The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-09-29
Domestic

Domestic :
The Streator Motor Car company
has filed a Petition in bankruptcy at
Ottawa, H.. placing its liabilities at
100000. A $4,000 petition has also
been filed by two of the principal
stockholders.
Thomas l.. Lewis, defeated candi-
date for president of the United Mine
Workers of America, has appeared be-
fore an investigating committee in In
dianapclis to furnish, If possible, any
evidence as to the alleged disappear
ance of several thousand votes cast
at the last election.
escaped from the Noblesville Qnd.)
jail and was returned by his father
and brother, who found him lettering
near their home. He wanted to see
his parents, he said.
President Taft publicly rebuked r.
T. Crane of Chicago for his utterances
charging gross dissipation and immor-
atty against the students of American
universities in an address to the stu
dents of the University Of Kansas at
Lawrence. He asserted the charges
were wholly unfounded.
Emil Dignos, twenty-three years old.
formerly foreign correspondent
for packing company, was shot
and instantly killed by DR.. William
H. Falker, following a struggle in
a vacant building at 6431 Hamilton
avenue, hCicago. Dignos had sum-
moned DR.. Falker to the building on
the pretense that his uncle was Ill.
and then held up the physician.
A 50-foot plunge from an upper
window Of the Palmer house at Chi
cago into court caused the instant
death Of Charles w. Allen Of Kenosha,
capitalist and possessor Of $780,
100000 estate. Allen is brother of
Nathan Allen, indicted in New York
for the alleged smuggling of jewels
into the United States. Whether the
fatal fall was the result of accident
or intent has not been established.
Trembling perilously on the brink of
panic, Wall street was saved when
the large banking interests threw
their enormous resources to the sup
port of the market. Alarm at the re-
ports Of approaching dissolution Of
the United States Steel corporation
selling by holders of the corporations
stock in all parts of the country and
Europe.
Twenty-three members of the crew
of the steamer Joliet had narrow es.
capes when that vessel was rammed
and sunk by the steamer Henry Phipps
in fog in the St. Clair river
War is on between settlers on Alder
creek, near Ukiah, CAL, and ennis
saries of lumber company over
rights to thousands of acres of red
wood timber country. Settlers have
been dispossessed and their cabins
have been burned.
Less than one-fourth of all the earth
and rock to be removed from the bed
of the Panama canal was in place
September /. The excavation in
Culebra cut during August reached
LAP, 402 cubic yards, the best record
for rainy season month in the his
tory of the cut
With score of senators and repre-
sentatives appointed by the national
government present, and wide rep
resentation of prominent Kansans at
tending, the funeral of Representative
Edmond H. Madison was held at
Dodge City, Kan. All business houses
in the city were closed.
AT least four persons were burned
to death and dozen injured at
Youngstown, o., when an eight-inch
gas main on viaduct burst and
poured stream of the fluid into a
boarding house near by. The build.
was destroyed
Mission Indians of southern Cali.
fornia discovered that bathtubs in
their quarters made excellent beds
The discovery was communicated to
others and now the head of each fam.
lily possessed of a tub seeks his night.
ly repose within 1t.
The Detroit (Mich.) street car
strike. which lasted but one day. Is
settled. The strikers were given
everything they demanded and re.
turned to work. Fifteen hundred men
walked out and the city car service
was tied up.
Hotel keepers licensed to sell intox.
icating liquors will hereafter be
barred from admission to the Odd
Fellows order. This was the decision
of the sovereign grand lodge, which
adopted an amendment to the consti.
tuition to that effect at INDIANAPOLIS.