The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-22

rotary CT the interior. This sums UP
the findings of the majority of the joint
congressional committee which for five
months has been making an exhaustive
investigation of the conduct of affairs
of the entire department of the in.
terror.
Milwaukee has raised 10000 for en-
PERTAINING the national grand encamp'
ment of the Knights of Pythias, which
meets there August to 10.
Former Councilman M. L. Swift, Jr.,
of Pittsburg was sentenced to eight
months in Jail for accepting brides for
his votes on two ordinances and fined
500. He will appeal.
The convention of the American
Flint Glass workers at Toledo decided
to ask for an increase of ten per cent.
In wages at conference with the
manufacturers at Atlantic City.
Ernst Paul Weber, who came to
this country June II, has been ordered
deported by the department OF COM
merce and labor at Washington. He
is said to be wanted by the German au-
thorities for alleged ~embezzlement
from the Bank of Egypt at Cairo.
Suits alleging 140 violations of the
2S-hour act, affecting the transporta-
ton of live stock, were filed at Pitts
burg against the Pennsylvania lines
west.
With a committee of six headed by
A. B. Garrettson of the order Of Rail-
road Conductors and w. G. Lee, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, rests the question whether
the $4,000 conductors, trainmen, bag
gagemen and yardmen employed by
the Pennsylvania railroad lines east Of
Pittsburg, Erie and Buffalo, will go out
on a strike or not.
Following stormy session of the in
surgent and standpat conservation fac
tons, held at Chicago, President Taft
was invited to make the principal ad-
dress to the conservation congress In
st. Paul September 6.
Trapped on a burning, sinking
steamer, LOG men, women and children
persisted near Kherson, on the Black
sea. After collision with the steamer
Wampoa, the passenger steamer
Lovki, crowded with passengers.
foundered.
1t is estimated that 100000 people
witnessed the Elks' parade at Detroit
More than 800 of them were Frustrated
and the police and the Red Cross re-
lief stations were kept on the jump
getting the victims out of the way.
Papers, claimed to be personal prop.
erty by H. B. Gardner at st. Louis,
head of two insurance companies
were taken from him in court by an
attorney, who declared he resorted to
psychological replevin."
To Ferdinand of Bulgaria belongs
the distinction of being the first king
to go up in an aeroplane. At Harselle.
near Liege, he enjoyed the experience
of flying twice around the Kiewit
aerodrome on machine piloted by
Chevalier de Laminne.
Confined in filthy cell, six by five
feet, underfed, save by charitable
strangers, William Pittman, an Ameri-
can captured by the Madriz govern
ment forces near Bluefields. was found
in an overcrowded local prison at
Managua, Nicaragua, by Consul OIL
wares. The consul telegraphed to the
state department that he had forced
DR.. Madriz to furnish the adventurous
American better prison accommoda-
lions.
Supreme Court Justice William j.
Kelly of Brooklyn, NJ Y, handed down
a decision in which he holds that the
supreme council of the Royal Ar
canum cannot raise its assessment
rates without permission from the
members of the organization.
The Rock Island Gill; county grand
jury, which has been in almost contin-
uous session for the past two months
investigating the alleged looting of the
reserve funds of the Fraternal Trib-
unes and a dozen other fraternal in
surance societies, made its final re-
port to Judge Gest in the circuit court.
Seven true bills were returned, in
which indictments against IL men and
one woman were included.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his first au,
thorized declaration defining his atti,
tude with respect to the national and
state political situation, conveyed the
idea that above all else he is working
for complete qualification of the Re,
publican party. He said he is sound
ing out" the sentiment of party lead.
ers throughout the country and that
whatever he has done must not be
construed as an expression of his feel
ing toward the administration.
John Struble, chief of police OF
Clinton, ILL.,, while graphing with a
man, was shot and killed. The man
who did the shooting escaped amid a
hail of bullets from revolvers of the
chiefs subordinates. Bloodhounds
from Decatur were put on the trail
All the intricate machinery of Scot.
land Yard has been set in motion to
effect the capture of Dr. Hawley H.
Crippen, the battered body of whose
wife, a noted music hall singer known
under the name of Belle Elmore, was
found buried deep in the clay in the
cellar of their home, North London
Crippen has been missing since Satur.
day last Requests have been sent out
broadcast that all incoming steam
ships be watched.
Clifford Pinchot and Speaker Joseph
G.. Cannon engaged in an extemporane
Gus debate upon the subject of con
servation before the Knife and Fork
| club at Kansas City. While each
gave expression of the highest person