The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-05

stroyed Philadelphia and opened the
way for an invasion by land.
Chicago-Hundreds of tenants have
reported that they received notices of
rent increases from Is to 20 per cent,
effective on Oct 1, from their land
lords.
New Yerk-The Cuban sugar COM
mission at meeting here fixed the
new price of it's raw sugar at 31A cents
cost and freight, an advance of Il
cent.
tic fleet, which has been anchored in
the Hudson river, steamed off to
southern drill ground for three weeks
maneuverS.
New York-A leap from a 12-story
window at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
killed Mrs. Ella Van Nostrand, aged
80, believed to have been demented by
the intense heat.
Lakeland, Fla-Four men were un-
der arrest, two at Tampa and two at
Barton, in connection with the fog
ging of l.. B. Hughes by masked men
near Mulberry, Fla.
Chicago-Five bandits, brandishing
pistols, held up and robbed messen-
ger employed by the Borden Farm
Products company of $4,000 in broad
daylight and escaped.
Memphis, Tenn.-The American
Cotton Growers exchange which Is
expected to include the Is cotton pro-
ducing states in it's membership was
organized at conference of growers.
Turlock, Calf. = A watermelon
weighing rs pounds and measuring 80
inches in length, 80 inches in circum-
ference and IA inches in diameter was
forwarded today by express to Presi-
dent Harding by a grower of this dis
trict.
Chicago-The United States Grain
Growers Qnc.) announce that 1875 ele-
vators have become affiliated with the
organization There were 81 in Ne
braska, "a in North Dakota, 3S in Mis-
souri,, 16 in Illinois and two in Okla
homa.
Chicago-The financial secrets of
the Chicago American league baseball
club, always gcardeG jealousy, were
revealed in the baseball trial, the
clubs books showing net profit of
$409,337 during the past six years,
more than $225,000 of this coming in
1919 alone
New York-The Smokers League
Against Tobacco Prohibition, Inc"
has been granted a charter by SUI
preme Court Justice Martin. The
league plans to establish and con-
serve the right of the citizens o: the
United States of America, to the use
of tobacco.
Northwest
Milwaukee-The Milwaukee police
are looking for the nerviest burglar of
the city. He stole 5000 bees and a
hive from julius M. Barr.
Mason City, Iowa-Three persons
were killed as the result of headon
collision between twp freight trains on
the Rock Island system here.
Helena, Mont.-SeCSetarie of state
and other state officials gathered here
for the seventh annual session of the
American Association of Secretaries
of state.
were killed in an explosion which
wrecked the dynamite mixing house
and nitroglycerine storage house of
the Hercules Powder company.
Omaha, Neb.-Two persons were
drowned in a cloudburst that virtually
destroyed Beulah, Wyo., village four.
teen miles west of Spearfsh, S. D., &C.
cording to advices reaching Omaha.
Port Townsend, Wash. = Louise
O'Brien, IA years old, missing from her
home all night, was found at daybreak
asleep inside the muzzle of a 14-inch
gun of the shore batteries at Fort
Worden Other guns at the fort had
been fired just before the girl was dis.
covered.
Foreign
-Enrico Caruso, world fam.
Gus tenor, died here.
MISUNDERSTANDING Mannix, over
whose return from England to Aus.
tralia there has been considerable dis.
cussion, landed at Thursday island,
Queensland, without hindrance.
Rome-The postoffice building at
Baria, in southeastern Italy on the
Adriatic, collapsed as result of an
earth tremor and eight bodies have so
far been recovered from the ruins.
Tokio-According to the ASH Shin
bun negotiations have been opened at
Hardin, Manchuria, between the Jap
anese and representatives of the Far
Eastern republic at Chita concerning
the conditions for the evacuation of
Siberia.
VIENNA treaty providing for a
declaration of war on Hungary in the
event Emperor Charles returns to the
Hungarian throne has been signed by
Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-
Slovakia, according to dispatches from
Belgrade.
Rome-The committee on foreign af-
cussed the Silesian question and de-
cided to adhere to the British view
point of not sending more troops to
Upper Silesia prior to the meeting of
the Supreme Council.
Berlin-G Gigantic mo more war"
demonstrations was staged in all the
large cities of Germany Sunday by the
peace league of disabled veterans, who
ask peace advocates in the United
States, England and France to ar
range similar meetings.
Riga-The offer of Herbert Hoover
to aid Russia in relieving suffering due
to famine on condition that all Amer
leans now held prisoners in Russia be
released. has been accepted by the