The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-09-07
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without further interruption until he
finishes his conditioning to meet Luis
Angel FirpO in New York. '1'll keep
right on training until possibly two
days before the fight" Dempsey said:
II may take it bit easier near the
finish but for the next 10 days l in
tend to go at top speed. My sparring
staff will be strengthened and / will
be able to get in plenty Of hard work. y
Scranton, Pa.-Christry Mathewson,
the big Six" of baseball, came back
to his home town, Factoryville, in a
farming district near here, TO be the
guest of honor of his boyhUod play
mates at fair. On the same lot
where Matty began his famous base
ball career years ago, he will appear
in the role of umpire for two Fac
toryville teams. 1t will be "Christy
Mathewson day." I'm always glad to
get back home with the old folks"
said Mathewson to a group of friends
who greeted him on his arrival.
Foreign
Berlin-United States Senator R. NJ.
LaFollette and patty, who have been
visiting here, left for Petrograd.
Hanover, Germany-Two persons
are dead and SO are i'll at Linden, near
Hanover, after eating horse meat.
Among the ill are several entire FAM
lilies and many are seriously stricken.
Berlin-A large force of police raid
ed the premises of dealers in foreign
exchange in district near the Bourse
and arrested 692 dealers, 81 of whom
were detained for infringement of the
foreign currency regulations. A large
amount of foreign currency was con-
fiscated.
Dusseldorf-C Alvin M. Ows-
ley, national commander of the Amer
lean Legion, finished his first days
visit in the Ruhr by being decorated
commander of the Legion of Honor
by General Degouette, the French
commander. The bestowal of the dec.
Grafton took place in front of general
headquarters in the presence of
score of French officers.
Paris-Arrangement for withdraw.
al of French troops of occupation in
| Constantinople in consequence of Tur.
keys ratification of the treaty of Lau-
same now are under way, it was
officially announced. The first de-
tachment is expected to arrive at
Marseilles about Sept. Is. The French
evacuation will be completed in about
six weeks.
Madrid-King Alfonso has been
forced to abandon his proposed trip
| to the Spanish-American republics
this winter on account of the gravity
of the internal situation and the
Moroccan war. The king received
an invitation for President De AL
year of Argentina to come to Buenos
Aires on state visit for the purpose
of patching up differences between
! Spain and it's children by an open
demonstration of friendliness a Gen.
| tury after South America won its in
dependence.
Letouquet, France-The engage.
ment of Allister Mccormick of Chi.
cago to Joan Steven, daughter of the
Hon. Mrs. Charles Melton Ashley of
London, was announced at small
dinner given at Mr.. McCormick's
hotel here. Miss Steven told Allister,
| according to guests, that she will be
sure to appear at the church in Paris
next October, when the marriage is
scheduled to take place.
Havana-Details of reported bat
tie aboard the French steamer Mag
ara which arrived here from Spain
were revealed on arrival here. Pas
sengers said two stowaways had been
locked up and given but little food.
whereupon several other stowaways
attempted to release them. The crew
turned hose on the attackers, using
| cold water, then hot, and finally boil
| ing water before the stowaways were
! subdued. Investigation is said to have
been ordered by owners of the steam.
| er.
The Hague-Queen Wilhelmina gave
an audience to the diplomatic corps
! to receive presents and decorations
| from various rulers on the occasion
of the 25th anniversary of her formal
accession to the throne. Frances gift
was a set of Sevres teacups; China
and Poland sent decorations; repre-
sentatives of the Holy See and the
British, Brazilian, Czech-Slovakian
and Hungarian governments present
ed her with autographed letters. The
Greek government presented its con.
gratulations in the form OF a marble
statue.
Casabianca, Morocco-"Death! We
want death! Sentence us to DEATH"
shouted two French soldiers, along
with string of invectives they hurled
at the court martial which had just
condemned them to penal servitude
for life on charges Of characterization.
The Judge ordered them led away,
but with frantic rage the convicts.
across whose foreheads the words
"out of luck" were tatooed, thew their
hats in the face of Colonel Julliard,
shrieked, "a mort" They will be
guillotined, as the courtmartial oblig.
ingly revised it's sentence for "strik-
ing a superior officer"
Jungfraujoch, Switzerland The
bodies of Sir Henry Hubert Hayden
and his two guides, who left Lauter
brunnen Aug. 10 for an excursion up
the Jungfrau, were found on the west
base of the precipice
GENERALIZATION of successor tc
fill the vacancy on the bench of the
permanent court of international JUS
tice, caused by the death of Ruy Bar
bosa, of Brazil, will be begun when
the assembly of the League of Nations
convenes here next month. The new
judge will serve the unexpired nine