The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-07-11
EP|TOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What Is TranspIrIna
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
DOM ESTIC.

IOr places as street cleaning lnSpec-
tors in Philadelphia.
Belgium became the twentieth ma
ton to accept the offer of Secretary
Bryan's peace plan and to ask for the
details.
Wage increases for employees of
Atlantic coast are likely to be rec
commended within a short time by
Secretary Daniels.
William Waldorf Astor has just
added the London Morning Post to his
string of newspapers, the Observer
and the Pail Mall Gazette, paying
s1,250OOO for the last venture.
The South Dakota National Guard.
600 strong, will go into camp at Fort
Meade, and go through maneuvers
with the Twelfth calvery at the post
for eight days.
Pitcher Rice Williams was sold by
the Great Falls Union association
ream to the st. Louis Nationals for
delivery September IA. The announc-
ed price was $4,000.
President Wilson has approved the
recommendation of Secretary Daniels
that no applications for retirement of
naval officers be favorably acted upon
unless such officers had had twenty
years service.
State Senator Smith of West Vir-
ginia was convicted of bribery in con-
nection with accepting $4,000 to vote
for Colonel William Seymour Edwards
as a candidate for the United States
senate.
1t is stated that the David Lamar,
who has made such startling disclos-
ures to congress at the senate lobby
Investigations, was formerly a Ne
braska man, known in Omaha as Da-
vid Lewis.
H. L. Hass, a New York lawyer, re-
ported to the police that jewels
valued at between $4,000 and $4,000
had been stolen from his summer
home at Long Beach, N. j., during the
absence of the family.
Official figures, recently compiled,
place the cement production of the
United States last year at S3,351, 191
barrels, which is a new high record
and an increase of more than g.
100000 barrels in a year.
Leo Barrett, son Of William Barrett
Of Cambridge, VT, aged Is years has
perfected an invention by which an
engine can take on water without
stopping 1t has been approved by
the patent office at Washington.
Officials of the Toledo Museum of
Art have refused to deliver to En-
sign Lowry, sent from Annapolis by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, the
Commodore Perry flag bearing the
inscription, Don't give up the ship"
With the celebation of high ponti-
fCal mass, the tenth annual conven-
ton of the National Catholical Educa-
tional society was opened at New Or
leans. More than 200 prominent,
Catholic educators attended the SER
vice.
The 2-cent passenger rate are now;
effective in Missouri on the Chicago
& Alton; the Burlington and the Wa
bash railroads. The Missouri Pacific;
and the Rock Island have also madei
2-cent rate between Kansas City and
st. Louis.
An S00-mile ride over the civil war
DdIIl6ISlu VII Sluid,
Pennsylvania has been completed
after forty-fve days spent in the sad
die, by party Of officers from thei
army college headed by Brigadierl
General Crozier.
According to reports from WALL
street, the Missouri Pacific systems
May operations added $500 to sur
plus account, bringing total earnings
in excess Of fixed charges and other
deductions for the eleven months of
the current year up to s1,414,OO0.
The democratic caucus of the SEM
ate finally approved the tariff meas
ure as revised by the finance commit
tee majority and a final meeting of.
the caucus will be held when a reso-
luton to bind the senators to it's sup
port will be presented and adopted.
Uncle Ben Wallace, reputed to be
the wealthiest circus man in the
world, forever quit the show business,
when his controlling interest in the
Hagenbeck-Wallace shows was trans
ferred to newly formed corporation
known as the United States Amuse-
ment company.
A child playfully kicked a package
on one of the streets of Lisbon, KY,
and terrific explosion followed The
child was blown to pieces and a work
man a hundred yards away was in.
jured. All windows for blocks around
were broken.
On July fifty years ago the gar
rison, city and military works of
Vicksburg were surrendered by Gen.
eral John c. Pemberton to General u.
S. Grant. Federal troops marched in
TO the confederate 'Gilbralter of the
West" and the stars and stripes once
more loated over the strongest place
On the Mississippi river.
Emma Wagner, 112 years old. of
Maron county, Ark, walked from her
home to Protein, Mo-, which is three
miles distant, and back again. She
made the walk each way in one and
one-half hours and felt no i'll effects
from the journey.
The first action by the recently
created Oregon Welfare commission
regarding a minimum wage scale for
women was taken at Portland, when
the commission, after investigating
conditions at fruit cannery, where
a number of girls had struck, fixed
minimum wage of one dollar a day
for all women workers.