The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-12-06

| AltiCdl actlVlty, Sloan simpson was
relieved of his duties as postmaster
of Dallas, Tex. and the post given to
George P. Rockhold, a supporter Of the
administration. Simpson, it Is under
stood, is a close personal friend of
Cecil Lyon. the Texas Progressive
| leader.
The cotton exporting firm of w. w.
Espey, maintaining offices at Savan.
nah and Cordele, Ca, has failed, with
liabilities amounting to $250.O00 and
assets of about $125.000. according to
dispatch from Cordele
Laxity Of present marriage laws
was attacked by Judge Charles n.
Goodnow of Chicago in an address be-
fore the National Reform association
at Pittsburg, Pa
Hearing on the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings brought by B. r. Tillman,
Jr., son of United States Senator B.
r. Tillman, to secure possession of his
two young daughters, now in the Gus
tody of his former wife, Mrs. Lucy
Dugas, were to be resumed before the
state supreme court at Columbia, s.
c.
Homer Whitlock, eighteen, and Ora
Wilhelm, twenty-three, of Piqua, O.,
were instantly killed when their mo-
torcycles collided on the recently COM
pleted Piqua-Troy speedway near here.
They tried to pass an automobile at
the same time. Their necks were bro
ken by the collision.
When New York Central train 40,
west-bound from New York and trav-
cling between so and so miles an
hour, was derailed at Hoffmans.
N. Y, seven miles west of Science
tady, not one of the 200 passengers
was injured, although all were thor
oughly shaken up.
Bruce NJ. Priddy, secretary of the
real estate board of Kansas City, we'll
TODD and a prominent clubman, COM
mitted suicide by drinking poison.
Richard Frayne, an aeronaut, fell
1000 feet at the county fair held in
Jacksonville, Fla. and was killed in
stantly Three thousand people wit
messed the accident. The aviator was
thrown from his seat in parachute
Immediately after he cut loose from
balloon.
That Herbert s. Hockin, secretary
of the Iron Workers union, acted as
their spy in running to earth the
dynamiters of the Los Angeles Times
building, was the testimony given by
William J. Burns and his son, Ray
mond J. Burns. in the trial In In
dianapolis of the As men indicted for
conspiracy.
Two chorus girls danced rag-tins
dances on the platform of the pulpit
of Rev c. l.. Morrill, in Minneapolis.
Mimi, illustrating his sermon on
Praise Him With the Dance" The
most amazing and bold dances were
put on the boards" by the two
chorus girls and the audience fairly
gasped at this.
Bonds having a face value of $40.
900, with checks and small amount
of coupons, that disappeared in Kan.
sas City, Mo-, July last, when two
registered mail sacks were stolen on
the way from the post Office to the
railway station, were found on the
garbage dump of that city by three
laborers.
The hunting season just closed was
not so deadly as the season Of 1911.
The dead and injured numbered SO
and 81 respectively, as against 100 and
81 respectively for 1911. In 1910, the
deadliest year Of which there is rec
ord, 113 persons lost their lives while
hunting game.
Fire that threatened for a time the
entire factory section of Hoboken. n.
j.. burned out the piano case factory
of John Courtade and caused a loss
estimated at 100000
.t.
Five hundred miners ana prospec-
tors of Bishop. CAL, formed the Pros
pectors' Alliance of America. and
sent to the governors of eleven west
ern states memorial asking their as
sistance in combating government
by bureaucratic interference with
mining operations"
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