The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-10-20

Italian bluejackets to make LANDING
from q warship in the harbor.
Domestic
Leaders of the Progressive Repub'
lican movement met in Chicago to
promote the candidacy of Senator La
Toilette for the presidential nominal
ton.
The sixth international dry-farm-
ing congress opened in Colorado
Springs, Colo.
An order from Washington parol-
ing John R. Walsh, the former Chi
cago banker and railway president,
was received at the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan. The prisoner
at once started for Chicago.
Actual work on the Panama-Pacthc
international exposition, to be held In
1915 in San Francisco, was begun
when President Taft turned the first
spadeful of earth at the fair site.
Associate Justice John M. Harlan
of the Supreme court of the United
States died at his home in Washing
ton of acute bronchitis. He was sew
enty-eight years old. Justice Harlan
was the oldest member of the SUI
preme court.
Emory E. Knox is under arrest at
Lansing, Mich, charged with an at
tempt to extort $500 from R. E. Odds,
millionaire automobile manufacturer,
through Black Hand methods. The
police say Knox has confessed.
Pension Commissioner Davenport
In his annual report to congress urges
the passage of law by which PEN
Bioners may be paid by check instead
of the present voucher method, which
costs each pensioner from one to
three dollars year.
Clarence s. Funk of Chicago, gen.
eral manager of the International
Harvester company, has been sued
for $25, 900 damages by John Henning,
who charges that Mr.. Funk alienated
the affections of Mrs. Henning.
enty years old, who, although well-to-
do, lived alone at Kenton, Del, was
found caught in a folding bed in her
home. She had been a prisoner four
days and nights. Her recovery is I'M
likely.
The remains of woman's skirt and
a petticoat hidden with the torn rem
nant of an oilcloth toilet bag, found
under bridge on the Pine creek
road mile north of the spot near
Dixon, ILL.,, where the murdered body
of Bessie Kent Webster was found, is
thought to be the clothing of the muir
dered woman.
In the United States circuit court
at Baltimore Judge John G. Rose rem
dered decision in favor of the gov
eminent in it's dissolution suit against
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company and others, the so-caIled
'bathtub trust" The action was
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law and the alleged illegal combina.
ton must dissolve.
Senator La Toilette OF Wisconsin,
progressive Republican leader, has de-
cided to start early next month on a
speechmaking swing through the mid
die west. The tour will last until con-
gress meets in December.
Seven passengers were killed and
twenty-four were injured in a head
on collision on the Missouri Pacific
railroad near Fort Crook, Neb, when
the st. Louis passenger, north-bound.
collided with an extra freight south
bound.
Catholic clergy and laymen from all
over the country began the celebra.
tlOn III DdiIiiAOiO VI lHS ulll6lQ dnQl-
versary of the ordination of Cardinal
Gibbons as a priest and the twenty.
fifth of his elevation to the cardinal.
ate.
President Taft's prediction of an
early opening Of the Panama canal
promises to plunge the state depart.
ment into important negotiations
with the great maritime powers re.
specting tolls.
In attempting to cross the path OF
a biplane in fight James Kinney, q
miner, was killed at Joplin. Mo. The
biplane was built by Joplin high
school boys and was being piloted by
Harold Robinson Of St Louis.