The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-25

The Paris auto bandits, Monier, Cal
'lemin and Soudy, were executed at
dawn Monday.
Uncle Joe Cannon, wearing a new
grey felt hat, is in Washington on his
first visit as a private citizen in near
ly forty years.
The National Council of Women.
which includes sixteen independent
women's organizations and many sep
arate branches, held a three-day ses-
sion in Washington recently.
The Scotland Yard authorities,
London, are convinced that Joseph
Wherefore Martin, the millionaire
cotton king of Memphis, Tenn, was
murdered and his body thrown in the
Thames.
The lower house of the New York
legislature passed bill to pay 81
day for each days Imprisonment to
persons who are pardoned by the gov
ernor and who in the opinion of the
executive are innocent.
The Presbyterian parsonage at To-
ledo, H., was dynamited recently. The
Rev. w. II. Wilson and his wife, who
were in the house at the time, escap-
ed with slight bruises. Wilson has
been a vigorous foe of saloons.
Joseph w. Martin, the Memphis cot
ton broker who disappeared from Lon
don April 8 and has been reported at
Vevey, cannot be located. kilograms
for Martin are piling up in the post
office. There is a rumor that Martin
has gone to Geneva.
Definite plans for the construction
of one of the biggest and most expen-
sive hotels in the world are said to
have been completed for Chicago's
down town district The new hos
telry is to cost 100000, and will be
built at the southeast corner of Clark
and Madison streets.
An air blast generated by the fall
of 100000 tons of Gaping at the
Miami mine at Globe, Arizona, killed
three miners and injured 100 others,
four probably fatally. The blast was
so terrific that ore cars were blown
from twenty-five to 100 feet along tun-
nels 500 feet below the surface.
Irvine binders that sold at 1925
when introduced thirty years ago de-
creased 500 in price down to the for
nation of the International Harvester
company in 1902 and since that time
have increased slightly in price, ac-
cording to testimony of witnesses on
cross-eXamination at a session of the
hearing in the governments dissolu.
ton suit in Kansas City.
A new policy in filing vacancies in
the position of irrigation manager and
assistant has been adopted by Secre
tary Lane of the interior department
by which these positions hereafter
will be filled through civil service
commission examinations, instead OF
by advancement of men connected
with the construction of irrigation
works.
Albert C.. Frost, former president
and promoter of the Alaska Central
railroad, and his four co-defendants,
George M. Seward, Pierre G. Beach,
Frank Watson and George G. Ball, all
interested in the development of the
road, were found N3. guilty in the fed
eral court in Chicago of conspiracy
to obtain illegally millions of dollars
worth of coal lands in the Matanuska
Valley, Alaska.
Miss Belle Sans of Pasadena, Cal,
was the victim of a peculiar series
of accidents, all occurring within the
space of couple of seconds. While
washing dishes Miss Sans dropped
soup tureen on her foot, breaking one
of the bones. She put out an arm to
save herself from falling and struck
the edge of the kitchen sink so vio-
lently that the arm was broken. Col
lapsing in a faint, the young woman
fell to the floor in such manner that
one of her legs was twisted under her
and broken.
Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the
board of the Union Pacific railroad
company, has arrived in st. Paul,
Mimi, and will hold a conference with
Federal Judges Sanborn, Hook and
Adams, relative to the dissolution of
the Union Pacific and Southern Paci-
fic railways. An application for addl-
tional time in which to consider the
case will be filed in behalf of the rail-
ways unless a method of dissolution
is agreed upon at the conference. Mr..
Lovett declined to discuss the case.
The Argentine poet and agitator,
Manuel Ugarte, who is conducting a
personal campaign against the United
States, spoke at Antofogasta and
urged the necessity of all Latin
Americans uniting to prevent the alb
sorption of the various republics by
the United States. He declared that
United States was promoting revolu-
tons and overthrowing the presidents
of smaller republics. Ugarte was
cheered by an excited audience, which
escorted him to his hotel. He left
for Valparaiso to continue his pro-
paganda.
SPORT.
All of the classic events of former
horse racing days, the Suburban,
Metropolitan and BROOKLYN handicaps.