The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-05-22

The site Is the same used by Firpo
when he trained for the Dempsey
bout
Louisville-Flying Ebony, from the
stable of Clifford A. Cochran, New
York manufacturer, won the 51st an
nual Kentucky Derby at Churchill
Downs. Eighty thousand persons
witnessed the race. This figure es-
tablished a new attendance record.
The time was 2:O7 3-5. Flying Ebony
was so lightly regarded by the track
Handicapped that he was grouped in
the field betting with eight others who
were not thought TO have much chance.
But Flying Ebony was ridden by
Earl Sande, who Americas premier
jockey.
Foreign
Tien Tsin, China-Parents in the
province of Kawchow, where there Is
famine, are selling their children
for a handful of maize and cannibal-
ism is being resorted to near Klein
Sun.
Cocanada, India-De Pinedo, Italian
airman, en- route from Rome to Aus
tralia and Japan, arrived here. Co
canada is in Madras, on the bay of
Bengal.
British India = Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, his brother Kermit and
members of their central Asian hunt
ing expedition, have arrived here
aboard the British steamship Raj
max.
Manila-Governor General Leonard
Wood has issued statement appeal
ing to America for assistance in the
campaign to raise $1,000,000 in behalf
of the Philippine lepers. The Philip
pines have about $4,000 lepers Of
which more than 5000 are segregated
and under treatment on Culion island.
Paris-General Charles Mangin.
French hero of Verdun, is dead here.
Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin,
born at Sarresbourg July 6, 1866, was
one of the military leaders, with a
lifelong training as a soldier, who
proved a bulwark of strength for
France in repelling the German inva-
sion in the World war.
notwithstanding the leg
end that st. Patrick banished all the
snakes from Ireland, one has been
discovered in Dublin and is now on
exhibition in the National Museum.
1t is a very small specimen and Of
the harmless variety. Snakes have
occasionally been brought into Ireland
| from overseas, but they have never
| been known to breed here.
Moscow-Leon Trotsky was accord
ed the first political recognition he
had received since his return to Mos
cow, when the all soviet congress
elected him a member of the new ex-
ecutive committee. Three hundred
prominent Russians, including Trot-
sky, Premier Rykov and Gregory
Zeneview were elected.
London-The Daily Telegraph re.
ports that the Vatican intends to
make large financial deposits In Eng
land that there there is keen compe-
tition among the banks to get this
business Before the war the Vatican
banked largely in Germany and is
said to have suffered much loss
through the depreciation Of the mark.
Balboa - Two army fliers from
France, field, canal zone, Lieutenant
Arthur Watson, New York, and Sar-
geant Hanson, were killed in plane
crash over San Jose, Costa Rica. The
cruiser Cleveland, returning from
Limon, has been ordered back to
bring the bodies to Panama to be
sent to the United States. The
bodies and plane were burned.
Stockholm-After losing, by death,
both of its patriarchs, Hjalmar Brant.
ing and F. v. Thorsson, the social
democratic government of Sweden has
been recognized. Ernst Vigfors has
been made minister of finance, sue
ceeding Thorsson, whose place he
filled temporarily, and Karl Cohlyter,
member of a former cabinet formed
by Branting, has been made cabinet
minister in an advisory capacity.
Stockholm-In accordance with an
cient Swedish customs, the expected
birth of baby at the royal castle in
| Stockholm has been announced to the
public through an official decree by
the king. Prayers have been asked
| in all Swedish churches for the vel
| fare of Crown Princess Louise. who
until her marriage to the Swedish
/ crown prince. Gustavus Adolphus, in
1923, was member of the royal fam.
| lily Of Great Britain.
Copenhagen, Denmark-After 1--WE
months of auditing the books and
other records of DR.. Anton Bast
Methodist Episcopal bishop for Scan
dinavia, he is shortly to be brought
! to trial on a charge OF misappropria
ton of charity funds.
Paris-Pipe coloring as an industry
has been revived in Paris with the
opening of pipe smoking shop near
the Odeon theater. Here professional
pipe adopts undertake to smoke a
new pipe until the harshness Of the
wood is burned out, or until meer.
schaun has assumed the desired
! shade.