The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-04

The long expected shake-up at the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, came when Frank H. Lemon,
deputy warden, resigned by request.
His removal as an officer of the pris-
On was recommended by Attorney
General Wickersham following an in
vestigation of prison affairs by two
inspectors of the department of JUS
tice.
In general election to be held
September 81 Canada will decide
whether it wants the reciprocity held
out by President Taft and the Ameri-
can congress. Obstruction by the op-
position made it clear that the gov
eminent could not bring the reci-
procity bill to vote in the house OF
commons, Sir Wilfrid Laurier recon-
mended the dissolution Of parliament
and Governor General Earl Grey is
sued the edict.
A new uncanonical gospel of Christ,
containing many utterances Of Jesus
which are unknown to the world, is
believed to have been discovered
through the work of the Egyptian ex-
ploration fund, according to an off,
cial announcement issued from the
Boston headquarters of the fund.
BY a vote of 200 to 90 the Western
Federation of Miners at Butte, Mont,
defeated resolution favoring the sur
render of the charter of the Western
Federation and as whole going into
the United Mine Workers.
Because of their scarcity potatoes
have become legal tender at Milliken.
Colo, where a man gave one for two
glasses of beer and received cents
change.
Preparations are being made by the
government to appeal the Hartman
merger suit, decided in favor of the
railways, to the United States SUI
preme court.
AS a hay rig bearing party of
merrymakers crossed the tracks of the
Albany Southern railway near Mas
sau. N. Y, speeding trolley crashed
into it, killing Mrs. Isador Finkelstein
of New York and Samuel and Max
Hoffman of East Schodack and injur-
ing sixteen others.
Attorneys for the electrical trust
have submitted to Attorney General
Wickersham decree which, it Is said,
they are willing to have entered
against the alleged combination in the
governments suit for dissolution. The
of this move is that the
trust is willing to dissolve without
fight.
Testifying under oath that he threw
the ashes of Col. George E. Warning,
Jr., who was street cleaning commits
sioner, out of the window and used
the urn to make gin rickey, Arthur
r. Denyse, formerly an attache of the
quarantine station at Rosebank, Stat
en- Island, was the chief witness at the
state quarantine investigation at New
York city.
Details of the rescue of twelve fish
ermen of the fishing schooner Vega,
off Cape Hancock, Alaska, were
brought to San Francisco by the
schooner Galilee. The fishermen, each
adrift in a small dory, battled with a
terrific gale five days without food or
water. ac| u iisl
Frank H. Henwood, convicted of
murder in the second degree for kill
ing George E. Copeland, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment, at Denver, Colo.
He killed s. L. Won Phul In a hotel
barroom on May "a and one of the
stray bullets he fired killed Cope
land.
Mrs William knight Of Farming
ton, Mo-, gave birth to triplets, all
girls. Weights of the babies were
seven, seven and five pounds Mrs.
knight is only nineteen years old and
is the mother of five children.
Twenty New Workers at summer
boarding house at Monticello, N. Y,
were injured when the house was
struck by lightning. One woman will
probably die. Every one Of the twen-
ty were burned on top Of the head.
Thirteen-year-old John Mccain,
walking in his sleep in New York,
stepped out of window of his sixth
floor apartment and fell a hundred
feet. He was taken into hospital
with twenty broken bones, but may
live.
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