The Ely miner., 1911-09-22

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WEEKS EVENTS
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Busy Man.
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Domestic
An international municipal congress
and exposition and an international
good roads congress opened In Chica
go.
Nine persons were killed and IA in
jured, some Of them probably fatally,
in an automobile accident at the state
fair at Syracuse, N. Y. A Knox car,
driven by Lee Oldfield In the 50-mile
race, left the track and crashed
through the fence on the turn after
leaving the stretch in front Of the
stand. It plowed for some distance
into the crowd. The blowing out OF
a tire was responsible for the acci-
dent.
At the age Of twenty-seven years,
the mother of IL children, Mrs. Alfred
Paquette was taken in charge by the
county commissioners at Nashua, N. H.
When the twelfth baby was born the
husband and father is alleged to have
disappeared, leaving no provision for
his family.
Every union coal miner in Iowa may
be called out on strike within the next
few weeks as result of the differences
in dispute at the Excelsior mine at
Pekin.
Clawed and bitten by huge lion In
a side show at the state fair at Syra-
cHse, N. Y, Laura Burns, seven years
old, of Morrisville, is lowering be-
tween life an death at a hospital.
The story of the life of Edward H.
Harriman-his official biography-has
been written and will soon go to the
printer. The work Is of 250,000 words
and was prepared by G. w. Batson Of
New York.
Eight inches of rain fell at Fort
Scott, Kan, In % hours. Water In
the streets was three feet deep in the
northern part of the city.
D. o. Dougherty, one of the most
prominent business men of Atlanta,
Ga, was found dead on the rear porch
of his home with bullet through his
heart. A pistol was found at his side.
The agility of John D. Rockefeller.
Jr., saved his life when the rope by
which bundle of construction steel
was being hoisted to the roof Of his
fathers mansion near Tarytown, N.
Y, broke, allowing the steel to drop.
Mr.. Rockefeller leaped from under,
calling to the workmen to Jump for
their lives. Five were not quick
enough. and sustained serious injuries.
One will die.
Cold storage chicken is believed to
have caused the death OF William
Starkweather of New York and the
illness Of between sixty and seventy
sailors on board the battleship Michi-
gan, which arrived at Boston from the
southern drill grounds. All Of the sick
men have recovered.
Damage estimated at 100000 was
done and one life lost in cloudburst
which swept Etna, Sharpsburg and
Millvale, suburbs of Pittsburgh. Pa.
three armored cruisers and eight
torpedo boat destroyers sailed from
San Francisco for Hawaii
Governors of twenty-five states, in
conference at Spring Lake, NJ j., de-
cided to protest to the United States
Supreme court against what they con-
slider an invasion of their rights by the
federal courts. The decision of Judge
Sanborn In the United States circuit
court in the Minnesota case is the par
ticular invasion" to which the gov
ernors object. Judson Harmon, gov
ernor of Ohio, will head a committee
of protest.
A confetti-covered automobile re-
turning from the Coney island Mardi
Gras was wrecked while rounding a
curve In Brooklyn, N. Y. A fashion
ably dressed woman, said to be Mrs.
Josephine Noble, was killed. Her es-
cort, Thomas Swain. a contractor, was
probably fatally injured.
Martin Costello of Tombstone, Ariz,
prominent for more than a quarter of
a century In the development of
mines In the southwest and reputed
to be multi-millionaire, committed
suicide at Los Angeles, CAL, in a
cheap lodging house.
Wholesale frauds In the branding of
inferior grades of liquors with spuri-
Gus trademarks of staple products
were revealed through the arrest OF
Martin Alborie in New York city,
charged with infringement of trade
marks.
The Rock Island Golden State Linn
tied, west bound, was derailed Just
east Of the station at Ainsworth, la.
Three mail clerks were injured and
the passengers were shaken up, but
escaped injury.
The trial by court-martial of Gunner
Henry McEveri, U. s. NJ, whose wife
committed suicide September S. was
begun at the Mare Island (Cal.) navy