The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-04-01
GENERAL NEWS.

A lunacy commission at Boston is
investigating the case of Miss Mary
Kelleher, accused of poisoning four
of six members of her family, who
died suddenly.
President Taft had narrow es
cape from possible serious injury
while speeding in an automobile fol
the Pennsylvania ferry at New York
AS his automobile neared Eighth ave
nue. a south bound car started across
the street. The chauffeur turned the
machine but could not stop, and for
half a block the car and the auto
"skidded," scraping sides.
w. ]. Rice, cashier of the Imperial
bank, Olive Hill, KY, is under arrest
on charges of embezzlement, obtain
ing money by false pretense and ma
king a false report. The bank is IN
the hands of a receiver.
Detectives are seeking party OF
mischievous boys, who threw rocks
at a crowded New York Central pas
senger train near Yonkers, N. Y, one
of the missiles striking Frank Bur-
rows, the engineer, in the temple,
knocking him unconscious.
Data of the New York public serv-
ice commission show the Consolidated
Gas Company's net profits for 1909
were S7,5SO,0OO, or s3,400,00O more
with the S0-cent rate than in 1908.
Twelve lives were lost in a fire in
the building of the L. Fish Furniture
Company, at 1906-190S Wabash ave-
nue., which in it's occurrence and aft
ermath duplicated on a minor scale
the Iroquois theater disaster. Hardly
had the flames which caught a num-
Der of young women trapped in the
sixth floor of the building been
quenched than investigation revealed
that the building in which the disas-
ter occurred had never. so far as the
records of the building department
show. been inspected. and that the
structure was erected and maintained
in direct violation of the city ordi.
nances.
Laying bare the appalling details of
Pittsburg's civic unrighteousness. or.
dering indictments against 81 present
and past councilmen and making a
demand upon the directors of the city
repositories to investigate their own
boards and ascertain the bribe-givers
in connection with the ordinance des.
ignating their institutions as city de-
positories, formed the meat of two
presentments made by the grand jury
The eruption OF Mount Etna is in
creasing in violence hourly. Fifteen
new craters, opening literally, are
sending forth blue and gold flames,
burning cinders and melted lava, &C.
companied by terrific earthquake
shocks and violent explosions. Panic
and despair have seized upon the
peasants, who plant images of favor.
lite saints and then fee. Cardinal
Francisco Nava visited Nicolosi bear.
ing the veil of Saint Agatha. in order
to stop the eruption of lava
The trainmen and conductors won
their fight for a general wage in
crease on the New Haven railroad
system, and new schedule was
signed with the railroad officials which
VIII give oil luCTedS0 Oh ABOUT ten DoI
cent in wages to every employe nj
the system.
lnchan Angan, the Korean who as
sassinated Prince Ito of Japan at Har
bin, Manchuria, October 26 last was
executed at Port Arthur.
J. P. Cudahy, who attacked Jere r
Lillis in Kansas City, Mo-, two weeks
ago, will pass the next year on his
fathers ranch in Pasadena, Cal.
Re-enactment in Cincinnati (Ol
shooting gallery of the drama of Viii.
liam Tell in shooting the apple from
the head of his son sent Harry Lacken
of Montreal, Canada. to a hospital,
The bullet, fired by d. H. Bunce,
struck Lacken's lip instead of the
cigaret which he held between his teeth
That cooperation between Grea,
Britain and the United States is i'm
possible as a means of reforminp
things in the republic of Liberia. is
the main decision of the report q,
the Liberian commission, Transmitted
to congress in special message by
President Taft