The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-12-09


Hurled over 25-foot embankmen
and pinned beneath an automobile, the
baby daughter Of Mrs. Frank Berry O
Trinidad, Col, clasped tightly in it!
mothers arms, was taken from thu
wreckage unframed. The mother re
ceived serious injuries.
Frank Belding, a student in the Uni
versity of Kansas at Lawrence, VII
lose the sight of both eyes, physicians
say, as the result of an explosion o
sodium in the organic chemistry lab
oratory in the university.
Electricity henceforth will be USED
to do all the cooking for sailors aboard
the new ships of the navy, as tests
have shown the superiority of the
electric range over the old coal galley
not only in convenience but II
economy.
A clash at Padernalles, so miles
west Of Chihuahua, Mexico, has taken
place between $50 Government troops
and a somewhat larger body Of insur
rectos.
A countrywide reduction Of upper
Pullman berth rates of 20 per cent
where the lower berth rate exceeds
$1.5o, and various reductions in lower
berth charges were announced before
the interstate commerce commission
at Chicago by G. s. Fernald, assist.
ant general solicitor Of the Pullman
company.
Jack Thomas, negro, was shot and
killed when he was robbing the pas
sengers of Memphis-St. Louis Frisco
train. A. B. Walton, Frisco watch
man, killed the negro.
New Jersey will receive $194,434.46
as collateral inheritance tax from the
estate of George Croker, the mine
owner. The property left by Mr..
Croker, who died in December OF
last year, is valued between $11,0OO,-
900 and $12,000,000.
Leads to amazing revelations con-
corning the boodling operations OF
the racetrack lobby at Albany, N. T.,
were opened by the joint legislative
investigating committee. Based upon
estimates made by members OF the
committee it seems likely that before
the inquiry is closed 1t will be shown
that more than $1,000,00O was raised
by the racetrack interests in 1908 to
defeat the Agnew-Hart law.
Fifteen persons were seriously In
jured when a Missouri Pacific pas
senger train was wrecked two miles
east of Knobnoster, Mo. The wreck
was caused by a broken rail.
The Ulster Unionist council OF Bel
fast, Ireland, decided, in view of the
Irish political crisis, to invite tenders
for the immediate delivery of arms
and ammunition.
The Berlin Academy of Sciences
elected Prof. Lewis Boss, the astrono-
mer and since 1876 director of Dudley
observatory at Albany, N. Y, a CORE
spending member.
The country home of Mrs. G. L..
Koch, just outside Quincy, ILL.,, was
burned. 1t was historic place and
the old mahogany furniture it con-
tanned had been collected piece by
piece by the late Doctor Koch.
Reports to the bureau of statistics
of the department of commerce and la
Dor show increased receipts of cattle
and sheep and shortage of hogs at
the seven leading interior markets.
An ordinance prohibiting smoking
at polling places on election day was
passed by the Seattle council. The
ordinance is the direct result of the
adoption of the woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
The United States Steel corporation
with an $S,O00,00O fund has combined
with the 100000 relief fund estab-
lished at Pittsburg by Andrew Car
negie some years since, making $12,-
100000 to be known as the United
States Steel and Carnegie pension
fund. From this there will be paid
to employees of the United States
Steel corporation all over the coun-
try pensions as warranted in condi
tons laid down.
Macao, China, a dependency of
Portugal is in the hands of the local
garrison and the crew of the gunboat
Patria, who revolted, marched to the
public square and took possession of
the city government at the point of
the bayonet. All the demands of the
mutinous force were granted by the
governor under threat.
Three masked men broke into the
tunnel of rich gold mine near Win
nemucca, New, overlooked $4,000
worth of high-grade ore and departed
empty-handed
Mack Neal, a negro, who shot one
person to death and wounded four
others at Waverly, Va, was riddled
with bullets by posse which sur
rounded the negro in cabin.
Gov.-Elect Eugene N. Foss began
his speaking campaign against the re-
turn of Henry Cabot Lodge to the
United States senate at Provincetown,
Mass.
The population of Pennsylvania is
7,665,111, according to statistics Of
the thirteenth census. This is an in
crease of 1,362,996. or ZIG per cent,
over 6,302,115 in 1900.
When William J. Bryan's admirers
attempted to hang his picture beside
Taft's and Governor Haskells in Ok
lahoma senate chamber, Lieut.. Gov.
Bellamy declared never while / am
in the chair" and the picture was
turned to the wall on the floor.
Miss Helen Taft. daughter of the
president, made her bow to American
society under auspices and conditions