The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-26

Helena are displaying great anxiety
| over the outbreak OF cholera in south
ern Italy and the king has given or
ders that he be kept constantly in
formed on conditions in the infected
regions. The queen is especially
touched by the stories of the distress
among the people and has ordered
that assistance be rendered them. for
which she will pay from her private
purse.
With the Illinois coal strike dispute
as the underlying cause. John Mitchell.
former head of the Miners union. and
President Thomas L. Lewis clashed
at the Miners convention at Indian
apolis. Mr.. Mitchell came out fatty
In favor of the Illinois miners in their
hight for the demands of the Peoria
convention. President Lewis. in a hot
reply. severely criticized the acts OF
Mitchell in the anthracite coal strike
in 1902.
1t IL believed that the r. ]. Reynolds
Tobacco company Of Winston-Salem.
N. c.. has bought all or nearly all the
1909 pooled crop of the Burley Tobac-
co society, amounting to 120.00O,OO0
pounds.
Returning home from a shopping
trip. Mrs. E. H. Fortmiller of Chicago
found her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bart
lett lying on the floor Of her bath
room with her throat slashed. Be-
side Mrs. Bartlett was nestled the
body Of her little granddaughter.
Katherine. nine months old, dead ap-
parently from strangling. Mrs. Bart
lett told the police that her grand
daughter had been brutally murdered
and she herself attacked by man who
was concealed in the building.
The international Association OF
FACTORY Inspectors and the Interna-
tional Association of Bureaus of La
Dor met in joint convention in Hen
Jacksonville, N. C.
Eighteen lives were lost when the
British cruiser Bedford ran ashore on
the rocks of Quelport island, Korea, &C.
cordlng to a report received at London
by the admiralty. The men were
members of the engine room force.
The Alaska Pacific Steamship COM
pany's liner Buchanan was held up at
sea off Eureka, CAL, by two passen-
gers. Captain Wood was shot and
killed by one of the men in resisting.
The second man was overpowered by
the engine room crew. The passen-
ger who shot the captain Jumped
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The first through train from the
east over the Western Pacific railroad
was met by great crowd at Oakland,
CAL, where preparations had been
made for public reception
The report that the steam yacht
Viking, owned by George F. Baker,
Jr.. had sunk with twenty-three per-
sons on board off Cape Cod, was dis
credited when Mr.. Baker telephoned
to New York that the Viking had ar
rived at Newport, R. l.
The supreme lodge, Loyal Order of
Moose. in session at Baltimore, dis
cussed the plan to establish a big
school for boys at Muncie, Ind.
The congressional committee which
has been investigating the Gore brib.
cry charges in connection with the
so-called McMurray contracts with
the Indians, have issued a statement
at Sulphur, Okla, saying that there
was no warrant for any person to
use the names of Vice-president Sher-
man and Senator Charles s. Curtis
in connection with any improper re-
lations with any Indian contract what
ever.
The startling charge that present
officials of the Illinois Central road
were the central figures in the famous
Coughlin jury bribing case, and put
up the money to get big Dan"
Coughlin out of the country, came as
the first move on the part of the
lawyers of Frank B. Hartman.
Charles L. Ewing and John M. Tay.
lor, former general manager, general
superintendent and storekeeper of the
Illinois Central, arrested in connection
with the $1,500,000 car repair frauds.
An uproar that lasted Is minutes
broke out in the miners convention
at Indianapolis when the report of
the special committee was made en-
bodying recommendations and an in
dorsement of the Illinois coal strike
President Thomas L. Lewis was de-
feated by big majority on a rising
vote on motion to sustain his de-
cision ruling out of order a substitute
for the committees report.
The record of the cholera epidemic
for one week in Russia shows 23.994
new cases and 1923 deaths. which
brings the total number of cases for
the year up to the tremendous total
of 112,9S5. The percentage of nor.
talities is placed at 44.5.
The support Of the negro electorate
Of the United States for a possible
third term was pledged in behalf of
Colonel Roosevelt by the LOO dele
gates of the National Negro Bust.
ness Mems league in convention at
New York. The negroes Endorsement
of the former president came after
he had addressed the delegates on the
opportunities for advancement omen
to the negro race in this country.
The jury which is to try Lee O'Nefll
Browne at Chicago on the charge of
bribery in connection with the cleo.
ton of United States Senator Lorimer
was completed after four more venire-
men who acknowledged they had been
approached had been excused.
With more than fifty persons known
to be dead, with 100 or more missing,
and list of injured that will approx
mate 200; with the possibility that
two or three towns in the district
have suffered complete destruction.