The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-03-11
Without a dissenting Republican

Without q dissenting Republican
vote, and with Senator Chamberlain
Democrat, voting with the majority.
the senate passed President Taft's
postal savings bank bill. The vote
upon the measure was so to %.
DR.. B. c. Hyde, whose wife is q
niece of the late Col. Thomas H.
Swope, was indicted on 13 counts in
IL indictments returned by the grand
jury, which has spent three weeks in
vestigating the recent mysterious
deaths in the Swope family.
After day free from strike disturb
anccs, with half the street cars in
operation, rioting again broke out in
the southern and northwestern por
ton of Philadelphia. At one point the
mounted police engaged in a revolver
conflict with a mob of 5000. In the
disturbances three persons were shot
one, a girl; fatally. Many unruly per
sons were severely clubed by the pc
lice and more than score of arrests
were made.
On the conclusion of Clifford Pin
chot's testimony in the Ballinger in
vestigation, the former secretary o.
the interior, James r. Garfield, was
called as witness.
J. S. Lillis, millionaire president OF
the Western Exchange bank and mem
Der of an old and prominent Kansas
City family, lies at the point of death
in Mary's hospital from injuries in.
f1icted in the home of Jack"
Cudahy, son of the Omaha packer
Mr.. Cudahy was arrested and taken
to the police station, where he was
charged with assault and held for sew
eral hours, and later was released un,
der bond of 500.
Mine Inspector Richard Newsam ex.
pressed the belief that every body had
been removed from the st. Paul mine
at Cherry, ILL.,, except those in the
water on the third vein.
E. M. Gale, son of Jesse S. Gale, one
of the best-known cattlemen in Colo.
RADIO, was instantly killed near
Greeley, Col, in an automobile acct
dent The elder Gale is now in Au
rora, ILL.,
Five hundred men in the Bust5
Chain mines at Wilburton, Okla,
struck. They say the operators de
manded that they purchase all theil
black powder and dynamite from the
company stores.
The discovery" of Mrs. Belle Gum
ness, this time in Grand Rapids, Mich
was announced by Louis Richmond, "a
Canal street, Grand Rapids, who urged
Sheriff Anstiss at Laporte to send
deputy to the Michigan city to arrest
the woman.
All the large Sumatra tobacco com
panies in Florida have been merged
into a 100000 corporation-tha
American Sumatra Tobacco Company
Two robbers locked the night opera
tor in the Northwestern railroad sta
ton at Dixon, ILL.,, in box car and
took about 500 from the money
drawer.
A Lehigh Valley passenger train
from Buffalo to New York ran into
landslide near the government prov,
ing grounds at Redington, Pa, and
the locomotive and six cars were de.
rallied.
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands at Chica-
go, has ordered the federal grand jury
to start an exhaustive inquiry into the
methods employed by Congressman
William ]. Moxley and his son-in-law,
John Dadie, in the marketing of
oleomargarine. The judicial order was
the climax of sensational confessions
on the part of William Broadwell,
seller of Monkeys oleomargarine, now
under sentence of six years in the
penitentiary for the offense Of color
ing it with matter also secured from
Moxley and selling the compound as
butter; Daniel Bortz, an employe of
Broadwell, who admitted bringing the
stuff from Monkeys place under cover
of night and doing the mixing in
dirty barn; and Samuel Driesbach,
partner of Broadwell. Bortz and Dries
bach have pleaded guilty and are
awaiting sentence.
Congressman Lowden's bill to au-
thorize the expenditure of 100000 a
year for American embassy buildings
was defeated in the house at Wash
ington after an exciting debate.
Van Norden's magazine, a semi
financial periodical of New York,
which had been backed by Warner
M. Van Norden, the banker, has
ceased publication.
Eighty-six names are now on the
list Of dead and missing passengers,
trainmen and postal employees who
were carried down by the avalanche
that destroyed two Great Northern
trains near Wellington. Wash. State
ments of the number of laborers
fighting the snow who were sleeping
on the Inflated trains vary from
twenty to thirty. An estimate of $50
dead is conservative.
A bulldog and a bull engaged in a
battle to the death near Cheyenne,
Wyo., driving the owner, A. B. Hawk
ms, to cover. After an hours COM
bat the dog secured a death grip on
the bull and killed it.
A general strike of the Philadelphia
labor unions in sympathy with the
striking street car men went into ef-
feet promptly on scheduled time.
simultaneously it became known, de-
spite the denial of Gen. Clay, head of
the police force, that every National
Guard regiment in the state of Penn.
sylvania had received orders to be
ready to entrain for Philadelphia at
an hours notice.
James H. Bathgate, Jr., of Orange,