The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-06-15
News of the Nation Briefly Told
Sporting

that proposed rumpus between Jess
Willard and Luis Firpo until July II,
at Boyle's Thirty Acres so that it
won't interfere in any manner with
the championship jam between Demp-
sey and Gibbons, it was indicated here.
New York-After plotting Sweet
Kiss to an easy victory in the steeple-
chase at Belmont park, Rider Frank
Hayes rode to the judges stand and
fell from the saddle, dead. 1t was the
first time he had jockeyed winning
jumper. His death was said to have
been due to heart failure induced by
weight reduction.
New Workable Ruth faces a par
tlcularly warm and nerve wrecking
period in his race to keep abreast of,
or to excel, his homerun hitting pro-
gress Of 1921. So far he has re-
NAMED steadily just few behind his
best mark but never so far behind as
not to be within striking distance.
Now, however, the pace quickens. He
enters a week in which superlative
performance in required, for in the
corresponding week of 1921, he hit
seven someruns in five days, the first
against Bagby of Cleveland, the Sec
ond against Middleton of Detroit, the
third against Sutherland of Detroit,
the fourth and fifth against Ehmke
and the sixth and seventh against
Dauss.
Minneapolis-One of the most dras-
tic measures taken in recent years to
curb PROSECUTING of athletes in the
Big Ten is now being voted upon by
members Of the Western conference
which, if adopted, will bar any athlete
who transfers from one collegiate in
stitution to another, after participant
ing in intercollegiate athletics at the
first school, from the Big Ten COM
petition. The measure, known as the
migrant rule" was adopted at a re-
cent meeting of faculty representa-
tives of the Big Ten at Ann Arbor
and is being sent to every Big Ten
school for ratification or rejection, ac-
cording to Prof. James Paige, confer
ence representative for the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. The Minnesota
senate body is not expected to act Cd
the proposal before next fall.
Foreign
Nome, Alaska-The last vestiges of
winter ice in this section of Boring
sea have drifted from view.
London-The Central News report-
ed Gabriel D'Annunzio, poet warrior,
on his way to join Mustapha Renal
Pasha in Turkey.
Havana-The senate has approved
law raising the Cuban legation /,
Washington to the status of an EN-
bassy.
Perugia, Italy-Count Fabini,
member of the fascist, has been sen
fenced to 10 months Imprisonment fol
having forced the parish priest of Cub
bio to drink castor oil because the
priest had adopted an antifascist atti.
tude.
Berlin-Five hundred million marks
in $4,000 mark notes have been stolen
from the federal money printing plant
in Berlin. A reward Of 1000 900
marks has been offered for the return
of the missing money or the identifi.
cation of the thief.
Dublin-The minister of defense.
General Richard Mulcahy, introduced
in the Dali Eireann pension bill an.
thorizing compensation to the men
who were wounded and the relatives
of those killed in three periods of the
fighting in southern Ireland. The first
category includes the Easter week
rising of 1916; the second dates from
January, 1919, to December, 1921,
when the Anglo-Irish treaty was sign.
ed, and the third comprise the period
of strife since that time.
Ottawa, Ont.-Large cargoes of Ca
madam beer and liquor are moving
toward the international boundary
on their way to New York state, as a
result of the repeal of the prohibition
enforcement law there. Canadian of.
fcials stationed along the border as.
ported that rum runners are now &C.
lively engaged in plans to flood New
York with dominion hard STUFF"
London-Judge Marcus Kavanaugh !
of Chicago, former Governor C. A.
Whitman of New York, and Wade M.
Ellis, a committee of the American
Bar association, which is studying
law enforcement in Europe, were pre-
sented to King George by Post Wheel |
er, the American charge d'affaires.
Atlantic City, N. six thousand |
persons are attending the annual con.
vention of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World here. Among the
delegates are group Of lis adver- |
Using men Of Great Britain, who came |
with the avowed purpose Of taking
the convention to London in 1924 as
against Houston, Texas, which will be |
doomed by large delega-
ton.
Lausanne-Ismet Pasha, head of |
the Turkish delegation in the peace
conference here, refused to accept |
any of the Allied proposals. that their |
concessions in Antolia be safeguarded |
in the peace treaty now under negotia-
ton. Ismet professed to be without
to deal with the question,
and private meeting between him
and the leading Allied delegates in an
effort to adjust this question proved |
fruitless.
Tokio-More than lee prominent |
communists and socialists were ar
rested, the police charging that they
were engaged in plot to organize a
communist state.
Flint, Mich.-A telephone message
to the Flint Journal from Owosso said
a report had been received there that
four persons had died as a result of
the wreck Of the Grand Rapids-Ionia
x niphfa Temnlar cnocia1 noor nurard |