The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-08-18
NEWSOF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered From All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Washington

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The national monetary commission,
which is headed by former Senator AL
drich, once the Republican leader OF
the senate, must wind up its affairs
by January s next, If the house takes
favorable action on the measure
passed by the senate, limiting the
commissions life to that date.
The tariff revisionists made consid-
cradle progress In congress. The
house, by a vote of 206 to 80, without
a Democrat breaking the party align
ment, adopted the conference report
on the wool tariff revision bill and
rushed it over to the senate, where 1t
was hung up on the calendar for pas
sage. The measure imposes fat and
ad valorem duty of 20 per cent on all
raw woods.
The election of Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin is to be in
vestigated by the United States SEN
ate to determine whether 1t was
brought about by bribery and corrup-
ton. This action was unanimously
decided by the United States senate
following the submission of a recon-
mendation to that effect by the COM
mittee on privileges and elections.
So dry have the national forests in
districts five and six, embracing
Washington, Oregon, California and
part of Nevada become, that officials
of the forest service are very APP
prehensive lest any minute may bring
a telegram announcing a serious con-
fagration.
dents recent nominations making
changes in the diplomatic corps. They
include the ambassadors to Germany,
Italy and Japan and the ministers to
the Balkan States, Cuba, Belgium, Ar
gentina and the Netherlands.
A story of 'inquisitorial methods"
in the department of agriculture and
of ''humiliating experiences" to which
oflcials in the bureau of chemistry
were subjected by Solicitor McCabe
of that department was recited to
the Moss committee of the house of
representatives.
If bill introduced to the senate
by Senator Cullom Of Illinois is en-
acted into law, the national capital
will become the center of wheel of
seven great national highways pass
ing through every state in the union.
Domestic
Many persons were injured, but
none fatally, when nitroglycerin,
placed under the rails, exploded with
terrific force as Pittsburg, Butler
& Harmony interurban car filled with
passengers, homeward bound from
business at Pittsburg, Pa, ran over
the mine.
Advices received in Minneapolis in
dictate that torrential rains in the
south central part of Minnesota
wrought great damage to property
and made railroading extremely haz-
ardous. At Austin the worst flood
since 1908 is reported. The Red
Cedar river is said to be on ram
page.
The biennial meeting of the Royal
Clan, order of Scottish Clans, opened
in Boston, Royal Chief John Hill OF
St Louis presiding.
A true bill charging murder in the
first degree was returned by the grand
jury of the Chesterfield circuit court
in Virginia against Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr., of Richmond. He will be tried
for his life as the alleged murderer OF
his young wife, victim of the Midlo-
THAN turnpike tragedy of July Is.
Kirkland, Ohio, will be revisited this
week by the hosts of the Latter Day
Saints, descendants of the Mormons,
who settled the Ohio town and built
the stone Mormon temple there in the
'3Os.
Charles Bennett, twenty years old,
of Newark, N. j., parachute jumper,
was probably MORALLY injured when
he fell 1900 feet and plunged through
the skylight over the dining-room Of
the Marlborough-Blenheim hotel at At
lantic City.
Too much poetry, too many kisses,
too much love, too many smiles and
too little work made Wentworth Car
ter of Kansas City an unfit husband,
Mrs. Carter told Judge Poterfield re-
Gently and the Judge was convinced
enough to give her a divorce.
CONGRESSMAN Ollie James Of Ken
lucky, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley and Col
Henry Watterson have been asked to
act as jury to decide controversy
between Albert Small and s. H.
Jewett, New Workers, as to the prop
er method of making mint julep.
Thirty tons of antiquities dug from
the ruins of several ancient Egyptian
cities were unloaded In New York
from a German freighter. The ship
ment was consigned to the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art and represents
several years work