The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-02-20
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events in the Nation and State.
Atlanta-His coming witnessed

Sports
st. Paul-Tommy Gibbons, leading
contender for the heavyweight box
ing championship. upon his return
from New York announced that he
had tentatively agreed to matches
with BARLEY Madden in New York
early in May and with Louis Firpo in
Detroit, Mich, late in May or the
first week in June.
Foreign
Bangkok-Prince Chao Fa Asdang
Tejavudh. heir-presumptive to the
Siamese throne, is dead.
Leningrad, Russia-Seven soviet
government officials were sentenced
to death for mismanagement and cor
ruption in the state leather monopoly.
London-Ambassad F. B. kellogg
has commissioned Delasallo to paint
his portrait for the American chancel.
lory as an addition to the collection
there.
Paris-If England refuses to ratify
the Geneva protocol, France is ready
to sign separate agreement of Sc
curity with England. Deputy Paul
Boncour, leader of the government
left bloc has declared.
Stockholm-Thed discovery of new
source of supply of radium has been
reported from Holtsljunga, the prov
ince of Halland. on the west coast of
Sweden. If early indications are full
filled this may be one of the richest
finds yet made and exploitation will
be begun Immediately.
Tokio-The total wealth of Japan
is approximately 102,O00,0O0.OO yen
($51, 900, 900, 000), according to a state
ment published by Hideomi Takah.
ashi one of the country's foremost sta.
tisticians. The total wealth of the
United States is given for 1921 at
(s300, 000, 000,000). The per capita
wealth of all Japan is put at 1.716
yen. or sS5S. (In the United States
it is $4,000 per capita).
Riga Latvia-The antialcohol wave
is sweeping over Latvia. A law has
been passed which is tantamount to
prohibition, and it has been seized on
by the city authorities of Riga to de-
scend on some so hotels and restaur.
ants on the grounds that they were
selling liquor. The city council ia
now considering closing these places
Cherbourg-Additio falsified Ital.
ian passports have been detected
Suspicion was aroused by passports
held by five immigrants from Paler
mo, Sicily, who arrived here to take
passage for New York. The Ameri
can consul at Palermo was consulted
and he telegraphed that his visa had
been forged. The Italians were al
rested.
London-Ellen Terry grandmother
of the English stage, in Buckingham
palace, was personally invested by
the king with the insignia as Dame
of the Grand Cross, an order of the
British empire. The king received
the aged actress personally before the
general investiture and assisted her
from her wheel chair.
Nice-General Peppini Garbaldi.
grandson of the Italian liberator, is
reported to be planning coup
against the Italian fascist. 1t is
stated that he has planted 200 exiled
antifascist leaders as employees OF
hotels and restaurants on the Riviera
each man sworn to follow the leader
when the proper time comes to dash
into Italian territory should General
Garibalda engineer an uprising
against the blackshirts.
London-Great surprise is express
ed in city and government circles
over disclosures that the heirs ol
Hugo SHINES, Germany's richest man
have been able to avoid paying sin
gle god mark of Inheritance tax. II
appears that Herr SHINES, as mem
Der of the 1922 reichstag, helped pass
a special law entirely freeing inheri
tances between husband and wife
from taxes.
London-With his trunks full Of
bananas and cocoanuts, Ramsay Mac
Donald, former labor prime minister
Of Great Britain and now labor mem
Der of parliament, returned to Lon
don from a long vacation in the West
Indies. The tropics agreed with him
enormously, he declared. He is
bronzed and apparently again in fine
health. He had been in Jamaica
Costa Rica and Panama, and he
brought back crates, bags and trunks
of fruit to supply his friends.
London-Winston Churchill has
succeeded in knocking 100000 pound
Approximately $24,3O0,0OO) off the
navy estimatse 100000 pounds ($14,-
580,000) off the air estimates, 1,000,-
600 pounds (s4,S60,O00) off the army
estimates and several smaller cuts in
other departments as result . oil
which he probably will be able 70
reduce income taxes pence on a
pound, which is just half of what he
hoped to do when he took office. IT
is, however, signal triumph for the
chancellor of the exchequer and a
defeat for Admiral Beatty, first sea
lord, who insisted that the full pro
gram of naval building was neces.
sary.
Rome-The Tribuna says that
Czecho-slovakia is about to follow the
course of France by breaking OF dip
lomatic relations with the Vatican
and recalling her minister accredited
to the Holy See.
Geneva-Though the American dele
cation has withdrawn from the in
ternational opium conference. and
there seems little likelihood of the
United States signing an anti-nar-