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

building, destroyed by dre. 1t was
that Of Brent Marshall. vice-president
of the Early & Daniels Grain com
pany.
Moving picture shows in Russis
have become so popular that prac
tically every town and hamlet
throughout the empire boasts at least
one of these places of amusement. &C
cording to Consul General John H
Snodgrass, at Moscow.
William f. Sheehan was nominated
by the Democratic caucus Of the New
York legislature for United States
senator to succeed Chauncey M. De.
pew.
Carl ". Storey, the former Univer
sity of Illinois student, who was shot
| by Mrs. Alice Poehler Of Guthrie, Ind.
in a hotel at Indianapolis, IL dead and
| a charge of f1rst-degree murder has
been placed against the woman.
It having been reported to the state
department that President Cabrera OF
Guatemala has allowed armed bands
| to cross the frontier into Honduras to
help destroy the government of Presi
dent Davilla, Secretary Knox tele
graphed the United States minister at
Guatemala City that Guatemala must
observe the agreement which provides
against the aiding Of one republic by
tilibusters from another republic.
Emphatic endorsement Of Capt
Robert e. Peary as the discoverer OF
the north pole was voiced by Presi.
dent Taft in speech at the annual
banquet of the National Geographic
society at Washington.
That Mrs John Q. Schenk offered
her $1,000 to have pill given to her
millionaire husband was the sworn
statement made by Eleanor Zoeckler,
the detective-nurse, in the trial of
Mrs. Schenk on the charge Of poison
ing her husband at Wheeling, w. Va.
Constantine J. Erdman, author of
the arbitration labor war. which has
been called into play during several
important strikes In tho past ten
years, died at his homo at Allentown,
Pa
Scandal has cast It's shadow over
the navy. It has como with the en-
forced retirement of Rear Admiral Ed
ward B. Barry, commandments Of
the Pacific feet, and the knowledge
that his abrupt decision to yield his
command was predicated upon the de-
mand of his subordinate officers. The
demand was made upon Barry sfter
an exposure of his conduct aboard
his flagship, the West Virginia.
Fifty masked men stormed the
county jail at Shelbyville, KY, and
seized and lynch three negroes, two
Of them were charged with insulting
white women and the third was under
sentence to hang for the murder of a
negro woman and was being held
awaiting his day Of execution, to be
named.
A boy was killed and four persons
were injured, two probably fatally,
when bobsled upon which the party
was coasting struck moving motor
car On . street crossing In Kansas
City.
Plans have been filed in New York
city for new Office building on Madi-
son avenue to be occupied exclusively
by physicians and dentists. It will be
Is stories high and the largest build
ing of its kind in the world.
The battle for the senatorial success
sion In Tennessee will assume a new
phase when Gen. Luke e. Wright of
Memphis, former secretary of war and
former general of the Philippines, en-
tiers the contest.
Rembrandt's most famous picture,
'The Night Watch" was badly damag-
ed by discharged naval cook named
Sigrist, who entered the Rijks Mu-
scum at Rotterdam and with knife
deliberately slashed the masterpiece
Railroad communication throughout
the republic Of Portugal is practically
paralyzed az result Of the strike Of
employees. Portugal is cut OF by land
from the rest Of Europe.
That the United States army may
have the nucleus of trained corps of
aviators. Glenn Curtiss has offered to
instruct a number of officers in the
operation Of aeroplanes. The war de-
partment has accepted the offer.
Another serious battle between the
Mexican revolutionists and the fed.
eral forces has been fought Just
across the border and the dead are
estimated at more than forty, accord
ing to advices received at San An
tonic, Tex.
In an address before the annual
meeting of the National Civic fedora
ton at New York city, Samuel Un-
termyer attacked the governments
attitude toward the trusts as mon
strous sham" According to him the
large and vicious" corporations go
unmolested while "the little fellows
are being pursued with brass band
and the greatest press bureau ever
put in action"
President Taft, in an address at
the banquet Of the National Tariff
Commission association at Washing
ton openly Endorsed the Longworth
bill, characterizing it "as a concilia-
tory measure embodying all the i'm
portant features that are necessary
to make the tariff commission ef-
fective." He had previously sum-
moned the Republican members of
the ways and means committee to
the White House, and urged them to
harmonic their differences.
Arrested as the claimed her trunk
in the New York Central railroad sta
ton at Rochester N v Mrs Edith