The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-06-26
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
Big Happenings of the Week
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Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
Washington
Washington-Recoun OF the
ballots in the Brookhart-Steck sena-
torial contest from Iowa is expected
to begin shortly.
ashington-Secretary of State F.
B. Kellogg has fixed April Z, 1926. as
the date for opening the Pan-Ameri-
ington.
Washington = President Coolidge
was first here to contribute to the
100000 endowment fund being
raised for the American Legion to
finance rehabilitation work among
former service men and women, and
for the care of orphan children Of the
World war.
Washington-Miss Lucy Minneger-
ode Of Washington, director Of nurs-
ing service of the United States pub
lie health service and pioneer in
the American Red Cross nursing SER
vice, has been awarded the Florence
Nightingale medal by the Information
al Red Cross committee at Geneva.
Washington-With Secretary Of La
Dor ]. ]. Davis returning to Washing
ton to confer with representatives Of
the International Plasterers' and
Bricklayers' unions, labor department
officials summed up their proposals
for settling dispute between the two
organizations to end the strike called
this week by the Plasterers' union.
Domestic
Juneau, Alaska-George Alexander
Parks, resident of Alaska for IS
years, took oath of office as governor
of Alaska to succeed Scott c. Bone.
Lowell, Mass.-Mrs. Edith Nourse
Rogers, widow of John Jacob Rogers,
was overwhelmingly nominated to
succeed him in congress, at a special
primary election.
New Orleans, La.-Beginning Of ac-
tual work on the bridge across the
Mississippi river here, for which a
permit was recently issued by the war
department, was begun with the driv-
ing Of the test piling.
Detroit, Mich.-What promises to
be sweeping inquiry into alleged
vice conditions in Detroit and its SUI
burbs opened here in United States
district court when the first of more
than 100 witnesses were called be-
fore the grand jury.
Seattle-Artificialit of surround
ings, mole asdn gasoline fumes from
motor traffic are described as the
reasons for animals in the Woodland
park zoo here killing themselves and
dying from disease. Last season,
frightened at steady stream Of au-
tomobiles, four deer charged into the
corral fence and broke their necks.
Observation-Disclosures s. Stone, who
as president of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers, was one Of the
outstanding figures in American Ia
Dor, financial and political circles, was
buried beneath the elms of Lakeview
cemetery here with obseQuies befit-
ting the simplicity Of his nature He
was laid to rest near the monument
erected to President Garfield.
Los Angeles-Famous Players-Las-
ky Picture Corporation headquarters
announced that Florenz Ziegfeld,
stage producer, had signed five year
contract to film a series of pictures
under the Paramount label All, or
the majority of the screen versions of
Ziegfeld's types, will be made at the
Famous Players Long Island studio
New York-Corned beef and cab
bage is the favorite dinner dish of
most New Workers If the poll just
completed by the United Restaurant
Owners association gives an accurate
picture of the metropolitan appetite.
OF the 100000 votes cast, "red Mike
and violets," as the succulent dish is
known, led with more than $4,000.
Second on the list of preferences was
vegetable dinner" with 1S,549.
Chicago-James Hamilton Lewis,
Illinois, has filed suit in federal court
seeking to compel the Canadian Pa
cific railroad to recognize him as
legal holder of 100000 of the car
rier's stock, which he declares he
holds under a trustee agreement with
Jacob Braun, deceased Chicagoan.
Ottawa-Labor members in the
house Of commons have started a
movement to abolish the office of gov
ernor general of Canada in the inter-
ests of democracy and economy. ].
s. Wordsworth, labor party leader, de-
nounced the proposed 100000 appro-
priation for maintenance Of the gov
ernor generals office as a waste of
money.
New York-Thomas Ewing, presid-
ing at meeting in the interest of a
plan to establish a national museum
of engineering and industry, as an
adjunct to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. annf~Inced that s1,G00,000 al
ready has beeI pledged toward the
100000 fund for the museum
building in Washington.
New York-William Fox, president
of the Fox Film Corporation, has in
creased his life insurance to $780,
600 from s3,O0O,000, says the Specta-
tor. an insurance publication Ths
new policy, which is underwritten by
16 companies, makes Fox the second
largest insurance risk in the world.
New York-Harry F. Sinclair, un-