The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-08-11
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rose; Nettie Laying, Bruno; Jennie l..
Phillips, Clearwater; Chaplin A. Farm
ham, Rockford; Claire M. Peterson,
Stanchfield; Charles Olson, Sturgeon,
Sturgeon Lake; Maggie NJ. Halgren,
'Waukon; Emery B. Lindsey, Willow
River
ashington-Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Davis have started something
new in cabinet dinners. Instead of
giving the customary formal annual
dinner in honor of the. President and
Mrs. Harding at their town house in
Washington, Secretary and Mrs. Davis
have announced that the dinner will
be given at Moose Heart, ILL.,, Friday,
August 25, where they maintain pala,
tial residence.
Washingten-Possib that the Ku
Klux Khan may be made the issue in
q contest over a senatorial seat was
seen by members of the senate cleo
tions committee, who have had their
attention called to the senatorial cam
paign in Texas. Committee members
have been informed that a contest to
prevent Carl Mayfield being seated if
elected may be begun.
Washington-A chorus of emphatic
noes" from members of congress
greeted the British debt cancellation
proposals. There was every indication
that there has not been the slightest
weakening of the positions taken all
along by American legislators that the
American people expect Europe to re-
pay dollar fer dollar, plus interest, the
s11,000, 100000 war debt. ~.
Washington-A searching investiga.
ton into soaring gasoline prices has
been opened formally in the senate.
After weeks of closed sessions spent
in collecting and tabulating valuable
information on all phases o. the gaso-
line and oil industry of the nation, the
special senate subcommittee is pre-
pared to summon witnesses.
Neutrality-suspicious. Lemuel
P. Padgett of Tennessee is dead at
his home here. Informed of Mr.. Pad.
gett's death, Acting Secretary Roose-
welt of the navy, said: "The navy has
lost true friend" -u.
p. Washington-The stipulation made
to the attorney general, in Portland,
Me-, not to press the indictments in
New York and Washington against
Charles w. Morse, New York ship
builder, has been repudiated by Uni
ted States Attorney Gordon before
Justice Hoehling of the District of
Columbia Supreme court.
Domestic -
J New York-Business failures for the
week ending July 81 number 3S7,
which compares with 371 last week;
800 in the like week of 1921; 1853 in
1920; IS in 1919 and 155 in 1918, &C.
cording to Bradstreets.
Richmond, Va.-Senator Claude A.
Swanson, close friend of Woodrow
Wilson has won the Democratic sena-
torial nomination by majority of ap-
proximately $4,000 over Ex-Governor
Westmoreland Davis.
Fort Smith, Ark.-One man was kill
ed and another fatally injured in a
riot in the Missouri Pacific freight
yards at Van Buren,, six miles east of
here. Both men were employed as
strikebreakers.
Missoula, Mont--With weather con-
ditions extremely favorable, frequent
new lightning fires and fires set by
careless campers, together with a
heavy smoke haze which makes de-
lection of the new blazes almost i'm
possible, forest service crews are hav-
ing difficult time saving govern
ment timber.
New York-Anna Mullen and Kath-
crime Flemming, 13-year-old girls of
New York tenements, are living the
life they have dreamed about They
slipped on to the Majestic, the largest
ship af1oat, and the vessel was 500
miles out before they were discovered
hiding in a life boat. Wireless mes
sages said they had been placed under
the care of the matron, with the stand
ing of regular passengers.
Madison, Wis.-John Kelly of Be.
lott was elected president of the Fra.
ternal Reserve association of Wiscon.
sin. Carl Helm, Milwaukee was chos-
en- vice president; Mrs. Mary Brown,
La Crosse, secretary and Mrs. Mary
Summerville, Superior, treasurer.
Chicago-Marie Baker, years old,
who had been held for s405 board
bill, was turned over to her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. John Kenny. Rem.
vile, Mimi, by Judge Asa Adars OF
the court of domestic relations and the
child started for her new home. The
court cut the bill to $50.
Burlington, N. Trapped in a
dense huckleberry swamp here by
three huge rattlesnakes, Miss Harriet
Pittman, aged %, fought desperately
against attacks of rattlesnakes and
held them off until hunters responded
to her cries. Hunting dogs accom-
panying the girl were driven off by the
snakes.
Denver, Colo.-The teamN of horses
which William Juliffe, farmer, was
driving to load of hay, was stung to
death when a swarm Of bees descend
ed on them.
New YorB-Fifty former service
men and women who make up the
american Legioass second annual pill
Arimage TO European battlefields
sailed for Cherbourg on the .-eamship
Roosevelt.
Los Angeles-Roscoe c. tr'atty) Ar.
buckle, has applied to federal officials
for Ipassport for himself and Harry
Brand, his. secretary, for business
trip of indefinite length to China