The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26
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Washington

WaShington-The bill providing for
federal regulation ST the meat pack
ing industry has been signed by Pres
ident Harding, it was announced at
the White House.
Washington-The senate voted it's
Endorsement of President Harding's po-
icy of hiring high salaried experts TO
untangle the government from the
S3,000,000 shipping fiasco.
Washington-The nomination of
Frederick l. Cox of New Jersey to be
a member of the l. C. C. was ordered
favorably reported by the Senate in
terstate commerce committee.
Washington-By a vote of 2S to %
the Senate adopted an amendment to
the federal aid road bill reducing from
$100,000,000 to S75,000,000 the amount
available for construction in the next
year.
Washington = Legislation creating
IS federal judges at large was recon-
mended to President Harding and to
the judiciary committee of the house
and senate by Attorney General H. NJ.
Daugherty.
" oSAAAAS I'LL ppiOPA-oSAOi Va
100000 was authorized by the senate
to enable the secretary of agriculture
to provide clerical and other assistants
for the enforcement of the packers
control act
Neutrality-suspicious. to the pro-
posal to authorize retirement of Ser
geant Alvin c. York, of Tennessee
World war hero, with the rank and
pay of captain, developed in the SEN
ate military committee.
Washington-Secreta of the Treas
ury A. w. Mellon denied that he has
resigned or has any intention of re-
signing. Mr.. Mellon said he supposed
the report grew out of the situation in
volving tax legislation
Washington-The shipping board
deficiency appropriation bill carrying
$4S,500,000 for use by the board this
year and with the elimination of all
restrictions as to what salaries might
be paid officers and counsel, was
passed by the senate.
Washington-The republican tax bill
was passed by the house after the
democrats had failed in an effort to
have it recommitted for elimination of
the provision repeating the income sur
tax rates above 80 per cent. The vote
was 274 to 125, with only slight split
in the party ranks.
shington-Attorney General H.
NJ. Daugherty has started an investiga-
ton to find what becomes of liquor
seized by government officials. In re-
viewing many prohibition cases which
had come to his desk, Mr. Daugherty
said, he had begun to wonder what
became of the vast quantities of alco-
holic beverages seized by the govern
ment in the prosecution of bootleggers
Sporting
New York-A Wall ST. broker placed
a wager of $500 at even money that
Yankees will capture the American
league baseball pennant.
Chicago-R A. King of Delta, Colo,
holder of the Hazard doubles trophy,
won the American amateur doubles
championship in the beginning of the
second cap trap shooting tournament.
st. Paul-Mike Gibbons and Mike
O'Dowd are matched to box fifteen
rounds to decision at Wichita, Kans.,
Oct Is. Weight to be 15S pounds at
o'clock. Gibbons is to received $780,
900, O'Dowd $4,000.
Forest Hills, n. Y.-Mrs. Molla Blur
stedt Mallory, conqueror of the French
marvel, Suzanne Lenglen, retained her
title as the American national tennis
champion here when she defeated the
California star, Miss Mary K. Browne,
at 4-6, ga, 6-2. NJ 80 .s,Ia... -,
Domestic ~. ~ 'Ssss . '.s""S
Cumberland, Md-Four workmen
were killed when the sides of trench
they were digging collapsed and buried
them. One man was saved.
Pensoneau, IH-Adam ]. Fries,
aged SO, reputed to have been the
heaviest man in southern Illinois, is
dead. He weighed over 400 pounds.
Barnstable, Mass.-A mob OF nearly
200 men and women carrying ropes
stormed the Jail here threatening to
lynch three Cape Verde Island Negro
prisoners charged with highway rob-
berry and an attack on young white
woman at Buzzards Bay.
New York-Sylvester Crockett, Ne
gro, attempted suicide in Tombs
prison by setting fire to his clothing
which he had first saturated with kero-
sene. The act occurred in room used
to house prisoners about to be finger
printed.
New York-Lew Fields, actor and
manager, filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy in federal court, giving his
liabilities at $S2,126 and his assets as
$10,5OO.
New York-Another reduction in
wages by the United States Steel cor
poration from 81 cents to 80 cents an
hour, effective Aug. 20, has been an.
nounced.
Chicago-For the second time with
in a month, the home of Ferdinand
Winkler has been bombed, the second
bombing throwing Winkler, his wife
and child from their beds and wreck
ing the front of the house.
Cincinnati. S. Crowell, former
owner of the Crowell Publishing com.
pany, Springfield, Ohio, died here He
had been i'll for many months
San Francisco-Bandits held up Wal.
ter Mayors and Joe Beban, paymas-
tiers, and escaped with $4,000, the pay
roll of the American Can company,
which they were transporting from a
bank to the factory here.
Los Angeles-Deputy sheriff Kelly
Of Oxnard was shot and killed and