The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-09-30

/ iuoIor PARKWAY and pa1nfuliy injured.
Robertson was going seventy miles
an hour in practise spin for the
vanderbilt cup next week.
| stephen Stuper, aged nineteen, en-
ployed at the Homestead (Pa) Steel
works, was instantly killed while fool
ing with an arc lamp. His hand
came in contact with live wire and
$500 volts of electricity passed
through him.
Cathollc charities opened in Washing
ton' Apostolic Delegate Falconi and
cardinal Gibbons being present.
indianapolis entertained the foreign
delegates to the International Prison
congress.
William ]. Bryan addressed the Ma
, tional Irrigation congress at it's open
Ing session in Pueblo, Col, and dele
gates prepared for contest over the
question of state versus federal con-
troll OF natural resources, especially
rivers.
Disobedience to orders by the crew
OF freight car is said to have been
the cause of the second interurban
traction wreck within three days in
Indiana, and the disaster cost the
uVes or six more and severe hurts to
score. A south-bound freight car
crashed head-on into a north-bound
passenger car on the Indianapolis
and Peru division of the Indiana Union
traction company shortly after noon,
two miles north Of Upton, Ind.
Representatives of $4,000 members
OF railroad brotherhoods at a general
conference at New York decided to
participate in state and national poll
tics and to urge the interstate COM
merce commission to increase freight
rates.
states Attorney Burke of Sangamon
county, Illinois, has obtained informa-
ton that another member of the ILL
nois legislature received $1,000 for
voting for William Lorimer for sena-
tor. The man who made this admis-
sion of receiving cash for his vote was
Charles S. Luke of Nashville, who
represented the Forty-fourth district
in the house. and who has since died.
petition for the immediate pardon
of John r. Walsh, the Chicago banker
now serving a term in Fort Leaven-
worth prison for irregularities in con-
nection with the failure of the three
Walsh banks, was filed in the depart
ment OF justice at Washington by
George T. Buckingham, representing
the wife and sons of the prisoner.
A plague among the cattle of Rus
STA threatens serious consequences
and the United States may institute a
quarantine against cattle imports, Is
the information given out in Washing
ton.
Four students of Purdue university
at Lafayette, Ind, were hurt in the an
nual tank scrap" between freshmen
and sophomores. The freshmen class
was victorious.
Announcement was made at Ell Paso
Tex, by Morris & Co., the packing
firm, of the purchase in Mexico of
1,25O,OO0 acres for one of the largest
ranches in the world. A $1,OOO,OO0
packing plant is to be built.
Capt. John J. O'Connell of the
Twenty-eighth infantry, stationed at
Fort Smelling. near st. Paul, has been
missing for two weeks, and his SUI
perior officers fear he has been MUIR
dered or has committed suicide.
Mathew Walters, at Detroit, Mich,
whose supposed body was buried by
relatives after it had been taken from
the river, has been found alive in a
hospital and attended the inquest
which was originally set for his case.
The United States census bureau in
its 1909 Investigations shows that in
fantile paralysis and pellagra are
found in epidemic form in many parts
of the country.
1T is our opinion that Porter
Charlton Is of unsound mind and H.
able to attacks of impulsive violence,
and that his moral sense is pathology
ically defective. He should be taken
to hospital for the insane and there
kept indefinitely" This is the con-
clusion reached by the alienists who
examined the slayer of Mrs. Scott
Castle, the actress, who was Charl.
tons wife, at Lake Como. Italy. last
June.
The first casualty Of the Adirondack
hunting season has been reported at
Glens Falls, N. Y. Mistaken by his
son for deer, William Aubre was ia.
tally shot in the mountains near
there
Within a week an action will be
started in New York by District At
torney Wise looking to the dissolution
OF the sugar trust. Orders to this eff
feet have been sent out by Attorney
General Wickersham.
The coroner's jury returned a YER
dict of willful murder against DR.. Haw.
ley H. Crippen, the American dentist.
In connection with the finding in the
Crippen Hilldrop- Crescent residence
last July OF a mutilated body supposed
to be that Of Crippen's wife, who was
known on the stage as Belle Elmore.
A colored chambermaid stabbed
and killed her employer, James Nav.
den, a New York hotelkeeper, when
he discharged her. When the police
arrived the woman was found diving
from a stab wound and accused her
victims wife.
DR.. William Colby Rucker, was rein
stated as health commissioner of Mil.
waukee by the common council. At
the request of Mayor Seidel the coun-
ell rejected the resignation of DIR.
Rucker, made out after he had been
arrested on charges preferred by a
young woman domestic, and Emporium
ed him to remain at the head of the