The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-03-04


vestigating committee. charged Secre-
tary of the Interior Ballinger with
falsehood and disloyalty to President
Taft and the people and declared he
should be dismissed from Office.
James E. Bathgate, Jr., is the first
of the directors of the beef trust in
dicted by the Hudson county grand
jury in Jersey City to voluntarily sur
render himself to the prosecuting au-
thorities.
The building of a world record
breaking battleship of no less than 3d.
900 tons displacement, at cost OF ap-
proximately $1S,OO0,000, and the ma
king of the United States the leading
naval power of the world. are planned
by Secretary of the Navy Meyer.
Warrants issued by the Adair county
circuit court on report by special
! grand jury resulted in the arrest of
Mrs. Alma Proctor Vaughn and DR..
James R. Hull Of Monroe City. Mo-,
on the charge of numbering, by
strychnin poisoning, Prof. John T.
Vaughn. Mrs. Vaughn surrendered to
the sheriff and DR.. Hull was arrested
at his home Mrs. Vaughn was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
AS a reward for his bravery in sa-
wing the life of little May Jennings by
snatching her from in front of rail-
road train, Sam Jennings, the father
of the little girl, has transferred to
Francis r. Strome, former tramp, a
half interest in his cattle ranch, said
to be worth about s1,000,000. Jen-
nings' property is located in jeff Davis
county, Texas, and there are about
$4,000 head of cattle located thereon.
All five companies of the National
Guard were withdrawn from service
at Cairo, Ill. The authorities decided
that it was not necessary to keep the
troops longer, as all danger of fur
Their outbreak or riot was passed.
Floods that presage disaster in the
Ohio river valley are predicted by
the United States weather bureau.
These floods, on account of the i'm
mense area of SHOWS in that section
that await the thaw, promise to be
the worst ever known, and great loss
of property and life is feared by Of
ficials of the bureau.
Action fraught with possible momen-
tous consequences to Philadelphia
was taken by the Central Labor union
when that body. representing 40
unions with claimed membership of
$4,000, voted to begin sympathetic
strike March in aid of the striking
street railway employees.
Beginning March 1, the Seaboard
Air line will advance 21s cents an
hour the pay of all the 1000 skilled la
borers of the system.
Frank Dever, head of the Lehigh
Valley Company's engineer corps in
the Hazleton (Pa.) district, and Joseph
Grulla, laborer, were killed by dy-
Mantle explosion in the Buch Noun
tain colliery
Attorney General Wickersham has
promised to help the American Fed
Grafton in its fight against the steel
trust, said Frank S. Monnett at Column
bus, o., if the government wins in the
United States Tobacco case, now pend
ing in the supreme court.
William Bond, formerly Kanawha
G Michigan railroad clerk, was indict-
ed, charged with taking $1,000 of the
roads funds, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to two years in prison, all
in 20 minutes, at Charleston, w. Va,
when he returned from England
A war vessel is wanted on the coast
of Liberia. A message was received
at the state department from George
Wells, charge d'affaires of the Ameri-
can legation at Monrovia, saying that
the republic is in dire need, both finan-
cially and politically.
On condition that the promises not
to take drink of liquor in the next
Is years, sentence has been suspend
ed on Michael Lyons, who had been
convicted in New York city of assist
ing a burglar to break into drug
store for the bride of a drink.
Stockholders of the Midvale Steel
Company of Philadelphia are to re-
ceive a stock dividend of 1000 per
cent, which is one of the largest
stock dividends ever declared by an
industrial company.
The coroner's jury in Monroe City,
Mo-, the home of Prof. James T..
Vaughn's widow and her wealthy ia
Their, brought in verdict finding from
the evidence that Prof. Vaughn's
death was the result of strychnine
poisoning" DR.. Charles w. Hull Of
Monroe City was arrested there on a
warrant charging him with murder in
the first degree.
Seven hundred American tourists
reaching Yokohama, Japan, OH the
steamer Cleveland were given warm
welcome by Tokyo and Yokohama Of
ficials.
Secretary Nagel says 100000 to
stamp out the white slave" traffic
would be well spent, in recommending
larger immigration regulation ap-
preparation to the house at Washing
ton
Testimony by Louis D. CLAWS in his
charges against Secretary Ballinger
and the general land Office, was again
corroborated when Horace T. Jones,
special agent of the land office, took
the witness stand before the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigating committee Mr..
Jones proved to be as good a witness,
if not better for the prosecution than
Mr.. CLAWS himself.
President Edmund Jayne James of
the University of Illinois appeared be-
fore the house committee on agricul-
ture in opposition to the Boutell bill
appropriating $4,000 or Whereabouts