The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-06-10

Rochester, N. Y, for the annual play
congress held under the auspices of
the Playground Association of Amer
lea.
The Worlds Woman's Christian
Temperance congress opened in Glas.
gov, Scotland, with the countess Of
Carlisle in the chair.
The new court of customs appeals
began the hearing of the cases on
its docket, consisting of appeals from
the general board of appraisers.
At Jackson, Mich, President Taft
delivered a speech at the unwilling of
bronze tablet in commemoration of
the birth of the Republican party
under the oaks in 1854" He pro.
claimed socialism as the greatest
problem that confronts the American
people, the issue that Is soon to come
and that must be skilfully met.
Chicago Mail, on the Monon rail-
road, collided with a. north-bound
freight train, two miles south of Low
ell, Ind, and George Galleher, brake
man, who was sleeping in the caboose
of the freight train, was crushed to
death. Several of the passengers on
the passenger train were badly sha-
ken up, but none seriously injured.
BY a decision of the federal board
of arbitration appointed under the
Erdman law, $4,000 locomotive fire.
men employed on 40 western rail-
roads will receive general average
Of ten per cent. increase in wages
over the former rates. The increase
granted varies from s per cent. on
oil burning engines to about Is per
cent. on the heavy types of coal
burning locomotives.
While his resignation from the po-
sition of special agent for the general
land office was in the mails en- route
from Portland, Ore, to Washington,
Horace T. Jones was indefinitely
suspended" from service at the order
of Secretary Ballinger. Jones was a
witness against Ballinger.
An expedition is searching through
Alaska, near Valdez, for the body of
Alexander c. Rogers, who was lost in
the snow last winter.
The National Hotel Clerks associa-
ton, in convention at Denver, decided
to change the name of the organi-
zation to the "Greeters of America"
H. E. Combs, his son and his daugh-
ter, were killed by a Big Four train
at Dayton, o.
Pinned under an automobile, which
had been overturned in a ditch at
Ontario, Ore, Miss Dollie Butler was
drowned in Is inches of water
Miss M. Williams and Howard Bish-
OPP, missionaries of the American
Baptist society, were drowned while
sea bathing in the Gulf of Cambay
at Bulsar, north of Bombay.
The Mckinley traction syndicate,
headed by Congressman William B.
Mckinley of Champaign, ILL.,, has pur-
chased the Atchison (Kan.) railway,
Light and Power company properties,
consideration, between 100000 and
100000.
Five hundred thousand dollars has
work under Protestant auspices in
the larger American cities this year,
according to an announcement by the
New York Federation of Churches.
Henry Smith, colored, went to the
electric chair at Richmond, Va, for
the murder of Walter F. Schultz, a
Chicago artist, at Alexandria, Va.
Fitzherbert captured the historic
Brooklyn handicap in magnificent
fashion at the famous Gravesend
course. Olambala was second, Prince
Imperial third.
Government officials and members
of the English cabinet are convinced
that Col. Theodore Roosevelt's speech
at Guildhall, in which he rebuked
administration of affairs in
Egypt, will greatly increase the diff
Guilty of dealing with the delicate po-
litical situation that confronts Eng
land and Egypt
Inspection by divers of the sunken
French submarine Pluviose, which
was in a collision with the cross
channel steamer Pas de Calais, shows
conclusively that the hull of the sub
marine was crushed and that all of
the crew of twenty-seven men were
drowned.
Frank Gotch, champion of all cham
pions at the wrestling game, made
his Polish challenger look
like a tyro at the game of grapple at
the Coliseum in Chicago, by easily
throwing the European twice inside Of
a half hour
Verne Casebier, a freshman at
Washburn college. snatched a baby
from in front of a motor car at To-
peka, Kan, tossed him out of danger
and herself was struck by the machine
and thrown to the pavement, her right
arm being broken.
AS a result Of the court action by
Judge Dyer, preventing the western
trunk line roads from increasing their
freight rates, Chicago carriers an
nounce that period of retrenchment,
curtailment of equipment, laying off
of men and shortening of hours and
work days for those retained, has
been begun in order to Offset the re-
duced net income and increased op-
Grating expenses.
President Taft officially announced
the appointment of Charles Dyer Nor
ton of Chicago, as secretary to the
president to succeed Fred w. Carpen-
ter. Also the acceptance of the place
by Mr.. Norton was announced.
A phenomenally heavy rush of Chi
nese to Canada through Vancouver Ia
netting the government $750,000 per
annum. This is due to report IN
China that Canada intends to increase