The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-12
Domestic

The Seattle (Wash.) office of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japanese
steamship company, announced it had
received cablegram from Tokyo say
ing the japanese government had COM
mandeered nine of the company's
steamers, to be turned over to the
United States government.
Robert p. Praeger, said to be of
German parentags, was hanged to a
tree one mile south of Collinsville, ILL.,,
by a mob. Praeger was accused Of
making disloyal remarks to miners at
Maryville, Ill.
Fire supposedly of incendiary origin.
swept the west bottoms wholesale bus
mess section of Kansas City, Mo-, des-
troying property estimated at $1,000
COO Five firemen were injured
Receipt of orders from Washington
to intern DIR. Karl Oscar Bertling as
an enemy alien was announced by of
ficials at Boston. Doctor Bertling, who
was sent to this country by the Ger
man government in August, 1914, as a
propagandist, was arrested at Lexing-
ton. He was sent to Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga.
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
was involved in producing the film
Spirit of '76," alleged to have been
made to show the British in an I'M
true light, according to the prosecu-
ton at Los Angeles, Cal, in investiga-
ton of the picture.
Unfair trade practices were charged
in complaints issued by the federal
trade commission against the Cutler
Mail Chute company of Rochester, n.
Y, and the American Mailing Device
corporation of New York.
The curtain arose upon the first act
of the greatest Jurisprudence drama
staged in this country since the Unit
ed States entered the war, when ia
members of the Industrial Workers of
the World were placed on trial before
Federal Judge Landis at Chicago on
charges of sedition and conspiracy
against the government to hamper the
war.
James Cowgirl Oem) was elected
mayor of Kansas City, Mo-, according
to late returns, which showed his plu-
rality nearly 5000 over Cyrus Crane,
the Republican candidate.
Rock Island, Ill, voted dry on Tues
day. The Al saloons which were left
after the federal government had put
81 out of business will have to close.
Twelve hundred foundrymen en-
ployed by the American. Car and Foun-
dry company at Chicago went on strike
for an increase in wages and an eight
hour day.
rive nuDuTeu anu seven 0eIlild1
prisoners arrived in Atlanta, Ga, from
Fort Douglas, Ariz., and were sent to
the internment camp at Fort McPher-
son, to be kept for the. remainder of
the war. Their arrival increased the
number of war prisoners at the local
camp to 1873.
Alessandro Vallero, owner of a
Brooklyn coffee house and alleged lead
er of a gang of blackmailers and gum
men who, it is charged, committed %
murders, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair the week of May 5.
Two hundred and sixty-four Michi-
gan firms working on war contracts
are to be investigated by Herbert Cole,
department of justice agent, for al
legged violations of government over
time regulations, says a dispatch from
Bay City, Mich.
The Indiana statewide prohibition
law. said to be the most drastic In the
country. went into effect at midnight
Tuesday Arguments on the .constiru-
tionality. of the act We're made in the
supreme. court and an early decision Is
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