The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29
GENERAL NEWS.


canal in June exceeded by 100000
cubic yards the work done in June
last year. The total for last month
was 1,S05.141 cubic yards.
A report of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis, issued from New York,
shows the average cost of caring for
tubercular patients in the semi-char-
liable sanatoriums of the United States
is SLOT day.
D. R. Spahr of Tarentum, Pa, while
shifting his baby from one arm to the
other, lost $575 worth of diamonds
which he carried in his pocket.
One person was killed in fire which
nearly wrecked factory building in
New York city. Twenty families also
fire swept through a six-story tene-
ment house, several persons being seri-
ously burned.
The strike begun over a year ago
by the Association of Iron, Tin and
Steel Workers against the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company is to be
referred to vote of the mill workers
to determine whether it shall be called
off.
Attorney General Wickersham has
ordered the dissolution of what is
commonly known as the bath tub
trust, which is combination backed
by 800, zoo, 900 and whose actions are
felt in almost every home in the
United States.
Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa is
credited with being behind a call is
sued for ''progressives" of the Repub-
ncans and Democrats to meet in Kan
sas City, Mo-, September 1 to organize
new party.
Deputy Sheriff Sid Cauley of Carroll
county, Miss, killed five negroes and
MORALLY wounded two when they at
tackled him at the farm of Henry Beck
with axes and pitchforks. Cauley
used a revolver in each hand He had
gone to the farm to arrest the ne
groes for an assault.
Charges that more than $4,000, 900
has disappeared from the assets of
the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour COM
pany of the United States, but owned
mostly by English investors, were
made at the annual meeting in Lon
don by r. H. Glyn, who presided Glyn
declared that the s40,000,0OO had been
lost mostly in wheat gambling and i'm
properly issued notes.
,ioy -
T. Smith, secretary of Senator Hey
burn of Idaho, was accidentally shot
and killed at Mount Holly, Va, by a
young woman, whose identity is un-
known
Bound to New Orleans and thence
to Nicaragua, the converted gunboat
Hornet, formerly owned by the Uni
ted States government, cleared from
Norfolk, Va. 1t is generally reported
that the Hornet will enter the service
of the insurgents.
Former Premier Antonio Maura was
shot and wounded at Barcelona,
Spain. The would-be assassin was ar
rested. His name is Manuel Posa and
he is native of Barcelona.
Chicago police have dropped the in
vestigations into the death of Ira G..
Rawn, president of the Chicago, In
dianapolis & Louisville railroad (the
Monon route), and Herman Schuettler,
acting chief of police, said that he
was satisfied Mr.. Rawn had committed
suicide.
Violence marked the first day of the
strike of the union employees of the
Columbus Railway and Light com.
pany. In various sections of the city
trolley wires were cut, distractions
were placed on the track and cars
were stoned. Several men were in
jured.
During the year ending March 81,
1910, the exports of mineral products
from Canada to the United States
were valued at $50, 4S8, 464, or S3.5 per
cent. of the total exports of mines,
while the exports to Great Britain
amounted to $3,S20,574. or 9.5 per
cent
Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, u.
S. A, and Mrs. Grant left Chicago in
a private car over the Erie for New
York, where the general goes to sue.
coed Maj. Leonard Wood as comman.
der of the department of the east
with headquarters at Governors is
land.