The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-23


Great Britain and France would Join.
Several battalions Of infantry also
would be employed to police the terri.
tory.
Washington
Revenue collectors were notified by
the internal revenue bureau at Wash
ington, that since June Is falls on
Sunday, the second installment Of in
come taxes due on that date will be
accepted on Monday. June 16.
The secretary of agriculture at
Washington, up to May 1, had ap-
proved 1857 project statements for
federal aid roads, involving the I'M
provement Of 10.580 miles of highways
at an estimated cost Of $92,9SS.OOO.
A Washington dispatch says the for
eign mail service, interrupted by the
war, has been restored to normal and
the foreign parcel post has been con-
siderably extended beyond points
reached before the war.
Legislation to enable soldiers to
make homestead settlements on public
lands was agreed to at conference be-
tween Secretary Lane and members OF
the house and senate at Washington,
and will be introduced when congress
convenes next week.
Revised figures made public by the
war department at Washington showed
that the total casualties of the Amer
lean expeditionary forces during the
war was 286,O44. Battle deaths num-
bered $500.
Sales Of surplus subsistence supplies
held by the army overseas have totaled
$5O,OOO,OOO, the war department at
Washington announced. The American
relief commission took goods valued at
100000, the Czecho- Slovak govern
ment S16OOO,OOO, Roumania, $4,000
600, and Poland $1O,OO0.OOO.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, favored
by the progressive group, was chosen
unanimously for president pro tenn
pore Of the senate at the organization
conference of Republican senators at
Washington.
Foreign
King Albert left the Belgian capital
in an airplane for England.
A Paris dispatch says the press Of
Metz is united In extending an invita-
ton to M. Clemenceau to offer himself
as a candidate for the chamber Of
deputies for Metz at the impending
election.
An isolated band of Russian pris-
oners of war, armed and wearing Ba-
varian uniforms and under the COM
mand of Spartacan leaders, was over
whelmed by Wuerttemberg troops in a
wood near Graefelfing, Bavaria, &C
corGing to Switzerland newspaper re-
ports. They were court-martialed and
II men, with the leaders, we're con-
demned to death and shot In q gravel
pit near Lochansen. 1t is said.
Belgium's army at present numbers
10000 men and $4,000 have been de-
mobilized, the minister of war has In
formed parliament at Brussels.
One policeman is dead, one dying,
and another wounded as result of an
attack on a train at Knocklong, Ire
land, by armed raiders, who rescued
John Hogan, a prisoner.
A Copenhagen dispatch says the
Russian soviet government has issued
a decree ordering the greatest possible
speed in mobilizing every available
man,
The Italians are landing large mill
tary forces at lara and Sebenico on
the coast Of Dalmatia, according to a
dispatch from Belgrade, the Serbian
capital. The troops are being moved
eastward.
The military governor of Saloniki
has issued statement announcing
the arrest in various districts of Ger
man officers and soldiers and many
Bulgarians wearing the Italian uni
form in an effort to escape to Bull
garia.
Ambassador Page, returning to
Rome from Paris, admitted that he
had made no progress toward settle
ment of the Fiume question:. He de-
clared he would make public the COM
promise plan he submitted to the big
Four"
An Archangel dispatch says one boil
sherik gunboat is reported to have
been sunk on the Dvina river during
an engagement between the British
river flotilla and land batteries and the
enemy fleet.
Generalissimo Foch has arrived at
Mayence and is proceeding to Weis-
baden and Coblenz. making prepara-
tons for the allied occupation of the
right bank of the Rhine in the event of