The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-11
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events in the Nation and State.
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
Washington

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Washington
= Observation-Disclosures continues
in the condition of Senator R. M. La
Toilette (rep., iWs.), who is i'll at his
home here with pneumonia.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fred A.
Britten, (rep., Ill.,, returned from
Cuba and said 'hysterical congressio-
nal investigations" had caused loss
of American prestige there.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of all con-
struction work on the eight Ameri-
can military cemeteries in Europe
by May 80, was forecast in reports,
which showed that 30,409 American
war dead rest in the burying grounds.
neutrality-suspicious. Of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York as
chairman of an advisory committee Of
democratic women to draw up planks
on social welfare legislation for the
democratic platform, was announced
by Chairman Cordell Hull Of the dem.
ocratic national committee.
ashington-President Coolidge has
written letter of congratulations to
Carl B. Eielson, air mail pilot who, af-
ter being lost at night over the wilds
of Alaska with no guiding lights, sue
ceeded in completing the first expert.
mental air mail trip between Fair
banks and McGrath.
ashington-National trophies will
be given by Mrs. Coolidge at the White
House on June IA, Flag day, to girls
and young women essayists who best
describe the reasons why young men,
they know should attend the citizens
military training camps conducted
each summer by the war department
Domestic
Montreal-Radio greetings were
sent by Premier E. H. Armstrong of
Nova Scotia, to Premier ]. Ramsey
Macdonald, of Great Britain.
Los Angeles-Miss Isabel Fox,
daughter of the motion picture pro-
Queer, William Fox, was married to
NJ. j. Schwartz, New York business
man.
Chicago - Safeblowers entering
through a coal chute, tunneling
through brick wall and then frustrat-
ing burglar alarm after it started to
ring, obtained $4,000 from the safe of
the Madigan Brothers department
store.
Los Angeles-A request for, esti-
mates of the cost of erecting an eight
foot wire fence along the international
boundary line between Mexico and
California has been received here by
Collector of Customs L. H. Schwaebe
from Mckenzie Moss, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury.
Cleveland-Eleven women, nine
patrons and two employees, were car
ried down ladders by firemen when
smoke from blaze in an empty west
side theater filled the rooms of a
beauty parlor on the upper floors
One woman tainted. The property
damage was small.
Notwithstanding of Walker Muir
of New York, who was to be hanged
for the murder of Henry Lavoliette,
shot in an altF trr&over hunting
dogs, was staye&Unen Muir's coun-
sci alleged that the indictment was
illegal "as it adds another count to
the count of murder" The case will
be heard this month before the high
er court.
Detroit, -.;ich-Formation of an
American .~Ihodox church with the
100000 Russian orthodox church
members in the United States and
Canada as Nucleus, was prime
topic at sessions of the plenary con.
vention of the Russian churches in
America here. The proposed Ameri-
can church would draw for member
ship on all other orthodox nationali.
ties of this continent, including the
Rumanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Czecho.
Sloyak, Serbian and Albanian.
New York-Charles Allen Mum, 64
years old, editor and publisher of The
Scientific American, died here. He
graduated from Princeton in 1881 and
had long been identified with the pub
location. Death was caused, it was be.
lieved, by stroke of paralysis suffer
ed on fishing expedition in Scotland
last summer. Mr.. Mum devoted 43
years of his life to the magazine
founded by his father and assumed
sole charge of it and kindred publica-
tions in 1907. He was an enthusiastic
sportsman.
Tallahassee, Fla.-Oral arguments
before the state supreme court on the
motion of T. w. Higginbotham for a
new trial were completed. Three
representatives of the state devoted
20 minutes each in combating conten
tions OF the defense that errors were
made in the indictment, trial and sen
tence of the former convict whipping
boss" who was convicted by a jury
in Columbia county circuit court
last July of second degree murder ir
connection with the death of Martin
Tabert of North Dakott.
Durham, n. C.-Governor Cameron
Morrison of North Carolina, and Mrs
Sarah V. Watts, widow of George w
Watts, millionaire philanthropist
were married.
Sacramento, Calif.-A. C. Olney
state elementary school commissioner
has addressed letters to appointment
secretaries of the University Of Cali
fornia and Stanford university, asking
them if they have any information a.
to the danger of teacher shortage
due to ban on bobbed hair teacher.