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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

ward to do battle for the right and
the true"
President Taft last night sent tele-
grams to Governor Wilson and Chair
man Hilles of the Republican ma
tional committee.
Here are the messages:
Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. S.
Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Princeton,
N. J.
II cordially congratulate you on
your election and extend to you my
best wishes for successful admins
tration.
"(Signed) VIM. H. TAFT.
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 5.
Hon. Chas. ID. Hilfes, chairman ma
tional committee,
Times building, New York.
You have conducted a most diff
cult campaign in the face of unusual
obstacles. l congratulate you hearth
ly upon the fight you have waged and
am deeply grateful to you for it.
"(Signed) WIN. H. TAFT.
Roosevelt Wires Wilson
Oyster Bay, Nov. 6.-Shortly before
midnight Colonel Roosevelt made the
following statement:
"The American people, by a great
plurality, have decided in favor of Mr..
Wilson and the Democratic party. Like
all good citizens, accept the result
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Mules Do Narrowing Alone.

Glendale, Delaware-Colonel Ben
son, a prominent farmer and a great
lover of animals, has succeeded in
training a pair of mules to pillow or
harrow field without driver, and
now sits beneath the shade of a tree
and watches his prize team do the
work Col Benson a few years ago
had a team of mules with which he
scratched ground, which wore no har-
ness except the traces and which he
guided by shouted directions. This
year he has gone one better than
ever before.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

A strike, which may affect 5000
clerks and stenographers employed at
the stations and offices of the Cana.
dian Pacific railroad, has begun.
Governor Wilson of New Jersey sus-
tanned three-inch scalp wound when
the automobile in which he was rid
ing from Red Bank to Princeton
struck mound in the road at Nights
town and hurled him against one of
the steel ribs supporting the roof of
the car.
Sixteen persons were injured, sew
eral of them seriously, when an open
switch caused two west-bound Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger
trains to collide in the railway yards
in Kansas City, Mo.
Suit has been filed against the Du-
pont powder trust in the United States
court at Hartford. Conn, by the
Buckeye Powder company of Peoria,
ILL.,, which accuses the Dupont Powder
company of monopoly and the piracy
of manufacturing secrets and claims
damages Of $1,119,957.
The Kimmel claimant failed to
prove his identity to the satisfaction
of The jury in st. Louis, for it re-
turned verdict in favor of Mrs. Edna
X. Bonslett, who was suing to collect
two $4,000 assurances policies on the
life Of her brother, George A. Kimmel,
who disappeared in Kansas City in
1898. Mrs. Bonslett was allowed $50.
400. r
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
"Boy Wizard of Finance"

New York.-Wall street has just
awakened to the fact that another
boy wizard of finance" has developed
in it's midst-in the person of Ira C.
Kringel, who has obtained control Of
the Manhattan Life Insurance COM
pany at 66 Broadway. Mr.. Kringel,
at 35 years of age, owns. the capital
stock of a company with s6S,00O,0 900
of outstanding insurance contracts,
100000 company and total assets of
100000. Mr.. Bringel has rivaled
the coup of Thomas Fortune Ryan in
his insurance deals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
No Railroad Case o DECISIONS.

Washington.-The United States
supreme court to date has failed to
hand down decisions in the state rail
road cases. The entire time of the
court was taken up in the announce
ment of the new equity rules to gov
ern practice in the various federal
courts. Different ideas prevail around
the court as to the probable time of
the railroad cases being decided. By
some it is believed such decisions
naturally would be held back until
after the election.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Eavors Iceberg Lookout Ship.

London, England.-A new perma-
nent iceberg lookout ship in mid At
lantic is suggested by the British
Board of Trade as sequel to the re-
port of Lord Mersey on the Titanic
disaster, and the plan is being con-
sidered by the advisory committee of
the board of trade. If the proposals
are carried out, the vessel will be sta
toned in the track of Atlantic travel
and she will cruise along the boundar-
les of the ice region. She will then
be in a position to warn the hurrying
liners by her powerful equipment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Butter Output Increases.

st. Paul.-The Minnesota state
dairy and food commission is now
compiling figures on the production of
butter in the state, and finds that the
increase for 1911 is heavy. 1t is ex-
pected that the compilation will show
an increase much greater than that
of 1910. Stearns county, which was
credited with butter production Of
over 100000 pounds in 1910, shows
production of over 100000 pounds
for 1911. In 1910 the farmers of
Stearns county received sS34,271 for
their butter fat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
University On Strike.

Grand Forks, n. Dust because
President McVey of the University Of
North Dakota ordered regular classes
on election day, two hundred students
held a mass meeting and decided to
call a strike. Plans were laid by lead
ers and the walk-out was conducted in
regular strikers fashion President
McVey stood by his guns and ses-
sions were held despite the fact that
it was election day. Glasses were
deserted when orders for the strike
were being formed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
New Hotel Burns,

Bemidji, Mimi, Nov. 6.-Fire be-
lieved to have been caused by guest
dropping lighted match down the
paper f1ue, destroyed the interior of
the new and modern three-story brick
Rex hotel. The walls are still stand.
ing, but the flames are not under con.
troll and the loss will be not less
than $4,000. There is little wind and
the firemen expect to keep the fire
from spreading. The fire began
shortly after a. m. The building is
owned by the Duluth Brewing com
pany, and the hotel has been operated
by Lycan & Co.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Heirloom Is Found By Add.

Milwaukee.-The only known lost
doll ever advertised for in Milwaukee
papers has been found. The doll has
been an heirloom in the family Of Mrs.
Charles Brichta for 80 years. Mrs.
Brichta's little niece Anna MacWack-
ermann, Delray, Fla lost the doll in
the street railway company waiting
room. The child WIS heart-broken.
Mrs. was also grieved over the loss
of her girlhood baby" She adyer-
tised the loss. An employee found
the doll, turned it in at the cigar
stand and the doll Yves returned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Build Leather Aeroplane.

Washington.-The U. S. Naval con-
structors have just completed a new
hydro-aeroplane of distinctive design,
which will be given its initial test
within the next day or two on the
Potomac river. The craft was built
in the Washington navy yard and re-
inforced leather enters largely into
its construction, it is said. AS soon
as it has demonstrated its availability
the machine will be shipped to the
naval aviation corps in Annapolis.
where it will be tested out to deter
mine its usefulness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Doc Locates Bows Body.

Monroe, Wash. = Oran Jackson,
fifteen years old, was found drowned
in branch of the Snoquamie river
about six miles south of here He
had been working for Nicholas Pear
son digging a trench not far from the
river. When Pearson thought it was
time for the boy to be through with
the work, he went to the trench, only
to find him missing. Search of the
vicinity disclosed the boys dog keep
ing watch over place on the bridge
where a board had been broken. Pear
son looked down and saw the body.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
TURKS AGAIN DEFEATED.
Fighting More Desperate Than Battle
of LuIe-Burges.

Sofia, Nov. 6.-The Turks have suf-
fered another severe defeat between
Seraia and Tchorlu. The losses on
both sides for exceeded those at the
battle of Lule-Burges. The fighting in
this battle lasted two days and the
Turks offered desperate resistance
Greeks Lose Heavily.
Athens.-In the fighting at Yenidje,
IA miles west of Salonika, which the
Greek forces recently captured, the
Greeks lost six officers and 154 men
killed and SO officers and 1877 men
wounded.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Balkan War

The appeal of the Ottoman govern
ment for an armistice has been denied
by the powers and Main Pasha, the
Turkish commander-in-chief, is max
ing his last stand against the victori-
Gus Bulgarians at the lines of Tcha-
talja, % miles outside Constantinople.
With the armies of the Balkan allies
at the gates of the Turkish capital,
the porte has applied to the great
powers for mediation with view to
the cessation of hostilities and the ne
gotiation of peace. The Ottoman Of
ficials made their appeal to the en-
bassies at Constantinople and by cir
cular to the Ottoman representatives
in the European capitals.
The first naval action of the Balkan
war resulted in the sinking by Greek
torpedo boat of the Turkish cruiser
Feth-I-Bulend in the Gulf of Salonika
The Greek vessel planted torpedoes
under cover of darkness, saw the
cruiser fire and sink and crept away
to safety, although it had to run be-
fore a dangerous fire from a Turkish
fort.
A four days battle in Thrace has
ended in the triumph Of the Bulgar-
ian commander-in-chief, General Saw
off. A great Turkish army, estimated
at more than 100000 men, was de-
feated, leaving many dead and wound.
ed on the field.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Bankers Wife Is Struck.

New York, n. Y.-While crossing
Fifth avenue on her way home from
a reception, Mrs De Witt J. Seligman,
wife of one of the members of the
banking firm of j. & w. Seligman Co..
was knocked down and severely
bruised about the body by an auto
mobile. Her husband ran to her aid
and as he assisted her to her feet
both were victims of thief, who
grabbed Mrs. Seligman's handbag
containing valuable jewefry, and also
made off with Mr.. Seiigman's cane
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
HAPPENINGS
Of A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Brie feS t and
Best Form.
Washington

Hearing of the appeal in the con-
tempt of court case against Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison, leaders of the American
Federation of Labor, probably will be
set for January, 1913, at Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Personal

Miss Phoebe w. Cousins, noted law
yer, suffragist and Prohibitionist, who
eighteen months ago was an object of
charity in st. Louis note. is worth
100000, owing to an increase in value
of 1000 acres of Arkansas swamp
lands, which she owns.
Father" John Russell, founder Of
the Prohibition party and the oldest
Methodist preacher in the Detroit con-
ference, is dead at the home of his
daughter in Detroit, Mich. He was
born in Livingston county, New York,
in 1922.
A son came to bless Mr.. and Mrs.
Geraghty of Newport, r. l. The happy
mother was Julia Evelle French,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tuck
French, of New York. Newport and
Tuxedo. She eloped with Handsome
jack Geraghty, chauffeur and auto.
mobile salesman, in August, 1911.
Maj. Gen. Robert Maitland O'Reilly,
who was surgeon general of the Uni
ted States army from September, 1902.
to January, 1909, and personal phsi-
clan and close friend Of the late Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland, is dead at his
home in Washington, after a weeks
illness of Brights disease.
Simplicity, remarkable considering
the high Office he held, marked the
funeral of James S. Sherman. The
services were at Utica, N. Y, in the
First Presbyterian church and were
conducted by Rev Louis II. Holden,
Mr. Sherman's pastor in Washington.
President Taft, members of the cabi-
net, large numbers of senators and
representatives, foreign diplomats and
many government officials, were in at.
tendance.
The issue Of the Independent to be
published this week in New York con-
tains the announcement that Clarence
w. Bowen, proprietor and publisher,
retires. having transferred his owner.
ship to Hamilton Holt, who for the
last ten years has been the managing
editor
Mabel Barrison, the well-known and
popular actress is dead at Toronto,
Ont, of tuberculosis. Miss Barrison
has been a sufferer from the disease
for several years
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

Jack Johnson, heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, announced that he had
retired as a saloonkeeper in Chicago
when he sold the Cafe de Champion
to Henry Starrett, the man who had
formerly managed the place for him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
FOREIGN

The Mexican seaport of Acapulco
was almost entirely destroyed by a
hurricane, which swept over the town,
unroofing houses, blowing down
church towers and steeples and wreck
ing numerous small vessels in the har-
Dor.
DR.. Vicente Llorente, physician to
the Spanish royal household, will sail
from New York this week after com.
pleting two months study of meth.
DDS employed in American institu
tons for the deaf and dumb. He
sought information in connection with
the bringing up of Prince Don Jaime
the queens second child, who has
been a deaf mute from birth.
The international balloon trophy
was won by France, the Picardie hav.
ing covered the greatest distance.
1884 miles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

The Washington walters strike,
which embarrassed several big hotels
and several cafes, virtually is at an
end, according to the managers of the
restaurants. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08
Domestic

T. s. Brice, lumberman of Detroit,
was killed when an automobile In
which he was riding with j. B. Little
of Hartman, plunged into creek
near Kingston, Tenn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

H. E. Campbell and Joseph G. Gavin,
who were arrested at Columbus, O.,
in connection with the bank robbery
at New Westminster. Canada, several
months ago, probably will be released
for lack Of evidence.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

George Bakhmeteff, Russian ambas-
sador to the United States, has ex-
tended an invitation to American mo-
tor car manufacturers to exhibit at
the automobile exposition to be held
in st. Petersburg in the spring of 1913
under the auspices of the Imperial
Automobile club of Russia and is I'M
der the patronage Of the car.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

The Pacific Mail liner San Juan is
in port at San Francisco with the
bodies of seven men of the United
States navy, who were killed In the
revolution in Nicaragua month ago.
Three were killed in the engagement
of Barranca hill and four We're
boloed in Leon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

A strike involving several thousand
employees of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way went into effect over a great
stretch of country traversed by that
line. More than five thousand men,
consisting of freight employees and
clerks, are out. The men demand
higher wages and recognition of the
union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

Progressive candidates, respectively,
ran about even.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

New York has become billion dol
lar city, according to data made pub
lie by the Merchants association. The
municipal debt is now over 81, 037 ,000,-
900. This is several millions more
than the national debt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

Following charges preferred by an
escaped prisoner that he had been
aided in his escape from the work
house by Superintendent John Carey,
Manager William Walters and County
Commissioner Tice Judge Fowler
called these officials into court at Fond
du Lac, Wis. The officials denied the
charges.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-11-08

Martin Halter, clerk in the store of
Fries & Schuele Of Cleveland. O., was
shot and instantly killed in the store
by Antonio j. Patta, a disappointed
lover. Patta then shot himself. Many
women customers in the store were
manic ST ricken
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09

out qualification that never before in
his life has he seen anything to equal
the wholesouled, generous hospitality
manifesting itself so absolutely as a
community trait. He wants our peo-
ple to know that they have been
taught a lesson in charitable, benevo-
lent hospitality, that will certainly
bear fruit should any Of the Texas
benefciaries ever be called on to min
lister to the suffering. They will now
know the "Hattiesburg way" Mr.
Benson, who with his wife and son
were all among the badly injured, de-
sires that especial mention be made
of the uniform kindness shown by the
Infirmary attendants, and the officials
and employees of the New Orleans &
Northeastern railroad. While their
claims to proper attention from these
two sources was already established
by existing relations, he feels that es'
pecial attention permits him to say
that they too have fully caught the
"Hattiesburg spirit"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09
IMPORTANT news
TO CALOMEL USERS
Dodson's Liver-Tone Is a Perfect Vege-
table Substitute For Calomel And
Is Guaranteed Absolutely
Harmless.

If you have trouble with constipation
or biliousness, be careful how you take
calomel, because calomel is form of
mercury, and if mercury remains in
the system very long, it will salivate
and seriously injure the strongest per-
son that ever lived
If you need something to start the
liver to working take Dodson's Liver
Tone. 1t is harmless vegetable
liquid which will liyen up the liver bet
ter than calomel does and without any
bad after effects. No restriction of
habit or diet is necessary. Dodson's
Liver-Tone is as safe for children as
it is for grown people and everybody
likes its taste.
Buy bottle for fifty cents from
, THE CENTURY DRUG STORE, and
il you do not find that it absolutely
takes the place of calomel this drus
store will give you your money bach
IL you ask for it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09
UNSTINTED PRAISE
FOR HATTIESBURG
e*as Citizens, Halted Here, Unani
NOUS in Expressions of Appre.
citation.

interviews with the Texas people
now spending a few days in Hatties-
oufg' are made especially easy be-
cause of the manifest desire of these
sood people to proclaim through the
press and otherwise, their great an
preclatlon of the kind attention they
nave been receiving since the unfor.
tunate accident which halted so MANY
OIL them in this city, when the Confed-
crate Veterans Teyas special went in
tne ditch six miles north of Hatties-
burg last Monday morning.
a News reporter found Mr.. n. c.,
Llndley and Mr.. f. G. Phillips. both of
commerce, Texas, making arrange
ments to return to their Texas home
wednesday afternoon, and both were
disposed to voice what seems to be the
general sentiment Of the entire con.
tlngent Of delayed tourist: which is
that for kindness and hospitality Hat
tiesburg has good right to claim the
crown. Both these gentlemen were in
Jured in the wreck, but their wounds
are of nature to permit of their de-
parture.
Mr.. NJ. n. Benson, whose home is
Paris, Texas, where he is representing
the Texas Midland (Hetty Green's)
railroad, has suddenly been transform,
ed from one who never heard of Hat.
tiesburg before Monday last, to the
best booster of happy, hustlng Hat
tiesburg before Monday last, to a
great booster of happy hustling Hat
tiesburg about o'clock Monday morn
ing, and before the wreck he stepped
from the train with passenger agent
Wood, and upon viewing the town, re-
marked to Wood, 81 don't know what
town we are in, but somebody surely
lives here" On returning to Hat
tiesburg, as a temporary boarder at
South Mississippi Infirmary, he says
he was simply overwhelmed with at
tention of the kindest and most help
full nature. Even the boys were plead
ing for permission to do some service,
to evidence their desire to help the
distressed. Within fifteen minutes af-
ter arriving at the Infirmary he was
approached by five Masons rendering
aid, and this has gone on ever since;
the desire to help, showing itself with
every order and society as well as
those holding membership only in the
brotherhood of man. He says he has
had to do with the public for 40
years and wants the News to say with
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09
1e08-1912.

Ito be read in alternate lines.)
Taft is a grand and noble man,
He's far too dull and meek;
He'll carry out the Roosevelt plan,
Would he were not so weakl
A man of probty and worth,
For him | deeply grieve;
He is the very salt of earth;
Oh, why should he deceive?
He is and has been from his youth
In ethics very lax
A man OF honor and of truth,
Who never states the facts.
Him corporations cannot swerve,
Wall street and he intrigued
Your confidence he will deserve,
With Lorimer in league.
I've tested him, he's stood the test
See how he prosecutes!
To take my place he is the best;
They's only fakes, those suits.
The one man that my shoes can I'LL,
A man made out of straws;
My loyal friend, my dearest Will
A traitor to my cause.
I'll vouch for him through thick an,
thin,
Him too the bosses Iaud;
So vote for him and put him in;
He stands for all their fraud.
No reason you should not agree
His policies are daft.
For you'll take Taft or you'll take me
Take me, take me--not Taft!
Richard Linthicum, in N. Y. WorlC
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09
MEET TO DISCUSS CRIME.

Champaign, H., May 9.-Many of
the most prominent attorneys and law
instructors of the state assembled to-
day in the School of Pharmacy build
ing of the University of Illinois to
take part in the first annual meeting
of the Illinois Society of the American
Institute of Criminal Law and Grimm.
ology. Various phases of the duty OF
society toward criminals will be dis
cussed, the speakers on the program
including members of the faculty Of
Illinois, Chicago and Northwestern
universities.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09

the age limit for active army service
and was placed on the retired list of
the United States army.
Gen. Brush was native of Illinois,
and served through the civil war. La
ter he entered the regular army and
saw long service in the frontier wars
with the Indians, and was at one time
under Gen. Custer. He took part in
the Cuban campaign during the war
with Spain, and after that was sent
to the Philippines to help suppress the
rebellion of the natives. He was pro-
NOTED to the rank of rigadier-general
in 1908.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-09
HAD No SERVANT;
STARVED TO DEATH

Atlantic City, May 9.-The refusal OF
Michael Sidenhop, a well to do farmer,
to keep a servant, cost him his life. He
died in the City Hospital of starvation.
sidenhop had lived alone FIVE mise
form the nearest habitation ever since
the death of his wife eight years ago.
Although feeble, he would not have a
servant.
Several days ago he was stricken
with hemorrhages, but managed to
crawl to his bed. His house is back