The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-06-24


eral months illness.
Telluride, Colo.-Three men were
killed by gas fumes that followed an
explosion in mine at Rico, near here.
Chicago-Held up in her home by a
bogus telephone repairman, Mrs. j. s.
Young was robbed of jewelry and furs
valued at $1,000.
Casper Wyo.-Fire, started by a
bolt of lightning striking an oil tank.
was extinguished after causing loss
estimated at sS74,700
New York-The cost of living in the
United States dropped 2.3 per cent in
May, according to figures made pub
lie by the National Industrial Con-
ference board.
Oklahoma City-Fourteen persons
were injured, one probably fatally,
when streetcar was overturned by
backing into a Missouri, Kansas and
Teaxs stock train here.
Ell Paso-A Mexican bandit who held
up streetcar near the city limits Of
Ell Paso, at midnight was disarmed by
Bundy Avant, conductor, who shot
dead with his own pistol.
New York-Under suspicion of kill
ing his wife, who was beaten to death
and robbed of $40, William Shaw, 81
years old, committed suicide by cut
| ting his throat with razor.
Chicago-Purchase of coal by farm
ers of nine Middle Western states
| through their county and state farm
bureaus was decided upon here when
plan drawn up by the American
Farm Bureau federation coal commit
tee was adopted.
Kansas City, Mo.-Marshall Foch OF
France has accepted an invitation to
attend the annual national convention
| of the American Legion here this fall,
| according to a telegram received from
| Lemuel Bolles of Indianapolis, national
| adjutant of the legion.
Denver-Radicalism today had been
hit hard by the American Federation
of Labor. The convention repudiated
| the Zone Big Union" movement and
President Samuel Gompers made pub
lie letters telling why he and the ex-
ecutive council had withdrawn sup
port from the International Associa-
| ton of Trades Unions.
Northwest
Centralia, Wash Walter Linney
aged IL, kidnapped himself and fixed
his ransom at $3.50, police said they
| learned
Des Moines-Two men were killed
when a car of the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern railroad crashed
into an automobile carrying three men
at crossing near Ames.
Centralia, Wash.-Roy Gardner, I'M
der two sentences of Is years each for
robbing the mails and who escaped
twice from federal guards while being
taken to prison, was captured here by
policeman.
! Helena, Mont-Except for reports
| of slight insect damage in IL counties,
crop conditions in Montana are excel
lent, according to reports received by
the Department of Agriculture, Labor
and Industry from "a counties in the
state.
Foreign
Brussels-Crown Prince Hirohito, Of
Japan, who has been here some days
on visit, left with his suite for Hol.
| land
Rome-Pope Benedict conferred the
red hat on three cardinals who were
made members of the sacred college Of
cardinals in the consistory last month,
Berlin-Cumulative reports from va
rious parts of Russia tell of a rapidly
growing religious reaction to the
atheistic and irreligious bolshevist doc
trines.
Brussels-The Belgian Red Cross, it
was announced here, has purchased
one gramme of radium in Colorado
The purchase price was 100000
francs.
Mexico City-Two persons were kill
ed and four wounded during a fight
between two soviet factions in the state
of Michigan. The clash resulted from
dispute over ownership of hill.
Constantinople Prince Ibraham
Chamyl, head of the Daghiston insur
gent mountaineers of the northern eau
casus, has taken arms with 10000 men
against the bolsheviki in the Caucasus.
Paris-James X. Hackett, the actor
will be decorated with the Legion OF
Honor by President Millerand at an inn
pressive ceremony. He is the first Eng
lish speaking and the third foreign ac
tor thus honored
| Antwerp-The new American immi
grafton laws are causing congestion al
the port of Antwerp, especially as re
CARDS Poles, number of whom are
peing left behind by each steamer and
are unable to find shelter.
Tokio-Floods are sweeping large
areas of Japan. The death list ap
preached 200. Entire villages were
submerged under Is feet of water in
the Hita district. At Kyusha more
than 500 houses were washed away
Paris-Baron Edmond de Roths.
child, administrator of the Eastern
Railway company of France, has given
10 million francs to found scientific
institute, the object of which will be
to encourage students to consecrate
their lives to the work of research.
London-A strong earthquake shook
Messina and Reggie di Calabria, &C.
cording to Milan dispatch. Appar
emily there were neither victims nor
serious damage. The quake was pre-.
ceded by a strange believing noise.
The people, terrified, fed to the open.
| Havana, Cuba-One person is dead
and Is are wounded as the result of a
riot at the cemetery during the funeral
| of former President Gomez. The