The Ely miner., 1910-08-12

Will bring the trust problem to men
acing crisis in the United States, de
clared Benjamin Ide Wheeler, presi
dent of the University of California
who is in New York after visit to
Germany.
The members of the Ohio Legislature
gathered at Cedar Point. O.. for their
yearly reunion.
Lee O'Neil Browne must undergo
another trial on the charge of brib1ng
Representative Charles A. White with
$1,000 to vote for United States Sena-
tor Lorimer. Declaring that the con-
tentions of the defense. If upheld,
would render the bribery law fruitless,
Judge Kersten at Chicago denied a
motion to quash the indictment
against Browne and ordered the ac-
cused to trial.
There was no disorder in the Basque
provinces. General Weyler's order that
the soldiers shoot to kill on the first
provocation insured peace. His action
in sending cavalry to Sebastian and
nearby towns stopped all the efforts
of the so-called Carlists.
The birthplace of Rutherford B.
Hayes, nineteenth president of the Uni
ted States, was destroyed by fire at
Delaware. o. The building was two
story brick, 100 years old.
Not only Jacob L. Hamon, but also
]. F. McMurray was named as would
be briber in the investigation of the
$50, 100000 Oklahoma Indian land deal
before the special congressional COM
mittee at Muskogee, Okla. McMurray
is the holder Of the contracts with the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians to pro-
mote which in congress Gore charged
he was offered bribe.
Without dissenting voice the four
Christian Endeavor societies of Fair
bury, Neb., voted that public request
be sent to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
asking her to give up the cigarette
habit.
Another general clothing strike is
under way in New York city. Fifteen
thousand coat tailors, of whom 5000
are women, quit work in 800 factories,
demanding a fifty-three-hour working
week and an increase in wages.
The investigation of charges by Sem
ator T. p. Gore that he and a member
of the house of representatives each
had been offered bribes of $4,000 to
foster a scheme whereby the Indians
of Oklahoma were to be deprived of
$16,000,000 profits due them through
the salo of coal and asphalt lands in
this state, was begun at Muskogee,
Okla.
While 100 miles from Gary, Ind.
nine of the crew of the ore-boat Doug
las Houghton, Capt. John F. Parke.
mutinied and were quelled only after
two men had been shackled with ball
and chain and confined in the dunnage
room of the vessels hold. During the
fight party of frightened, screaming
women passengers returning from a
lake trip crowded into a cabin behind
locked doors.
The British parliament adjourned
until November Is. During the recess
the conferences between the leaders
trying to settle the constitutional diff.
ferences of the house or lords and the
house of commons will be continued.
The steamer Merida, from Vera
Cruz and Havana, has reached New
York city with a cargo of flies. The
70 hn
feed.
Russia's scourge, the cholera, con-
tinues with alarming rapidity, particu-
larly in thc southern mining districts
and in st. Petersburg. Figures show
that in the week from July 24-30 there
were 1924 cases and 6,944 deaths.
That one-third of the babies in Iowa
under one year old have died since the
hot weather set in was the alarming
condition revealed by Dr. G. H. Sum-
ner, secretary of the state board of
health. Doctor Sumner attributes the
unusual rate to four causes: Cholera
infantum, infantile paralysis, poor milk
and improper care.
That the house of Savoy has at last
withdrawn its opposition to the long
heralded engagement of the Due d.
Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins,
daughte. of the United States senator
from West Virginia, and that the an
nouncement will be officially gazetted
in a few days is the substance of a
statement made here by person high
in the esteem of the members of the
royal family.
So serious has the forest fire situa
ton in northwestern and western
Montana become that Governor Nor.
ris has telegraphed the presidents of
the three transcontinental railroads
beseeching their cooperation in fight,
ing the flames.
New Orleans is to boom it's location
for the proposed Panama canal expo,
sition by issuing pamphlets printed in
Esperanto. The Esperanto congress
also will be held in that city next
week.
The imprint of three coal-stained
fingers on the whitewashed walls OF
the cellar of a Montclair IN. J.) house
is responsible for the arrest here ol
Robert Edwards on charges of daring
burglaries.
Because the prospective bride is
said to have symptoms of cancer the
prosecuting attorney at st. Joseph
Mo-, decided that marriage license
must not be issued to Leonard Hard
ing and Hazel Morris.
The Supreme court of the United
States when it opens next October will
take up litigation regarding the con
stitutionality of the Kansas bank de
positOry guaranty law