The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-21

nOunce CnaC ne is improving so rapidly
that he will soon be able to resume
work.
Carter Glass, secretary of the treas
ury, has not determined just when he
would resign to accept appointment as
successor to Senator Thomas S. Mar
tin of Virginia, who died several days
ago.
Foreign
Bolivia has ratified the treaty OF
Versailles.
General Judenich, commander-in-
chief Of the Russian army of the
Northwest, has resigned.
Shortage of dwellings is so serious
in Spain that society has been organ
'ized at Madrid to import wooden
houses from America.
A floating mine was declared re-
sponsible for the sinking of the Ameri-
can steamer Council Bluffs, off the
coast of Holland, but the crew was
saved.
A delegation Of French intellectuals
will visit Mexico within the next few
months with an idea of creating a
better understanding between the two
countries.
The Bolsheviki have been over
thrown in Brest-Litovsk, soviet wire
less dispatch from Moscow admits.
After fighting for eight days, the Boil
sheviki withdrew.
United States Consular Agent Jen-
kins has been placed under arrest in
Mexico charged with conniving at his
recent abduction. He denies the
charge and the state department at
Washington says they are absurd.
A crisis appears imminent in Aus
tria, according to advices, political
discomfort and economic distress
arousing the people. The government
is reported as unable to maintain it's
power and the republic is likely to fall
to pieces, several groups declaring
for union with Germany.
The cells occupied by Edith Cavell
and Gabrielle Petit in Brussels pre-
vious to their execution by the Ger
mans are to be transformed into min
iature museums, the court of Justice
has decided. Clothes worn by the
two women, their books and other be-
longings have been collected and
placed in the cells.
On the ground that the president
alone could say when war with Ger.
many ended, the federal court of APP
peals at New Orleans affirmed the sem
tence imposed on Lucian C. Laughter,
Tarrant, Texas, convicted of having
violated in April, 1919, the Reed
amendment and selective service act
by taking liquor into Camp Bowie.
The frozen bodies of several Aus
TRAN artillerymen, perfectly preserved,
have been discovered by st. Bernard
dogs in an Alpine trench near the
summit of Stelvio pass, about 10000
feet above sea level 1t Is believed
that whole battery was buried in
the deep snow Searching parties al
ready have uncovered seven bodies.
An unmasked bandit entered the
Trinity County bank at Weaverville,
Calf, locked the cashier in a vault
and departed with between $4,000 and
$4,000.
The international Red Cross at &C.
neva received a telegram from Con-
stantinople dated November 9, stating
that the plague had broken out in the
Turkish capital, and asking for help.
The Baltic conference at Dorpet
has been advised that Finland has
decided to aid General Judenich with
10000 volunteers in new attempt to
take Petrograd within the next few
weeks.
The Italian government has official
ly raised the blockade Of Fiume. ac-
cording to advices from that city re-
ceived through Laibach, Austria.
Because of the coal shortage, the
Paris municipal government has re-
quested theaters and department
stores to reduce illumination, and free
distribution of fuel to persons MANNED
in the war has begun.
Establishment of curb markets to
reduce the cost of living and stimula-
ton of building campaigns to solve
the housing problem, were advocated
at the convention of the National