The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-09-19
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events In the Nation and State.
Sports

pose Fred Fulton, the Rochester plas'
terer, in the main event of the first
fight card of the season at the Min
neapolis Armory, scheduled for Sep
TENDER 26.
Jersey City-Harry Wills, Negro
heavyweight Of New Orleans over
whelmingly outpointed Luis Firpo in
IL rounds at Boyle's Thirty Acres be-
fore 80 thousand spectators. Over
caution cost the New Orleans Negro
his chance of victory by the knock
out route, while the big South Amer
icar never had a chance of victory by
any route.
Westbury, N. Y.-America began
the defense of the International Chal-
lenge cup with smashing, one-sided
victory over Great Britain in the first
match of the series for this historic
emblem of polo supremacy. A color
full crowd of $4,000 that included the
Prince Of Wales and host of other
notables saw the Yankee riders over,
whelm the invaders with spectacu.
lar attack and win by the record.
breaking score of 16 to 5.
Foreign
Tokio-Severe rain and wind
storms have caused 80 deaths while
312 persons have been seriously In
jured. Some 5000 houses were de-
stroyed and 1900 damaged.
Paris-Saghlou1 Pasha, premier OF
Egypt, who is now taking the cure at
London at the invitation of Prime
Minister Macdonald to discuss Egyp-
tian and Sudan problems.
Manila-Governor General Leonard
Wood has announced that he viii
leave for the United States early in
December to testify before congress
on Philippine affairs.
Ferrera, Italy-A rare collection of
pottery of the second century is re-
ported to have been discovered in the
Trebbia valley Some of the vessels
are only one mi11imeter thick and
they are all of coralline rose color and
beautifully designed.
Messina, Sicily-A heat wave is
sweeping through southern Italy and
Sicily. In some places the tempera-
ture has scared to ITO degrees in the
shade, while hot wind from the d.
rection of Greece is making the sit
uation worse. Many prostrations have
been reported.
Copenhagen-A succession of earth
quakes has been shaking Iceland. The
south and southwestern districts of
the island always have been subject
to volcanic disturbances, and old era
tiers have now become active again.
The population has fed from the dam
ger zone.
seemed asleep.
Paris-A strange crime was reveal
ed when police arrested Miguel Mattio-
oil, an Italian, and charged him with
hypnotizing another man to commit
murder. Maffairi, an enemy of Mat
TOLLS, was shot dead by Mattioli's
friend, Scetti. Scetti, when arrested,
Erivan, Armenia-Efforts are being
made by a group of Armenians head
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the Armenian national committee at
Geneva, to interest American capital
lists or amusement promoters in a
plan to exploit Mount Arrarat, on
which Noah's ark is supposed to have
grounded when the food waters be-
gan to recede.
Geneva-Countess Gabrielle Szech-
enyi died in the Basel hospital as
the result of self inflicted pistol
wound following quarrel with Arch
duke Eugene Hapsburg, commander
of the Austrian armies on the Piave
Recently the archduke, who is aged
so, became engaged to wealthy Ba-
sci widow.
Paris-Thirty more wouldbe immi-
grants to the United States were ar
rested at Antwerp equipped with false
passports fabricated in Warsaw, it
was announced by Donald Bigelow.
American consul here, who is organic
ing a drive on the fake passport in
dustry throughout western Europe.
All 80 of those arrested were Poles.
Tokio-Patrick Murphy, advance
man for Pedro Zanni, the Argentine
aviator was informed that a spare
plane shipped to the aviator from
Kobe to Hano, French Indo-China,
where he was forced down, has been
delivered to Zanni who is assembling
the machine preparatory to resuming
the flight.
Tokio-The strong, frank tone of
Ambassador NJ Hanihara's immigra.
ton note to the American govern
ment in which the term grave con-
sequences" was used was due to the
insistence of Secretary of State
Charles E. Hughes, who wanted &.
note with teeth" Bishop Charles +.
Reifsnider said in an address before
the Toxic Rotary Club.
Tokio-The war office has reached
compromise with the cabinet in the
recent political row over army ex-
penditures by agreeing to effect cuts
of 3O,OOO,00O yen ($15, O00,000) in the
next budget In return for this, the
politicians are to keep their hands
off, permitting the militarists to re:
adjust the army according to their
own plans and to reduce the strength
of the army by only four divisions.
Vienna-Former Archduchess Marie
Valerie, youngest daughter of the late
Emperor Francis Joseph, is dead. Her
husband and their eight children were
| at the bedside. When young wom-
| an the archduchess was the censor of
plays presented in the Royal theater.
Moscow-The Rosta agency, the So