The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-12

Mrs. Laura G. Martin, sixty years old.
of Pontiac, ILL.,, married third time,
in order that she might will her entire
fortune, estimated at $4,000, to her
| husband, James A. Barry, twenty
three-year-old nephew of her second
husband.
]. ]. Mcnamara, the Indianapolis
union official, and his brother, j. b.
Mcnamara, were arraigned at Los An
geles, Cal, on 10 new indictments
charging them with murder in connec-
ton with the Los Angeles Times dis
aster. No plea was entered, counsel
for the defendants having secured a
postponement of the case until June l..
Fire In the Hartford mine shaft at
Negaunee, Mich. caused by gas, re-
suited in the death of eight miners
and four injured. About two hundred
men were in the mine at the time of
the fire, most of whom made their es-
cape through tunnel to the Cambria
mine.
Placards urging the workers in the
Brooklyn navy yard to boycott the res.
taurant which Miss Anne Morgan,
daughter of J. P. Morgan, recently es-
tablished there, appeared in the navy
yard.
Socialist aldermen at Rockford have
introduced resolution asking for the
formation Of a plan for the city to
take charge Of the saloons at the ex-
piration of their licenses. A munich
pal saloon is proposed.
A defense Of dollar diplomacy" as
policy which by creating prosperity,
meant ultimately the Substitution of
dollars for bullets" was made before
the third national peace congress in
session at Baltimore, Nd, by Hunting
ton Wilson, assistant secretary of
state.
President Taft, It is understood, has
been sent a wired request to have
the troops suppress coal rioters at
Cordova, Alaska. Private cable ad-
vices say that mob boarded an Alas
ka steamship company's vessel that
arrived there with a cargo of Cana
dian coal and begun dumping it over
board.
The Supreme court of the United
States should not be the court Of last
resort in matters pertaining strictly
to business, in the opinion Of George
w. Perkins. Mr.. Perkins advocates
the organization of a court composed
of proven leaders in the business
world.
The use of abandoned farms owned
by New York state as farm colonies
for tramps and Migrants will be urged
by Governor Dix.
Leaving a note that he was a fail
ure in life, Prof. Fred Lemar Charles,
assistant professor of agricultural ed
ucation in the University of Illinois,
committed suicide at Urbana by
strangling himself with book strap.
One child is dead and sixty rendered
homeless by a fire which destroyed the
Mary Marilla Hobbs building of the
Methodist Deacons' Orphanage at
Lake Bluff, Ill.
There will be no more Sunday the
atrical performances in any town in
Kansas if the order of John s. Daw-
son, attorney general, just issued, is
observed. They are in violation of
the Sunday labor law, he says.
An effort to recover his hat, which
had been carried away by gust of
wind cost John French his life at Buf.
falo, N. Y. The hat was carried be.
meath high pile of lumber, which fell
on him.
Seventeen students of DR.. Charles E.
Simon, the authority on cancer at Bal
timore, have offered themselves as
SuDJ6ClS lOT I6SL cure WHICH udS
yielded results when applied to
beasts.
A passenger train was delayed at
Manford, Okla, by millions of cater
pillars clustered on a bridge. The
wheels of the engine, crushing the
larvae, made the track slippery, and
the drivers spun on the rails.
Personal
Mrs. Medill Mccormick of Chicago,
daughter of the late Senator Mark A.
Hanna, has opened her model lodging
house for workingwomen in Washing
ton.
Robert A. Taft, eldest son of the
president, and student at the Har-
ward law school, says the report he is