The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-09-16

car ferry, No. Is. sank from unknown
cause 20 miles off Sheboygan. Wis
1t is declared one of the worst ma
rine disasters in the history of Lake
Michigan navigation. The boat was
valued at 100000. and the cargo
which included 80 loaded cars, es'
timated to be worth $4,000. Thirty
three men were saved.
How he was turned down oy
prominent Illinois Central ofiiclais
when he sought to convince them that
he could show how the road could
save $4,000 a month in car repairs
was related in Judge Bruggemeyers
court at Chicago by Fred G. PECK
formerly an employee of the Oster'
mann Manufacturing company.
Uhlan trotted remarkable mile at
Charter Oak park, Hartford, Conn.,
when he drew his owner, c. X. q.
Billings, hitched to a speed wagon, In
2:01A. The last quarter he covered
in 20 seconds.
F. +. Gardner, head of the Shore
Electric company, operating in New
cSAoOy, wax kOuhu nun oSASA 49,
| bushes near Red Bank, N. ]. The
police are unable to find clue to his
| slayer.
John Kakas, a Greek, in an ad-
vanced stage of leprosy, has escaped
quarantine at Salt Lake City, and Is
| supposed to be on his way to New
York city, where he expects to sail
for his native country.
New York and Philadelphia physi-
clans are interested in tests that are
being made with rattlesnake venom,
which 1t is said may cure epilepsy.
A thoroughbred racehorse, once the
property of Capt. Sims Brown, delib-
erately committed suicide near Pitts
burg, 1t is said, when it was forced to
draw an old farm wagon.
President Taft received telegram
| on his train at Kendallville, Ind. tell
Ing OF the desperate illness OF Sol1c1-
tor General Lloyd w. Bowers In
Boston. Mr.. Bowers has been con-
s1dered the probable choice for one
OF the vacant places on the Supreme
court.
There is too much hysteria abroad
in the country. Let your watchword
be Down with the demagogue and up
with the patriot Thus spoke
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States. to the
survivors of the Mexican war. at their
reunion at Indianapolis.
At the opening of the trial OF Dr..
Hawley H. Crippen il London. who Is
charged with the murder of his wife.
Belle Elmore, the prosecution an
nounced that large quantities OF
poison had been found in the wcfn-
ans body and that there were evil
dences that she had been subjected
to ali operation.
Vice-President Elias Fernandez AL.
bano, acting president of Chile. since
the death Of President Mont, died
suddenly from an attack of heart
failure.
Ten men were crushed to death and
nine were injured, several of them
MORALLY, by the fall of hundreds Of
tons of rock through the broken roof
Of the old Erie, railroad tunnels, Jer
sey City, N. J. The dead and injured
formed part Of gang of % men who
were removing the mountain of stone
above the tunnels to transform them
into open "cuts."
Thomas Shields, a coal passer. and
Stanley Chubb, porter, rescued when
Pere Marquette car ferry No. Is went
down in Lake Michigan with a loss
of % persons, declare that had steam
er No. II come alongside the sunken
boat when signaled every person on
the Pere Marquette would have been
saved. Instead, they declare, No. II
stayed away until the boat was sub
merged.
A religious pageant as rich in devo
tional emotion as in sacred imagery,
diverse in nationality and huge in
size, closed the twenty-first Interna-
tional Eucharistic congress. The pro-
cession marched four miles through
the streets of Montreal, the host at its
head. to Mount Royal, above the city.
There were 100000 in line and 100000
viewed 1t.
The car of Russia is known in
Passaic, N. j., as one Of the city's
leading philanthropists. Announce
ment was made that he had contrib
uted $4,000 toward the erection of a
new Russian orthodox church in that
city. The structure will cost $120,J00.3
Rev. George P. Williams, d. D., of
Chicago, has been elected secretary
Of the missions of the American Sun
day School union, whose headquarters
are in Philadelphia, Pa.
The old missionary hymn, From
Greenland's Icy Mountains" has been
dropped from the mission hymnal
which is to be submitted for approval
to the convention of the Episcopal
church in Cincinnati next month.
Many protests are made.
Cardinal Legate Vannutelli presided
at pontifical mass at Montreal. Que,
in the presence of 100000 worshipers,
the greatest assemblage ever gath
cred in a single act of worship in the
new world.
Charles K Hamilton, who made the
great race from Philadelphia to New
York on June Is, was seriously and
possibly fatally injured at the state
fair grounds at Sacramento, CAL,
when his new 115-horsepower biplane
Hamiltonian crashed to the ground
after a spectacular flight.
Forty-four thousand Illinois coal mi.
ners will resume work at once after
an idleness of more than five months.
as result of an agreement reached
between the officials of the mine
workers and the Illinois Coal Oper-