The Ely miner., 1920-10-22
Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for Benefit of
Busy Readers.
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In All Parts of the World-Of
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Everywhere.
WaShinqton

ture estimated.
Washington - President Woodrow
Wilson interviewed to save from the
gallOws Josephine Berry, Negress,
under sentence to be hanged for the
murder of another Negro woman.
shington-Provision for filling
postmasterships in first, second and
third class offices through promotion
is made in an executive order an
nounced by the Civil Service commits
sion.
Washington-With the presentation
of the credentials of Baron Dewha to
the state department as the charge d
affairs of Luxembourg, the duchy es-
tablished it's first diplomatic repre-
sentative in the United States.
acknowledgements of the
resources Of soviet Russia and exhaus-
tion of the patience of its people give
to make the position of General Wran-
gel, anti-Bolshevik leader, most favor:
able, according to report received
here in official circles.
ashington-Permits for the with
drawal of Intoxicating liquors from
bonded warehouses must be certified
to state prohibition directors before
they are honored under an order issued
by Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Williams. At the same time the COM
missioner announced that all permits
to purchase intoxicating liquors of any
kind for any purpose hereafter issued
shall not be in force to exceed thirty
days after date of approval. The only
exception are permits to purchase by
physicians of the homeopathic or the
eclectic schools.
Sporting.
Cleveland-The Cleveland Indians,
pennant winners of the American
League, are the worlds champions.
They won their fifth game from the
Brooklyn National team by to here,
making the world series of 1920 five
games tostwo
Jersey City, N. J.-Georges Carpen-
tier, European heavyweight champion,
knocked out Battling Levinsky, holder
of the American ight-heavyweight
title, in the fourth round of a sched-
uled II round bout. Carpenter, who
holds the ight-heavyweight champion
ship title of Europe, thus becomes the
worlds titleholder in that division.
Domestic
Houston, Texas-A vacation strike
of 1,5Q0 Southern Pacific shopmen
w in Iuo 70 ha tot
of four Negro workers by road Of
ficials.
New York-The superdreadnought
Tennessee, which was launched three
months ago, has been fitted complete
for sea service, and left New York
navy yard on her trial trip.
New York-Coal profiteering by
operators and railroads cost the peo-
pie of the country at least S35O,OOO
during the last year, United States
Senator William NJ. Calder said.
Milwaukee-More than a score of
persons were injured in a streetcar
collision here. Eleven were taken to
hospitals. The accident occurred when
one car struck the rear end of another
Glendora, Calif.-Five persons were
killed when the Santa Fe limited
crashed into an automobile at a rail-
road crossing near here Among the
dead is S. Williams, Dodge Center,
Mimi.
GreenVille, Ala-Select Reid, a
Negro, was lynched by a mob near
GreenVille after an alleged attack by
him on A. H. Arlington, superintendent
of the Southern Cotton Oil company
plant, who had discharged Reid.
Topeka, Kan.-Control of boards of
trade to prevent price speculation in
farm products was advocated by. Her.
bert Hoover, former United States food
administrator, at a conference with
heads of Kansas farm organizations.
Baltimore, r.-Supplementing his
general advice to women to register
and vote, Cardinal Gibbons issued an
oral statement through his secretary
urging sisters of the various Or
ders of the church to take similar
steps.
San establishment of an
isolation hospital on the island of San
Clemente Off the Los Angeles county.
California coast, for the treatment and
cure if possible, of drug addicts, is the
plan suggested by California social
workers.
New York-Use of light, wines and
liquors is recommended by the Perth
Amboy, N. j., Medical society in a re-
solution. The resolution suggests the
modification of the Volstead act so as
to permit their use. The explanation
given is that ''intoxication has become
alarmingly more prevalent than before
the enactment of the Volstead act"
Helena, Ark.-Fire originating in a
Negro tenement house swept parts of
four squares, destroying business es-
tablishments, between 40 and so tene-
ments and several small wooden store
buildings. Property loss was estimat-
ed at about $650,000
New York-William d. Haywood.
general organizer of the l. w. W., and
nine associates, whose appeals from
conviction under the espionage act
were denied by the court of appeals in
Chicago, bade their comrades good
bye" at a meeting.
Chicago-The 5 cent ice cream soda
is going to stage comeback, accord
ing to ice cream manufacturers meet
ing here. With sugar prices slowly
tumbling and drop in milk expected,
manufacturers say there is bound to
be return to the days when Amer
ica's favorite dish sold for nickel.