The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-09-20
Foreign


Foreign
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
has accepted the Finnish crown, says
a dispatch from Stockholm. The Fin
nish diet will meet soon to confirm the
acceptance.
Eleven Englishmen and eleven
French citizens have been arrested
and imprisoned in the fortress of SIS.
Peter and Paul in Petrograd, according
to apparently reliable information re-
ceived at Stockholm from the Russian
city.
A dispatch to Washington from the
American legation at Christiania said
reliable information had reached there
that Petrograd was burning in II diff
ferent places, and that there was in
discriminate massacre Of people in the
streets.
Julio Acosta, general with Villa at
the time of the Columbus IN. NJ raid,
was executed by the home guards com
mand at Las Ceuvas, Chihuahua, Next
CO, according to an official statement.
News received In Paris from Tehe-
ran, Persia, confirms reports of the
murder of Christians by the Turks.
Among the victims were Father Son
tag, a French Lararist priest, and sew
eral other clergymen.
A new treaty signed in Berlin be-
tween Observation-Disclosures Russia
and Germany provides that If the Rus
CLANS fight against the allies in the
north, Germany will guarantee no at
tack against Russia by Finland. The
bolsheviki promise to pay to Germany
about 1,OOO,OOO,OOO.
Consul General Poole, at Moscow, In
q dispatch received at the state de-
partment, says he sent his staff and
American civilians there out of Russia
because feeling is strong in bolshevik
controlled territory against Americans
Domestic
Lieut.. Parker Bruce of Chicago and
Lieut.. Anthony A. Sego Of Kentland
| Ind, were instantly killed at Dallas
Tex, when an airplane fell. Lieuten
ant Bruce was an instructor, while
Lieutenant Sego was flying cadet.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader,
charged with violating the espionage
act, was found guilty by federal
Jury at Cleveland. The maximum pen.
atty is 20 years Imprisonment and q
fine of $4,000.
The war industries board announces
that war relief organizations will con
tinue to receive their supply of knit
ting yarn to be made into wooden gar
ments for American soldiers and sail
ors.
Edward Gardner and his mechanic
Edward Raddle, carrying mail by air
plane from Chicago to New York
fell with their machine at Hickville
L. !.
| Four prisoners in the Cook county
Jail at Chicago, two of them under
sentence of death, have escaped. The
men are: Early Dear, slayer of pc
liceman; Frank >McErlane, awaiting
trial on charge of kidnapping, ant
"Big Joe" Moran, safeblower.
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| A cent a pound increase in the price
Of sugar has been authorized by the fed
eral food board at New York Hereaf
| ter prices will range from IL cents fol
one pound to So cents for five pounds
Old stock on hand must be sold al
present rates.
Twelve people were killed and in
jured when a Chicago, Burlington (
| Quincy west-bound passenger trail
was struck by work train seven mile
west of Alliance, Neb.
A record price for hogs was estah
lished for Chicago district when tn
| porkers brought 5000. a hundre,
pounds at the stock yards.
Lieuts. A. B. Stephenson of Bristo
Conn.,. and w. S. Keeling of Dallas
Tex, were killed when their airplan
fell north of Foyt Worth, Tex.