The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

The senatorial subcommittee on
privileges and elections, which con-
vened at Chicago to investigate the
alleged fraud and corruption in the
election of Senator William Lorimer,
decided to proceed at this time with
the taking of testimony, and not to
postpone action until after the No
ve-nber elections, as urged by the
senator's attorney, Elbridge Hanecy,
at the first open session of the CON-
mittee.
Twelve passengers on a street car
on the Appalachian exposition line
at Knoxville, Tenn, were injured in
a stampede that followed the burning
out of a fuse. Mrs. A. S. j. Davis
may die. She jumped and was
trampled on.
Sixteen persons lost their lives and
thirteen others suffered injuries in
the wreck two miles east O. Clayton,
Kan, of west-bound Rock Island pas
senger train No. 81. Most of the dead
and injured were in the smoker and
one of the day coaches. The wreck
was the result of cloudburst which
carried out a mass of earth at a long
fill, washing out nearly a thousand
feet of track.
A work train on the Southern In
diana railroad was in collision with
passenger train few miles south of
Terre Haute, Ind, and 10 persons
were injured, four of them perhaps
fatally.
Boodlers, grafters and legislative
corruption are denounced in strong
terms in the platform adopted by the
Democratic state convention, held at
East st. Louis, Ill. The initiative
and referendum, an anti-corrupt prac-
tises act, and an honest extension of
civil service, are given as the rem
edies for crookedness in public office
and administration. The Deneen ad-
ministration, accused Of broken prom
Uses on civil service, was denounced
Charles A. White, Democratic repre-
sentative whose confession that he re-
ceived $1,000 for voting for Lorimer
for United States senator precipitated
the bribery and Jackpot" scandals,
repeated before the senatorial investi-
eating committee conversation which
be said he had with Representative
Joseph s. Clark of Vandalia in which
Clark told him he received $1,000 for
voting for Lorimer and was dissatis-
fed because the amount had not been
larger.
Georges Chavez, the Peruvian avia.
tor, flew from Brig, Switzerland, over
the Simplon pass and arrived at
Domodossola. on the Italian side of
the Alps. In alighting Chavez fell
beneath his machine. He was badly
injured and his monoplane was de-
stroyed.
Gov. M. E. Hay of Washington has
sent to the governors of the Pacific
coast and mountain states letters
asking their view on holding another
conservation congress at which there
might be a freer discussion of con-
servation as viewed in the west. than
there was at st. Paul.
Bobby Leech of Niagara Falls
Ont, went through the whirlpool ran
ids in steel barrel. having started
from the Maid Of the Mist landing on
the New York shore. He drifted about
the whirlpool during 55 minutes be-
fore friends caught his barrel and
pulld him ashore.
Mrs. F. Carl Schwenker of Red
bank. N. j., was expelled from the Ma
tional Poultry association and the
American Game Bantam club for hay
ing an alleged painted Red Pyle bantam
game cock on exhibition at the Allen
town (Pa.) fair in an attempt to de-
-ceive the judges.