The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-31
News of the Nation Briefly Told
Sports


being fightless since April, is coming
back into the fistic limelight either
Sept. 81 or 2S. William B. Hoke,
matchmaker for the local club, an
nounced that he had come to terms
with Cowboy Padgett for match
with Billy Wells, British welterweight
champion.
Washington-Plans for enlarge
ment of the stands at American
league park here to provide seats for
$4,000 persons were announced by
Clark Griffith, president of the Wash
ington baseball club The improve
ments will cost 100000 and the name
of the field will be changed to Clark
Griffith stadium.
Minneapolis-The first official call
to candidates for the 1923 University
of Minnesota football team was
broadcasted by Coach Bill Spaulding
from Kalamazoo, Mich, where the
Gopher mentor is spending a short
vacation before taking up the task
of moulding another Gopher football
machine. The call was in the form of
a personal letter from the head
coach, sent to more than go potential
grid stars, notifying them to be at
Northrop Field, QUILTED in mole
skins, September Is, for the first Off.
cial practice of the 1923 season. Con.
tanned in each letter was also some
personal advice to each man to keep
in trim and the announcement that
every place on the squad would be
awarded on the basis of merit alone"
Foreign
Pescara, Italy-Benito Mussolini
paid homage to Gabrielle D'Annunzio
when, with a solemn procession of
the humble cottage were the poet
was born.
Constantinople-The former sultan
and the former grand vizier will not
be included in the general amnesty to
be proclaimed on the occasion of the
ratification of the Lausanne treaty, it
was announced.
Canton-The headquarters staff Of
the constitutionalist forces declared
that the report of the retreat of those
forces recently was without founda-
ton, and that Sun Vat Sen has ordered
four new airplanes to proceed to the
front for duty.
Berlin-In consequence of the en-.
ormous losses suffered in running
the streetcars in Berlin the munich.
pality has decided to suspend opera.
ton of the entire service. Notice
will be given all employees that
operations at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Paris-Premier Poincare, it was
announced, will preside at the inaug-
uration of a monument to the dead
at Chassey, department of the Meuse,
drecourt for the unwilling of tab.
let commemorating the arrival of the
first American troops on the battle
fields of France.
MISUNDERSTANDING to latest in
formation from Russian sources in the
far east, Japanese quarters are show
ing uneasiness over the forthcoming
Russo-Chinese negotiations. Mean
time, it is alleged, the exploitation Of
the oil resources in northern SAX
hahn is being speeded up, under pro-
lection of the military. The oil Is
reported to be of the highest quality.
Dublin-The anniversary of tho
death of Michael Collins was observ
ed with military displays in Dublin
Cork, Waterford and other cities
The parade in Dublin was the great
est military spectacle ever seen here.
All branches of the service were rep.
resented in a line nearly ten miles
long. When the head of the process.
sion passed the cenotaph, Miss Kittie
Herman, to whom the late leader was
betrothed, place a wreath on the
tomb.
London-Reports that Sir Auckland
Geddes, British ambassador to the
United States, will not return to
Washington, have been revived be.
cause of the precarious condition OF
his eyes, While the government will
not concede the likelihood of his re
tirement the impression prevails in
well informed political circles that
the government authorities are cast
ing about for suitable successor.
London-All except a few bars OF
the $30,000,000 worth of gold bullion
which dropped to the ocean bed
when German submarine sunk the
Laurentic off Donegal, Ireland, have
been recovered by divers who since
1918 have been carrying on their la.
bors 80 feet below the surface OF
the sea. The 80 bars remaining in
the wreck, it is expected, will be
brought up within fortnight.
Berlin-Senator Thomas Sterling
of South Dakota and Representative
Theodore Burton of Ohio, who ar.
rived here from the interparliament
conference at Stockholm had an un-
pleasant experience on German
train when monocled monarchists in
suited them because they were for
eigners and communists threatened
them because they were well dressed
Mr.. Burton said he found Germany
more quiet than reports abroad indi.
Gated, but he noticed considerable
uncertainty, restlessness and black
pessimism.
Moscow-Following six weeks OF
rain and hail storms, a heavy snow
has ruined the crops in the noun.
tain districts of Daghustan in the
Caucasus, according to reports from
that region, and the population OF
nearly 100000 in the district is
threatened with famine.
Vauville, France-Georges BaIbot,
French aviator 1yinp in a mOtorless