The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-07-24
SUMMARY Uf THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN
TO LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.
Washington

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The department of justice is prepar-
ing to prosecute land concerns that
have been selling worthless lands
along the Rio Grande.
The interstate commerce commits
sion, deciding the five per cent rate
case, refused to let the railroads make
fiat increase, allowed no increase on
commodities, but permitted increases
on class freights that will give the
roads $15,OO0,O0O more year.
The senate committee at Washing
ton on post offices and post roads, re-
ported favorably bill authorizing the
post Office department to establish an
experimental telepost line between
Chicago and st. Louis.
President Wilson nominated John
III. Clark of Cleveland, O., to be a
United States Judge for the northern
district of Ohio.
Domestic
An invasion of the army worm
threatened to destroy the grain crops
of the eastern counties Of Michigan.
After thrilling battle with the girl
herself and strenuous fight against
a strong current at Stone Harbor, N.
J., Upton Sullivan rescued Miss
Frances A. Lewis of Baltimore from
drowning after two others had en-
deavored to reach her and had failed.
In her panic-stricken struggles Miss
Lewis beat Sullivan SO badly that he
was forced to go to the hospital for
treatment.
Detectives from Captain Halpin's
staff met squad of Second Deputy
Funkhouser's morals investigators in
the heart of the old Twenty-second
street levee district in Chicago and in
the shooting that ensued one detec-
tive was instantly killed and two others
and a civilian wounded. Both sides
said that the shooting was the result
of failure of the detectives to recog-
nize each other
Federal Judge Lands of Chicago
sentenced the nine officials of the Barr
& Widen Mercantile agency who were
found guilty of violating the federal
postal laws and Of defrauding count
less persons out of sum of money
nI
million dollars. The court excoriated
several for the part they took in the
frauds.
Prohibition forces lost their battle
for the insertion Of plank favoring
the resubmission of the prohibition
question to vote of the people at the
Iowa Republican convention at Des
Moines. The convention did adopt a
plank indorsing the present liquor
laws and commencing their enforce
ment
Union miners and sympathizers
numbering several hundred destroyed
nearly everything at the three mines
of Mommoth Vein Coal company, at
Prairie Creek, Ark, and engaged a
force of non-union employees in bat
tie that waged from six o'clock until
noon. Dynamite and fire were used
to destroy the structures. The loss
is estimated at $250.000.
Charges that American meat pack
ers and railroads out Of New York are
in a conspiracy to ruin the independ-
ent meat packing interests of South
America are made in letters from A.
Z H. Benjamin, representative of two of
the largest South American meat pack
ers, to the interstate commerce COM
mission and the department of agricul-
ture at Washington.
Theodore Roosevelt issued $500
word statement at Oyster Bay, N. Y,
accusing District Attorney Charles s.
Whitman, who has aspired to lead the
Progressive party in the gubernatorial
campaign in New York this fall, of
beng tricky and insincere. He de-
clares Whitman, If elected, would be
"as undesirable as was Governor Dix"
Knights Of Pythias, uniform rank,
began the celebration in Terre Haute,
Ind, of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the order
The seventh case Of bubonic plague
developed in New Orleans.
Seven miners were killed in the
Balkan Jaine at the Alpha location,
near Irnn River, Mich. A drill hit
Quicksand.
The federal mediation board took
up the fail wage dispute in Chicago.
The burned bodies Of two mine
guards who were capturrd in the
strike tattle at Prairie Greek, Ark,
were found in the ruins Of a log house
in which they had been confined and
a companion ceid they had been muir
dered.
An important step toward curbing
trusts through patent monopoly has
been taken by the house committee on
patents, which has ordered favorable
report upon bill striking directly at
this evil.
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