The Colorado statesman., 1915-10-16
FOREIGN


and confined to his room, says a dis
patch from Athens.
Rudyard Kipling in London has re-
ceived no further news of his son,
who was wounded and reported miss
ing in the north of France.
The Norwegian bark Seileren. from
Clyde for Savannah, has been sunk as
the result of collision near Torr
Head. Her crew was saved
The British governments intention
to declare cotton piece goods and
other cotton products contraband was
announced by Foreign Secretary Grey
in the House of Commons.
The Austrian government has is
sued an appeal to the public to take
all gold and silver iewelry plate and
other articles made of these metals
to the mints for conversion into coins
or bars.
More than 100000 pounds sterling
(s5,O00,OOO) weekly, is being paid by
the British government to the wives
and children of soldiers with the
colors. This statement was made in
Ine Rouse OF commons.
Another success for British arms in
the kamerun, a Germany colony in
western Equatorial Africa. where
allied troops have been fighting the
Germans for several months, was Off
cially announced in London.
Prince George of Greece, brother of
King Constantine, left Athens for
Paris, where he is to be married to
the daughter of Prince Roland Bona
parte. Prince George is highly in ia
vor OF the cause of the allies
There are now in the district form
ing the entrenched camp of Paris l.
44S charitable organizations working
for the relief of victims of the war
and more than 400 hospitals, which af-
ford accommodations for about 10000
wounded.
Five steamers are now known to
have been SUNK says a Copenhagen
newspaper How many British sub
marines have got through the narrow
sound is not known. but it is evident
that Germany was too late in laying
the Baltic mine fields"
SPORTING NEWS
Hal Boy defeated Judge Ormonde
in the $4,000 match race at the
Grand circuit meeting at Lexington,
Ky. Best time: 2:O11R.
For the eighth time in his caroor,
Ty Cobb is champion batter of the
American league, according to aver
ages published Ill Chicago.
The university of Minnesota SEN
ate committee on athletics has de-
cided to recommend the abolition of
intercollegiate baseball at the univer-
sity.
At Braves Field, Boston, the ma
tional commission announced the fol
lowing figures for Tuesdays game:
Attendance, 41,O96; total receipts,
$50, 2,046.50; national commissions
share, sS,2O4.65; players share, S44,-
305.11; each clubs share, $l4,76S.37.
A new worlds record in automobile
speeding was made when Gil Ander-
son, at the new Sheepshead Bay
speedway, driving at an average rate
of 1926 miles an hour, won the $50
mile automobile race for the Astor
cup and $4,000 in prizes. His time
was 3 hours, "a minutes and AZ sec
onds, making a worlds record by 10
minutes ~ 3S-100 seconds.
The Boston Americans and the Phil
adelphia Nationals will go intact to
the Pacific coast for a series of
games, beginning in San Francisco,
Oct. 20, according to arrangements
made at Boston by the national COM
mission, the presidents of the two
clubs, and representative of the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition. The teams
will play in Chicago. Omaha Denver
and Salt Lake City on the way to the
coast, and also in Los Angeles and
San Diego.
GENERAL
The trophy for battle efficiency was
presented to the battleship Michigan
at Newport, r. l.
Two negroes who confessed that
they killed A H. Cage, cashier of the
Planters bank of Clarksdale, Miss.
in an attempt at robbery, were
lynched by mob of 1000 armed citi
Zens.
A second suit to test the constitu
tionality of the Illinois woman suf
frage law was filed in the State Su
preme Court at Springfield. In the
previous suit the law was held to be
constitutional.
Grave anxiety is felt for the welfare
of approximately 500 members of the
Mormon colonies of the Casas Grandes
district when the news of the recogni
tion of Carranza becomes generally
known in the Villa army modified
there.
The Rev. Byron Holley, rector OF
St Georges Episcopal church, one OF
the most fashionable congregations in
New Orleans. La. shot and killed