The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-24

seven persons lost their lives Ia
fire which destroyed the home of ]. L
Hardin in Sutton, w. Va. Only Mr.
Hardin escaped, the six remaining
members of his family and little
girl who made her home with the
Hardins perishing in the flames.
Kora Shaffer, aged nineteen. was
arrested at Johnstown, Pa, in connec
ton with the murder of his father
Jeremiah Shaffer, wealthy Somerset
county farmer, who was mysteriously
shot.
Jeremiah W. jerks, professor OF
political economy at Cornell univer
sity, in an address at Cooper union,
New York city, held Stalled cattle,
the expense of advertising and trans
portation and the increased production
of gold to be the basic causes of the
rise In prices.
Two men were killed and third
probably fatally injured when an ex.
plosion wrecked the corning depart
ment Of the Du Pont Powder COM
pany at Oliphant, located in the noun
tains, six miles from Uniontown, Pa.
Reports Of the first night riding OF
the season came to the Burley Tobac-
CO union headquarters in Lexington,
KY, from Nicholas county. Several
tobacco beds were dug up, and In one
case a grave was excavated as warn
ing.
The v1ceroy of Manchuria estimates
that the fatalities in Manchurta from
the bubonic plague already have
reached $4,000, and the foreign office
believes that inside the great wall
there have been 1000 more deaths.
The Astor library, built in New
York fifty-seven years, with John Jacob
Astor's 100000 gift, is to be torn
down and the library treasures are to
be moved to the new $50,0O0,000 pub
lie building on Fifth avenue.
A deep cut in the rate for hauling
freight between Atlantic and Pacific
coast ports by the isthmus route was
made by the Pacific Mail company
and the American Hawaiian Steam
ship company.
Roth boucas ne +be uuorrfn0 Io0js
lature adopted resolution memorial
izing congress to assist in the rescue
from starvation of 5000 elk in the
country south of Yellowstone Park.
Doctor Oswald of the staff of the
Glasgow Insane asylum, makes the an
Of an important discovery
which promises a certain cure for
mental disease. The substance was
perfected by research experiments in
Germany and Glasgow and when in
jected into the blood Of insane per
sons it renders them immune from
further attack.
With a plea for organization and
combination on the part of American
business men for the promotion OF
trade with Latin-America, Senator
Elihu Root of New York, in an address
at the closing session Of the Pan
commercial conference at
deplored the fact that
the operations Of the law against the
great Industrial organizations reduced
the Industrial efficiency of the coun-
try"
Angered when refused aims at the
door, a tramp retired to the street and
hurled brick through one Of the IL
brary windows of Miss Helen Gould's
Fifth avenue residence. Miss Gould
was in an adjoining room and was un-
hurt, but Mrs. Edward Scholes was
struck on the head and escaped seri-
GUS injury only because of an abund-
ance of hair.
The torpedo boat destroyer Mona
CHAN, named for the heroic ensign who
was killed in Samoa, was launched at
Newport News. Va.
Fire drove $50 guests out of the
west wing Of the Hotel Euclid at
Cleveland, O.. and five women were
seriously burned. Loss $4,000.
The body Of the late Archbishop
Patrick John Ryan was entombed in
the crypt beneath the high altar of
the cathedral of IS. Peter and Paul
in Philadelphia, following imposing
funeral services. Nearly all the prom
inent figures of the Roman Catholic
church in the United States partici-
pated in the services.
Failure of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement to pass the senate will
force President Taft to call an extra
session of congress, as the admins
tration is determined to press the
agreement. This declaration was
made by Senator Smoot of Utah after
a conference with the president at
the White House over pending legisla-
ton. Senators Lodge and Root were
present also.
County local option, backed up by
the greatest lobby" numerically
speaking. that ever came to Spring
field, ILL.,, became the overshadowing
leading issue before the Illinois legisla-