The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-23
Washington


In letter addressed to Representa-
tive Underwood and made public at
Washington, President Wilson ex-
presses at length his warm admira-
ton for the fidelity and intelligence
with which the program outlined in
April and December of last year has
been carried out" by congress.
Colonel Goethals cabled the war de-
partment at Washington that traffic
through the Panama canal, blocked
by landslip into Culebra cut Tues
day night, would be reopened in
about a week unless there were fur.
Their movements
Foreign
The General Federation OF Trades
Unions of Great Britain, which con-
tains many socialists in it's member
ship, issued a manifesto pledging its
support to the government in the war.
Copies of the manifesto are being sent
TO affiliated organizations in the Uni.
ted States.
President Poincare mas just signed
a decree at Bordeaux, France, admit
ting meat to France free of duty.
The plot to murder Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austri-
an throne, was Matched in Belgrade.
and Servian officer, Major Tankosic,
was chief engineer of the plan. The
murder Of the duchess of Hohenberg.
wife of Ferdinand, was not a part of
the plot The foregoing facts were
brought out at Serajevo by the testi-
mony Of two of the men accused of the
murder on June %, which threw the
leading powers of Europe into armed
conflict.
The council of ministers has ap-
proved the ratification of the treaty of
arbitration between Spain and the
United States.
MEXICAN War
During the fighting at Naco, L.
which Gen. Benjamin Hill drove OIL
Governor Maytorena's attack, seven
persons were wounded on the Ameri-
can side of the line This made to-
tai of II wounded by Mexican bullets
in the American town during the
siege. Four of the wounded were
U. S. troopers. The others were Next
cans, two women and a man.
Evident preparations on the part of
a small detachment of men under
General Aguilar for an attack on the
American outposts around Vera Cruz,
have resulted in the strengthening of
the American lines. Two hundred
Mexicans have two mountain guns
trained on the American soldiers.
A Mexican woman, who had taken
refuge on the United States side of
the border was shot and seriously
wounded during fighting between the
Villa forces under General Maitorena
and Carranza adherents under, Gen.
Benjamin Hill near Naco, Sonora, just
over the line.
The Mexican foreign minister, Ysi-
doro Fabella, denied at Mexico City
that General Carranza had resigned
the supreme power of the constitution
alists in favor of Antonio Villareal.
governor Of the state of Nuevo Leon.
Domestic
A daring raid was made on the
First National bank of Sedro-Tooley
at Bellingham, Wash, by six masked
robbers, who escaped with more than
twenty thousand dollars in currency.
The wife and four small children OF
John Weddle, section foreman of the
Missouri Pacific railroad at Milo, Mo-,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed his residence.
The brain of julius Carlton, negro
slayer of seven persons at Frank
Lloyd Wright's bungalow at Spring
Green, Wis, who died in Jail from
starvation, is in the possession of the
medical department of the state uni
versity and Prof. w. 8. Miller will de-
termine If possible the relation of
ton.
Iva Won Claussen, recently sentenced
to six months in jail for sending
threatening letter to Charles Strauss,
a New York lawyer and president of
the board of water supply Of New
York was committed to the State Hos.
pital for the Criminal Insane at Mat
teawan.
The board OF arbitration to settle
the wage and working conditions dis
pute between SO Chicago railroads
and their $1,000 enginemen will meet
in Chicago, November 9, it was an
nounced here. Both the men and the
managers have chosen their repre-
sentatives.
It was unoficially announced in
New York that George Parker of the
Olympic club, San Francisco, will
be credited with having equaled the
forld's amateur record time, :21 Is.
In 220-yard dash.
Marquis Di San Giuliano, Italian
minister of foreign affairs, is dead IN
Rome.