The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-21

shore.
Mrs. Margaret Klock Armour.
widow of Simeon B. Armour, the
packer, has filed suit in the circuit
court at Kansas City for $4,000
against Miss Harriet Byington to
cover populations alleged to have
been made by Miss Byington while
serving as companion and house
keeper to Mrs. Armour.
Because he failed to do back
handspring, Edwin A. Kraft, nine
teen-year-old Brooklyn boy. is dying,
He fell heavily on the back of his
neck. The hospital surgeons found
that his spinal column was fractured.
Theodore Roosevelt will be the star
witness before the Stanley steel in
vestigation committee at it's meeting
in New York, according to informa-
ton received in Washington
The painting, "The Assumption of
the. Blessed Virgin Into Heaven" by
Mtrillo. worth 100000. has been dis
covered in the little chapel of St.
Vincent's Orphan Home in Boston.
In a call sent out by the federal
council of churches more than 1885,
600 Protestant ministers arc required
RI Of ha To-
Dor question on Labor Sunday, Sep
TENDER 3.
The American state department has
arranged with Mexico for the payment
by that country of all losses sustained
by United States citizens as a result
of the recent revolution.
Pensacola, Fla, refused to appropri-
ate money for the maintenance Of a
Carnegie public library. The philan-
thropist had offered $4,000 if Pensa-
cola would raise one-tenth of that
amount.
Fourteen small concerns doing fire
insurance business in Philadelphia
were raided by Samuel w. McCulloch.
state insurance commissioner. 1t is
charged that the companies were
started as a conspiracy to deceive.
The builders trial at Baltimore Of
the United States collier Neptune. the
first collier to be equipped with tur-
bines, shows a speed Of II knots, al
though the contract calls for only four
teen knots.
Indictments against three revenue
officers for accepting brides and
against 90 officers and statesmen of
three big oleomargarine corporations
were returned before Judge Lands at
Chicago by the federal grand jury.
which has been investigating frauds
alleged to have cost the government
S1,0OO,OO0 in tax loss.
Charles T. Montague, Nation, H.,
will contest the will of his father.
who left him $250.000 provided he
marries and has issue before he is 90
years old.
Half a million dollars will be ex-
pended to erect building for the ma
tional board of the Y. w. G. A. at Lex
ington avenue and Fifty-second street,
New York.
A bill appropriating $1.250,o00 for
the rehabilitation of the New York
state library. which was destroyed by
the recent fire in the Albany capitol.
has been passed by the legislature.
A moving picture machine set up to
make a film of the rescue OF young
woman from the waters of lake in
Staten island. New York. recorded In
stead the drowning of the actor-rescu-
er and the saving Of the actress Dy
herself. The actor drowned was Al
bert Brighton.
Chairman Norman E. Mack Of the
Democratic national committee ap-
pointed Roger C. Sullivan of Illinois,
E. o. Wood of Michigan and F. P.
Lynch of Minnesota to represent the
Democratic national committee at the
funeral of T. E. Ryan of Wisconsin at
Waukesha, Ill.
The United States army has turned
the searchlight on every arm of the
service with view to selecting prom
Using young officers to develop the
war aeroplane.