The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-05-30
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events In the Nation and State.

Sports
Michigan City, Undertaking that
the speed and cunning that allowed
him to stay with Jack Dempsey for
Is rounds will be matched by Georges
Carpenter when they meet May 81,
Tommy Gibbons is developing punch
which he hopes will stop the crafty
Frenchman. Gibbons, hitting harder
every day, slugged three rounds each
with Herman and Anderson and then
swung ferociously through four reg
ular rounds with his heaviest bags.
Work Of building 10000 extra seats
for the fight was started, due to the
new seats, all in the SO circle, will
increase the capacity of the bowl to
100000
Paris-The American Olympic rug
by football team won two great vic
tories at the Colonies stadium The
first was their defeat of France in the
final Olympic rugby match, II to 8.
The second was a victory over them
selves in not losing their temper I'M
der great provocation from what was
termed by spectators as unfair and un-
just crowd as ever attended a sport
ing event. The American players
were booed and Kissed throughout the
game; the raising of the American
flag on the Olympic fiagpole was the
occasion for demonstration Of boo
ing and cat-calling, and the strains Of
the American national anthem were
almost drowned out by the din raised
by the seemingly infuriated specta.
tors.
Foreign
Yakutsk, Russia-Large gold depos,
its have been discovered in the Kilyma
district of northern Siberia
Berlin-Former Crown Prince Fred.
erick William and his family have ar.
rived at Potsdam from his estate at
Gels, Silesia He is expected to re-
main in Potsdam for some weeks.
Paris-Members of the special COM
mittee of the League of Nations ap-
pointed to investigate the possibility
of reform of the calendar met with
the French academy of sciences.
Dusseldorf meetings of
miners in the Ruhr rejected the arbi-
tration proposals recently made in
Berlin as means of settling the dis
pute between them and the mine
owners.
Southampton, England-The Cunard
liner Mauretania, returning here from
Cherbourg, where it's turbines were
rebladed, was tested for speed over a
% mile course off the Isle of Wight
and is declared to have beaten her
original record.
Bordeaux, France-Ten policemen
were injured while breaking up an
anarchist demonstration led by a girl
-Germaine Berthon, who recently
was acquitted Of the murder of Marius
Paateau, editor of Paris royalist
paper.
Paris-H. C. Huffer, Jr., has resign
ed as commander of Paris post No. /.
American Legion. In his letter of res.
ignation he says that he cannot con-
tinue to uphold the policies of the ma
tional headquarters of the legion now
that the bonus bill has been passed
over the veto of President Coolidge.
London-Commercial wireless tele-
phone service between England and
America should be an accomplished
fact early next year, declared experts
here. For more than year an Amer
lean company has been telephoning
daily to England, but so far England
has been unable to talk back, owing
to the lack Of necessary apparatus.
London-It is reported here that a
hitch has arisen in Washington over
the appointment of Professor Timothy
]. Smiddy as first minister of the Irish
Free State. Great Britain has given
its consent and has notified the other
dominions but Washington, it is said,
wishes Professor Smiddy's position
more fully defined than has yet been
done.
Berlin-Unless solution to the ex.
listing parliamentary impasse is dis
covered before next Tuesday, the pres
emit government headed by Chancellor
Marx and Foreign Minister Strese-
mann will go before the newly elected
reichstag to seek its approval of the
foreign and other policies inaugurated
by it, permitting the question Of it's
further tenure of office to be decided
on the floor Of the house.
Paris-The municipality of Paris ex-
poets to send a committee to investi-
gate traffic regulations in the United
States in order to solve the problem
which is threatening to paralyze trans
portation here. The increasing mum.
Der of automobiles is filing the
streets so that delays occur at every
corner. Chauffeurs argue with the
gendarmes, who argue back instead
of giving them summons.
Tokio-The effect of the French
elections, foreshadowing an altered
attitude toward Russia, is apparent in
the foreign office, where desire now
is seen to resume early negotiations
with the soviet. 1t is reported that M.
Yoshizawa in Picking has been mott
fed to get in touch with M. Karakhan.
the soviet envoy, notifying him that
Japan is ready to empowe- the minis
ter in Picking with plenipotentiary
powers to enter binding agreements.
The Hague-The second chamber of
the Dutch parliament has ratified the
socalled Bryan treaty between Hol-
land and the United States providing
for commercial and arbitration agree
ments. This treaty was concluded in
1913 between Henry Van Dyke, then