The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-08-08
Domestic


Domestic
Employees of the Tri-City Railway
company voted unanimously to strike.
This action tied up street car trans
portation in Davenport, Ia; Rock Is
land and Moline and adjacent towns,
and Muscatine, Ia, and the Daven-
port and Clinton and the Davenport
and Muscatine interests.
Five persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of 1000 pounds Of dynamite
in packing" house of the Atlas Pow
der company at Landing, N. ].
One hundred steamships built on the
Great Lakes during the war have been
sold by the shipping board at Wash
ington to the Anderson Overseas cor
poration of New York for approx
mately $s0,OOOO00.
The Chicago street car strike came
to an end when the men voted, by a
small majority, to accept the compro-
mise proposition suggested by Gov
ernor Lowden, which includes a wage
of Is cents an hour and an eight-hour
day.
More than 100000 railroad shopmen
in Chicago and the district embraced
In q 200-mile radius were called on
strike.
A 20 per cent reduction in the rate
charged on the lines of the Postal Tel
egraph company went into effect Au-
gust 1, 1t was announced by President
Clarence FL. Mackay at New York.
A referendum vote on ratification Of
the federal prohibition amendment
cannot be held in Michigan, Attorney
General Groesbeek ruled at Lansing.
Milk costs 10 cents quart in Chi
cago. The price will be in force the
remainder of the month. The increase
is charged by the milk companies to
the increased price demanded by the
Milk Producers association.
Sale Of the Coca Cola company of
Atlanta to New York interests for
$25, 100000 has been announced, the
final transaction being dependent upon
reports of auditors for the New York
capitalists.
Mayor Gillen of Newark, N. j.,
opened at downtown engine house
the ,city's sale Of bacon released by
the war department. During the day
II other bacon depots, IL in the city
fire houses, opened.
Forty more New York hotels, sa-
looms and liqour stores surrendered
their liquor licenses after improbable
experiences with drinks without a
kick.
Manitowoc (Wis.) brewers will COM
mence brewing real beer as soon as
licenses are granted them from the in
ternal revenue department at Milwau-
kee.
A Stony Brook IN. " dispatch
says a special endowment fund of S.
100000 for Presbyterian colleges in
the United States and another of ST.
600 600 for aged and disabled pastors
will be Included in next years budget.
Roy Emerson of Creston, Iowa. con-
victed July 10 of the murder of his
mother, killed himself by hanging.
| Emerson had been at liberty for n
week, pending his appeal to the Iowa
supreme court.
The man accused of the fatal rock
throwing which forced open the blast
| furnace of race hatred in Chicago was
brought into court there. he is a
white man, George Stauber, twenty
three years old, and was put under
bonds of $4,000.
Chancellor Avery of the University
OF Nebraska, at Lincoln, announced
/ he had denied the application to ad-
NIT to the University Of Nebraska for
technical training u number of stu
dents identified with the federal sovi-
ct republic of Russia.
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Governor Lowden has ordered the
state militia to take charge Of the
riot situation at Chicago. Eight
thousand troops are modified, under
arms and ready for any emergency
that may arise. Five regiments be-
gan to patrol the BLACK belt" at once
and were Immediately fired upon by
negroes. The fire was returned.
George Near, twenty-five, London,
Ont, shot and killed his young wife
and then committed suicide in field
near the, state hospital for insane at
Pontiac, Mich.