The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-02-27
Washington

intendent of the Washington Metro
politan police force, died of double
pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks.
Copper imports into the United
States in 1919 fell off by more than
100000 pounds compared with 1918.
according to reports at the department
of commerce.
Tourists are once more welcome in
England. The British embassy has adj
vised the state department that the
British consular officers are author
lied to wise passports of such travel
ers going to Great Britain.
Search of the attic of the White
House executive offices for records
which may enable his tribe to collect
$5,500,0O0 from the government was
begun by Chief Grindstone of the Pitt
river Indian tribe of California.
Public utilities companies of the
county served notice on the senate
coal committee that they would have
to apply for rate increases because the
bituminous coal operators were pass
ing the IA per cent wage increase to
them.
President Wilson, has improved so
much, Rear Admiral Grayson, his ply
stefan, said that he goes to work at his
desk in his study every morning at
half past nine. DR.. Grayson said the
President had not resumed using his
typewriter, but that he probably would
do so soon
President Wilson sent this message
of coincidence to the widow of Rear
Admiral Peary: Mrs. Wilson joins
me in extending our warmest SYM
pathy to you and your children in the
death of your distinguished husband.
May the memory of his intrepid and
indefatigable effort in the cause of
science do much to assuage your
grief"
A charge of $40 for passports of Gu
ba, Bermuda, the Bahama Islands and
Mexico has been tentatively agreed
upon by the confereees on the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation
bill: Under the original measure such
passports were to be granted free.
Revenue from passports to these coun.
tries is now estimated at $500 daily,
with prospects of great increases be.
cause of prohibition.
President Wilson's threat to with.
draw the peace treaty from the senate
if the Allies continue to force upon
the powers settlement of Fiume con-
corning which he was not consulted,
was officially confirmed and aroused
considerable excitement The state de-.
partment announced that Lloyd
George and Clemenceau had changed
the Fiume agreement signed by this
government without consulting the
United States and in doing so had
committed a diplomatic blunder.
Foreign
The Spanish government was given
vote of confidence in the cortes, the
result being 120 to Is.
Announcement is made that Albert
king of the Belgians, will visit South
America in June.
A sweeping grant of amnesty will be
made by Paul Deschannel, upon as.
Stunning the functions of president OF
the French republic.
Admiral Nicholas Hortlfy, command.
er in chief of the Hungarian army, is
reported to have been named regent
of Hungary by the national assembly.
The steamer Prospero has arrived
safely at Twillingate, N. F., after be-
ing jammed in an ice foe for eight
weeks with 165 persons abroad living
on limited rations.
Raymond Poincare, who retires from
the presidency of the French republic
may succeed Charles G. A. Jonnart as
president Of the French delegation on
the reparations commission.
Domestic
Cherokee Roller, prize Hampshire
boar in the junior yearfing class at the
International stock show at Chicago
has been sold for $4,000.
Construction of an aerial coast de
tense station has been begun at New
Dorp, Staten Island, to serve as base
for land and seaplane patrol aircraft.
Shareholders of the Grand Trunk
railway system agreed to turn over
the system. both in Canada and the
United States, to the Canadian govern
ment.
William Welsh Adams, American
mine superintendent reported kidnap
ped in Zacatexas, Mexico, Feb. Is, has
been released, according to messages
his wife received from the American
consul at Saltillo.
Threats to scatter the boil weevil
and stock disease germs throughout
Texas and the south if Mexican agri
cultural labor is admitted, have been
received by Texas county officials and
cotton men in letters some Of them be
ing signed II. w. W."
An appeal to the farmers for coop
Grafton with the census bureau has is
sued by Secretary Of Agriculture e. T.
Meredith. The delay and difficulty in
taking the census of the farms, the
secretary said, has become a matter OF
serious concern to the department
The United States army transport
Buford, the Soviet ark" which car.
ried Emma Goldman. Alexander Berk.
man and 247 other undesirable aliens
to Russia, arrived here, just two
months and a day after it started the
memorable voyage. The transport
brought back 46 officers and 293 cas-
uals from Belgium.
Members Of the New York Fur Auc.
ton corporation contributed $4,000
within a few minutes after Herbert
Hoover had made an appeal for relief
for the starving children of Hungary.
The battleship Pennsylvania and the
crniser Columbia of the IJnited States