The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-12-19
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Washington
Washington-A lemon eight inches
long and six inches in diameter and
weighing more than pounds, was
sent to C. Bascom Slemp, the Presi
dents secretary, from Phoenix, Ariz
WasLington-Theft of ballot box
in the 1922 primary election in Texas
by eight armed men was testified to
before the senate elections commit.
tee hearing the contest against Sena.
tor E. P. Mayfeld, (dem., Texas).
Washington = Eleven years after
an indictment was returned against
him, charging defalcation of more
than $4,000 in bank funds, George w.
Hunter, former cashier Of Williams
town, w. Va, bank, was arrested here.
Washington - Without committing
himself to any definite program,
President Coolidge indicated to a
delegation representing the Washing
ton Chamber of Commerce that he
would sanction inaugural ceremonies
commensurate with the dignity of the
office into which he will be indicted
next March 4.
Domestic
Springfield, Mass.-Two members
Of the On Leong tong were shot and
seriously wounded in the first out
break of the tong war in this city.
New York-Bishop w. F. Mcdowell
was reelected president of the board
of education of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at its fifty-ninth annual
meeting.
Los Angeles-Funeral services for
Gene Stratton Porter, novelist, to-
tally injured here in a collision be-
tween her automobile and street
car were held in Los Angeles.
New York = Nine. Roger Sunbeam,
daughter of the late Jacques Lebaudy,
Emperor of the Sahara" sailed for
home on the steamer Paris, after an
unsuccessful attempt to avoid recog.
milton.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. When a gaso-
line launch went over the dam at Lock
on the Tombigbee river near here,
Jesse Kirkland was drowned and Cap
tain B. c. Kirkland and another man
were badly injured.
New York-Ear trouble has COM
PEELED Nine. Johanna Gadski, opera
star, to cancel the remainder of her
season on a vaudeville circuit, it has
been learned here. She had a con-
tract at salary ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 week.
Scranton, Pa.-Hope that the $4,000
striking miners Of the Pittson district
would return to work soon faded when
the general grievance committee
again voted to reject any and all
peace proposals submitted to them by
Rinaldo Cappellini, district president.
Indianapolis-Three well known
women and Postmaster General Harry
S. New have accepted membership on
the honorary committee for the Amer
lean Legion's s5,000.000 endowment,
it was announced at national head
quarters of the legion here.
Chicago = The funeral cortege Of a
bootblack will be headed by a brass
band and pass through Chicago's f.
nancial district IL the last request Of
Mike, who for A years has shined the
shoes of brokers and bankers, is car
ried out.
Peoria, Ill-John A. Lutz, Sc years
old, pioneer Logan county merchant
and friend of Abraham Lincoln, is
dead at Lincoln, Ill. He was born in
1889 in Germany and came to this
country when small boy.
j Binghamton, N. Y.-After eluding
the police for II years, Wallace H.
Schrader, SO years old, was being
held for the authorities Of Everett.
Wash. Schrader is said to have been
tried and convicted Of second degree
murder for the killing in 1913 Of his
wife.
New York-The ai:plane was de-
scribed as the ambulance of the fu-
ture by Colonel Robert Picque OF
the army health department in
France. Colonel Picque and Colonel
]. Uzac, both leaders In the move
ment for aerial disqualification. are
here on visit as delegates to the an
nual meeting of the Military Surgeons
Association.
New York-Anthenticity of bust
of George Washington believed to
have been sculpture of David Dan
gers, which recently was sold here for
about $4,000 after being found in a
junk yard, is questioned as result
of an investigation by United States
Attorney General H. F. Stone, re-
vealed.
Chicago-An appropriation of $780,
600 to purchase lands in the Missis-
sippi river bottoms between Rock
Island, Ill. and Lake Pepin. Minn..
authorized by the last congress in de-
noting this 800 mile strip of river
lands as the Upper Mississippi River
Wild Life and Fish Refuge. was in
cluded in President Coolidge's budget
message.
New York-Bismarck, a dog, gave
an alarm of fire by violent barking
and % tenants of west side apart
ment house made their way to safety
from flames which partly destroyed
the lower floors of the building.