The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-07-17

ment is prepared to meet with other
powers to frame new policy toward
China"
Domestic
Chicago-While pointing his rifle
at a prisoner who was trying to es-
cape, Maurice Reidy, for 80 years a
guard at the house OF correction,
dropped dead.
San Francisco-Word that the yacht
Mariner, captalned by l.. A. Norris,
had won the 3,655-mile San Francisco
to Tahiti race, was received by Henry
A. w. Dining of the San Francisco
Yacht Club.
Lakehurst, N. Y.-The Shenandoah,
returning from her Bar Harbor fight,
is moored at her home mast. Com
mander Lansdowne reported the en-
tire trip was made in heavy showers
but without accident.
dianapolis-Fifteen years In the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
and fine of $4,000 was melted out
to Morton S. Hawkins, former presi-
dent of the now defunct Hawkins
Mortgage Company, on the charge Of
using the mails to defraud in connec-
tion with operations Of the concern.
Kingman, Ariz.-After lying for
four days pinned beneath an over
turned truck on an unfrequented road
80 miles from here, John Hall, so
years old, was brought to hospital
here and physicians say he probably
will recover. Hall lay for four days
without food or water and suffering
from a broken collarbone. A neigh
Dor found him.
Plymouth, Vt-Colonel John G.
Coolidge, the presidents father, who
underwent an operation in the din
ing room of-his home while his son
rushed here from the summer White
House, sat on his front porch for an
hour and a half and enjoyed himself
by watching tourists who passed
through the town.
Swampscott, Nassau attempt on
the part of an international rum
smuggling ring to land a cargo of
rum almost at the front steps of the
summer White House is enlivening
President Coolidge's vacation. Mr..
Coolidge ordered treasury officials to
increase the patrol force and and at.
tack the rum shipping off this coast.
Los A1geles-Twenty-seven prize
winning Guernseys purchased for a
southern California stock farm, ar.
rived from Boston In de luxe ex.
press cars attached to a fast passen'
ger train. The animals, including "a
bulls, made the transcontinental trip
in less than five days. Every effort
was made to protect them from the
discomforts of hot weather travel.
New York-Pedro Merla, Mexican
deputy, announced that on his re
turn to Mexico City he would propose
to his government the establishment
with Mexican capital of five banks
similar to the Federal Land Bank
of Houston, Texas. Senior Merla, who
is visiting in New York, said he con.
sidered the Federal Land Bank the
last word in modern finance and
banking.
San Jose, Calf. = Characterizing
Napoleon as "the worst curse in the
history of the world" DR.. David Starr
Jordan. president emeritus of Stan
ford University, and winner of the
$4,000 Raphael Hermann prize for q
world peace plan, appealed to an au
dience of several hundred persons in
the San Jose high school auditorium
here to wage war against war and to
work toward establishment of a de
partment of peace to take the place
of departments of war and navy.
Buffalo, N. Y.-The Buffalo Evening
News stated that the largest rum ar
mada ever seen in Lake Ontario is
modified and loading at Fort Col
borne, Ont, for a dash to the dry
frontier of the United States. The
story said the armada consists of II
craft of various types end estimates
the value of the combined cargoes
at more than $250,000.
Chicago-Charged with taking par
IN the theft of $4,000 worth of army
supplies from Fort Sheridan, five men
including George Polkow. suspend
ed policeman, we're indicted by the
federal grand jury here