The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-04-19
Domestic

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sank to death when, within four hours
after it crashed into an iceberg, the
mammoth White Star Line steamer
Titanic, bound from Liverpool to New
York on it's maiden voyage, went to
the bottom off the Newfoundland
banks. OF the approximately 1900
persons ON board the giant liner, some
of them of worldwide prominence,
only 866 are known to have been
saved.
Upon protests of a number OF men,
bers that the creation of a great cor
poration of $1OO,00O,OOO might compete
with private interests and end in con-
trolling the government, the house at
Washington refused to pass a bill in
cooperating the Rockefeller founda-
ton.
Two Democratic county conventions
were held in Chicago-two full dele
cations to the state convention at Pc
oria, ILL.,, from Cook county, chosen.
one elected by the Harrison-Hearst
faction after 1t had made it's way into
: the Seventh Regiment armory, the
other by the regulars under Roger c.
Sullivan.
The jury in the trial of E. G. Lewis
in st. Louis, charged in the United
States district court with using the
mails to defraud, reported to Judge
Amidon that it was unable to agree.
Judge Amidon discharged the jury.
1t had been out 70 hours. The United
States marshal said the jury stood
nine to three for conviction.
One man was killed and almost a
score of passengers were injured in
a collision of two interurban cars on
the Detroit United Railway, two miles
east of Lima Center, Mich. The cars
collided head-on.
Seventy-nine years old, Judge
Zenas T. Vain of South Brooklyn. o.,
a retired windmill dealer, passed his
natal day, at Cleveland, o., looking for
a bargain in collins.
Taking the Y. NJ c. AS automobile
school as a model, the Boston school
board is planning public classes for
instruction in driving automobiles.
Theodore Roosevelt will get at least
sixty-seven of Pennsylvania seventy
six delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention in Chicago. He will
receive the support of fifty-five district
delegates and the twelve delegates at
large Woodrow Wilson will have "A
and Harmon two of the rs Democratic
delegates.
With official returns from all except
one small county, Oneida, on the re-
cent presidential primary and election
in Wisconsin, Senator La Toilette is
shown to have received 131 ,920 and
President Taft 47,629. The total Dem
ocratic presidential vote was 81 ,755. OF
which Wilson received 45,504; Clark,
36,251.
Trailed into a Florida swamp by
bloodhounds, and surrounded by a
posse, Sam Airline, a negro, who shot
a negress and killed C. NJ Mcintosh,
his employer, was fatally shot by
Sheriff John Logan of Polk county
Politicians who had been close to
Hugh ]. Grant, a former Tammany
mayor Of New York city, who died
last November, were surprised to
learn that the state tax appraisers
had fixed the value OF his estate at
nearly 100000.
Supreme Court Justice Luke d. Sta.
pleton at Brooklyn, n. Y. granted a
writ OF habeas corpus directing that
DIR. John w. Russell of Matteawan
produce Harry X. Thaw before him for
a judicial inquiry into his present men
tai condition.
Henry M. bearing and his son Palm
er beaded guilty to charges of forg
cry and transportation of funds oil
the wrecked Albion National bank al
Detroit. Sentence will be pronounced
this week.