The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-10-14
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Washington
Washington-Appo of Edwin
A. Shepherd of Chicago, former lieu
tenant colonel in the army, as comp
troller of the United States Shipping
board was announced.
!, shington-Decision by the De-
partment of Justice as to investiga-
ton of the Ku Klux Khan will await
action by Congress on the proposed in
Quiry, Attorney General Daugherty
said
Washington-Senato Kenyon, Re-
publican, Iowa, informed President
Harding that he could not consider at
the present time acceptance of the
federal judgeship of the Northern Iowa
district
! Washington-The shipping board
would lease idle tonnage for 81 a
month for the hauling of coal abroad
if private ship owners approve the
plan, Chairman A. d. Lasker has an.
nounced.
! ashington-Thomas G. Slattery,
United States attorney for the North
ern district of Kentucky, was re-
moved from office by President Hard.
ing on recommendation of Attorney
General Daugherty.
Washington = The long disputed
question of wholesale dealers in sacra
mental wines being permitted to dc
business under the national prohibi.
ton laws has been put to the Depart
:ment of Justice for decision.
Washington-Despi solemn warn.
ings that it was voting to violate the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the senats
passed the Borah bill exempting
American coastwise shipping from
payment of Panama canal tolls. The
vote was At to 81.
: Washington - Former President
Woodrow Wilson probably will be in
ivited to attend the ceremonies at Ar.
,lington national cemetery Armistice
!day, when the body of an unknown
American soldier will be buried with
high honors, Secretary of War J. w
Weeks said today,
Sporting
: Havana-Harry Wills, Negro heavy
weight pugilist, knocked out Gunboat
Smith in 1 minute and seconds OF
fighting.
New York-Frederick B. Lieb OF
New York, was elected president OF
the Baseball Writer'S association OF
America E5
Minneapolis = Minnesota's gallant
Gophers pounded Northwestern
Purple warriors to a pitiful pulp in the
first conference game of the season at
Northrop Field by score of % to O.
! Omaha-Mike Gibbons, ST. Paul
middleweight outpointed Joe Herrick
of Omaha, in a 10-round boxing exhi-
bition here. Gibbons repeatedly let
his man stay in when Herrick was out
on his feet.
! Buffalo, N. Y.-Tommy Gibbons, st.
Paul heavyweight added another
knockout to his string of victories
when he f1attened Clay Turner, New
York Indian, in the first. 301a seconds
of scheduled Is round bout here.
Domestic
Los Angeles, Calif-Bonus pay
.ments for World War veterans not dis
'abled were opposed by the American
Bankers association
Nogales, Ariz-Persons arriving
here from Mexico reported there had
been 40 deaths from yellow fever in
,Eldorado during the last week.
Chicago-Judge Joseph SABBATH indi-
Gated he would grant divorce to Mrs.
GLADYS Marsh after she testified her
husband Clyde Marsh, real estate
dealer placed live mouse in her bed.
Chicago-George Saunders, aged II,
was fined $4,000 and sentenced to two
years in the house of correction for
carrying pistol The weapon was
identified as one stolen from a saloon
keeper
Cincinnati, Ohio-A reduction of
121a cents an hour in the wage scale
of about 10000 men in % building
trades in Hamilton county has been
decided on by Rabbi David Phillipson,
as umpire of the Cincinnati Wage
board
New York-It will cost a trifle less
than a million dollars day to pay the
1922 running expenses of New York
City An announcement by the board
of estimate and apportionment esti-
mated the total required for the fiscal
year as $354,446,46S.
Chicago-Benjamin Leiberman, one
of four men alleged to have robbed the
Klein Loan bank of jewelry valued at
100000 on Christmas eve, 1919,
walked out of the county jail by sub
shutting himself for another man who
was to be released on bonds
Ell Paso, Tex.-Bishop A. c. Peter
son, head of the Mormon church in
Northern Mexico, was advised of Pre-
sident Obregon's approval of the pro-
gram to restore to the Mormons 49,
600 acres of land and property in West
ern Chihuahus, confiscated during the
revolutions since 1913.
Detroit, Mich.-William Howard
Taft, chief justice of the United
States Supreme court, was reelected
president of the Unitarian general con-
ference at the organizations closing
business session. He was elected
without opposition, for third conse-
cutive term.
Omaha-Thomas H. Matters, Omaha
attorney, ,sas arrested by deputy sher-