The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-06

credit his testimony. DR.. Walter s.
Haines' own tests failed to show a
trace of strychnine in the case OF
Margaret Swope or Chrisman Swope.
He could not find cyanide. but found
marked evidences of strychnine IN
Col Thomas H. Swope's body. In the
capsules he found cyanide.
President Taft ended his two days
stay in Pittsburg with speech at the
Grant day dinner in which he paid
striking tribute to the secretary or
state, Mr.. Knox. He vigorously de-
Tended and justified the secretary's
Nicaraguan policy, flayed those who
invented the phrase dollar diploma
cy" with the idea of bringing con-
| tempt to a policy in which he said the
! nation is vitality interested and con-
| cluded with the declaration that the
| record of the state department during
the first year of the present admins
| tration was one to which he pointed
| with the greatest pride.
An experiment carried out in Lon
don shows it is possible to diagnose
heart troubles by telephone, a dis
lance of 100 miles. Physicians, using
an ordinary telephone, on the 1sle-of-
Wight, listened interestedly to the
beating of woman's heart in London.
While a circus elephant was on
rampant at Marietta, o., William
Evans, who had taken refuge on a
wagon, fell and was killed. Samuel
Montgomery was trampled by the ami
NAL and fatally hurt.
Isaac Quigno, the famous old Indian
chief of Hartford, Mich, will soon
take the trail" for Washington to
consult President Taft about the Chi
cago lake front, which is claimed by
the Pottawatomie tribe.
Syracuse IN W police are search
ing for clever thief, who, hatless and
coatless, robbed the First National
bank there of $1,000 while the pres
ident, Charles w. Snow, was In an
other department.
Because she had made a trifiing
mistake in her report to a census
enumerator and feared arrest, Mrs.
julius v. Chiffon, forty-one years old,
committed suicide at Indianapolis,
Ind, by hanging.
The meeting between Mr.. Roose-
Welt and the king occurred at the ex-
position, to which the former presi-
dent was driven in an automobile.
King Albert went there to surprise
Mr.. Roosevelt.
An amazing story alleging bribery
and corruption In the election Of Will
liam Lorimer as United States senator
was unfolded to States Attorney Way
man at Chicago by Representative
Charles A. White of st. Clair county,
I ,mocrat, who made a confession to
the public prosecutor that he received
81 900 for his vote. Charges that the
breaking of the sensational deadlock
was accomplished by the wholesale
buying of Democratic votes by the Lor-
inner forces at prices ranging from
$1,000 to $4,000, were accompanied by
further allegations from White that he
had participated to the extent Of 5000
in the splitting up of the Jack pot"
a term he used to designate "slush
fund" alleged to have been collected
for the defeat or passage Of legisla-
ton.
Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of
the interior, on the stand continued be-
fore the Ballinger-Pinchot investiga-
ting committee his contradictions and
denials of charges and accusations
made against him. His most important
denial was of the charge made by Di-
rector F. H. Newell and Chief Engineer
A. P. Davis of the service, that he mis-
represented to President Taft that
the reclamation service had recon-
mended the restoration of the water
power sites withdrawn by Secretary
Garfield.
Martin w. Littleton, chief of counsel
for Charles W. Morse, the former ice
king, now serving 15-year sentence
in the federal prison at Atlanta, ap-
peared before the Supreme court of
the United States and made motion
for leave to file a petition for writ
of habeas corpus.
One Of the giant trees in the Muir
"Oouo, Se1lilolh LID, was oSoASoSSo oAA0
named in honor of Clifford Pinchot by
the Secret club. Former Gov. George
A. Pardee spoke.
The National Tube company has post
ed notices that all employees wages
will be advanced May 1. The amount
will be from one to six per cent. and
the higher rate will affect day labor,
which will be paid $1.75 instead of
SLIGO day.
Mrs. Maud, or Myrtle, Johnson was
convicted by a jury at Vancouver,
Wash, of defrauding the Northern
Pacific Railroad company of s1,250 by
pretending to have received physical
injuries when riding on one of the
company's trains.
John w. Kern of indianapolis was
nominated for the United States SEN
ate on the third ballot in the Demo-
cratic state convention. The platform
denounces the Payne-Aldrich bill as
master piece of injustice, involving
remorseless exactions from the many
to enrich the few, condemns coward
ice of the Republican party in Indi-
ana, which commends Taft, approves
Payne-Aldrich tariff act, and in same
resolutions. Beverage. who voted
against it.
Hundreds of delegates, representing
about three million American farmers,
met in st. Louis in convention under
tie auspices of the Farmers union to
promote reform legislation in congress.