The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-24
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Washington

committee has agreed to report bill
providing for 10 additional United
States district judges and one addition
al circuit judge.
Washington-A bill extending the
life of the 8 per cent restrictive immi-
grafton law until June 80, 1928, was
ordered reported by the house immi-
grafton committee.
shington-Turning its attention
to the relief of unemployment, the SEN
ate took up Senator w. S. Kenyon's
bill designed to concentrate public
works in periods of industrial depres-
sion. .
Washington-Senator w. S. Kenyon
of Iowa, who recently was appointed a
circuit judge by President Harding,
will resign from the senate about the
last Of this month to take up his new
duties.
Washington-The war finance corpo-
ration has given financial assistance
aggregating $263,136,000 to American
exporters and farmers since enactment
of the law reviving the corporation, 1t
was announced
Washington-Federal investigation
of certain organizations collecting
funds ostensibly for Russian famine
relief will be completed within a
few days, it was indicated by Attorney
General H. NJ. Daugherty.
Washington-The American gov
eminent finds it impossible at pres
ent to reach decision on participation
in the proposed economic conference
at Genoa, it was declared on high au-
thority at the White House.
ashington-Director c. r. Forbes
of the veterans bureau has announced
that investigation is being made into
charges of extortion practised on Ne
gro former service men at the Tennes-
see Agricultural and Industrial institu-
ton.
Washington-Nine men were order
ed held for the grand jury by the
coroner's jury which brought in ver-
dict in connection with the collapse of
the roof of the Knickerbocker theater,
Jan. %, resulting in the death of SO
persons.
Washington--Wages of farm labor
ers declined 40 per cent in 1921 in the
north central states west of the Mis-
sissippi which include Minnesota and
the Dakotas, according to data recent
ly compiled by the department of ag
riculture.
Washington - The senate agricul-
tHral committee asked the senate in
a resolution for authority to visit the
Muscle Shoals power and nitrate prof.
ect in connection with the committees
consideration of Henry Ford's offer to
lease the properties.
ashington-Demand for a reduc-
tion in the size of the army to 100000
enlisted men, or even to a maximum
of $4,000, will be made in the house
when the annual army appropriation
bill comes up for consideration, mem
bers of the subcommittee which is
drafting the measure predicted.
Domestic
Wilmington, Del. - Raymond Scho-
field Curtice, United States consul at
Nagasaka, Japan, committed suicide.
Nashville-A sale of 40 shorthorn
cattle at an average price per head of
$506 featured the southern cattlemen's
convention here.
Baltimore-Three men were killed
and another was injured when an au-
tomobile in which they were riding
struck trolley pole.
Peoria, Ill.-Bandits robbed the Elk
Cfof II
here of $500 in currency and the con-
tents of dozen safety deposit boxes.
Alton, Ill.-The Illinois State bank,
of East Alton was robbed of about
$4,000 by three armed men. This was
the second time in three months the
institution was robbed, six men OBJ
tanning $1,000 last November.
New York-The United States army
transport Cantigny arrived from Ant
werp with 1,056 troops from the area
of occupation in Germany and the
bodies of &c war heroes, brought here
from cemeteries in France for reburiaI.
New York-The giant steamer Levi
athian will leave it's berth at Hoboken
in about three weeks for voyage to
Newport News, where it will be recon
ditioned at a cost of SS,200,000 for re-
entry into Transatlantic service as
the second largest steamship in the
world.
Los Angeles-Police are seeking the
extent of an alleged conspiracy to ex-
tort large sums of money from veal
thy Los Angeles businessmen which
was brought to light when eight men
were arrested following a gun battle
with federal officers.
Cleveland-The big Four" railroad
brotherhoods have divided into two
groups, each to conduct separate nego-
tiations with railway managers in re-
gional conferences. it was announced.
New York-Secretary and Mrs.
Charles E. Hughes, sailed on the
steamship Fort Hamilton, for two
week vacation in Bermuda.
Kansas City, Mo-Bodies of three
persons killed in an auto accide !.
were found frozen in the ice at t,.s
foot of an embankment. The auto had
apparently gone over the embankment
in the night.
Una City, Collaboration Britt.
aged 92, is dead here. He was the old
est member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows in the unlLed States
both in age and membership.
Buffalo--Dr. Ralph Mckee, profes-
sor of chemical engineering at Column
bia university, said that petroleum
production in the United States had
reached iis peak.