The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-13
Domestic

Directors OF the American lnterna-
tional corporation, a large stockhold-
er in the International Mercantile Ma
rine company, announced at New York
that they had instructed their eXecu
tive officers to vote against the pro-
posed sale to a British syndicate of
the British assets of the Mercantile
Marine company.
In an address before the United
Spanish-American War Veterans at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, Gov. w. l.. Harding
of Iowa accused the city government
of Chicago Of being un-Amer1can and
pro-German.
A reign Of terror, with wholesale
bombings and killings, to be followed
by the calling of general strike
throughout the country and seizure Of
cities and towns isolated by the tie
up of transportation facilities, was
planned by the plotters to follow the
bombing raid. This is the declaration
Of member of the military intelli-
gence bureau at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Immediately upon receipt Of Post
master General BurleEon's order re-
turning the telephone and telegraph
systems to private ownership, strike
Of all Western Union telegraph en-
ployees in the Southeast was called by
s. ]. Konenkamp, international presi-
dent Of the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union Of America. The strike is effec-
tive Immediately and is an extension
of the present Atlanta Western Union
strike.
Improvement in shipping conditions
at the seaboard have been such that
railroad administration officials said
the permit system for moving the new
grain crop probably would not be put
into effect before the end of the month.
A shortage Of upwards Of 100000
In the accounts Of Jackson (Mich.)
prison has been discovered, according
to report made by the Detroit Trust
company to the special session Of the
state legislature.
Two men were shot to death and
two were seriously wounded in a riot
growing out of the labor distul Dances
involving $1,000 employees Of the Will
lys-Overland Automobile company at
Toledo. The victims, presumably idle
employees of the company, were killed
by discharged soldiers who are guard.
ing the plant. Mayor Schneider wired
Gov. Cox for troops to restore order.
A strike call set for June 16 is be-
ing sent out from the headquarters of
the International Brotherhood Of Elec-
trical Workers at Springfield, H., says
Charles P. Ford, secretary of the or
ganization.
Commander John n. Towers, flight
commander of the navy transatlantic
seaplane squadron was relieved of all
duty with that squadron and assigned
to service with the commission for air
terms now sitting at Paris, 1t was an
-nounced in Washington.
Eighty-five miners were killed and
forty wounded in a tunnel of the Della
ware and Hudson Coal company near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, when a car Of black
powder attached to the train carrying
the workers was exploded by a broken
electric wire which fell on the car.
The entire One Hundred and TWEEN
ty-ninth infantry, which reached Camp
Grant for rehabilitation, is under
quarantine as the result of the death
of Private Ed Johnson of Belvidere,
ILL.,, who died at Camp Merritt, N. j..
from spinal meningitis.
Terrorists who think they can over
throw the United States government
by violence were warned by William g.
McAdoo. former secretary of the treas
ury, that they had come to the wrong
place. Mr.. McAdoo made the state,
ment in an address at New York.