The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-03
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WdSillIIQtO1l
Washington - Famine has affected
nearly 10000 persons in the prov.
inces Of Pangasinan and Tarla, Philip
pine islands, according to Red Cross
reports.
Washington = General John j. Per.
shing, who retired as general of the
armies Of the United States September
IL, will continue to draw his full
salary of $4,000 year in retirement,
under ruling handed down by Con-
troller General ]. R. McCarl.
Observation-Disclosures that the
National Episcopal cathedral here will
remain the permanent resting place
Of Woodrow Wilson's body are seen
in plans of the cathedral foundation
which call for a more magnificent
shrine than the crypt under Bethle-
hem chapel, where the body now lies.
ashington-Prohibition Commits
sioner R. A. Haynes, in formal state
ment, declared there could be no
doubts that Representative John
Philip Hill of Baltimore, had violated
the prohibition statutes in making
cider which he recently announced
had an ic.strength of ITS per
cent, challenging the commissioners
mite course of action had been agreed
on.
Domestic
Chicago-Miss Madeline NJ. Bailey
of Angola, Ind, an opera singer, sang
on her fine in speeders' court here.
After assessing her s34 and costs the
magistrate asked her to sing.
Boston = The steamer Edward
Pierce, a collier plying between New
port News, Va, and Boston, sank in
the outer harbor after a collision with
the steamer Mundelta. The Mundelta
also was damaged, but the crews of
both vessels escaped injury.
San Francisco-Mrs. Jerome K
Landfield, of Burlingame, wife of Pro-
fessor Jerome X. Landfield, formerly
Princess Louba Lobanov Rostovsky,
and lady-in-waiting to the Czarina of
Russia, has taken up a career as
saleswoman in one of San Francisco's
iSduluS department SCOr6S.
Chicago = Hester White, daughter
of F. Edison White, president of Ar
mour & Co., was robbed of rings val
ued at $1,000 and a necklace of ISL
matched pearls by masked and arm
ed man at the White home in Lake
Forest while a dinner party downstairs
was undisturbed.
San Francisco The bark Mar
whal, treasure seeker of the south
seas, which returned to this port few
weeks ago with it's company of 81,
all filled with taks of high adventure,
was Knocked down" by an auctioneer
for $1,000 to satisfy a claim of $l,100
entered by F. Meyer, the ships cook.
New York-The Neptune Associa-
ton, an American deck officers organ
ization, to test the constitutionality of
the recent British-American liquor
treaty, sought an injunction restrain
ing the Cunard Steamship Company,
Ltd, from bringing liquor within the
jurisdiction of the United States.
Hammond, Ind.-Damages totaling
$1,O00,00O were denied by Judge V. S.
Reiter, of the Lake County Superior
Court in Sc suits filed in behalf of vic
tins of the Hagenbeck-Wallace cir
Gus wreck near here in June, 1910, on
the Michigan Central, in which 70
were killed and 100 others were
injured.
Chicago-The new comet reported
by observers from Copenhagen, Den
mark, has been sighted and photogra-
phed at the Yerkes observatory of the
University of Chicago at Williams
Bay, Wis. 1t now is family visible to
the naked eye, said Professor Edwin
B. Frost, in charge of the observa-
tory.
Tacoma, Wash.AOne of the oldest
persons in the United States by her
own claims and those of her family,
Mrs. Telka Stanezewski, died at To-
cal hospital at the age of 12S years.
Adams was elected second president
of the United States the year Mrs.
Stanezewsh was born, 1896, if the
records kept by the family are correct.
Evanston, Ill.-A super-university
for the benefit of scholars of all ma
tions, particularly professors who, on
sabatical leave from their home insti-
tutions, desire to meet the greatest
thinkers of the day, will be founded
at Erlangen, Bavaria, according to
Professor Edward Leroy Schaub, pro-
fessor of philosophy at Northwestern
University.
Chicago-A crowd of the curious
elbowed and far outnumbered the buy
ers at the auction of the household
effects of the family of Jacob Franks.
whose son, Robert, was kidnapped and
slain by Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, Jr., now serving life prison
sentences for the crime. few be-
longings of the slain boy, including a
radio set, blackboard still showing
childish drawings, some games and a
desk, were included in the articles
for sale.
Breckenridge, Texas-More than
200 citizens of Breckenridge are
homeless as the result of virtual
cloudburst, which caused Gonzales
creek to go over its banks, covering
more than half a mile width in some
places. No one has been drowned
according to early reports.
KANSAS City--kcserve officers from
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Ar
kansas, Minnesota. North and South
Dakota convened here in the opening
session of the fourth annual conven,
ton of the Seventh Corps Area Re.
serve Officers Association. Between
500 and 600 reserve officers attended