The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-15
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
Zig Happenings of the Week
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Washington

ENTHUSIASTICALLY certain that
congress will further restrict legisla'
ton before June 80.
shington-Advance guard OF
navy's aeronautic polar expedition
leaves for Alaska to prepare way for
Shenandoah's trip.
ashington-Favorable report on
measures authorizing the Kansas City
Federal Reserve bank to build branch
houses at Denver and Omaha were
made by the senate banking commit.
tee.
Washington = Republican leaders
tell president legislative program will
be in following order: Tax reduction
immigration, Muscle Shoals and sol
dier bonus, with appropriation meas
ures sandwiched in.
Washington - Woodrow Wilson's
widow would be granted free use OF
the mails under resolution introduc-
ed by Chairman w. w. Greist, (rep.
Pa of the house postoffice committee,
This privilege was recently extended
to Mrs. Florence Killing Harding.
Domestic
Kansas Gity-Sale of the Kansas
City, Mexico and Oriente railway sys-
tenn to satisfy a government loan of
$4,000, 900 was ordered in federal court
here by Judge John c. Pollock.
st. GATHERINGS, Ont-News was re-
ceived here that the contract for Sec
ton of the Welland canal has been
awarded by the government to Quin-
Ian, Robertson & Co. of Montreal for
s10,500,000.
Youngstown, Ohio-Warrants were
issued charging Nicky Arnstein and
Charles Drucker, central figures in
the 100000 bond investigation in
New York four years ago, with OBJ
tanning $4S,30O under false pretenses.
ago-Vicepresident A. C. John
son of the Chicago & Northwestern
railway was elected chairman CT the
western traffic executive committee,
succeeding c. E. Spens, vicepresloent
of the Burlington road. resigned.
New York - The United States dis
trict attorneys staff went before Fed
eral Judge Knox with 290 petitions for
injunctions which would paddock New
York saloons, cabarets and restaurants
for persistent violation OF the Vol
stead act.
Buffalo. N. Y.-Inauguration of an
employees saving and stock owner
ship plan by the Bethlehem Steel cor
poration was announced by Eugene G.
Grace. president The corporation,
he said, would assist it's employees
to purchase it's per cent cumulative
preferred stock on easy payments.
Cincinnati = Luther Halsev Marsh,
100 years and s days old Civil war
veteran and reputed godson of Luther
Halsey, aide de camp to General
Washington in the Revolution, is dead
here. He had been a resident of Gin
cinnati "a years. his parents being
pioneers from New Jersey.
New York-Woodro Wilson car
ried $4,000 worth of life insurance.
One was issued when he was 81 and
a professor at Princeton. The other
was taken out in 1899, six years later,
his secondary occupation being given
then as lawyer and lecturer. Mr.. Will
son once said a man who did not pro-
vide for his children and dependents
has ont opened his eyes to any ade-
xuate conception of human life"
New York-The st. Intermediates
waterway project has been favored by
formal resolutions and appropriations
from Is states, representing 40 per
cent of the population and II per cent
of the wheat producers of the nation,
while opposition is confined to New
York. Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Montreal, James P. Goodrich, former
governor of Indiana, stated before the
New York State Chamber of Com
merce.
Oklahoma City-The mills of the
gods that grind slowly, but exceed
ingly fine, after 25 years have brought
to Colonel Reginald P. McNally. U. S.
A., of this city. recognition of an act
of bravery in the Philippine islands.
On April rs, 1900. Colonel McNally,
then second lieutenant led squad
of nine men against zoe Filipino in
surrectionists on the Bodoc river in
Luzon, routing the entire number and
bringing his men through uninjured.
He has been cited for gallantry in ac-
ton.
Chicago-For the second time in as
many days the police, acting under
orders Of Chief Morgan Collins stop
ped theatre from showing the NOV
ing picture, "The Birth of a Nation. .
The house had been sold out when
the police arrived, took the operators
from their booths and turned off the
electric switches. The complaint al
legged the showing of the picture was
in violation of the statute forbidding
performances tending to foment class
or race hatred.
Dallas Calvin Coolidge was in.
dorsed for the republican presidential
nomination and r. p. Creager, ma
tional committeeman, from Texas, fol
vice president by the republican state
executive committee.
San Francisco = The Pacific Mai
steamer President Wilson, one of the
two great ocean liners to bear the
name of the departed war leader, came
into port from far eastern points with
its sign at half mast. The President
Wilson bore the body of Mrs. Rupert
Hughes. wife Of the author, who tool
her life in the far east a few
mol tbs ago.