The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-10-06

smuggling this year. according to Act
ing Secretary of the Treasury Curtis,
owing to rigid enforcement of laws
and infection of Jail sentences.
Domestic
The subcommittee on privileges
and elections met in Milwaukee to be-
gin the inquiry into the election OF
United States Senator Isaac Stephen
son Of Wisconsin.
DR.. Homer E. Webster of Chicago
confessed to the murder of his wife.
whose body was found in wooded ra-
vine near Dixon, Ill.
Cromwell Dixon, the youngest avn
ator in the United States. licensed by
the Aero club only a month ago,
crossed the continental divide in a
Curtiss biplane at Helena, Mont, and
achieved a worlds record, being the
first airman to soar above the Rocy
mountains.
President Taft's trip from Sedalia,
Mo-, to Omaha, was perilous and
slow. His train was caught in a,
storm during which eight inches Of
rain fell. Creeks and rivers over
flowed their banks, and a portion of
the tracks over which the president
travelled were covered with more than
a foot of water.
The bodies of William E. Dawson,
his wife and their thirteen-year-old
daughter Georgia were found in their
beds in Monmouth, ILL.,, having been
killed by blows with an ak while
asleep. The authorities have sent out
call for the arrest of an ex-convict
against whom Dawson is said to have
given information which led TO con-
viction on the charge of horse steal
ing.
Corporal Rowland Beverly and Pri-
vate Howard w. Gam of the Cleveland
(O) state artillery company. were In
stantly killed at the United States
maneuver camp at Sparta, Wis.,. and
four other members of the same COM
pany were seriously. If not fatally IN
jured by the bursting of cannon dur
ing target practice.
One of the greatest shop strikes in
the history Of the country was inaug-
1rated when about 10000 workers en-
ployed by the Hartman system and
the Illinois Railroad company quit
work. The area affected extends from
the Mississippi valley to the Pacific
coast, but the principal center OF the
struggle will be on the outskirts OF
Chicago. at the Burnside shops of the
Illinois Central.
Fire Chief Thomas A. Clancy Of Mil
waukee was adjudged guilty by the
board of fire and police commission
srs of the charges filed against him
several weeks ago by a discharged
fireman. 1t was charged that Clancy
maintained a system of espionage.
hat he was incompetent and that ne
.ndulged in petty graft"
A sensation was caused in political
circles when the Atlantic IN j. coun.
ty special grand jury handed down in
dictments involving politicians from
Louis Kuehnle. leader of the Atlantic
City Republican organization. down to
the humblest ward workers, for al
legged election frauds.
Tea merchants, headed by Presi-
dent Nishi of the Japanese Central
Tea Traders association, are agitat.
ed over the governments course in
holding up imports of colored tea.
President Nishi has taken the case
up with Acting Secretary of the
Treasury Curtis.
Former United States Senator
Charles Frederick Henderson of
Omaha. Neb.. died on board the steam.
er Cedric. from Liverpool to New
York. General Henderson went
abroad early In the summer for his
health.
Between $50 and 300 persons are
dead as the result of a food from a
huge dame that swept through Aus
tin and Costello. Pa. The monetary
loss reaches s6.000.000 Fire followed
the engulfing waters and but few
houses remain intact in either town.
dynamite bomb. found within
thirty feet Of the spot from which
President Taft started when he head.
ed the civic parade at Hutchinson,
has to be part of plot to kill the
chief executive. The missile was
found by local detectives.
James Rolph Jr. was elected mayor
of San Francisco over p. H. McCar
thy, present incumbent. by a substan
tial majority. Rolph received the in
dorsement Of the Republican and
Democratic organizations. while Nc
sCarthy ran on q Union Labor ticket