The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-12-14
News of the Nation Briefly Told
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events In the Nation and State.

Pana. III. - Central iilGnois was
visited by its first snowfall of the sea.
son. More than 3 inches fell.
Sports
Minneapolis = Ted Cox of st. Paul,
star tackle, was honored with the cap
taincy of the 1924 University of Min
nesota football team at the annual
football dinner. Announcement Of
his election came when the secret bal
lots, taken when the team was return
ing from the Michigan game, were
opened and counted at the close of the
function.
st. Paul-St. Thomas and Hamline
have buried the Ratchet and will re-
snme athletic relations in all sports
again. This was the announcement
made by President Samuel F. Kerfoot
of Hamline university, who said that
an amicable understanding had been
reached between the athletic boards of
the two schools with the scheduling
of the annual football game next fall.
iron next year on October is at Nor
ton field.
Detroit-Harry Heilman, Detroit out
fielders, Joined the exclusive few who
have played through full major league
season with batting average over
400, according to official American
League averages. Heilman's average
for the season is 403. Included in his
211 hits were A doubles, IL triples
and is home runs. Second among the
regulars comes Babe Ruth, with 1893,
but the Babe is away ahead in total
bases, with 399 to 331.
Foreign
Chrissania = The Nobel committee
decided to award no peace prize this
year.
CONSTANTLY ople-The Turkish-Ameri-
can conference on the question of in
IDENTITIES due American citizens in
Turkey for war damages is at dead
lock. The Turkish delegates are await
ing new instructions from Ismet Pasha.
Copenhagen = Professor John Fib-
igerey, a Danish savant, received no.
tice that he has been assigned leg
acy left by Nordoff Jung, an American
woman physician, last year for cancer
research.
Rome = Minister of Public Works
Carnazza informed the cabinet that
the fatalities in the food in the Der.
gano valley aggregated about 500 and
that the material damage was estimat-
ed at between 100000 and $50, 0O0,.
600 lire. He urged that measures be
taken to indemnify peasants for lossss
sustained or to aid them in re-estab-
fishing their farms and businesses.
Dublin-Farmers in County Donegal
are drowning their young pigs because
the price they bring in the markets is
so low that it is improbable to raise
them. 1t is not an unusual sight after
county fair to see farmer open his
cart and let a litter of young pigs out
on the road for any one to take who
wants them. This condition is attrib-
uted to an IL weeks strike in the
Irish bacon industry.
Honolulu-For the first time in his
tory, full blooded Chinese has been
elected to the highest office in an
American lodge of Master Masons,
with the elevation of Spau Paul Lowe,
a engineer Of the Waikiki, Island of
Kaui, to the post of worshipful master
Of Maui lodge, No. 472. He is a grad
uate of the University of Illinois and
of Stanford University. He is a thirty
second degree Mason and is a member
of Aloha temple.
Coblenz, Germany-Dr. Hans x. Dor
ten, was unanimously elected "chief
of the provisional government of the
Rhenish republic" at meeting of the
separatist administration leaders. The
designations of Joseph Matthes and
Hugo Won Metzen were accepted. Co.
blenz will continue to be the republi-
can capital, but, as the interallied
high commission occupies the govern
ment buildings, separatist headquar-
tiers have been established at Bad-ems,
10 miles across the Rhine.
Paris-The American dollar has
been established as the exclusive
standard for fixing steamship rates
from French ports to the United States
by all the transatlantic lines in Paris,
including the government subsidized
French line, the Compagnie Generate
Trans-Atlantique, which refuses to
quote passenger tariffs in francs even
to French nationals. The British COM
panies with offices here are also quot
ing rates in dollars,uso the exclusion
of sterling.
Copenhagen-Advices from Christi
ania say that Captain Roald Amund-
sens exploration ship Maud, which
was believed to be drifting toward the
North Pole with the Arctic ice packs,
established radio communication with
Spitzbergen. Captain Visiting report
ed that Engineer Sivertsen died on
July 10 last after an illness of several
months, presumably of inflammation
of the brain. The Maud was in COM
munication with Spitzbergen early
| last March, reporting that she was
then about 800 miles northeast of
Wrangell island. She left Seattle liz
| June, 1922, carrying Captain Amund-
sen and an exploration party, but
Amundsen later left the vessel to
make preparations for his airplane
flight across the North Pole, which he
subsequently abandoned for the sea-
son but which he is planning to carry
out next summer.
| Paris = A Russian mission sup.
ported by unlimited credits, uc-, is
visiting the principal French aircraft
factories, according to L'Anto. The
Russians also will inspect factories in
England, Germany and Italy with a