The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-01-06
GENERAL NEWS.

A monarchist plot to overthrow the
Republic of Portugal has been discov-
cred at Lisbon; scores have been ar
rested and the ringleader has already
been executed. This news was re-
ceived by the Portuguese minister,
viscount De Alte, at Washington. His
brief official message also stated that
the plot had been suppressed.
A pack of half-mad bloodhounds,
trailing a man suspected of burglary
at Carrier Mills, near Mt. Vernon. ILL.,,
broke away from their keeper, cor
uered their victim in an empty shed
and tore him to pieces. The authori-
ties have no clue to the identity OF
the dead man.
I'm a dead man. I've taken poison
tablets" gasped Banker Joseph G.
Robin when he collapsed as he was
about to enter a New York court
room to face arraignment on an in
dictment charging larceny Of $4,000
from the Washington Savings bank.
Quick resort to a stomach pump by
a Tombs physician probably saved
Robins life.
Julia Kuttner Earle had her mar
rage to Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the
eccentric artist who deals In affini-
ties, annulled by the appellate divi-
sion of the New York state supreme
court She was Earles second wife,
having been married to him March
II, 1908, after he had cast aside his
first wife.
Sixteen battleships, comprising the
United States Atlantic fleet, render
voused off the Scilly islands, follow.
ing goodbye at the French and Eng.
have been entertained splendidly by
government officials and civic bodies
for six weeks. The warships have
turned their prows homeward.
Thirty-five hundred people at Mes.
sina, Italy, are homeless as the re
suit of fire one day after the ami.
versary of the earthquake calamity
The loss is more than $1,O0o,000. A
large number of the buildings erected
following the earthquake wore de-
stroyed.
West One Hundred and Seventy
ninth street, New York, was river OF
flame for half mile. A truck that
carried gasoline for the public park
lamps spilled several barrels into the
street. They burst and the gasoline
flowed down the hill for ten blocks
Small boys set the stream on fire.
Frank King, father of 81 children, is
lead at his home at Grafton, Mass, in
his one hundred and fourth year. He
was born in Quebec and until few
days ago had never seen sick day.
Warning Chinese tongs of New
York signed a peace pact, establishing
friendly relations.
The resignation of DR.. 8. Weir
Mitchell as a trustee of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, which has just
been made public, makes six vacan
cies the boc-l of trustees must fill.
The yearly convention of the Inter
Collegiate cialist rociety opened In
New York city.
The annual meetings of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement
Of Science, the American Chemical so
ciety and other organizations of scien
lists opened in Minneapolis.
The American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers met at Purdue uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind.
The grand jury at New York hand
ed down an indictment against 10
seph G. Robin, whose financial trans
actions are alleged to be responsible
for the closing of the Northern banl
of New York and it's nine branches
The indictment specifically charge!
Robin with the larceny of $4,000.
Crazed by the absinthe he had beer
drinking, Andrew Hanson, one of tn,
proprietors of the Columbus hotel O
Mount Vernon, N. Y, shot his part
ner, Joseph Dlnavie, and Morris
Babulued, the porter, and then trie,
to end his own life. All three mel
are dangerously wounded.