The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-04-28
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WASHINGTON

Washington
Washington-A visit to Europe Tor
games in the principal cities of Eng
land, Ireland and France is in pros
pect for the Washington Americans
next fall.
ashington-Decision to pass a SOL
diers bonus bill at this session of con-
gress has been reached by senate re-
publicans in party conference. The
vote was Sc to 0 on motion offered
by Senator /. L. Lenroot.
Washington-Two marine officers
and marine private were killed at
Quantico, Va, when two airplanes in
battle practise locked wings in the
air and plunged to the ground.
Washington-Actual and official ne
gotiations for refunding the $11.000,-
100000 war debt of the Allies to the
United States will start soon it has
been stated officially.
Washington-Threats of rain did not
deter several thousand Washington
children from focking to the White
House grounds for the Easter Monday
egg rolling.
Washington-Charge that the coun-
try is flooded with millions Of counter
felt currency, notes and government
securities has brought the faction now
dominating the bureau of engraving
and printing into headon collision
with the treasury department.
Washington-When Major General
George o. Squier, chief of the Army
Signal Corps, recently succeeded in
operating a radio telephone apparatus
by connecting it with an ordinary
electric light, amateurs all over the
country decided to try his method.
Washington-Creatio of the Ma
tional Farmers Financial union to pro-
vide bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Peter Norbeck of South Da-
kota. Representative E. j. King of
Illinois will offer the same bill in the
house.
MISUNDERSTANDING reduction
in freight rates on agricultural prod
ucts will be recommended to congress
by the joint commission on agricul-
tural inquiry which has made an ex-
haustiYe study into railroad condi-
tions, Representative Sydney Ander-
son, Minnesota, chairman of the COM
mission, announced.
Washington-Cha that the St.
Louis livestock exchange and ITO
other buyers, dealers and traders at
the East st. Louis National stock
yards had combined to put into eff
feet virtual boycott against indepen-
dent commission companies" Secre-
tary H. c. Wallace issued his first or
der under the packers and stockyards
act directing the respondents to
cease from the practice on the
ground that their acts constituted a
restraint of trade in violation of the
stockyards act"
Domestic
Indianapolis-The coal strike, three
weeks old, continued to grow in scope,
according to officials of the United
Mine Workers of Aemrica. Nearly
loo. 900 nonunion miners have been or
ganized since it started April 1, in
complete reports reaching union head
quarters here showed.
Kenosha, Wis.-Peter Fisher, Jr.,
former district attorney of Kenosha
county, was sentenced to three years
at hard labor in Waupun prison by
Judge Belden who denied motion for
a stay of execution. Fisher was con-
victed of accepting brides and en-
bezzlement. He pleaded guilty to the
embezzlement charge.
ianapolis-"Well, as long as it
rains, we'll surely be on top said a
Miller player as he watched the in
cessant downpour that had interfered
with the second game of the Indiana
polls series.
New York-New York has surpass-
ed London in population, according to
the census committee, if the same
radius of territory is included within
the New York City limits as is calcu-
lated in the London figures.
Dayton, Ohio-"The Chldren's Crus-
ade for Amnesty arrived en- route
from st. Louis to Washingto to ask
liberty for 113 political prisoners. The
crusade is composed entirely of wo-
Il6u anu VIII dlO SCChiu5
freedom for husbands and fathers.
Eugene V. Debs, former Socialist cam
didate for president and at one time
prisoner in the Atlanta pententiary,
did not join the party in Terre Haute
as expected.
Chicago-The estate of Rosa and
Josefa Black, the Siamese twins, who
died recently, amounted to $500 in
cash. according to a petition for let
tiers of guardianship filed in the
probate court here.
New York-Ordered out of hotel
dining room because they were not in
evening dress. Mr.. and Mrs Herbert
E. Rau have brought suit tor $4,000
each
Los Angeles-Los Angeles District
Federation of Women's Clubs has an
nounced the resumption of its fight
against further showing of motion
pictures starring Roscoe C. ("Fatty')
Arbuckle.
Aurora-An outbreak of diphtheria
in this city has become so serious
that two specialists have been sent by
the state department of public health
to assist the physicians.