The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-07-04
Domestic

Domestic
P. S. Peter, deputy sheriff Of Lafay-
cite county, Kansas, was fatally shot
by liquor runners near Chetopa, Kan.
The liquor haulers were in an auto.
mobile, headed for Oklahoma.
Trailed for ten days through south.
ern Mississippi by posses which in.
Guided several hundred members OF
his own race, John fairfield, negro,
confessed assailant of an Ellisville
| (Miss.) young woman, was captured,
desperately wounded, In canebrake,
rushed by automobile to the scene Of
his crime, hanged to gum tree and
burned to ashes. His victim identified
him and witnessed his execution.
Horace G.. Murphy, prosecuting at
torney Of Delaware county, and DR..
Rollin 81. Bunch, mayor Of Muncie,
Ind, were arrested In connection with
operations by alleged swindlers who
made their headquarters In Muncie.
Brice Ringer of Petersburg, Ind, an
enlisted man connected with the Red
Cross mission at Berlin, committed
suicide June "a. The motive for the
deed is unknown.
Approximately $4,000 was paid for
the private liquor stock of the late Nat
G. Goodwin, actor. when 1t was put up
at auction in New York.
A strike of 1,700 operatives in the
textile mills Of George 81. Gilbert
company at Ware, Mass, and in Gil.
bertville was ended, the operatives
receiving wage advances ranging from
Is to 20 per cent.
Three unmasked men robbed the
Valeda State bank at valeda, Kan, of
81, 500 in cash and Liberty bonds.
Massachusetts completed ratifica-
ton of the woman suffrage amend
ment to the federal Constitution. The
house at Boston, by vote Of 1S5 to
Al, declared in favor, and the senate
voted "a to 8 week ago.
Arthur w. Lehman, Wheatland
Ua.) farmer, reported to Chief De
tectives Mooney of Chicago that he
had been swindled out of $4,000 by
three confidence men whom he met in
Chicago.
One man was shot to death, an
other was fatally wounded and
about $4,000 is missing in hold-up
by four men at the saloon Of Andrew
r. Bowman, AT West Twenty-second
street, Chicago.
Rehabilitation figures at Camp
Grant have reached a total Of 203,-
165, it was announced there. This
is believed to be the record for all
rehabilitation centers In the United
States.
! lHe auuCIlSuh CCuClotiOh VI AoDOi
at the closing session at Atlantic City,
N, J., of its annual convention pledged
itself to obtain general 44-hour week
for workers in all crafts throughout
the United States.
The American steamer Sarnam, from
Baltimore, has been sunk by a mine
explosion, according to reports from
Gothenburg and London.
Forty-seven persons are known to
be dead, 100 are injured, and in emer-
gency hospitals, and property valued
ut 100000 has been destroyed as a
result of the tornado which swept
through Fergus Falls, MINI.
A cablegram was forwarded to Pres
ident Wilson by the California state
viticultural commission, appealing to
him to proclaim rehabilitation imme-
diately on signing the peace treaty in
order to remove wartime prohibition.
julius Barnes, United States wheat
director, announced at New York that
President Wilson has signed proc
llamation putting under license of the
wheat director persons, firms corpora
! lions and associations dealing In
wheat, wheat -four or baking prod
ucts.
| Sixty-three villa rebels were killed
and many more wounded in fight
between federal troops and Villa
forces for possession Of Villa Ahu-
mazda, according to an official military
dispatch given out at Ell Paso, Tex.
The Ramsey house bill permitting
the brewing and selling Of beer con-
tanning 2% per cent alcohol was
passed by the Pennsylvania senate at
Harrisburg by a vote of % to 10.
The house of the Texas legislature
at Austin, by vote Of 90 to 81, adopt
ed the resolution ratifying the woman
suffrage amendment to the federal
Constitution.
The anti-sedition bill passed the
senate. at Harrisburg. Pa, by a vote
Of 50 to Id