The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-11-10


the Italian Tripolitan war is, in terms,
asked by the Turkish government OF
the United States in a message filed
with the state department through
the Turkish ambassador.
The outer forts at Tripoli have
been captured by the allied Turkish
and Arab forces following a terrific
bombardment. The Italians were
driven back.
The whole Italian fleet has left
Tripoli for Turkish waters.
Domestic
Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the first
aviator to blaze an air line across the
breadth of the American continent,
finished his epochal flight at Tourna-
ment park in Pasadena, Cal.
The United States consumes q
greater quantity of beer than any 9TH
sr nation on the globe, and Is second
to Russia in the consumption of dis
TILED spirits.
Leon Mandel of Chicago, president
Of Mandel Brothers, one of the largest
dry goods establishments in the west,
died at Atlantic City, N. P, from neu-
ritis. He had been i'll several months.
Harry Marcy Coudrey, formerly Re-
publican representative from the
Twelfth district of Missouri, and in
dicted In Missouri with eight other
officials of the Continental Life AS
surance company on charge of using
the mails to defraud, was arrested In
New York city.
Moving pictures of model road con-
struction will be shown at the con-
vention Of the American Association
for Highway Improvement to be held
at Richmond, Va, beginning Novem-
Der 20. These photographs were taken
by the United States bureau of good
roads.
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, s. j.,
the Jesuit son of Gen. William Te-
cumseh Sherman, has been commit
led to a private sanitarium at Sanrien
Plain, N. Y, after a long struggle to
regain the use of his mental facul-
ties.
Norman ]. Colman, first secretary
of agriculture of the United States,
in Cleveland's cabinet, died on train
which was bringing him to his home
In st. Louis. He suffered stroke of
apoplexy while in sleeping car
berth near Lexington Junction. Mo.
He was eighty-four years old.
With only one lapse in his bi-week-
~ schedule, the bloody traces of what
are believed to be the work Of Charles
Marzyek, ex-convict and suspected OF
being a wholesale slayer, were dis
covered at Mount Pleasant, Ia, when
the bleeding and unconscious body OF
Mrs. ]. B. Jordan was found in her
home here. The house had not been
robbed.
Following a report Of the experts
who examined the viscera of Arthur
F. Bissonette, the Chicago policeman,
who died in the home of Mrs. Louise
Vermilya under mysterious circum-
stances, that they had found arsenic
In abundant quantities" warrant
charging Mrs. Vermilya with murder
was issued.
The brightest four men in the Har-
ward law school as determined by the
annual award of the Sears prizes are:
Charles q. Hughes, Jr., son of Justice
Hughes of the United States Supreme
court; ]. c. Buchanan of Pittsburgh,
and F. S. Wyner Of Boston. The prizes
are of 1915 each.
Gen. Daniel e. Sickles, hero Of the
battle Of Gettysburg, has been black
balfed in his second attempt to join
= in New York the Loyal Legion, an or
ganization of former officers on the
Union side in the Civil war.
Death by starvation was the sacri-
fetal faith testimony of Henry Letsch.
forty-six years old; Anna Letsch, forty
years old, and Herman Letsch, twelve
years old-father, mother and child
found dead at their residence in Chi
cago after three weeks of seclusion.
Confession by Midshipman Joseph
G. Arnold of Pennsylvania, of connec-
ton with the hazing of w. d. Alexan-
der, an Annapolis cadet, has saved
investigation, which would have re-
suited in the punishment of several
cadets for hazing.
A. r. Armstrong, a wealthy mer-
chant at Tucson, Ariz., committed
suicide by shooting. Mr. Armstrong
went to Tucson several years ago
from Cedar Rapids. Ia, and was in
terested in the string of Armstrong
stores in Iowa and Nebraska.
]. Pierpont Morgan. whose gifts
totaling $1.185,00 made possible the
present Harvard Medical school, has
had his application for two football
tickets to the Harvard-Yale game re-
jected because he failed to agree to q
technical requirement.