The Ely miner., 1911-05-05

Eleven persons lost their lives wnen
school teachers special excursion
train was derailed and burned on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Martin 8
Creek, N. j., near Easton, Pa. Three
of the ten injured in the Easton hos
pital will probably die. More than
| fifty persons were hurt.
Addressing a meeting of laboring
men at st. Louis, William D. Haywood,
who was tried and acquitted for COM
plicity in the death of former Cover
nor Steunenberg of Idaho, advocated a
general strike throughout the United
States on the day the Mcnamara
brothers are brought to trial in Los
Angeles for blowing up the Times
plant.
Fire destroyed practically every
building in a tract two miles long and
half a mile wide which contained the
wholesale and retail business district
and the best residential section of
Bangor, Me. The loss is estimated at
between $6,O0O,00O and 81 100000. Hun
dreds of persons were made homeless.
Three detectives arrested at Colum-
bus, O., as lobbyists in the general as
sembly declared that they had sue
cessfully manipulated a trap for five
members of the legislature suspected
of participating in bribery. They ac-
cused one representative, four sena-
tors and senate attache.
Assertion is made by the Vienna
correspondent of the Medical Record
of New York that several cases of
paresis, a supposedly incurable dis
ease, have been cured by injections of
Koch's tuberculin.
Stacked In a corner of the steel
ribbed vaults of the United States
treasury at Washington 100000 in
gold coin is going begging. The gov
ernment cannot give it away, yet none
of the rightful owners can be induced
to take it. 1t represents unclaimed in
terest on the public debt.
Hundreds of persons at Dixon, Mo-,
saw an infuriated elephant hurl its
trainer into the air and then, after
crushing him with it's weight, repeat
edly pierce the body with it's tusks.
The tragedy came while James Hide
brand, the trainer, was endeavoring
to put Monte, the smallest elephant
with wild west show, into car.
Mrs. ]. H. Num- and seven children,
ranging in age from adults to an in
FAINT, were burned to death in fire
which destroyed their home in south
west Roanoke. Va.
Surrounded by score of dogs Of
many breeds which she had found
homeless and had befriended, Mrs.
Ella Burt, fifty-eight years old, died
at her home at Newport. R. I.
The memory of Ulysses S. Grant,
former president o fthe United States
and commander-in-chief of the Union
forces at the close of the Civil war,
was honored at Galena, ILL.,, in song
and story. The occasion was in cele-
bration Of the birth of the noted
American, and his departure from
this city for the front April 25, 1861
President Taft and many other emf
nent men were guests of the Aeronau-
teal society at its first annual din
ner in New York. The society's GOLD
medal was presented to w. R. Hearst
Refusal of the interstate commercs
commission to permit the principal
railways Of the west to advance their
rates on the transportation of cement
for the reason that the carriers are
alleged to need additional revenue is
the feature of decision handed down
in the important Portland cement
case.
Fire starting in the business section
of Prentice, Wis, practically destroyed
the town. Fifteen residences, bank,
a general department store. the post
office, jewelry store and the rail-
road station were burned.
Sporting
With torrent of crushing blows