The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-14
Domestic

Domestic
Charles Webster, fuel administrator
for Iowa at Des Moines, sent a tele-
gram to w. D. Hines, director general
of railroads, in which he said Iowa Of
f1cials will endeavor to find means to
obtain coal unless some Of that cOnfis-
Gated by railroads is released quickly.
Albert c. Richie (Dem.) was elect
ed governor of Maryland over Harry
w. Nice (Rep.) by a plurality of ap-
proXimately 900 votes at Tuesdays
election, according to unofficial returns
at Baltimore.
Rioting broke out at the plant Of
the Youngstown (O.) Sheet and Tube
company again, when so women at
tackled the sheriff and his deputies
when the officers tried to keep them
from preventing workmen entering the
plant.
The amendment to the federal Con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote was ratified in the house at Au-
gusta, Me-, in concurrence with the
senate. The vote was Y to 6S.
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Ten union mines in the New River
West Virginia coal fields resumed OPP
erations, according to reports to Wash
inc of
The value of last years raisin crop
In the Fresno (Cal.) district is $685.
100000, it is announced by the Cali
fornia Associated Raisin company, the
organization of growers.
Two deaths from sleeping sickness"
have occurred in Portland, Ore, this
week, and another case of the strange
disease is under observation.
A Columbus dispatch says Ohio has
adopted the prohibition program in
toto. 1t has ratified national prohibit
ton by more than $4,000. upheld a
drastic state law i'm referendum and
defeated two liberal proposals. One
was to repeal state prohibition and
the other was to permit 2.75 per cent
beer and wine.
A Jackson dispatch says the Missis-
sippi Democratic ticket was elected in
the general election by plurality of
approximately $4,000. The Socialist
state candidates, which furnished the
only opposition to the Democrats,
polled less than 10000 votes.
The Knoxville ITenn.) police, the
first in the country to affiliate their or
ganiZation with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, by vote of to have
decided to surrender their union char
ter.
Enough dynamite to blow up sew
eral city blocks was stolen from the
magazine of E. l. du Pont de Nemours
& Co., at Lambert, Ill.
The first break among the union
miners occurred in the northern West
Virginia fields, according to a mes
sage from Huntington to Washington
headquarters of the operators In
that district Is mines were reported IN
operation.
The longshoremen's strike, which
had paraIyzed shipping at New York
for over three weeks. ended Monday.
All the strikers returned to work, al
though no official settlement was an
Douneed.
A provisional battalion, 500 strong,
composed Of veterans of the First d.
vision, was ordered to proceed imme-
diately from Louisville, KY, to the
coal fields of West Virginia.
The largest Inheritance tax ever col
lected in Missouri, 1904, 1854, will be
paid on the estate of Andrew Drumm.
Kansas City cattieman, who died last
April ut San Antonio, Tex.
Auctioneers at Rochester. N. Y.
have generally agreed to adopt a blue
flag in place of the red emblem, so long
associated with their profession.
George Wilkerson. a farmer, was
killed when his automobile rolled off
an embankment along the Sangamon
river near Springfield. Ill.
More than 100000 worth of whisky
secretly taken from a Chicago ware
house and sold to saloonkeepers sew
eral weeks ago has resulted in graft
charges and the demand for an inyes-
tigation by the internal revenue of.
fee.
s. o. Bottorf, driver, and his mech.
anician, whose name is unknown. both
of FL Paso, competitors in the 54O-mile
desert road race. were killed one and
one-half miles west of Vail, Ariz.
where their car turned over on a shurp
curve.