The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-29

tice. Strikers, or their sympathizers,
attempted to derail east-bound passen-
ger train at divers. The engineer
saw the thrown switch just in time to
bring his train to stop.
President Taft hurt his ankle while
he was playing golf on the links of
the Kabo Valley club at Bar Harbor.
| Despite the excruciating pain, the
| president carried out the exacting
program which had been arranged for
him. 1t included a speech. an auto
mobile ride and luncheon in Bangor,
and a speech and reception at Ellis
worth.
| Directors of the Illinois Central
, road have rejected an offer of approx
! imately $1,OO0,O00 in settlement of all
! the claims which the company has in
connection with the 100000 car
| fraud case.
A disastrous hurricane swept over
northern Italy. Many buildings at
Saronno were leveled to the ground,
including workshops of the Northern
railway. Sixty workmen were buried
in the ruins.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against the Standard Nitrogen
company of New York, which was or
ganized with capital of $10,000,000.
The petitioning creditors have claims
amounting to $1,400.
Through the filing of incorporation.
OF hxy hn
Free Acres association" of Berkeley
Heights, the plan of socialists and sim
gle-taxers to found an Ideal city, Is
revealed. Among the incorporators
is Bolton Hall, single tax advocate.
Sarah Applebay, the oldest resident
of Clarksburg, w. Va, is dead. She
lived 100 years, seven weeks and five
days.
Willis Counselman, the Chicago
grain broker, was sentenced to three
months in the county Jail for fraud
practised in obtaining divorce from
his insane wife, Lulu Counselman.
Verdicts of not guilty were returned
in the cases Of IL Cairo Qll.) citizens,
charged in indictments with having
been leaders of the mob which stormed
the Alexander county Jail and lyDched
the negro, John Pratt, the night of
February Is last. The jury was out
two hours.
Senior Antonio Maura, erstwhjle
prime minister, was shot at the Fran
cha station, Barcelona, Spain,. Upon
alighting from the train from Madrid
man fired three shots at the states
man, one wounding him in the leg.
The man was arrested.
The hanging of Robert Martin, me-
gro, at Belleville, ILL.,, furnished holi.
day spectacle for 1900 men, who held
tickets of admission to the Jail yard.
Among the sheriff's guests were many
negroes. Martin was executed for the
murder of another negro.
Twenty-one Mormons will be ex-
PEELED from Germany as the mission
aries are believed to be teaching
principles subversive Of morality.
Oregon Republicans are split into
assembly" and "anti-assembly" fac
tons, the former opposing the selec-
ton of United States senators by the
people. The Assembly faction has
nominated complete state ticket.
United States revenue officers have
destroyed one of the largest moon
shine stills found in years at the
home of Charles Pesnell, candidate
for sheriff Of Admission county. Ala
bama.
A young woman, who committed sui
eide at hotel in Bourges, France, on
July IL, is now believed to have been
Ethel Clara Leneve, the companion Of
Doctor Crippen. There are striking
points Of resemblance.
Eleven already dead and eight more
injured with the dreadful tool exacted
by a 12-inch rifle at Fort Monroe, Va,
when the breach of the gun exploded
without warning. Whether the acct
dent was due to faulty mechanism in
the gun, or negligence upon the part
Of the men who were hurled into
eternity is to be determined by a
board of inquiry.
Edwin w. Trimmer, United States
consul at Cape Gracias Dios. Nicara-
qua, has been threatened with assas-
sination. The cruiser Tacoma, with
fifty marines and her full complement
of blue-jackets aboard, has been dis
patched to the scene, with orders to
land men under arms for the protec-
ton of the life of the consul and OF
American property there at all costs.
The second day of the strike on the
Grand Trunk was uneventful through
out Ontario. Through passenger trains
were running fairly on time. A few
locals were abandoned. No attempt
was made to move freight. The
freight situation in Toronto is serious.
The yards and sidings are congested
with cars. The ice companies are
suffering and much perishable freight
is being ruined.
The embankment of the Belle
Fourche irrigation dam in South Da'
kota probably will be finished within;
month. About $1,000 cubic yards of
earth were excavated and placed in
the reclamation service at Washing
ton, making total of 1885, 900 yards.
or 81 per cent. of the total embank-
ment.
Ernest Stevens, negro formerly
employed by Ira G. Rawn, was arrest
ed at Chicago on suspicion that he
might know something concerning the
death Of Mr.. Rawn. After four-holr
third degree" examination Stevens