The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-19
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announced the strength of the army is
recent discharges.
Washington-By vote of 159 TO 81
the house passed and sent to the SEN
ate the bill carrying $4S,500,000 for ex-
penses of the shipping board until
next Jan. 1.
Washington-Th date, amount and
ratio of any further offerings of farm
loan bonds have not been considered
by the farm loan board, Secretary An
drew Mellon announced.
Washington-By vote of 1S6 to SO
the house passed the Graham bill to
impose 80 per cent ad yalorem duty
on reimportations of supplies sold by
the American army abroad.
DISAPPOINTMENT of o. H.
P. Shelley of Helena, as federal pro-
hibition director for Montana, succeed
ing L. X. Deblin, was announced by
the internal revenue bureau.
Washington-A bill appropriating
100000 to be used by the president
in extending relief to famine stricken
Russians, was introduced in the sem
ate by Senator W. H. King of Utah.
Washington-Pres Harding de-
clined an invitation 10 the interna-
tional press conference this fall in
Hawaii He told committee of pub.
fishers that public business would not
permit him to go.
Neutrality-suspicious. General Leon
ard Wood was authoritatively stated to
have been selected by President Hard
ing for governor general of the Phil
ippines and to have expressed his will
ingness to accept the post.
Washington-Henry Cabot Lodge,
chairman of the senate foreign rela-
tons committee, has been definitely
selected by President Harding as a
member of the American delegation to
the disarmament conference.
shington-President Harding was
formally notified that he had been
elected to the presidency of the Amer
lean Red Cross, position additionally
occupied by chief executives of the ma
ton, and from which former President
Wilson recently resigned
Washington-The Department of
Agriculture has 12,500,0O0 pounds of
salvaged comparatively safe" war ex-
plosives to give to farmers for land
clearing. Farmers are advised ito
treat it with respect, for the records
are filed with stories of men, who for
got this precaution in handling dyna-
mite and other dangerous things"
Sporting
Coffeyville, Kan.-By breaking ev-
cry target in the 100 doubles event
Fred r. Etcher, a local trapshooter,
established new worlds record. The
previous record for doubles was 81
Santa Rosa, Calif-Eddie Hearne
won the 150-mile automobile race on
the Cotati speedway, near here. His
time was one hour, twenty-one min
utes, 10 Is seconds. Roscoe Sarles
was second and Tommy Milton third
Jersey City-Aiming its guns at the
Wilson Downey bout, to be staged here
Labor day by Tex Richard, the Inter-
national Reform bureau met here to
start a campaign to stop the fight, DR..
Wilbur Crafts will conduct the cam
paign.
Domestic
New Orleans Carleton Hunt, aged
50, former congressman and dean of
the Louisiana law fraternity, is dead
here of apoplexy.
Chicago-Thomas E. Wilson was re-
elected president of the Institute of
American Meat Packers at the end of
the annual meeting.
Chicago-Lack of work and short
age of houses have combined to de-
crease the number of marriages in Chi
cago, according to Louis c. Legner,
chief clerk in the marriage license bu-
reau.
New York-Joseph Silo was report
ed by the police to be dying with
sealed lips-a victim of a bootlegger
war in the Italian quarter which has
rolled up casualty list of 20 in the
last three months.
Wheeling, w. Va-Sixteen residents
and five business houses, including the
towns telephone exchange, have been
destroyed by fire reported raging in
Richmond, Nicholas county. Aid has
been sent from other towns.
Philadelphia persons were
killed. two are dying and score in
jured as the result of fire which
broke out in the Point Breeze Oil
works of the Atlantic Refining COM
pany. The damage already done was
estimated at $1,000
San Francisco Rear Admiral
George Fink Kutz, u S. N, retired,
said to be the second oldest living near
admiral in the navy, is dead here.
San Francisco-At least 38 persons
lost their lives in the sinking of the
steamer Alaska near Eureka, Calf, it
appeared certain after the lists of
missing and dead were checked.
Chicago-The committee of Is APP
pointed by the American Farm Bureau
federation announced that co-opera-
tive livestock commission house would
be established at East st. Louis. This
is the first tangible result of the study
of cooperative livestock marketing.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-Professor Henry
Carter Adams, since 1887 and until his
resignation in June, head of the depart
ment of political economy and finance
in the University of Michigan, is dead.
Topeka-The Kansas wheat crop
this year represents more than one
fifth of the total winter wheat yield of
the nation. The yield is estimated at
1881 900 bushels.
Ocala, Fla.-Colonel John Marshall
Martin, believed to be the last surviv.
ing member of the congress of the