The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-04-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Robert w. Patterson, editor-in-chief
of the Chicago Tribune, died suddenly
in Philadelphia. Half an hour before
his death occurred, his mother, Mrs.
Julia A. Patterson, widow of one OF
the most prominent Presbyterian
clergymen of Illinois, passed away at
the home of her son-in-law in Chicago.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, is seri-
cusly i'll at her residence, Mason Croft,
Stratford-on-Avon, England. She is
suffering from pneumonia.
James r. Meade, the pioneer who
named Wichita, died in Kansas City
of pneumonia. He was president of
the first railroad built into Wichita,
the old Santa Fe stub" line from EN-
poria to Wichita.
In a speech which occupied two
hours and which had not been COM
pleted when the senate adjourned,
Senator Root came to the support OF
portion of the speech delivered dealt
almost exclusively with the proposed
court of commerce, which Senator
Root defended notwithstanding, he
said, it appealed to him far less strong
ly than did most of the other features
of the bill
Convinced that the murder Of Alex
der ]. Moody, the pie manufacturer, by
arsenical poisoning on February 20 at
his home at Chicago, was, in police
vernacular, an Outside job"-not the
act of anyone within the Moody house
HOLLAND given an important clew
during the examination of Peter Peter
son, the former coachman, Assistant
Chief of Police Schuettler detailed de-
tectives to investigate a new angle OF
the mysterious case.
Prohibitionists won victory in
Massachusetts when the Legislature
advanced a bill which prohibits the
selling of bottled intoxicants by per.
sons licensed to sell goods on their
premises.
Gov Hughes has called a special
election for Aprfl 20 in the Thirty
seventh senatorial district of New
York to fill the vacancy caused by the
ISSiSAdliOu VI SSudIOi JOludm
Aids.
Samuel H. Cowan of Fort Worth
Tex, counsel for the Cattle Raisers
Association of Texas, asserted before
the senate food investigating commit
tee that unless some one can find a
way to repeat the law of supply and
demand the people of the United
States need never expect to have
cheap meat again, but on the contrary
prices would go still higher.
Because r. L. Mott, president of the
village council at Elsah, ILL.,, persists
in pushing an ancient wheelbarrov
along the new granitoid sidewalks
after vetoing an ordinance forbiddins
the practice, the council has called {
special meeting to pass the ordinance
over his veto.
Senator Bailey introduced bill fol
the publication of campaign contribu
tions. A similar measure has beer
ordered reported favorably by the
committee on the election of presi
dent, vice-president and members o.
congress, but Chairman Gaines has
not presented the report.
Nearly all the women and children
in the village of Oekorite, Hungary
persisted in the fire at ball there
OF 400 dead, 1913 were children below
the age of nine years.
Kansas City police will train a mum
Der of Airedale dogs for use in polio,
work.
Letters from Crown Prince Fred
erick William of Germany to Coun
Hans Ferdinand Won Hochberg wer,
read in tho trial of Noah e. Barne,
on a charge of larceny of the asset,
of the Cottonwood Creek Cotton Com
pany in New York. Count Won Hoch
berg was a witness in the case.