The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-09-28
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events In the Nation and State.
Sports

player by unanimous vote of the
judges, Eddie Collins, White Sox vet.
eran, was given second place consid.
Grafton.
Minneapolis-O Aas, 1923 Min.
nesota captain and center, set at rest
the question as to whether he would
come out for football, when he ap-
peared in uniform for the first time.
Because of a heavy scholastic SEIZED
ule, he had been in doubt as to wheth-
er he could carry on football also, but
he has made his decision.
Duluth-W. E. Garrett Gilmore of
Philadelphia won the National singles
sculling championship by defeating
Walter Hoover in the Philadelphia
gold challenge cup race. Gilmore won
by four lengths. The time was 1888.
Gilmore led from the start Pulling
40 stroke, the challenger had quar-.
ter length at the quarter mile:
Los Angeles, Cal.-Tommy Gibbons,
heavyweight boxer, playing theatre
cal engagement here, said he had re-
ceived no message from New York
concerning the cabled request of
Georges Carpenter, French boxer, to
meet him, but that his manager, Eddie
Kane, had instructions to get him
match with the Frenchman ANY
time and anywhere" "Ill gladly
grasp the opportunity to meet Carpen.
tier" said Gibbons.
New York-After having tried all
the wrong ways in the book, Harry
Wills, the colored freight wrestler, is
going about the modern and approx.
ed method Of getting crack at the
worlds heavyweight crown. Words,
challenges, injunctiens and threats
having failed to get him into the ring
with Jack Dempsey, Wills had decid-
ed to step out and fight himself into
a position where he will have to be
considered. Until very recently,
Wills took the position that he was
established as the logical contender
for the championship and that he did
not have to trace his steps back over
the road of setups to prove his right
for fight with Dempsey.
Foreign
Dusseldorf-Labor troubles continue
at Dortmund, Horde, Witten and
Duisburg. A serious riot occurred in
Dortmund factory and police were
obliged to fire, killing two and wound
ing seven.
Budapest-Father John Hook and
Martin Lovasky, former members OF
the Karolyi government, have been
found guilty by default in caluminat-
ing the Hungarian nation. Their trial
was due to article published in Chi.
cago newspaper. Sentence will be
passed by the court when the convict
ed men who are now abroad, are in
the hands of the Hungarian authori.
ties.
Moscow = Several foreign mission.
whether the Russian State bank really
has a gold reserve. Piloted by a di.
rector of the bank, they are said to
have seen big vault containing sacks
and boxes of gold bullion valued at
98,000,000 gold rubles and also safes in
the central bank which contained for.
eign money worth 24,008,000 gold |
rubles i'll addition to the numbers of
sacks filled with Russian gold CON-
Venice-Giacomo Polacco, a widely |
known antiquarian, has been arrest. |
ed on charge of having sold a cope |
of the 18th century, embroidered in |
gold, to an American. 1t is said the |
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ted States.
London-Bobbed hair, which is |
rapidly passing out here, is getting |
a few kicks to help it along. The |
latest comes from Manchester hospi. |
tai, where all nurses have been or.
dered to allow their hair to grow. In |
the future no young lady with shorn |
locks will be allowed to look after |
the patients.
Moscow-Senator E. F. Laid OF |
North Dakota was among spectators |
at review of several thousand ca.
diets, mostly sons of workmen and |
peasants, who are to become units in |
army which Russia is building up. |
The cadets were graduated from vari-
Gus military academies.
Osaka, Japan-It is reported here |
that Prince MILO was carried away
with the tidal wave that engulfed his
villa at Kamakura. The body of his |
daughter was washed ashore Count
ess Yoshikawa, widow of Count Yosh.
ikawa and mother of Count Yamagi- |
sawa, member of the house Of |
peers, was crushed to death
Hamburg-The late Empress Aug.
usta Victoria's yacht has been sold to
an American and will leave soon for
New York by way of Ostend. The
purchaser is Mr.. Houghland of New
York. The late empress, who died in
exile in Holland and is buried at |
Potsdam, used the yacht for many |
years in her voyages from Kiel to the |
places on the Schleswig coast where
she passed her childhood.
Brussels-Paper marks valued at |
800, 000, 100000 comprising the cargo
Of a German airplane which was
forced to land at Knooke-Sur-M er,
north OF Zebrugge, were seized by Bel
gian authorities and the three Ger.
mans in the plane were placed in jail.
1t is said the money was en- route to
London.
Paris--Sadi LeCointe, the French
aviator. has been officially recogniz.
ed as holder of the worlds altitude
record.
London Robert Bridges, poet
aureate of England since 1913, is ex-
oected soon to go to America to
spend the college year at the Univer.
;ity of Michigan.
London-When the liner Franconia
cave Liverpool for Jew York II
will faka tho ashac Of 90 nt ain Mafho |