The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-09-10
Northwest

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Northwest
Madison, Wis.-Fire which started
about midnight at Hollandale, Wis.,,
| destroyed two stores and one dwelling.
The fire was extinguished early today.
The loss lis estimated at $4,000.
Iowa City, Iowa-Mrs. Jane Kirk
| wood, widow of Samual j. Kirkwood,
war governor of Iowa and Secretary Of
the Interior under President Garfield,
celebrated her Goth birthday here.
Sioux City, Iowa-F. A. O'Connor,
United States attorney of the northern
district of Iowa has arrived in Sioux
| City and at once commenced gathering
evidence on which it is proposed to
prosecute Sioux City coal dealers who
are charged with profiteering.
Winnipeg, Man.-Sixteen farmers in
| the Sterose ID, Uhlac district have lost
their homes, barns, implements, and
crops in the bush fires, according to Of
| ficial reports issued by the provincial
| authorities. Thousands Of acres of
hay have been destroyed in the nor.
thern part of the province.
Winnipeg, Man.-During the first
six months of this year 1860 immi-
grants from Europe and the United
| States passed through Winnipeg on
their way to homes in the west, ac-
cording to figures compiled at the i'm
migration hall here The settlers
brought with them more than $6,000,.
600 in cash and goods worth about
$2,000,OO0.
Personal
Motnreal-S. N. Parent, former pre-
mier of Quebec, died here after long
illness.
Madison, Visit. c. Richmond, at.
torney, and at one time prohibition
candidate for governor of Wisconsin,
died here. He was IA years old.
Washington Brigadier General
George Barnett, formerly major gener-
al commandant of the Marine Corps,
has been assigned to duty at San Fran
cisco as senior officer of the corps ON
the Pacific coast, Secretary Daniels
announced.
Foreign
Peking-A cholera epidemic is rag
ing in the vicinity of Pac Ting Flu,
village Immediately south of Picking.
London Baroness Macdonald of
Earnscliffe, widow of the former Can.
adam premier, Sir John Alexander
Macdonald died here
Berlin-The American steamer Sus.
quehanna, the first passenger liner to
leave Bremen since the war, sailed
with 1000 passengers.
Tokio-K iitsu Kanayama, senior
public procurator, was wounded seri-
ously when stabbed by a Japanese. His
assailant is under arrest
Warsaw-The frontier negotiations
between Lithuanians and Poland have
been broken off; the Polish delegates
are returning to Warsaw.
Picking Dissolution of the Chinese.
Japanese military pact for combined
war time defense of China's borders
has been granted by Japan.
Tokio-A delegation from Toxic mu-
nicipal assembly is planning to visit
the United States to study civic inn
provement and particularly roads and
tramways.
Belfast Fifty-one arrests were
made under the curfew law in Bel.
fast. The suburb roads were held by
the military and police who stopped
all motorists.
Genoa-The American Knights of
Columbus visited the city of the birth
of their patron Christopher Columbus,
and deposited a massive wreath at the
foot of the statue of Columbus
London-The metal workers at
Genoa have seized the factories and
there have been riots in which one
workman was killed and seven were
injured, says dispatch to the Central
News from Rome.
Fiume- Gabriel d'Annunzio made
public the text of the constitution of
new state, the italian Regency OF
Quarnero." The new nation will com.
prise the city of Fiume and several
islands in the Adriatic sea.
London. H. Thomas, chairman of
the trade union congress, predicted
the hardest winter for labor expert
enced in many years. He made an
earnest plea for industrial peace in
view of the bad trade outlook.
Berlin-Dr. Walter Simon, the for
eign minister, accompanied by Herr
Severing of the Prussian ministry,
called at the French embassy and ex-
pressed the governments apology for
the recent incident at Breslau, during
which mob attacked the French con-
sulate
Honolulu Negotiations between
Secretary. of State Colby and Ambas-
sador Shidehara at Washington have
reached solution of the japanese inn
migration problem in the United
States, according to Toxic dispatch
to Nippu Jill, Japanese paper here,
giving its authority as the Kokiumin
Shinbun, Toxic newspaper. which
credited the report to a reliable
source. According to this report the
United States will permit all Japan
csc now in the United States to be-
come naturalized and Japan will pre-
vent further emigration to the United
States
Paris-Germany has accepted the
French demands concerning the in
cidents at Breslau, which included an
attack by German mob on the