The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-08-28
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events in the Nation and State.

London, Ont-Sir Adam Beck, inter
nationally known horsemen ana. for
many years prominent in the indus.
trial and political affairs of Ontario.
died at his home here. He had been
i'll several months with pernicious ane-
mia. For years he was a member OF
the Ontario legislature. He organized
the Ontario hydro-electric system.
Lakehurst, N. AFTER successfully
mooring to the tender Fatoka at sea,
the first time this act has been per.
formed, the navy dirigible Shenandoah
returned to the naval air station from
| Newport, r. I. Another new man.
euver was successfully executed when
the dirigible dropped sea anchor and
rode at It.
West Palm Beach, Fla.-An early
settlement of the Everglades squatters'
questions which has kept part Of Col
leir county in a state of virtual civil
war for the past few days, was seen in
the announcement by Governor John
w. Martin of his decision to sell the
lands to squatters all over the Ever.
glades.
Ell Paso-El Faso and Jarez police
were conducting search for IL con-
victs who escaped from the Juarez Jail.
The prisoners, all of them Mexicans,,
| bored hole through the adobe wall
| Of the jailA One Of the escaped men is
Venicio Franco, serving 14-year SEN
tence for the murder two months aso
of his young wife.
Sports
Chicago-Running record breaking
race, Mad Play, the 4-year-old son Of
Fair Play-Madcap, owned by Harry F.
Sinclair of New York, captured the
$4,000 Chicago special at Hawthorne
in thilling, whipping finish that left
| 10000 spectators screaming with ex-
element.
Cleveland-The breaking of two
worlds records by Truax, his third
similar performance in four days, and
the victory by Crawford. Tommy Muir
phys Belwin-Barella horse, in the
North Randall $4,000 stake in straight
heats featured grand circuit card at
| North Randall, which was cut in half
| because of rain.
st. Louis-Kenneth Williams, slug
ging outfielder of the st. Louis Browns.
| faces an indefinite period in hospi-
tai as result of being struck on the
head by pitched ball in the game at
Cleveland. This was the report of DR..
Robert Hyland, club physician, who
said Williams was resting comfortab-
| ly," and that his skull was not frac-
| tursd.
New York-Ethel McGary, newly
| crowned Am erican all-around swim
ming champion, smashed the worlds
>ercord for the 5o0-meter swim at a
water carnival held under the auspices
of the Newburg Chamber Of Com
merce, Newburg, New York Racing
over a 55-yard surveyed course, Miss
! McGary covered the distance in the
| remarkable time of seven minutes,
z6 2-5 seconds.
Dover, Eng.-Miss Gertrude Ederle,
| 1S-year-old American girl swimmer,
| failed in an attempt to swim the Eng
lish channel, collapsing after gallant
| fight of hours and 40 minutes which
brought her from Cape Girs-Nez,
France, to more than two-thirds Of the
way to her goal here. The end came
| as a surprise, at time when Miss
Ederle apparently was swimming stur-
| Oily after a battle with rising wind
and waves. She was forced to quit be-
cause of nausea and seasickness
brought on by swallowing salt water.
New York-John McGraw, vice pre-
sident and manager of the New York
| Giants, said that the ball which has
been used in the major leagues during
| the past few weeks is much slower
than the kind with which the season
| was started. McGraw said that the
club owners, without making any an
nouncement, reached an agreement
among themselves that the ball in use
was too lively for the good of the
sport and that several changes in its
construction was ordered. He called
attention to the large number Of small
| score games during the last month to
show that the ball is not as it used
to be.
Foreign
Kottowitz, Upper Siberia-One foot.
ball player was killed and five other
players were severely injured when a
bolt of lightning struck among the
players during a match at Josefsdoiac.
Rome-Ettiorie Friedlander, for 4c
years general manager of the Stefano
agency, the semiofficial Italian news
dissemination, is dead here. He retired
from the news agency about 10 years
ago.
Copenhagen-The Danish xSmiralty
has decided to blow up the German
submarine U20, which was wrecked on
the Jutland coast in 1916. The U20
was credited with the torIedoing oil
the Lusitania.
Managua, Nicaragua-Tbe first OF
several German operated hydroair
planes arrived here from Columbia or
its way to Cuba. The airplane com
pany is said to be seeking mail ser
vice contract in Cuba.
Rome-The return to Rome OF Gia
como de MARITIME, Italian ambassador
to the United States, is interpreted
here as step toward the consumma
ton Of loan of from $100,000.0O0 te
$500, 100000 by American financiers te
Italy. II Serene, commenting on the
ambassadors conference with Premier
Mussolini, points out that preliminary
negotiations over the American debt
have been going on satisfactorily.
| Amboyana, Malaga - The Italiar
fiier, Commander Francesca de Pinedo
who is on an air journey from Italy II