The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-30

| robber He lined up the passengers
with a revolver held in one hand
| while he searched them with the
other, taking watches and money.
Twenty persons were robbed.
The Llewellyn iron works at Los
Angeles, CAL. were partially wrecked
by an explosion, presumably Of dyn-
amite. Who placed the supposed
charge of dynamite is unknown. but
it is believed to have been the out
come Of the general labor troubles of
Los Angeles. in which the Llewellyn
company has been prominently in
volved.
Four mail clerks and helpers were
killed and several men were injured
in the wreck of passenger train No.
16 of the Norfolk & Western railroad
in tunnel No. 6. near Williamson, w.
Va.
Branding Knud Rasmussen, the
Danish explorer as "a literary faker
and muckraker who has stopped to
the lowest depths to get public atten-
tion," DR.. F. A. Cook, the Brooklyn ex-
ply to Rasmussen's attack, published
November 9, that neither he Cook
nor Peary reached the north pole
Mediation efforts Of United States
Labor Commissioner Charles F. Neill
at Chicago succeeded in averting the
threatened locomotive engineers
strike and bringing about a settlement
on the basis Of an increase of 10 1-3
per cent. in the wages of the men. A
compromise peace proposition Of
fered by Neill as a last resort was
accepted by both sides.
Oscar Chitwood, a mountaineer,
was killed by mob in the heart of
Hot Springs, Ark. Chitwood was
awaiting trial for the murder, recent
ly, of Jake Houpf, sheriff, in Hot
Springs. AS deputy sheriffs were at
tempting to spirit Chitwood from
the county jail to the city prison off,
GERS and prisoner were attacked by
80 masked men, VINO riddled Chit
woods body with bullets.
Arch Hoxsey of Pasadena, CAL, fly
ing Wright biplane in the teeth of
a gale Of wind blowing at the rate of
30 miles an hour, established a new
worlds altitude record at Los Angeles,
CAL, by ascending 11,474 feet above
the surface of the earth.
President Taft has approved the re-
port of United States army engineers
recommending the apportionment of
the new $20,000,000 fund provided by
congress. The $4,000, 900 is to be
spent within the next five years and
the interest on the loan is to be
charged against the projects.
Fearing the outbreak of another
revolution in Honduras, Secretary
Meyer ordered the gunboat Yorktown,
stationed at Corinto, Nicaragua, to
proceed to Amapala, Honduras.
Dave Smith, middleweight champion
of Australia, Monday scored a decisive
victory at Sidney, N. S. W., over Billy
Papke, the claimant of the middle
weight championship of the world.
The fight was given to Smith m the
tenth round on foul.
Troops have been dispatched from
Santo Domingo to the Dominican-Hai-
tiap frontier, following reports of
battle fought there in which many are
said to have been killed General Fir
man is said to have raised the standard
of revolt.
Twenty people were injured when a
bomb was exploded in the Buenos
Aires (Argentina) fire department
building. The fire and police head
quarters were wrecked
The Sunnyside whisky distillery near
Pittsburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
together with 1000 barrels of whisky.
The burning liquor enveloped the fire
fighters and they were forced to jump
into the Monongahela river to save
their lives
Jack Burns, the California heavy
weight fighter, was so badly beaten up
by Bill Lang of Australia, at London,
that the referee stopped the battle to
save the former from further punish
ment.
The first producing oil we'll in Clin-
ton county, Illinois, has been struck
two miles northwest of Carlyle by
Pittsburg oil men.
Twenty-four is the number of dead
in the stockyards fire, with the recov-
cry of all bodies from the ruins of
the beef house Of Morris & Co. The
flames were under control after bat
tie lasting 81 hours.
No news has come of the fate of
Cecil S. Grace, the American-born
aviator who disappeared in the fog
while attempting a return flight from
Calais, France, to Dover. 1t Is feared
that he fell into the North sea.
After stormy all-night session the
Spanish chamber of deputies passed
the government paddock bill'' by
vote of 10S to 20. The bill prohib-
it's the creation of further religious es-
Establishments in the country for two
years.
Leigh Rhodus, charged with the
murder of DR.. William H. Michaelis,
a dentist, and Anton Helbig, con-
tractor at Chicago, was given five life
sentences when he pleaded guilty to
both murders and three charges of
highway robbery.
The combined salmon packs of
Alaska, British Columbia and Puget
sound for the season of 1910 show an
aggregate output Of 3,690,5S6 cases,
the largest lean" year on record.
Mrs. Carrie Kersh, charged with
murder in connection with the death
of W. A. Johnson, whose body was