The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-10-13
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
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Washington

Cross this year will spend $10,000,000
to aid disabled former service men
and their families.
ashington-Reduction of the con.
version rate on money orders pay
able in Great Britain from $3.50 to
$3.50 to the pound sterling, effective
October 4, was announced by the
postOffice department.
Washington - Republican leaders
see in primaries clear indication that
public is satisfied with administration
and believe party will be retained in
power in congress.
Washington-Army and Navy Jour.
nal charges that army and navy sub
committees on appropriations have
reached secret agreement to make fur.
Their cuts in National defense budgets
Washington-In addition to renewal
of effort to consummate soldiers bonus
legislation when congress reconvenes,
an additional campaign to promote
the welfare of veterans of the World
war is to be pressed. ..
Washington-Light rains fell all
over wide areas in the middlewest, in
the middle Atlantic states and in some
parts OF New England, the weather
bureau here reported In most sec
tons this was the first moisture in a
month or longer. .-.
Washington administration is not
to be stampeded by religious enthusi.
aSts into near east conflict, says Sec.
rotary c. E. Hughes in correspon.
dence with Bishop Cannon at Constan.
tinople.
shington-Senator T. H. Cara.
way of Arkansas, returning from Eur.
ope, says governments there join in
chorus of animosity toward United
States. ..... -.s ..
shington-Japanese embassy an.
nounces that failure of Chang Chun
conference does not mean that Jap
an will not evacuate Siberia.
Washington-The war department
announced sale of 1904 European type
railway cars to the Republic of Po-
land for $4,S02,560, of which $780,
$40 will be paid in cash and the re-
mainder in six year per cent notes
of the Polish republic.
Washington-The controversy be-
tween General c. E. Sawyer, personal
physician to the president and chief
co-ordinator of the federal board of
disqualification, and the American Le-
gion over care of disabled former SER
vice men, especially those afflicted
with mental diseases, has ended with
the capitulation of General Sawyer.
Domestic
New York-Increased strength has
print cloths, due largely to the upturn
in raw cotton.
Wheeling, w. Va.-Rt. Rev. Patrick
James Donahue, bishop of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Wheeling, is dead
here.
Southwest Harbor, Me.-Thomas w.
Lawson is safe and we'll, according to
word received from him by Miss Mary
Lawson, his sister, residing at Somer-
vile, Me.
New York-The historic Monroe
mansion at Lafayette and Prince
streets where President James Mon
roe, once lived, occupied in recent
years by rag pickers and carpenter,
was destroyed by fire.
New York-More anthracite coal
was loaded on cars at the mines of
this country in the week past than
In any other week since October, 1920,
Robert S. Binkerd of the American
Railway Executives association, an
nounced. ...
Frankfort, Ky.-Retail coal dealers
of Kentucky are fighting buyers
strike according to R. A. Watson,
Louisville, president of the Kentucky
Retail Coal Dealers association.
New Orleans-First test of a new
tank, described as smaller and more
mobile than any hitherto used in war
fare, will be made by the United States
Ordnance department in the American
Legion national convention here Oct.
Is to 20.
San Francisco-Thirteen survivors
If the fire that burned the four.masted
schooner John A. Campbell to the wa.
ter's edge in lagoon at Taraway
island, one of the Gilbert group in the
North Pacific, August /, have arrived
here.
Chicago-A conference of radio and
motion picture magnates, with Will
II. Hays, director of the Motion Pic
ture Producers and Distributors of
America, in attendance, is expected to
be held here October IA to formulate
joint methods of opposing censorship.
New York-Thomas F. Wallace, sec.
rotary and treasurer of the Farmers
and Mechanics Savings bank, of Min
neapolis, was elected a member of the
executive committee of the savings
bank division o. the American Bank.
ers' association.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-The town of
Midland, Mich, has been run for the
last six years by chemists The may.
or, three aldermen and one member
of the school board are chemists.
San Francisco-Standard Oil of Cali
fornia stock was expected to skyrock
ct following the announcement that
a 100 per cent stock dividend will be
issued.
Bostoa-An iceberg bigger than
Bunker Hill monument was reported
to be moving south to the trans-At.
lantic steamship lanes. The mass i.
said to be $50 feet high and buIkjer
oy far than the monument.