The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-19
Washington

Henry S. Graves, head of the federal
turn to private life.
Government operations in the ship
ping business resulted in a net profit
of Sic, 493,990 up to June 20 last, chair
man j. B. Payne told the senate mer
chant marine committee.
The reservation of equality of voting
power in the League of Nations was
readopted by the senate by vote of 81
to 20 after it had been modified on mo-
tion of the republican leaders
An American destroyer has been
named Peary in honor of the late Rear
Admiral Robert E. Peary, who dis.
covered the north pole. The vessel is
being built at Philadelphia and will be
launched soon.
Mexicans have been warned by the
foreign office to be on guard against
efforts that may be made to circulate
in that country counterfeit money
made in the United States, according
to advices received by the state depart.
ment.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will serve as
honorary president of the George
Washington Memorial association,
which is raising funds to erect vic
tory memorial building in Washington
in commemoration of the work of the
American forces in the world war.
Speaker Frederick Gillett informed
the house that his physician had advis-
ed him to take rest. In order that
legislation might not be delayed, the
house granted Mr.. Gillett's request
that he be authorized to name speak
er pro tenn the sign bills while he takes
a 16 days vacation.
President Wilson took his fourth
automobile ride since his illness,
Drawing a typical March wind in an
open machine. Accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson and Rear Admiral C. P. Gray
son the president spent two hours on
the park roads about the city and
seemed refreshed on his return to the
White House.
With the official notification an
nounced of the accession to the
League of Nations of Switzerland,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland
and Salvador, all but one, Venezuela,
of the IL nations, nonsignatories of the
Versailles treaty invited to become
original members of the league, have
definitely accepted
Admission into the United States of
a few Germans has led to mistaken
public impression that the government
has removed restrictions of entry of
enemy aliens. In advance of the Off
cial conclusion of peace, it was said at
the state department no enemy aliens
may come to the United States except
reputable businessmen admitted or
temporary permission for purely bust
ness reasons, dependent German par.
ents more than 60 years old, having
naturalized children in this country,
and American born wives of Germans
who have relatives here.
Foreign
DEGREES for canonization of Joan of
Arc, French heroine and martyr, and
Mary Aloquoque, French nun, were
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Official dispatches indicate that the
bolshevik army is in disorder behind
the line of the Dnieper river and a
Polish communique reports the cap
ture Of further supplies.
The Portuguese cabinet has been
constituted with Colonel Bautista as
president Of the council and minister
of the interior with a program pro-
viding for maintenance of order.
King Georges latest photographs
show that he has revived fashion
set long ago by his father, King Ed
ward-his trousers are creased at the
sides instead of down the center.
Canada is now the second nation in
the world in the manufacture of auto
the number of cars owned,
and the number owned per capita.
The United States is first and Great
Britain third.
General Bredow, czarist, who is al
legged to have been responsible for
Jewish pogroms in South Russia, has
been shot and killed by his own at
tendants, according to Moscow dis.
patch received here.
The American legation at Warsaw,
Poland, has been informed that plans
have been completed to transport to
the United States 5000 of General
Haller's troops, most of them natur.
allied Americans from Poland.
Pensions of $4,000 yearly were
granted by the Philippine territorial
to General Emilio Aguinal-
do, leader Of the Filipino insurgents
against the Spaniards in 1896, and
Cayetano S. Arellano. formerly chief
Justice Of the supreme court of the
Philippines. =
Domestic
Governor Clement Of Vermont again
has refused a request from woman suf.
frage leaders that he call the state
legislature into special session to vote
on the suffrage amendment.
A smokeless America by 1925 is the
aim Of the International Cigaret
league, which has been organized as
successor to the Anticigaret league, it
was announced. Save the girl" is
one of the leagues slogans.
Mrs. Wade Doster, who killed her
husband, Captain Doster of the Army
Medical Corps at Columbus, N NJ, and
then attempted to take her own life,
had deliberately planned the deeds,
according to officers who made pub
lie the discovery of a note under her
pillow.
The U. S. supreme court dismissed
for lack of jurisdiction appeals from
Iowa supreme court DEGREES, holding
that cigarets brought into the state to
be sold in violation of the state anti.