The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-06-16
GENERAL.

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A fully equipped dcouiferfeiting plant
was discovered in the Missouri peni-
tentiary by Federal inspectors.
The 10000 miners of the Pennsyl-
.yania Coal Company voted to return
to work Wednesday. -.
r The Interhorough Base ball league, q
small association OF amateur sndisemi.
professional organizations in and
around New York City has voted that
It's pitchers may not use the sNe'ball.
This action Is taken. II is said, because
ahe spit ball'is'unsanitarY.it'
: one ee4hS fsstures a7the opening
session OF the annual covention OF the
North" Carolina Press Association
"Wednesday was. the launching OF =
movement .rbAaksct y substantial mo
mprial to the late Bin. Nye. the hum
6riifr
. With statistics showing 1000 per-
SONS drowned in the United States
every year. the authorities of the Chi
cago Y. NJ. C. A. and the Chicago pub
tic. schools have united In q movement
10 teach every school child In Chicago
ts swim
;i Returning from . funeral. the We
hiole OF q party OF five was caught
ON the track of the West Shore At
Haverstraw. N. Y. and all occupants
killed. by = freight train. Among them
was the pastor who officiated At tho
funeral.
Mrs. Fannie Surdam Stelle Of New
York died from apoplexy. according to
the report OF the coroner at Chicago
Thursday. Mrs. Stellc died suddenly
at a hotel. and the investigation was
begun after 1t had been learned that
Mrs. Stelle had bcqueathed S25. 900 to
Edgar X. Acceta. an attorney Of New
York.
Three men were killed. two perhaps
fatally injured and six others hurt
when the St. Louis. Iron Mountain 4
Southern fast mail train for Texas
was wrecked near the st. Louis city
limits. Thursday. The train left the
tracks and crashed through the walls
OF building, the Miller Manufactur.
ing Company. All the killed were
members Of the train crew or worked
in the mail cars.
Four hundred and fifty miles out in
the Atlantic ocean. a girl led ten men
in three days battle for life against
a tempest and high seas and won.
Mrs Elizabeth Erickson. her father.
Capt p. A. Erickson. with nine men
composing the crew OF the barkentine
Good News. OF Philadelphia. spent the
three days In two open boats. strug.
Cling to keep afloat, all the time
cheered by the captains daughter. un-
til they were rescued by the British
steamer Metis and taken to Norfolk.
Va.
Three hundred and fifty prospectors.
the first party OF stampeders to reach
the new Iditarod gold fields have ar
rived at Iditarod City. Alaska. from
after three weeks trip
down the Yukon river. All agree that
the stampede will be the greatest
since the famous rush to the Klondike
thirteen years ago. but many OF the
ofd-time gold seekers are pessimistic
over the prospects for getting sudden
from the gravel along the
banks of the Iditarod and Inoko riysys, ]
estimates p,see the 'nufh
ber. of prospectors who will arrive
there during the early summer At 81
300. Many men now on the ground ex.
press the opinion that the summer
ramp wi4not support. more than 1000
miners and that large numbers OF the
late comers are doomed to disappoint
ment sl>,f
with semi-official retefns in from
every county u 1ays. both the pro
claiming .controf of the state conyen.
hon August 3. In South Dakota Gov
ernor Vesey. progressive" claims re-
The Wisconsin state Re
publican convention at Milwaukee en-
iorsed the Taft administration.
H. H. Morton, travelling salesman
Tor an Omaha grocery firm, was
served with formaldehyde by mistake
Tor mineral water in q drug store a
Atlantic. Iowa. and died Immediately.