The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-07-25
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Washington - Arrests by the police
for prohibition law violations in
Washington during the last fiscal
year totaled 1885, or 1907 more than
for the previous year, official reports
said.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Dr.
Joseph H. Ward, Negro, of Indianap.
oils, as medical officer in charge OF
the United States Veterans hospital
at Tuskegee, Ala, confirmed at the
Veterans bureau, places the institution
In charge of an entire Negro staff for
the first time since its opening. DR..
Ward attained the rank of major, the
highest commission gained by Ne
gro officer in the World war.
Domestic
New York-Erasmus Darwin Beach
rs years old, intimate friend of Charles
A. Dana, editor, poet and author, has
died.
New York-Pietro Mascagni, Italian
composer, will come to America this
ances, after an absence from the Unit
ed States of % years.
New York-Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, is in no danger of serious i'll
ness, 1t was said in answer to reports
that he was in a critical condition.
Lakehurst, N. Captain Anton
Heinen, who piloted the dirigible Shen-
andoah when it was torn from its
mooring mast in a storm, has severed
his utilization with the aeronautical
department of the navy.
New York Harry F. Sinclair put
up $4,000 bond before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock to insure his
appearance in Washington for trial for
alleged conspiracy to defraud the Unit
ed States government.
Kansas City-The bodies Of two
fremen and nine Negroes who lost
their lives in the explosion and fire
that RACED a two story store and
apartment building in the Negro dis
trict here had been recovered.
New York-Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, has so far recovered from the
illness that has confined him to his
hotel at Coney Island for week, that
he is able to go out for short walks.
New York-Former Governor Whit
man of New York, in an address to
the American Bar association, scored
as lax and dilatory the trials of GRIM
mails in this country and asserted they
are increasing at higher rate than
the general population.
New York-The raid by prohibition
officers on the Hotel Ritz-Carlton and
the seizure Of liquor, the first of its
kind in an important hotel, will be fol-
lowed through as a test case, 1t was
indicated by Palmer Garfield, prohibit
ton director for New York
Chicago-Clarence barrow, chief of
counsel for defense in the trial of
Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard
Loeb, on charge of having kidnapped
and killed Robert Franks, declared
that in his opinion three months will
be required merely for the selection
of jury to hear the case.
New York-A cable dispatch re-
ceived at the national headquarters of
the Episcopal church announced that
the municipal government of Toxic
had given 10000 yen, approximately
$4,000, to the emergency fund of st.
Luke's hospital, one of the missionary
enterprises conducted by the church
in the Japanese capital.
Detroit, Mich.-Detroit' municipality
owned street railway system earned
s40,254.52 in net income in June, de-
crease of s21, SS4.92 compared with the
corresponding month of 1923, accord
ing to the monthly statement Of the
department of street railways. Total
operating revenue for the month was
S1,704,779.6S and operating expense
was s1,136,912.74.
Chicago = Several Chicago physi-
clans recently have received letters
threatening their lives unless they
meet the demands of the writer's for
money, the police said. Two letters
demanded that the physicians place
5000 each in tomato cans to be de-
posted in an alley and were signed
"Italy."
Mitchell Field, N. Y.-Flying the
i3S miles from Washington in 80 min
ntes, Lieutenant Russell Vaughan.
dawn to dusk across continent air
trail blazer, brought to Mitchell Field
Instructions from the secretary of war
and the chief of the air service that
be proceed at once by rail to Kelly
Field, South San Antonio, Texas, to
resume routine duty with the ser
vice"
Chicago = Fifty thousand dollars is
alleged by government officials to
have changed hands to secure the dis
agreement of a federal jury in the
case Of Dean O'Bannion and Danny
Mccarthy, alleged Chicago beer
kings" charged with attempting to
"hi-jack" truck load of liquor being
transported from the government
warehouse to another.
Ell Paso, Texas-Adolfo De La
Huerta, head of the late revolution in
Mexico, was erorted to be in the
state of Sonora.
San Francisco. Darkness did not
stop the air mail fiiers, though there
were none of the middle vests bea-
cons and searchlights to help the hon.
ing pilot find his landing field. Claire
X. Vance. who took the first plane east
from here in the new daylight SER
vice, brought in the mail from Reno,
having flown the entire last lap in
darkness. His time was 1 hour So
minu1e s one ninufe hatter than schad