The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-01-20
Big Happenings of the Week
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Everywhere.
Washington

made at the White House.
Washington Japan, through its
arms conference delegation, agreed to
tarnsfer to China the administration
of the leased territory of Kiachow in
Shantung province.
Washington The supreme court
will be asked to expedite action on the
case to test the constitutionality OF
the packer control act, it was said at
the department of justice.
Washington - Roger Peckinpaugh
positively will not be made manager"
of the Senators in 1922. Clark Grit
fifth, president of the Washington club
of the American league, declared.
hington-American trade with
European countries in 1921 exceeded
that of 1913, the last prewar year, by
SITS, 100000, according to statistics
made public by the commerce depart
ment
Washington = Senator Truman H.
Newberry has won the three-year fight
to hold his seat in the senate. By a
vote of 46 to Al the senate declared
him duly elected senator from Michi-
gan over Henry Ford.
Washington-Receipts at so select
ed postoffices in December totaled
S26,677,57O, as compared with $25,001,-
BAT in the same month in 1920, &C
cording to figures announced by Post
master General Will Hays.
Washington-The soldier bonus bill
will not be made a part of the Allied
debt refunding bill, Chairman McCum-
Der of the Senate finance committee
said after series of conferences had
been held between Senate leaders.
Washington = Secretary of War J.
w. Weeks is disappointed with Henry
Ford's final proposal for taking over
the governments waterpower project
at Muscle Shoals, but will send it to
congress without recommending ac-
ceptance in it's present form.
hington-Authority was grant
ed the Pullman company by the inter-
state commerce commission to pur-
chase the property of the Haskell &
Barker Car company by issuing 1885,
600 shares of new capital stock, hav-
ing par value of $16,500,000.
Washington ~ The French govern
ment has approached Henry Ford by
cable asking if he would consider the
purchase Of battleships. In announc-
ing the request here, Mr. Ford said
he had replied that unless he could
buy the entire French navy he would
not be interested in job lots No an
swer to his cable has been received,
he said.
Domestic
New York-Mayor Hylan plans to
have busses replace the street rail
ways in Manhattan.
New York-Tne New York Evening
Post, one of the oldest newspapers IN
the city, has been sold to a syndicate,
it was announced.
Cambridge, Mass.-Bootleggers were
set up as models in craftsmanship be-
fore students of the graduate school
of business administration at Harvard.
Portsmouth, Ohio-Four men were
reported killed when an engine on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Northern rail-
road overturned near Whselers Mills.
Boston = The Calumet and Hecla
Mining company announced it would
open four of it's lake group of copper
mines, in Northern Michigan, about
April 1.
Beach, Ill.-William Peterson, a
motorcycle policeman of Winthrop
Harbor, ILL.,, was shot to death by un-
identified persons in speeding auto
mobile which he was pursuing.
Chicago-Josepfia Glazek and Mrs.
Rosa Dvorak, Czech-Slovakians, must
continue their close partnership until
one of them dies, in which event there
must be quick amputation to save the
other.
Hartford, Conn.-Christopher Minor
Spencer, inventor of the Spencer re-
peating rife and of the first automatic
screw machine, one of the best known
American inventors, is dead. He was
SO years old.
Chicago = Deadlock between the
miners unions and the operators
means the practical certainty of a
strike that will tie up coal production
in eastern and middle western mines
by April L.
Terre Misunderstanding their fam
lilies were starving, 700 miners of the
Clinton Coal company met to consider
whether or not they would return to
work. They have been on strike since
last October.
Chicago = Eight hundred thousand
dollars will be- the deficit of the Chi
cago Grand Opera association this sea
son, the largest ever faced by an
opera company in the history of mu.
sic in America.
Baltimore-The total amount of the
inventoried estate of the late Cardi
nal Gibbons is $135, 266.90, according
to the inventory and administration
account filed here in orphans court
by the executors.
Marysville, Calif.-Henry Thomas
was given sentence of six months
in jail upon being found guilty of tax.
ing bottle of milk from doorstep
New York-Mayor Hylan plans to
have buses replace the street rail
ways in Manhattan, it was learned
when it was announced that a public
hearing to draft the necessary Legal
steps would be held January q. Ar
outlay of $25,000,000 is contemplated
Scranton, Pa.-Four men are known
TO have been killed, several others are
believed to be dead and an unknown
number OF mine workers are en-
tombed as the result of cave-in In
the National mine of the Glen Alder
Coal comp my. Miners who escaped
said the number of men believed te
be behind The barrier is about 20.