The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-17
Domestic

Domestic
The annual convention of the Amer,
lean Electric Railways association
opened in Atlantic City, n. J., with
more than $4,000 delegates present.
President Seth Low of the National
Civic Federation announced that that
body will undertake a searching in
vestigation of the social and indus
trial conditions, being actuated large
Iy by the recent labor troubles and
the growing vote of the Socialist
party.
The Russian government steamers
Talmyr and Waygatch, under Com,
mander Wilkitsky, which have been
engaged in arctic exploration north of
Siberia for three years, arrived at st.
Michael, Alaska, for coal. Captain
Wilkitsky reports the discovery of a
body of land as large as Greenland,
extending beyond latitude 81 north
and longitude 102 east.
The Athletics won the final game
of the world series by the score of
5 to 1 at New York after heart
breaking effort on the part Of the
Giants to stem the tide. Plank for
the Philadelphia team did noble work,
while Mathewson played the game of
his life, but could not save the day
for his team. The Philadelphians be-
come the champions of the world.
A cyclone destroyed farmhouses,
barns and injured four persons at
Alton, Wis.
Two men were killed and one in
jured and nine horses cremated when
lightning struck barn on John En-.
gesreton's farm near Berthold, n. D,
Big Four passenger train No. II
was partly derailed and two trainmen
we're probably fatally injured as re-
suit of a collision with a handcar at
Columbus, o.
Claiming that she was married to
Charlemagne Tower, Jr., on June 7,
1911, in New Haven, Conn, Mrs.
Georgeanna Tower, formerly Miss
Burdick, brought suit at Philadelphia
against Charlemagne Tower. former
ambassador to Germany, for alleged
alienation of her husbands affections.
Miss Ellen Deeley, twenty, was at
and was saved from her assailant by
Chaffee Grant, son of u. S. Grant, Jr.
As the negro fed Grant shot at him,
but missed.
The Gamboa dixie, the last remain
ing earth barrier in the Panama canal,
was blown up by enormous charges
of dynamite and the waters of Gatun
lake allowed to run into the Culebra
cut.
The situation developed by the CD.
position of the engineers and train.
men on the New Haven railroad to the
revised rules has again become SO
acute that engineers say they would
not he surprised If a strike was or.
dered at any time.
A tornado near O'Neill, Neb., killed
three persons and did an immense
amount of damage.
The American Prison association
began its sessions in Indianapolis
Charles w. Fairbanks presiding.
The Portage Land district of Hough,
ton county, Michigan, is in a fury
against the strikers as the result of
the murder of Deputy Sheriff James
Pollock, who was ambushed, shot dead
and his body mutilated.
Fire in the business district OF
Eatonton, Ga, destroyed four dry
goods stores, a pharmacy, a jewelry
store and dozen smaller business
houses. The loss is estimated al
100000 with the insurance about hall
that amount
a tornado tore its way through
Custer county, Neb., striking Broken
Bow a glancing blow and doing
minor damage there, but wreckine
many buildings and injuring mum
Der of people in the country districts
No one was killed.