The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-01-27
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Washington
Washington-Seyeral senators made
demands for reduced railroad rates be-
fore congress.
Washington-Five thousand persons
were made homeless by fire in Man
liza, according to cable received here,
by the American Red Cross.
Washington-Six members of the
staff of the French delegation to the
arms conference left for New York to
Paris.
Washington senate confirmed
the nomination of Henry P. Fletcher
to be ambassador to Belgium with that
of William U. O'Toole to be minister
to Paraguay
shington-Decision to press the
allied debt refunding bill and next a
soldiers bonus bill was reached by re-
publican senators in their first confer
ence of this session of congress.
Washington = District representa-
tives of the commerce department in
some 80 cities have been called here
for three day conference with Sec
rotary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
Washington = A warning against
America allowing the arms confer
ence and pacifist talk" to sway the
country to too large a reduction in its
land forces was sounded by General
John ]. Pershing.
Washington-The passenger air
plane New York, with five men
aboard, which has been missing off
the Florida coast since Friday, has
landed at Bimini island, according to
navy department advices.
Washington-The American govern
ment has interviewed in the controversy
between Chile and Peru Involving
the execution of the treaty of Ancon,
inviting the two South American gov
ernments to send plenipotentiaries to
Washington for conference.
Washington-The bird on the new
peace dollar is an eagle-not dove
in case there be any pathological
dispute about it. Moreover, he is the
only eagle with folded wings on an
American coin with the exception of
the bird on the $40 gold piece.
Washington-The American pro-
posal to redefine the open door pol
icy in China and to create an inter-
national board to examine both ex-
listing and future concessions which
appear to conflict with it was adopt
ed in part by the far eastern commit
tee Of the Washington conference.
Washington-Services of the gov
eminent will be formally rendered
again in an endeavor to bring about
an arbitration of the packers strike
now being conducted in the larger
midwest centers Of the meat packing
industry, it was decided st confer
ence of cabinet members and congress
men.
Northwest,
Des Moines-Three men held up
and robbed the Des Moines City Rail-
way company's pay car. They OBJ
tanned $4,000.
Butte, Mont.-Mining in Butte re-
sumed, after a shutdown which be-
gan April / last A cut of SO cents
per day in wages goes into effect
Helena-Political activity among
women for 1922 began here when Mrs.
Emma ingalls,, of Kalispell, came to
the capitol to organize local of the
National League of Women Voters.
Des Moines, Iowa-The Rev. w. E.
Robb, sheriff of Polk county, has re-
signed his pastorate at the Urbandale
Federated church because, he said, he
does not wish the church to be SUBJ
jected to criticism whes he hangs
two murderers this spring.
Domestic
Buffalo, N. Y.-The city council de-
elined to entertain resolution by
Mayor Schwab urging congress and
the state legislature to legalize the
manufacture and sale of light wines
and beer.
Ponca City, Okla.-An entire block
of frame buildings in the center of
Whiz Bang, an oil town in western
Usage county, burned with loss of
$4,000, according to information re-
ceiyed here.
Indianapolis-Uni labor and, the
American Legion love-feasted here. On
invitation of Hanford zMacNider, Lee
gioa commander, Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, appointed personal represen-
tatives to meet with former service
men with the purpose of bringing Ia
Dor and Legion closer together.
New York-Will II. Hays will be-
come directing head of the new Ma
tional Association of Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors immedi-
ately after March 4, it was announced
at a dinner at which the postmaster
general was the guest of group of
motion picture officials.
Chicago-Bernard Flannery, said to
have become demented through shell
shock in the World war, shot two wo-
men and then killed himself
Dallas-Dr. ]. ]. Terrell, before the
public health institute declared there
are more than 100000 feeble minded
persons in the United States.
Mayo, FLA mob overpowered Of
ficials here, seized Negro who was
alleged to have killed w. R. Taylor
Saturday night, and lynched him.
St Louis-Arthur o. Meininger,
cashier of the Night and Day bank,
who disappeared following the closing
of the bank by state bank examiners
who discovered shortage of s754, 900,
was arrested in Belleville, Ill.
San Francisco-Passengers arriv-
ing ON the steamer Shinyo Maru said
they b I'D sighted an iceberg 25 hours
<,.,t of Honolulu This is haliauad 70