace at Tetoi,
Athens, Greece, when Christmas
tree, around which the circle was
gathered, caught fire. The blaze
spread with lightning-like rapidity
and the right wing of the palace was
destroyed before the flames could be
checked
What has come to be known as the
fair list" of the nations of the world.
that is, those countries which will be
entitled to continuation of the mini
mum rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill, soon will be officially proclaimed
by President Taft.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has
| notified every department head under
him that they must indulge in no
newspaper interviews and issue no
statements concerning the business of
| their departments except through him.
According to bureau of navigation
| report 562 vessels of S2,425 gross tons
| were built in the last six months Of
1909. compared with 528 vessels of A.
| ESQ gross tons in the corresponding
| period of 1908.
| Another notable New York pulpit is
to be presided over by an English
clergyman. The Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain church has just called to it's
pastorate Rev. John Henry Jovett of
Cars Lane Congregational chapel,
Birmingham. He is offered a salary
of $4,000. With this goes a home
valued at $4,000 a year.