The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-01-02
WASHINGTON

plishad.
Washington
Norman Hapgood has lost his posi-
tion as American ambassador to Den
office
Alarmed over the widespread deaths
from wood alcohol poisoning, the bu-
reau of internal revenue is planning to
appeal to congress for legislation safe
guarding the sale of this deadly drug
for use in manufacture of whisky SUBJ
stitutes.
The miners are getting out coal fas-
ter than the railroads can move it..
Director General w. D. Hines indica-
ted in reports to the cabinet. An in
creasing number of coal cars is reach
ing the mining center, but the unusual
ly heavy production is slightly in ex-
cess of available car tonnage.
Control and operation of the nations
railroads and express companies, as
sumed by the government as war
measure two years ago. will revert to
the owners of the railroad properties
next March unless Congress by legis-
lation fixes an early date. President
Wilson, through proclamation fixing
March 1 as the date of the return, put
at rest speculation as to the time Of
the handing back of the roads.
Foreign
Lady Ramsay, formerly ffincess
Patricia of Connaught, gave birth to q
son at London.
Princess Hans Won Rather, motor
ing at Breslau, was shot in the arm by
an assaliant who escaped.
Thirty-five persons were killed or in
jured in grade crossing train COLI
sion at Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Of
Spain will sail for South America next
June, according to the Paris Eclair
An exchange telegraph dispatch
from Paris quotes Rome advices as de-
claring King Victor Emmanuel of Italy
plans to visit the United States and
South America.
President Augusta B. Leguia of Peru
is facing crisis in his government,
according to Admiral Juror Mont,
former director general of the Chilean
navy who has returned from visit to
Peru.
Contracts have just been closed by
the Standard Oil company with the Ru-
manian government and with private
firms there for 100000 barrels of re-
fined petroleum, according to a Buch-
Arrest dispatch.
Newspapers say Prince Charles, the
Rumanian crown prince who entered
into morganatic marriage in 1918
and recently has been living in Mona
stir, is reported to have attempted to
end Ills own life.
Domestic
Danger from plague infested ports in
the Mediterranean is pointed out by
DR.. Beaumetz of the Pasteur institute,
Paris.
The United States transport Logan
has sailed from Vladivostok for
San Francisco, Dec. 18th, with 342
American soldiers.
Thirty-two thousand employees Of
the Western Union Telegraph & Tele-
phone company will receive salary in
creases amounting to 100000.
Italian and Jugo-Slav delegates at
Laibach have reached an agreement
concerning posttelegraphs and GUS
toms, according to Trieste dispatch
Mrs. Lucy M. Muilenax, "a, who on
Dec. goth, drowned her three infant
children at Occur d'Alene, was found
insane and ordered sent to the state
hospital
The full power of the state of North
Carolina will be exerted to apprehend
the men who lynched Powell Green,
Negro, in Franklinton, Governor T. w.
Beckett declared.
Lieutenant Herbert Tuchborn,
Mount Verson, N Y, and Private Allis-
ter Lima, San Luis Obispo, Calf, were
killed when their airplane fell 1000
feet at Riverside, Calf.
At the request Of Herbert Hoover,
Cardinal Gibbons has written to Pope
Benedict asking him to send an ap-
peal to Americans to relieve suffering
in Europe, especially Austria.
The Boy Scouts of America has
grown to a total membership of 49,
034 since it's organization nine years
ago, and obtained $354,1S0,6S7 in SUBJ
scriptions to the five Liberty Loan
campaigns.
One hundred and forty-four persons
are dead and 81 seriously ill in various
eastern cities as a. result of drinking
wine and whisky containing wood al
cohol OF these 80 of the dead and II
of the i'll were the victims of guam
tity of poisoned whisky alleged to have
been shipped into New England for the
Christmas trade.
Sir Robert Borden, premier of Can
ada, will retain his office, although he
will be given an extended vacation
from official duties; necessitated by
i'll health. Sir Robert had intended
resigning on advice of his physicians.
He is considered one of the Domin-
IONS most brilliant statesmen and
long has been identified with the prog
ress of Canada.
The newspaper Excelsior of Mexico
City declares the Mexican govern
ment 'has issued strict orders for the
protection of Chinese in the state of
Sonora" and has prohibited their ex-
| pulsion.
John D. Rockefeller gave to man
kind Christmas present Of 500, 000,-
000-half to the general education
board to raise the salaries of college
| professors and half to the Rockefeller
! Foundation to aid in its work o: com.
batting disease through the improve.
ments of medical education, publ,
| health administration and scientific