The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-21
European War News

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European War News
An armistice agreement between the
bOlsheviki government in Russia and
the TeutOnic allies was signed at Brest-
Litovsk Saturday, according to an of
fetal communication issued at Berlin.
The armistice started December IL,
and is to remain in force until January
IA. A provision in the armistice agree
ment is that peace negotiations are to
begin Immediately after the signing Of
the armistice.
Peace now would be betrayal Of
the entente powers peoples. The al
lies are moving steadily toward VIC
tory. The entry of the United States
insures the defeat of Prussanism
despite the detection of the Russians.
This was the message given to the
world by Premier David Lloyd George.
who was speaking to the lawyers at
Grey's inn, in London.
Funchal, capital Of the Madeira is
lands, has been bOmbarded by Ger,
man submarine says dispatch from
Lisbon, Portugal. Forty shells were
fred, killing or wOunding a number Of
persons and damaging several build,
ings. The submarine fled on being at
tackled.
The torpedoing of two Austrian bat
tleships in the harbOr of Trieste by
Italian torpedo craft on the night Of
December 9 is reported in message
received at New York by Commander
C. Pfster of the Italian navy.
The Austrian battleship Wien was
torpedoed and sunk, according to a
Vienna official statement received in
Amsterdam and forwarded to London.
Most Of the crew were saved. The bat
tleship Wien displaced 5,512 tons and
was laid down in 1898.
A slight increase in the losses Of
British merchantmen by mine or sub
marine in the last week is noted In
the admiralty statement issued at Lon
don. Fourteen vessels of more than
1000 tons were sunk.
Domestic
That their male ticket agents may
be relieved frOrI usual duties and re-
place men who went to the armies
the Union Pacific railroad placed WON.
an ticket agents at all important ticket
Offices of that road, says dispatch
from Omaha, Neb.
One alleged selective service evadei
was instantly killed and two others
so badly wounded that their capture
was easily effected later when EMS
Thurman, deputy sheriff of Pinal
county, encountered the three in a
lonely mountain region near Sasce
Ariz.
George III. Earle, Jr.,. one Of the lead
ing independent sugar refners, issued
statement at Philadelphia praising
Food Administrator Hoover and George
Nj. Rolph, head of the sugar division
for their work and bitterly assailing
Claus Spreckles.
CASTOR b. Means was acquitted at
Concord, N. c., of a charge Of STAY
ing Mrs. Maude A. King, the wealthy
New York and Chicago widow. The
jury deliberated little over fifteen
hours.
Business sessions Of the forty-ninth
annual convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage association
were brought to close ut Washington
with the reelection of Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait as president and of all
other officers.
On account of the present shortage
Of coal in New York one of the largest
real estate companies in the city, op-
Grating 40 apartment houses, COM
menced to turn off the heat in all it's
houses between the hours of IL a. m.
and 3 p. m.
Frank Harrington, president OF the
Illinois United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, and all but one Of the mine union
officials Of the state have been re-
| elected. Returns from the election
held at Springfield, Ill. show Pho
Franckney Of. Spring Valley has been
elected international board member.
An embargo ON all export freight.
except for the United States govern
ment on all railroads reaching North
Atlantic seaboard ports, was ordered
by the general operating committee at
! New York.