The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-04-03
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Washington

Washington
Washington-Mrs. John Gordon Bat
telle of Columbus, Ohio, republican
national committeewoman and prom
inent in women's club activities in
that state died here.
Washington, d. C.-Senator Hiram
Johnson left Washington for Florida,
aboard the 90-foot yacht Of his son,
Hiram, Jr., on which he will cruise
through the Panama canal to Califor-
mia.
Washington, d. C.-Naval aircraft
is to be employed at the Anacostia
naval air station here to gather data
of the upper atmosphere for use of
the weather bureau in preparing fore
casts.
Washington, d. C.-Formal ex-
change of notifications of the Isle of
Pines treaty took place at the state
department, Secretary Kellogg and
Ambassador Torriente affixing their
signatures to the document on behalf
of the American and Cuban govern
ments.
Washington = President Coolidge
will appoint commission OF five or
six members to consider disposition
of Muscle Shoals very soon. The
commission probably will include
some person connected with the ad.
ministration and possibly a cabinet
member. The president will appoint
the body with instructions to report
probably at the opening session of
the next congress.
Washington = President Coolidge
initiated the two newest members of
his cabinet into the pleasures OF week
end cruising aboard the presidential
yacht Mayfiower. Secretary of State
Kellogg and Attorney General Sar-
gent, with their wives, were the guests
of the president and Mrs. Coolidge
when the Mayf1ower sailed. Mr. and
Mrs Dwight p Morrow of New York,
house guests at the executive man.
sion, also were aboard.
Domestic
Fairmont, w. Va.-Mine Al at Bar
rackville has given up the last of the
victims, 33 of whom were killed in an
explosion.
New York-The steamship Robert
C. Clowry, with liquor cargo of an
estimated valuesof $4,000 and a crew
of Is men, was seized by coast
guards.
Warren, Ohio-One man was con-
victed and three pleaded guilty in
cases growing out of the klan-anti
khan rioting in Niles last November.
Fifty-seven others were indicted by a
special grand jury.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-Attorneys for
king" Benjamin and Mary Purnell
and the house of David of Benton
Harbor paid into federal court here
s24,07S.0S interest and costs in favor
of Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Hansel of
Nashville, Tenn.
Cincinnati, Ohio-Disclosures that
the total amount of money alleged to
have been paid to policemen, detec.
tives and village officers by boot.
leggers and narcotic drug peddlers
in Cincinnati exceeds $1,000,000 as
made at the government building.
New York-After Is years of litiga.
ton, the bungalow colony, which has
grown up on strip of land between
Coney Island Creek and Gravesend
Bay has been ordered off the prop
erty, which the courts have decided
belongs to the Harway Improvement
Company. More than 400 families are
affected by the decision.
Aberdeen, S. D.-With $4,000 avail
able under appropriations of the leg
islature, administration of the new
South Dakota soldier bonus fund will
be taken up Immediately at the office
of Adjutant General w. A. Halle in
this city. Applications are already
on file from 125 soldiers or depen-
dants and many inquiries are being
received from belated applicants.
Cross City, Flaw. G.. McRane,
one of the six men under indictment
here on first degre murder charges
growing out of the death of Lewis
Barker, Negro, will be placed on trial
in Circuit Court here. Thomas W.
Hdgginbotham, convicted lumber
camp whipping boss" now awaiting a
new trial on murder charge result
ing from the death of Martin Tabert,
North Dakota youth, who was ar
raigned with McRane and E. G. Prist,
pleaded not guilty.
Nashville, Tenn.-Tennessee rung
down the curtain on the Darwin-Hux-
ley drama when Governor Austin Peay
signed bill passed by the general
assembly casting into discard the
theory of evolution. The bill bars
the teaching of evolution from the
public normal schools and colleges of
the states. The governor in a mes
sage to the legislature accompanying
the signed bill, declaring evolution
Eat variance with the teachings of
mans c1eation as related in the Ri
ble."
Clevels nd, Ohio-Lake navigation
between clevela,d and Detroit opened
for the Leason with the arrival of the
freighter Sultana from Detroit. No
ice was encountered Passenger SER
vice opens April 1.
Chicago-A requiem aver the ling
ering death of the Amer,. an home gar
den and flower plot was :ntoned here
by Ralph r. Root, presids mt of the
Society of Landscape Architects, be-
fore the fifth annual Own You're Own
Home exposition. Every year there
are fewer and fewer gardens planted,
particularly flower gardens" Mr. Root
asserted.