The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-03-24

| overcome by ammonia fumes in fire
| which destroyed warehouse b OF the
cold storage plant of the Monarch Re-
frigerating company, 40 East Michi-
gan street, Chicago. The property
loss was 100000.
Fourteen hundred telegraphers en-
ployed by the Illinois Central railroad
between Chicago and New Orleans are
taking a strike vote, as result OF
refusal by the company to grant a
wage increase of Is per cent, with
80 cents an hour for overtime.
Carolina White, the American prima
donna, through her personal heroism,
prevented a panic in the Metropolitan
opera house at Philadelphia and ex-
tinguished fire upon the stage which
she had inadvertently started.
Through it all, with the audience of
1000 becoming more nervous every
second and preparing to make mad
rush for the exits, she continued her
singing.
Two million is the approximate
Irish-born population Of the United
States. There were exactly 1,619,449
Irish born in the United States in
1900. immigration from Ireland for
the last ten years has averaged 81 900.
Employees of the United States and
Wells-Fargo Express companies. num-
bering $500 persons, Joined the strik-
ing forces of the Adams Express
company in New York city, making
5000 who are now out. Employees Of
the National and American companies
stuck to their posts despite threats
and entreaties of union official.
Fire In the plant of the Minnesota
Billiard Table company at Milwaukee
spread so rapidly that 60 employees
were forced to leap from the second
and third-story windows. One person
is missing, an unidentified mans body
was taken from the ruins, eleven per-
sons are in the Emergency hospital
The financial loss is 100000.
Three sons of John Gallaus, q miner,
were burned to death In fire that de-
stroyed the Gallaus home at Honey
brook, Pa.
A shooting affair following brawl
In an Italian boarding house at Pen
nington, N. j., ended in the death OF
the proprietor and his wife and the Sc
rious If not fatal wounding of three
of the boarders.
The first school of tanning in this
country Is to be established at Pratt
institute, Brooklyn, N. Y, under
the auspices of the National Tanners
association of the United States.
Nine men, prominent among whom
was Albert c. Frost, promoter and
builder of the Chicago & Milwaukee
Electric railroad and promoter and
president of the Alaska Central rail-
road, were indicted in Chicago by fed
eral grand jury charged with conspir-
ing to defraud the United States gov
eminent out of 10000 acres of coal
mining property in Alaska valued at
s10,000,0O0.
AS result of the gale which swept
Lake Erie the tug Silver Spray of Erie,
operated by the Booth Fisheries COM
pany, went down off Cleveland harbor
The crew, consisting of six men and a
boy, took to the tugs lifeboat and
rowed for the shore, but We're dashed
on the breakwater and drowned.
Ten thousand women, it is estimated,
are registered in Milwaukee for the
school board election on April 4. The
Unexpectedly large registration is at
tributed to the energy displayed by
clubwomen.
At the Carnegie Trust company in
quiry before the grand jury in New
York city it was stated that Andrew
Carnegie would lose 100000 by the
forgery of an official in the wrecked
bank
After suspending traffic for nearly
two weeks because of landslides in
the Feather river and Niles canyons,
the Western Pacific railroad succeed
ed in opening the line for freight
service.