The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-01-07
The three officers and six members

The three omcers and SIX members
of the board of directors of the Kan
sas City (Mo.) Fruit and Produce
/, exchange were indicted by the Jack
son county grand jury. The indict-
ments charge that the members of the
exchange are in combination to con-
troll the price of butter, eggs, potatoes
and other foodstuffs on the Kansas
City market.
| Spencer Trask of New York was
crushed to death in his private car
while on his way to New York from
his country home near Saratoga. Mr..
Trask was the head of banking firm
who for a number of years acted as
fiscal agents of the late Queen Vic
toria. One other passenger and ne"
gro porter were injured.
The surest indication of prosperity,
| Washington officials declare, is the
diamond market During the first II
| months O., 1909 this has doomed. The
: importation of cut diamonds amount
ed to $25,214,541, three times more
than for the same period last year and
almost $6,5O0,0O0 more than during
that time in 1907.
Members of John D. Rockefeller,
| Jr's, New York Bible class contribut-
| ed an average of 10 1-3 cents per capita
per Sunday to the collections of the
class during 1909, according to the
| annual report This is falling off Of
two cents from the average of 1908.
A breach of promise suit for $685.
900 was filed in Laporte, Ind, by Miss
William Stearnie, Laporte business
man.
A bill providing for censor of st.
Louis theaters, with unlimited powers,
was introduced n the assembly as the
result of mass meeting of ministers.
Great Ncrthern-Burlingto transcon-
tinental passenger train No. A and an
extra freight train met head-on in a
snowstorm at Oxford, Mont. killing
fireman, :. mail clerk and baggage
man, and injuring three passengers.
Eastern Roumelia has been swept by
the most disastrous flood in so years,
and the whole plain resembles vast
drowned.
Half of the meat consumed in this
country goes to the tables of the
people without even having been in
spected by persons recognized by the
federal and state governments as be-
ing qualified to pass upon the quality
of the meat. DR.. A. D. Melvin, chief
of the United States bureau of animal
industry, makes this assertion in his
annual report, and states further that
the situation is one of real and seri-
Gus danger to the public.
A woman's fur-lined kid glove on
the floor of the attic in Warren street,
near the body of Morris Williamson.
is the only clew given the police or
the grief-stricken widow to unravel
the mystery of the wealthy clothing
manufacturers suicide or murder.
Uncle Sam wants $1,000 census
enumerators. He will pay them good
wages, but they must first prove to
the chief supervisor of the district in
which they reside that they can do
the work in satisfactory manner.
One 30,00O-barrel tank was burned
and 40 others were emptied to pre-.
vent their destruction in fire which
threatened the large Standard Oil
plant in the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
While the body of John McClintock.
sheep herder, who was killed in
range dispute near Rocky Spur, Idaho,
was being taken to Nampa in charge
of the sheriff, it was jolted out of
box in the wagon and when the con-
veyance reached Nampa the loss was
discovered. The body was found
in the rough mountain road eight
miles from Nampa
According to statement given out
by his physician, Earl Percy of Lon
don, a Conservative member of the
British parliament, died al Paris from
an attack of acute pleurisy, but &C
cording to popular belief, he was shot
through the lungs in a pistol duel
with a former friend over a domestic
intrigue.
The Des Moines (Ia) Press club,
COmpOSSu VI IuC uSWO WIltcIS vi IuG
city, gave complimentary banquet at
the Savoy hotel last night to Senator
Cummins and Congressman Hull
Gridiron features prevailed.
In printed brief of 26S pages, At
torney General Wickersham and his
special assistant, ]. c. McReynolds,
presented to the supreme court of
the United States the case of the gov
eminent in the famous tobacco trust
cases." 1t is declared that "the de-
PENDANTS have persistently exercised
duress, have practiced wicked and I'M
fair methods, and used their great
power in oppressive ways" Further.
it is asserted that they have been
actuated by a fixed purpose to de-
stroy competition and obtain monopo
lies.
That the closing year has been a
prosperous one for the railroads OF
the country is evidenced from figures
made public by the Railway Age Ga.
zette From the figures it is also ap.
parent that the railroad officials see
an era of increased earnings dawning,
for more than three times the amount
of operating equipment was purchased
this year than in 1908.
When the steamer Phyllis arrived
at Colon her cargo was discharged
with care" 1t consisted of over
100000 pounds of dynamite for use
on the Panama canal.
In a battle between -urales and a
desperate band near Altara, Sonora,
Mexico, four bandits including the
leader, were killed and two were cap