The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-10

crates traction lines at oakland ana
Berkeley, CAL, struck to enforce
their demands for higher wages.
Arrangements for the use of sailors
from the Great Lakes naval training
station to suppress rioting and pre-
serve order In Waukegan were com.
pleted.
The Middle Fork coal mine ut Ben
ton, H., owned by the United States
Steel corporation and employing 400
men, closed down. The mine sends
most Of its output to the Joliet mills.
Decision to lock out 1000 pressmen
at New York and halt the publication
of book, periodical and job printing
was reached at meeting of employ
ing printers.
Twelve special trains carried base
ball fans, players and news writer's
from Cincinnati to Chicago for the
opening of the series there.
The Allegheny Steel company at
Pittsburgh, Pa, announced that the
bars were up against foreign labor.
Hereafter only naturalized citizens
will be employed, it was stated by
company officials.
The ndinavian-American Bank of
Fargo, N. D., with liabilities aggregat-
ing more than $1,6OO,OOO, was declared
insolvent by the banking board Of
North Dakota. 1t was ordered closed.
Personal
Because Of the illness of President
Wilson, King Albert Of Belgium will
cancel all engagements in connection
with his tour of the United States af-
ter those in Boston and Buffalo until
October IA, 1t was announced at New
York.
The prince of Wales, who now is
touring Canada, will go to Washing
ton in about month for visit Of
three days, but he will not make a
tour of the United States.
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Sir Edward Tyas Cook, until recent
ly director of the British press bureau,
died at London. He was born in 1857.
Foreign
One hundred persons have been
drowned and loss exceeding 100000
pesetas has been caused, it is estimat-
ed at Madrid, by the floods in south
eastern Spain.
The first active military participa-
ton in the railway strike occurred
when soldiers took over the Boston
station in London, following the arrest
Of strikers for holding up the depart
ure of a train.
An official statement issued from
Downing street in London, says the
National Union Of Railwaymen has re-
jected the governments offer Of arbi-
tration and also seven days truce
proposed by the government.
A. Helsingfors dispatch says the
northwestern Russian army is en-
gagged in a general offensive move
ment in the direction of Pskov, near
the Esthonian frontier. :. Eleven vii
lagos have been captured.
During labor demonstration by
$4,000 persons in the Muellerstrasse,
in Berlin, soldiers fired int the crowd,
killing one and wOunding ten. persons.
The chamber of deputies at Paris
ratified the German peace treaty by a
vote of 372 to SO. The chamber then
ratified unanimously the treaties be-
tween France and the United States
and France and Great Britain.
A new official worlds record for air.
plane speed has been made at villa
Coublay, France, by Spad single
scatter airplane which accomplished
1S4 miles an hour.
Floods in the northern part of CHA
pas state caused great damage. The
town of Chilon Is reported by Mexico
City to have been wiped out entirely.
The number of dead has not been es-
timated, but it will be large.
Burglary has increased so per cent
in London during the last year.
Serbia is planning an expedition
against dAnnunzio's italian troops
who are occupying Fiume, a Berne
dispatch says.
The blockade of Germany, which
was threatened by the allies in case
the German troops of Gen. Won der
Goltz were not removed from the Bal
tic region, has begun, according to
the Paris Intransigeant.
The conference between the govern
ment and the leaders of the rail strike
at London, broke down. No settlement
is in sight at this cabling.
The authorities at London have de-
cided that parliament will not be
called together in connection with the