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

newspaper flight Is to be made Janu.
airy Z. The papers are to be delivered
at San Bernardino, 60 miles from Los
Angeles.
Police Commissioner Cropsey OF
New York received letter demanding
$50, and threatening If the money
was not paid to bury him alive and
kidnap his wife. The letter was turned
over to postal inspectors for investiga
ton.
The Panama canal commission has
entered upon an extensive scheme OF
enlargement at both ends of the canal
of landing facilities, according to the
canal record.
Through the cooperation Of Rodman
Wanamaker and the city of Philadel
phia. q fund of $4,000 will be estab.
lished for the support Of widows and
orphans Of city employees killed or in.
capacitated in the discharge Of their
duties.
Arch Hoxsey, holder of the worlds
altitude record at 11,474 feet, few
over Mount Wilson, the highest crest
of the range which surrounds Los
Angeles (Cal.) valley. He went up
10.0o5 feet, which took him 4,20o
feet above Mount Wilson. This flight
demonstrated a new method of trans
porting armies ACROSS mountain
ranges. according to regular officers
who witnessed the exhibition.
According to dispatches received at
Madrid from Lisbon, the restoration
of King Manuel to the throne of Por-
tugal is well within the range Of pos
sibilities as result of the present
unrest in the new republic.
Rhode Island has 508.5 persons to
the square mile, thus, according to
census bureau figures, leading the list
of states in density Of population.
Nevada, with seven-tenths of per-
son to the mile, is last.
Fifteen men were killed and 20
seriously injured when the boiler ex-
ploded in the plant of the Morewood
Lake Ice company, about two miles
from Pittsield, Mass. Almost the en-
tire force of ice harvesters were sit
ting around the boiler warming them
selves when the explosion occurred
Mrs. Augusta e. Stetson, the ex-
communicated former leader of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
New York, proclaims her belief n
the imminent resurrection in the SEM
blance of human form of Mary Baker
Eddy, the discoverer of Christian
Science, who, "the world believes"
died on December 3.
Threatened by wild boars when his
horse fell in a hunt near Galveston.
Tex. Col. B. F. Yoakum, chairman of
the Frisco system, was saved from the
poisonous bites of the animals by cow.
boys who shot several Of the beasts.
After a month of negotiation the
conductors, baggagemen. brakemen
and flagmen employed by 81 railroad
systems operating in and west of Chi
cago, were granted fiat increase of
ten per cent. The increase affects
$4,000 members and will cost the
roads an added expense Of $4,000, 600
year.
The Republican state executive COM
mittee of North Carolina has adopted
resolutions indorsing President Taft as
national and not section presi-
dent" and pledged support for his re-
nomination and reelection.
AS the clock struck IL o'clock mid
night 300 Masons seated at banquet
table in new consistory temple at Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia, celebrated st. Johns
day by registering a mental VOW never
again to use profanity.
A grocery owned by Jim Mano was
wrecked, ten houses were damaged
and twelve persons were thrown from
their beds by two explosions in Detroit.
Mich. Mano accuses his enemies Of
placing the bombs.
The leaders of the old guard in the
house of representatives as we'll as
in the senate have surrendered to
President Taft's demand for the crea-
ton of permanent tariff commission
at this session of congress. They
have given a formal promise that the
senate finance committee and the
house committee on ways and means
will report bills without delay.
The Adams county grand jury, at
West Union, Ohio, reported 145 addi-
tional true bills against citizens &C.
cused of selling their votes at the No
vember election. This makes total
of 95 indictments.
President Taft, Governor Harmon
of Ohio and some fifty other members
of the Perry centennial commission,
gathered in Chicago to further plans
for the erection of a monument to
Commodore Perry.
Judge Martin A. Knapp, chairman
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, and J. P. Mabie, chief of the
railway commission of Canada,
reached an agreement to recommc I'D
to the governments of the United
States and Canada the creation of an
international railroad commission
which shall have authority over the
railway rates in operation between
the countries.
A passenger-carrying monoplane,
with Aviator Laffon and M. Paula,
fell $50 feet shortly after leaving
Issy, France, on round trip to
Brussels, and both men died after
reaching a hospital. This is the first
serious disaster to passenger-carry-
ing aeroplane in the history of avia-
ton.
The Llewellyn iron works at Los
Angeles, Cal, were partially wrecked
by an explosion, presumably of dyn-
amite. Who placed the supposed