The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-01

will devote his attention to the labora-
tory and the legal work will be done
by lawyer.
One of President Taft's automobiles,
driven by his son, Robert T. Taft, ran
over and seriously injured street
laborer at Beverly, Mass. At the hos
pital it was said there were indica-
lions that the workmans skull was
fractured.
Three masked bandits held up the
section of an Oregon Short Line train
in the northern part of Ogden, Utah.
All of the passengers were robbed
of their valuables and the express
messenger was compelled to deliver
the contents of the safe. The ex-
act amount the robbers obtained has
not been ascertained. Two passengers
and two trainmen were injured.
Robert o. Abel was burned to death
and Frederick Abel, his brother, and
Harry lesson were burned and
bruised when an automobile in which
they were riding ran into ditch and
was capsized and burned in st. Louis
county, Missouri.
An imperial decree just issued re-
jects the demand of the Chinese peo-
pie for immediate convocation of
national parliament.
Rag-pickers in New York threaten a
strike if their demand for higher
wages is not granted.
George Badger, life convict, lies
at the Jackson (Mich.) prison hospital,
at the point of death from a knife
wound, inflicted by Jim Shivers, a
one-legged life convict, whose only
mode of locomotion is a wheel chair.
Reouf Bey, acting consul general Of
Turkey in New York, announced that
the ministry of public works in Con-
stantinople has invited bids for the
construction of an extensive system
of trolley lines in Constantinople.
Three bandits, armed with automat-
ic magazine revolvers, shot and in
stantly killed Thomas A. Landregan,
shoe manufacturer, and Police Officer
James H. Carroll and ran away with
bag containing $4,000, which the
manufacturer and policemen were
taking from a bank to the shoe fac
tory of WEIGH & Landregan for the
weekly pay roll. The robbers were
captured.
Three Cornell crews swept down
the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, N. y,
to three straight victories in the six
teenth annual regatta of the Intercol-
legiate Rowing association. Pennsyl-
vania forced the varsity eight to a
heart-breaking two-shell struggle.
Congress in it's closing hour ordered
full and thorough investigation of
Senator Cores charges of bribery and
corruption in connection with legis-
lation affecting the moneys and prop
erty of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians.
Representatives of fifty-eight cot.
ton mills assembled at Gastonia, N.
c., and signed an agreement to shut
down completely for four weeks in
July and August.
The American Institute of Electrical
Engineers began it's annual conven-
ton at Jefferson, N. H., in the White
Mountains. Lewis B. Stillwell is its
president.
The Sangamon county Qll.) grand
jury's probe into the legislative bri-
berry scandal resulted in the follow
ing indictments: Representative Lee
O'Neil Browne, Representative Robert
E. Wilson, Frank J. Traut, Louis D.
Hirsheimer and j. B. Johnston on
charges of conspiracy to bride.
The first regular session of the Six
ty-frst congress was brought to fin
ish with the Taft progressive program
carried out practically in its entirety.
The president signed the rivers and
harbors bill, but sent message to
congress saying that it must change
it's method of framing river and har-
Dor measures.
Through the burning of the excur-
sion steamer ]. S., belonging to the
Acme Packet company, between Vic
toria and Genoa, "a miles south of La
Crosse, Wis, on the Mississippi river,
four persons are dead, five seriously
injured and about fifty are suffering
from minor cuts, bruises and burns.
Assistant Attorney General w. S.
Kenyon is in Chicago and has begun
preparations for the new beef inquiry,
which will be taken up by the special
grand jury summoned by Judge Lam
dis to investigate the beef and oleo-
margarine frauds.
E. M. Nelson and his six-year-old
daughter were electrocuted in the
front yard of their home at Lakeside,
a suburb of Duluth, Mimi, in the
presence of the wife and mother
John Fry, high-wire performer ap-
pearing with carnival company
showing at Van Vert, O., was killed
when he fell from the wire to the
ground, thirty feet below.
More than twenty fire fighters were
overcome in the hold of the burning
steamer Alaskan of the American
Hawaiian line at San Diego, Cal.
The Arbeiter Saengerbund of the
Northwest, one of the largest organiza-
lions of its kind, opened it's triennial
meeting in Chicago.
AS tribute to DR.. Howard T.
Ricketts,, the University of Chicago
professor who died in Mexico City
May 8, 1910, a victim of typhoid fever,
while engaged in the study of the dis
ease, the National meteorological in
stitute unveiled marble tablet in
that city.
AS result of drinking water from
a poisoned we'll seven members of the
family of William Lee of Newark, w.
Va, became violently ill, and a girl six
months old is dead