The Ordway new era., 1915-11-19
FOREIGN

Winston Churchill has resigned
from the British cabinet and will join
regiment in France.
Athens reports that Germany and
Bulgaria have agreed to so arrange
the Balkan campaign that offense to
Greece will be avoided.
The Spanish budget for 1916, which
was introduced in the chamber OF
deputies at Madrid, shows deficit
of 64,371,122 pesetas ts12,s7i,22D.
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram
company from Athens says n decree
has been issued dissolving the cham
ber of deputies, and that the new
elections have been fixed for Dec. 10.
The third anniversary of the fall OF
Saloniki was celebrated at Athens by
te deum on the maneuver grounds,
in the presence of King Constantine
and the members of the royal family.
United States will investigate
charges by DR.. Joseph Govicar. former
Austro-Hungarian consul, that Count
Won Bernstorff Is head of extensive
plot to encourage destruction of Amer
lean munition plants and calling Of
strikes.
Premier Asquith in the house Of
commons foreshadowed the establish
ment of an Anglo-French war council
In which French and British minis
tiers would sit He expressed the
hope that Russia and Italy would
JOIN in the council.
A Vienna dispatch received in Lon
don asserts that the Neue Wiener
journal has been suppressed for one
week for criticising the censorship.
Fifty-five Austrian provincial papers
have been suppressed within mcnth
for discussing food conditions.
The Berlin Koelnische Volks Zei-
tung reports that Emperor William
has telegraphed Cardinal. Hartmann
that. mt the solicitation Of the pope.
the sentence of death against the
Countess De Belleville. Mile. Thulier
and Louis SEVERN has been commuted
to Imprisonment for life.
''The American note causes us little
concern, as Englishmen," says the Lon.
don Spectator, commenting on the re-
cent note of the United States to
Great Britain relative to interference
with American trade Its harsh and
unsympathetic tone will hot make us
relax in the slightest degree the grip
on the throat of Germany which our
sea power gives us"
SPORTING NEWS
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight
champion of the world, was indefinite
ly suspended by the Wisconsin ath-
letic commission for failing to appear
in answer to charge that he stalled
in hts bout with Richie Mitchell
Minor league representatives were
surprised at San Francisco when the
committee on credentials seated Pa
Rourke OF Omaha as official repre-
sentative of the Western League. Tip
O'Neill, who claims he has contract
for presidenting next year. was not
admitted. This was the first time in
eleven years that O'Neill has not rep
resented the Western League.
The 1915 New York horse show end
ed with the jumping contest for Unit
ed States army officers horses. The
absence of foreign exhibitors detract-
ed somewhat from the show. but the
interest of American exhibitors was
as keen as formerly. Miss Loula Long
of Kansas City proved one of the sur
prises OF the national exhibit With
twenty-five entries of various classes,
she won fifteen ribbons and cups.
GENERAL
One Mexican section hand was
| killed. seven others were injured and
property valued at about $4,000 de-
stroyed by tornado which struck
south OF Wichita, Kan.
Two hundred and twenty. seven per.
sons were killed in Chicago by auto
mobiles from Dec. l. 1914. to Nov. l
this year. according to figures COM
| piled in Coroner Hoffman's office.
Police were called at Cleveland
| Ohio, to restore order when $4,000
school children. guests of John D.
| Rockefeller, stormed the doors OF the
Wigmore coliseum to attend the flower
show.
Six persons were killed and more
IMAM ole huHuTeu injured, many Serl
ously.' in cyclone which swept
through the residence secrion OF Grea.
| Bend. Kan, at 7:30 o'clock on the
| 10th.
| The gruesome termination of the
execution of C. A. Meyers, the 6C-year
old murderer who was decapitated
when hanged at Fort Worth. Tex, may
|
abolition of capital punishment.
The fire which virtually destroyed
the No. machine shop of the
Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethle
hem, Pa, was finally extinguished
after causing damage estimated n,
from sl.000,000 to s4,00O.0oO.
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