The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-09-30

bank OF Camden was arra1gned here
as defaulter to the amount Of $751;
600. on an indictment returned by the
grand jury.
New York-The steamer Alacrita
from New Orleans to Barcelona was
wrecked in mid-ocean, said radio
message from the steamship Cabo
Creux, en- route for New York with
thirty survivors.
Detroit, Mich.-Captain Robert A.
Woodside of Pittsburgh was reelected
national commander-ir-chief or the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Woodside
defeated Colonel T. L. Huston. New
York, for the important pt st.
Nashville-W. G. Pickett, conces-
sion man of Atlanta, and Charles L.
Stewart, concession man Of Indian
apolis, were shot to death among a
throng of hundreds of people at the
Tennessee state fair grounds
Chicago-John McCrady, chief en-
gineer of the harrington sub-station of
the Public Service company of Nor
thern Illinois, was killed and The $780,
600 station destroyed by lightning,
which caused an explosion, followed by
fire.
st. Louis-The bodies of three muir.
dered men were found within a few
miles of each other in southern Illinois
by crews of Missouri Pacific trains.
Two of the men are believed to have
been former soldiers. Both wore uni
forms.
Charleston, w. Valve officials of
district No. 20, United Mine Workers
of America, and % other men have
been indicted in Fayette county, in
connection with the shooting up Of
coal properties at Willis branch, sew
eral months ago.
Chicago-Mrs. Nell Sitke and her
four children, ranging in age from 2
to IA years, faced death as the result
of an explosion of a gasoline reading
lamp. All were cut and burned and
doctors said their injuries probably
would prove fatal.
Northwest
winnipeg Between 100000 and
100000 damage was done by fire
which broke out in the poolroom at
Hatton, Sask., and destroyed most of
the business section of the town.
Spencer, Iowa-Life sentences were
imposed by Judge Lee on Ray Yorty,
20 years old, and Wilson Devries, 16,
who pleaded guilty to holding up and
robbing the Greenville bank, Septem.
Der H.
dYrr ~ q Oar- nftT
use, under supervision of agricultural
college experts, has demonstrated the
value Of poison as a cure for grass
hoppers. 1t is thought the danger Of
return of the pests next year in this
section has been averted
Regina, Sask.-A e. Wilson, domin.
ion seed grain commissioner, gives the
latest estimate of the Saskatchewan
wheat yield for the year as Ia bushels
to the acre on seeded acreage of 1O,-
$4,000 acres, making an aggregate OF
las, 0S2,000 bushels.
st. Paul-Government financial aid
amounting to $15,000,000 has been as
sured to grain growers of Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, having men,
bership in the Equity Cooperative Ex-
change, according to announcement
from the War Finance corporation
headquarters in Washington. This,
officers of the cooperative concern
said, amply will finance the handling
of 25,000,000 bushels of grain it ex.
poets to handle for the United States
Grain Growers, Inc.
Foreign
Mannheim, Germany-It is estimat
ed that 10000 persons attended the
funerals of the victims of the Oppau
explosion at the Ludwigshafen ceme-
terry.
London-The inter-Allied control
commission has sent sharp note to
the German government protesting
against the continued military forma-
ton of the police force.
Paris-Sadie Lecointy in the Vile
Saucage airdrome lowered his own
world airplane speed record by flying
at the rate of $50 kilometers, 275
meters CLOS miles, 169 yards) per
hour.
London-Barring possible discussion
by certain cabinet ministers, a peace
conference between Sim Fem pleni-
potentiaries and the British cabinet
committee will take place in London
next week.
London-More than half a billion
dollars has been expended by the Brit
ish government in relieving the unem.
ployed since Nov. IL, 1918, Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary of state
for the colonies, told delegation.
Chaumont, France-General John J.
Pershing visited this town, his head
quarters during the World war, and
received an enthusiastic welcome.
The city was decorated in his honor
and all the notables gathered at the
city hall.
Frankfort, Germa0y.-The plant OF
the Hoechst dye works, which was
closed owing, as the management an
nounced, to unreasonable wage de-
mands, has been seized by the locked
out workmen, who are carrying on
most vital operations.
Belfast-Snipers became active in
the Newtonards roads district of East
Belfast, many rounds being fired with
rifles and revolvers from the side
streets. Soldiers on duty took up posi-
tions and replied with machine guns,
soon silencing the snipers.
Trent, Italy-The entire village Of
Comasine was swept by fire and three
firemen were killed. The fire started
nv the expIOSiOn of cartridges in a