The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-02

ment of a committee to bring about q
conference of the manufacturers and
strike leaders.
A state police in Illinois to take the
place of the National Guard in sup
pressing riots and other disturbances
is suggested by Capt. L. D. Greene OF
the regular army in his report on the
militia organization of the state.
The twenty-fourth case of typhoid
fever developed at the Annapolis naval
academy when Midshipman K. G.
Woodward of the first class was ad
mitted to the naval general hospital
for treatment
The government of Brazil yielded
to it's mutinous navy. Congress, meet
ing in extraordinary session, voted to
concede every demand of the ulti
matum presented by the sailors, in
GLIDING general amnesty for the men
who, after numbering as many of their
superior officers as was necessary to
place them in complete control
trained the guns of the warships on
the capital. %.
President Taft struck an effectual
blow in favor of publicity Of the af
fairs of corporations when he ap.
proved the rules of the secretary OF
the treasury under which all returns
made under the corporation tax law
shall be available to the public.
Postmaster General Hitchcock says
in connection with the arrest of j. w.
knight of Knight, Yancy & Co. of De-
catur, Ala, that the operations of the
cotton brokerage concern through sup
posedly fraudulent use of the mails
would exceed $1,OO0,000.
Fire destroyed Young's hotel, Win
throp Beach, Mass. Mrs. John c.
Beggs and her son, John G. Beggs,
Jr., seventeen years old, jumped from
a window and were so seriously in
jured they are likely to die.
Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant,
commanding the department Of the
East, would inaugurate system of
CONSUMPTION in the United States in
order to bring the country up to the
military standards of the war powers
of Europe.
The Feldhelm company of Chicago
has filed a petition in bankruptcy
against ]. r. Whiting & Co. of st.
Clair, Mich, aSd receiver has been
appointed for the firm.
Abraham Ruef, former political boss
of San Francisco, has been denied a
new trial by the district court of ap-
peals on his appeal from the sentence
of IA years Imprisonment.
The annual report of Postmaster
General Hitchcock will renew his
recommendations for the introduction
of limited parcel post service on
rural mail routes He believes that
as soon as the postal savings system
is thoroughly organized the postoffice
department should be prepared to es-
tablish throughout the country a gen.
eral parcel post.
Reports have been received in Lon
don by business houses of mutiny on
the part of the Brazilian fleet and that
crews of the Brazilian warships fired
on the capital. The situation is de-
scribed as critical, but negotiations are
going on between the rival parties.
The American Federation of Labor
closed its thirtieth annual convention
at st. Louis by choosing Atlanta, Ga,
as its meeting place for next year, aft
er indorsing woman's suffrage by a
unanimous vote. The entire list OF
officers was reelected.
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Traffic association, told the commits.
sion at Washington that the proposed
railroad advances would fall on the
consumer, as IS per cent. of them
were in class rates, with only Is per
cent. on commodities. Mr.. Barlow
was formerly a rate making expert in
the employ of western roads.
Men on board of four of Brazils
greatest war ships, the dreadnoughts
Minas, Gereas and Sac Paola, the
scout Bahia and the cruiser Floriana,
mutinied. The rebellion is said to
have no political significance and is
limited to the marines and sailors. All
persons of influence in all political
parties are giving their unlimited sup
port to President Hermes Fonseca.
A superior court judge at Everett,
Wash, decided that the avalanche at
Wellington, Wash, in March last, In
which SO passengers on Great North
ern trains were killed, was an act of
providence against which the road
could not guard, in refusing claim of
a passenger for the value of a lost
trunk
In ten minutes 25 girls were burned
alive or crushed to death on the pave
ments in leaping from the windows
and fire escapes of a fourstory fac
tory in Newark, N. j. Fifty were in
jured, several probably fatally.
Three persons were shot and wound
ed, one seriously, and many others
narrowly escaped being struck by bull.
let's in a riot at Chicago caused by
striking garment workers, who attack
ed non-union employees. Bricks were
also thrown.
The annual report of the commits
sion of internal revenue shows that
262,490 corporations have filed re-
turns under the new corporation law.
The total capital is $52,471 ,626,7
The tax collected for the first year was
$27 1901 This is an average of
$103.97 per corporation.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Mabeus, located near Denova. Ia, was