The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-05-26
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Washington
Washington-The house industrial
arts committee reported the resolution
expressing government Endorsement
of the Sesquicentennial of the sign.
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, to be conducted at Philadelphia
in 1926 and authorizing the president
TO invite participation by foreign gov.
ernments.
Washingto.l -Dismissa of formal
proceedings against the Iowa-Nebras-
ka-Minnesota Wholesale Grocers asso.
citation of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was an.
nounced by the federal trade commits
sion. 1t was stated that the dismissal
was without prejudice"
on-Representative Moses
Kinkaid announced that he would not
be candidate for reelection. He is
the author of the Kinkaid homestead
law and will have served 20 years in
congress when his term expires on
March 8, 1923.
Washington-With 2S9 landing fields
for use of airplane pilots established
in the seventh corps area, comprising
Minnesota, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas
Missouri, Nebraska and North and
South Dakota, this section of the coun.
try is considered the safest for air
travel in the United States.
Washington-Half of the Alaskan
fur seals are lost at sea before they
reach commercial or bearing age, is
the conclusion of the committee on
conservation of marine life in the Pa
cific of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
shington-Governors J. A. O.
Preus of Minnesota and w. H. Nc.
Masters of South Dakota are among
16 governors who have sent congrat
ulatory messages to the National Wo
mans party on the dedication of its
new headquarters here.
Standardization Harding and
his party, who visited with Senator
w. E. Edge of New Jersey at Sea
View Golf club near Absecon, arrived
at the White House. The return was
made in rain storm.
Neutrality-suspicious. drive for
beer and light wine beginning to
arouse alarm in the ranks of the Anti
saloon league.
Washington-While the oil compa-
MES have been boosting the price of
gasoline to an unprecedented peace
time level, they have been accumulat-
ing the greatest stock on record, gaso-
line stocks in the United States
amounting on April / to 854,232, zoo
gallons
Washington - Secretary Herbert
Hoover. in a speech at Chamber of
Commerce, predicts United States will
never again engage in governmental
loans; says they work for destruc-
tion of capital.
Washington-Grain Exchange prom
ises cooperation with department OF
agriculture n reasonable regulation OF
exchanges now that supreme court has
held important part Of grain exchange
law unconstitutional.
Domestic
Chicago-Valentine Crane, aged 80,
Asu of Robert Crane, millionaire and
former husband of Mrs. Elida Pisa,
Injured in collision between his mo-
toYcar and train at st. Charles, ILL.,,
according to reports received here.
White Plains, N. Y.-Supreme Court
Justice Moershauser denied Mrs. Anne
u. Stillman's application for an order
requiring James A. Stillman to pay
$500, to defray the cost of the recent
Canadian hearings in the Stillman di-
vorce suit.
Long Beach, Calif.-One man was
shot and drowned, four men arrested
and a launch and two trucks, togeth-
er with 1913 cases of liquor, were seized
here following fight between police
and liquor smugglers at the harbor
here
Pana, Ill.-Thomas Harrison, aged
25, farmer, is lying in Shelby county
hospital, victim of white mule" and
buckshot. Travelling under a high
voltage of white mule, he was shoot
ing up the town of Stewardson with a
rife. Deputy Sheriffs Floyd Biggs
SuOl Ou I1dIIlSOA IiSut uduu, Sauo
ing him to drop the rifle just as Davis
filed the hootch victims back and
legs with buckshot.
Davenport, Iowa-An alleged at
tempt to wreck the United Mine Work
ers of America and place the /. w. w
or the lone big union" in it's stead
was dramatically charged on the con
yention floor of the Iowa Federation
of Labor, when James Archibald OF
Oskaloosa, was elected from the hall
and delegates badge taken from
him.
Aurora, Ill.-Miss Minnie Bruno
known as the "taxicab fiapper," who
was brought back from Clinton, Iova
to face a charge of robbery, won her
freedom by marrying her accuser,
James Crowley, Batavia restaurant
owner
New York-The founder of the for.
tunes OF the firm of ]. p Morgan &
Co. was Joseph Morgan, who, after
fighting in Washington's army, settled
down as farmer in Connecticut. He
made money enough to invest in lines
of stage coaches, and presently con.
trolled the road traffic between New
York and Boston