The Holly chieftain., 1915-04-02
Foreign


ports. Lieutenant hammers and Major
Sitter, German war prisoners, have
been executed by the French without
reason.
Eighteen members of the crew OF
the British steamship Trostburg lost
their lives when the vessel was
wrecked near Cape Spartel on the
Moroccan coast at the entrance Of the
Strait of Gibraltar.
The absence of the German crown
prince from his headquarters in front
of Verdun was explained in private
advices received at Copenhagen. The
stork is expected to visit the crown
princess within a few days.
A financial report issued in London
by the American commission for re.
lief In Belgium shows that foodstuffs
Of total value of 2O,O0O,OO0 have been
delivered in Belgium since the incep.
| ton of the commissions work.
The British government has re.
fused the request OF the United States
that an American consular officer be
permitted to take station at the port
of Kirkwall, Scotland, to- report on
American cargo ships detained there.
Cardinal Anthony Agliardi, chancel-
lor of the Catholic church and sub
dean of the sacred college, died in
Rome at the age of eighty-three years.
He was the titular bishop of Albano
and was proclaimed a cardinal in
1896.
All the men at Gulpashan, large
village near Urumiah, Persia, have
been shot by kurds, the women VIC
lated, an American missionary beaten
and sixty-five refugees taken from the
French and American missions have
been hanged on gibbets erected in the
mission yards, according to cable
gram received in New York by the
Presbyterian board of foreign mis-
sions.
After two days of wasted effort in
hooking and pulling what proved to
be an old anchor instead of the miss
ing United States submarine F-4, re-
lief workers discovered the location
OF the trapped vessel outside the har-
Dor at Honolulu. The discovery that
an error had been made as to the To-
cation of the F4 destroyed the last
faint hope of finding any of the sub
marines crew of twenty-one men
alive.
Sporting News
Indianapolis won the first game of
a series with Denver at the Denver
ball park, IA to 9.
Battling Nelson continues his come
back as a regular fighter. At Havana
he went twenty-five rounds against
Jimmie Freyer, and at the conclusion
of the fight won the referees deci-
sion.
For playing the cleanest ball and
showing the best sportsmanship in the
intermediate school league games, the
Palmer Athletic Association of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs, has been
awarded the Garrett cup.
The date of starting the Pixies Peak
ocean-to-ocean automobile sociability
run has been advanced six days with
the expectation that the roads will be
| better. The run will start from Colo
RADIO Springs April IA with the pros
pect of more cars being entered than
at first seemed probable
The name of new hampion-Wal-
lace H. Pierce of Pueblo, Colo-has
,rif in ho vi
Congress records. Shooting in the
singles on a late shift at Peoria, ILL.,,
Pierce swept down I'll pins, topping
by six the former record of 7O5, made
by Tom Haley of Detroit, in 1910. He
ook the tournament lead away from
! Walter Cook of Philadelphia, who had
697.
General
The personal estate of Mrs Ellen M.
Mcclellan, widow of Gen. George B.
Mcclellan, was valued at $163,O90, in
an inventory filed with the surrogate
at Newark, N. ]. Mrs. Mcclellan died
several months ago in Europe.
At San Francisco, Vice President
Thomas r. Marshall attended recep-
tion and dinner given by the Japanese
commissioners to the officials OF the
Panama-Paclfic exposition at the Cal
ifornia building.
Thirteen thousand dollars has been
sent to the grand lodges of Masons in
eight European countries for the re-
lief of suffering or destitute Masons
there, according to q report issued at