The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-01-20
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Renewal of the fight on Richard A.
contemplated in a resolution intro
duced by Senator Purcell of North
Dakota. The resolution seeks to
force out into the open the report of
the joint congressional committee that
Investigated the charges made against
the cabinet officer by Clifford Pinchot.
Speaker Cannon came out loser In
q new battle over tho rules. As re-
suit of the clash many of the stirring
scenes of the famous fight OF last
March were re-enacted, Insurgents and
Democrats showing a united front to
the Republican regulars. By a vote
of 14b to 126 the combined forces raj
lied to the support of Mr.. Fitzgerald
(Dem., N. " and sustained him in
his appeal from the speakers ruling.
The application of Rear Admiral
Edward B. Barry for retirement has
been approved by President Taft, and
Barry has been transferred to the re-
tired list Of the navy. But retirement
will be no bar to general court-mar-
tial or examination by medical e1-
perts, who may examine him as to his
sanity.
That the practice of vote selling has
been carried on in Danville, ILL.,, the
home Of Speaker Cannon, for many
years. and by both parties, was the
charge made here by the circuit court
in its instructions to the grand jury.
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge was renominated without oppo-
sition by the Massachusetts, Republi-
can legislature caucus.
A man describing himself as Harry
Miller, an American, twenty-eight
years Of age, was found bound to a
tree in the woods near Joinville-le-
Point, six miles east of Paris, France.
He said robbers had tied him after tn
king $1,000 from him.
This is the year for the seventeen
year locusts to appear. They are due
along the Atlantic seaboard from Vir-
ginia to New York, but DR.. Raymond
L. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx zoo,
said that he believed the Hudson
river would check the pest.
The sixth annual National Western
Live Stock show opened in Denver
with a parade through the business
section of the city. Prominent among
the visitors is a party of Illinois. Mis-
souri, and Iowa packers and stock
growers who arrived in two special
sleepers as guests of one Of the pack.
ing companies.
Bubonic plague has caused 500
deaths in Hardin, Manchuria, within
fifteen days, according to consular re-
ports received by the state department
at Washington.
The Fond du Lac (Wis.) Cheese and
Butter company, capitalized for $780,
900, has been forced to the wall.
The battleship Arkansas. $4,000
tons, the largest ever built by the
United States, was launched at Cam
den, N. j.
Ezra P. Prentice, chairman of the
Republican state committee in New
York, has resigned to devote his time
to his private law practice
The garment workers strike is prac-
tically ended. An agreement was
reached between the Hart, Schaffner
& Marx Clothing company and strike
committee, which ends the long strug-
gle for 10000 of the strikers, return
ing them to their positions with the
firm.
The three daughters of Peter Blu
bee, aged one. four and six years, were
burned to death in their home at
Knife River, Mimi, by the explosion of
a gasoline stove.
Valeska Suratt. vaudeville actress,
was married to Fletcher Norton, her
leading man, at Jersey City.