The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-05

troops made their way back to the Rio
Grande through driving rainstorm
after an unsuccessful campaign begun
last Tuesday to overtake bandits.
Domestic
Clerks and baggagemen Of the Chi
cago & Alton at Bloomington, ILL.,, who
went on a strike Monday, returned to
work, failing to secure the concessions
demanded.
Nearly 100000 fur skins with an
estimated value of $15.0O0,OOO will be
offered for sale at the fur auction at
st. Louis September 1920.
Six aliens, who have been held at
Ellis island awaiting deportation, es-
capped, 1t was announced by the New
York immigration officials.
The cost of living took tumble at
Chicago. Starting at the stock yards,
where pork dropped from 1 to Ia
cents a pound. with other meats fol-
lowing, the slide reached the grain.
vegetable and fruit markets.
The Chicago zone Of the war de-
partment has started the shipment Of
about 160,OO0O0O pounds of surplus
army food to ten states in the central
department.
Twelve members Of the crew Of the
four-masted auxiliary schooner Elmer
Roberts arrived at Yarmouth, N. s.,
and reported that their ship, loaded
with ammunition, caught fire and blew
up at sea.
Two men were killed and ten injur-
ed, four probably fatally, in battle
between police guards and mob OF
strike sympathizers at the car barns
of the Southern Public Utilities COM
pany at Charlotte, N. G.
Although the sun was shining, snow
fell for five minutes at Hornell, N. Y,
melting as rapidly as it struck the
ground. a'a
Foreign buyers demanding every
thing from toys to locomotives. and
representing practically every coun-
try of the civilized globe, are pouring
into New York on every arriving steam
ef. e -gr...
The theft of 100000 in Liberty
bonds and 5000 in cash from vault
in the office of the paymaster Of the
Boston & Albany railroad at Boston
was discovered.
In a 1,500-foot plunge to earth af-
ter their airplane had gone into tail
spin, Lieut.. Floyd B. Meisenheimer.
Detroit, and Sergt. Harold j. Ice, a
resident of Iowa, were killed at Scott
Field, Belleville, Ill.
Approximately 2,2O0 workers who
went on strike at the Argo plant of
the Corn Products Refining company
several weeks ago met in Union hall
in Chicago and voted to return to
work.
Suit was filed in common pleas court
at Cleveland, O., by Prosecutor Doer-
fer of Cuyahoga county to dissolve the
| Ohio Farmers Cooperative Milk COM
pany.
The majority of the 1900 bricklay-
ers at Philadelphia struck, tying up
practically every large building opera
ton.
A 60,OO0-pound consignment Of sugar.
presumably held for purpose of specu'
lation, was seized at Chicago by dep.
uty United States marshals.
It was learned at Joliet, H., that q
registered pouch containing, 1t Is said,
about STE, 900 in Liberty bonds and 9th.
err securities disappeared from the
mails recently between Joliet and Chi
cago,
Seven hundred acres were burned
over in a forest fire in the Big Horn
district, near the Montana line, ac-
cor0ing to INFORMATION received at
Sheridan, Wyo. Fire fighters were
rushed to the scene.
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American aviators made Jesus Rem
terra, bandit leader. pay in full for his
treatment Of Lieutenants Peterson and
Davis, held for ransom by the Mexican.
when Lieut.. r. 81. Cooper killed Rem
terra, from an airplane, according to
statements made at Maria, Tex, by
Mai. James P. Yancey, commander of
the United States punitive expedition.
/, Fifty United States deputy marshals