The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-02

of Minneapolis, representing number
of Iowa men. The land sold is on the
| Canadian Northern railway in the
Humboldt district.
Dolores Dale, year old daughter
of A. HI. Dale of Mitchell, S. D., was
killed when she was struck by an auto
driven by l.. j. Bishop. The child was
| thrown to the pavement with such
| force that her neck was broken, and
she suffered concussion of the brain
The annual meeting of the Sigdals
laget, made up of former residents OF
Sigdal, Norway, will be conducted in
Fargo, N. D., June Is and Is, and the
| annual meeting of Hallingslaget
made up of former residents of Hal
lingdal, Norway, will take place in
Fargo, June II, Is and 49, About $500
are expected to attend
Enraged because his wife locked
| him out of the house and refused him
money, Frank l. Jones, a motorcab
driver at Billings, Mont, smashed in
rear door of their home here with a
hammer, entered his wife's bedroom
and after struggling to wrest some
money from her, shot her through the
forehead and turned the revolver on
himself. Both are dead.
Serious disorder, which for time
| threatened to become a riot, marked
the announcement in Winnipeg court
room of verdict convicting five lea
| ders of the general strike there last
May of seditious conspiracy. The
| crowd in the court room received the
verdict with derisive cries, Kisses and
boots and when Justice Metcalfe or.
| dered the court room cleared by a
squad of constables the crowd voiced
its disapproval with loud shouts.
Domestic
Chicago banks refuses loan OF
100000 to the city council to permit
pay increases to city employees.
Offer of sale to the public of $50 sub.
marine chasers built during the war is
announced by the navy department.
The horse will be banished from
Denver's streets Jan. 1, 1925, if bill
introduced at the council meeting be.
comes law.
Collins, st. Clair county, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire. Twenty business
houses and Is homes are said to have
been destroyed.
Representative of Chicago land
lords and tenants are working out de.
tails of plan for establishment of dis
trict arbitration boards to settle rent
disputes.
John Hood Price, 4S, Negro, was
hanged at San Augustine, Texas, for
the murder of John Kennedy, farm.
er less than "a hours after his arrest
and conviction.
An investigation of charges that
some Chicago landlords are using the
prohibition law to extort increased
rents was begun under the direction
F. Clyne.
Prosperity and prohibition will close
the Boston municipal lodging house
for tramps and other unfortunates next
week. The overseer of the poor re-
ported that he had no guests for sew.
eral weeks.
The official Catholic directory for
1920, announces an increase of 1924
in membership of the church last year,
bringing the total membership in the
United States and it's possessions up
to 27,65O,2O4.
One hundred and twenty-five con.
victs at the Texas state prison farm
overpowered their guards, seized their
guns and escaped. Soon after the
break, 35 returned. Stragglers con.
tinued returning until all but four
were accounted for.
DR.. J. M. PEBBLES, 81 diplomat
abroad under President Grant and la.
ter member of the peace commission
to the Sioux Indians, celebrated a
birthday at Los Angeles as host at a
dinner to 25 persons, none Of whom
was less than 80 years of age.
Following conference between col
lege officials and municipal health
authorities notices were posted at
Brown university, Providence, R. L.,
announcing the immediate closing OF
the institution because of the out
break of scarlet fever among the stu
dents.
FOREIGN