The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-24

Lacking water and food, more than
hundred passengers, among them
several women, are marooned on the
roofs of 500 line passenger train
which has settled for seven feet In
a quagmire 81 miles east Of Moose
Lake, MINI. They are in perilous
plight, swept by a northwest gale.
which promises snowfall that may
descend on them before rescue
party can meet them.
A delay Of at least two days in be-
ginning of the trial Of the nine Cri-
cago packers indicted for violating
the Sherman antitrust law was Sc
cured by their counsel. The delay
was granted by Judge Kohlsaat in the
United States circuit court after the
defendants had. been defeated in ef-
forts to make effective a writ Of ha-
beas corpus. An appeal to the United
States Supreme court was allowed
by Judge Kohlsaat.
An inquiry will be made by the po-
Ice and the Yale authorities into the
disturbance in the Hyperion theater
at New Haven, Conn, in which about
400 students were elected from the
theater by police after the stage
hands had turned on a hose and
drenched many in the audience. This
was followed outside by hand to
hand conflicts.
At the annual session of Oberlin col
lege trustees reports showed that in
stitution's property, including endow-
ment funds, buildings and equipment,
has an aggregate value of 100000.
DR.. Alonzo A. Ames, for many years
mayor of Minneapolis and head OF the
notorious Ames regime, was found
dead in his bed in that city. At the
time of the expose of graft in his adj
ministration. ten years ago, Doctor
Ames was indicted and was tried four
times. but never convicted.
Express Messenger Irving B. Barger
was killed and the safe in his car on
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
road looted of sum said to be $1,000
or $4,000, near Scranton, Pa.
1t is believed at Topeka, Kan, that
the manner of infection Of pellagra
has been discovered and that the dis
ease is carried by sand feas.
The validity of many Illinois mar
riages will be affected by the decisiin
of the appellate court of southern ILL.,
nois, placed on record at Mt Vernon,
ILL., The court held that the Illinois
law forbidding the remarriage of d.
vorced people within one year could
not be evaded by persons going out
side of the state to be married and
then returning to this state to live.
Severe criticism of the trust dis
memberment policy of the present ad-
ministration is made by Theodore
Roosevelt in an editorial in the current
number of the Outlook. The former
president advocates complete govern.
mental supervision of Industrial cor
porations as a remedy for the evils
of business combines.
w. P. Bisbee, discharged employe
of the United States Express company,
has confessed at Scranton, Pa, that
he killed l. G. Berger, messenger,
In his car on the Lackawanna road
for purposes Of robbery.
Dragged over five miles of rough
country road by runaway team,
Mrs. Flora Hamilton Cassel, fifty-nine
years old, a hymn writer of national
prominence and former president OF
the Nebraska w. C. T. u, met death
near Denver.
Mrs. Anna Neumayer, thirty-five
years old, and her eleyen-months-old
son were asphyxiated by fuel gas at
Belleville, Ill. Mrs Martin Gambat7
and her three children, who shared
apartments with the Neumayers. were
found in stupor.
Henry s. Graves, head Of the United
States forest service. has written tt
district foresters throughout the coun
try commencing them and their mer
on their success during the season IL
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