Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-17
FOREIGN

having communicated with Austria by
carrier pigeons.
Crown Prince Humbert passed
through Venice en- route to the front.
to spend his eleventh birthday ami
versary with King Victor Emmanuel.
At Honolulu, T.. H., the dead of the
submarine F-4, In eight caskets.
draped with the American flag. were
placed aboard the United States
steamship Supply to be sent home.
The channel of the Panama canal
was sufficiently deepened Friday at
the scene of the new slide to permit
seventeen of the fifty ships which
were waiting in the canal or at the
terminals to pass.
The American consul at Queens
town, according to the London Daily
Mail has received information that
man named Wolff. aged 21. and born
in New Jersey, was lost in the sink
ing Of the Hesperian.
Reports that bill had been passed
by the Reichstag for an increase In
the age limit for army service are in
correct. The Reichstag bill orders
medical reinspection of persons OF
service for various shortcomings, ac-
cording to Berlin report.
The Trades Union Congress. repre-.
senting more than 100000 organized
English workingmen. rejected by an
overwhelming vote at Bristol reso-
luton calling upon the parliamentary
committee of the labor party to form.
ulate and advocate terms of peace sat
isfactory to the working classes.
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia. who
has been acclaimed as one of the
greatest strategists OF the war for his
mastery retreat in the face of the
Austro-German onslaught. has been
relegated to the comparatively unim.
portant post of leader of the Russian
forces opposing the Turks in the eau.
casus. Nominally the Grand Duke is
succeeded by the Emperor.
Carranza troops are entrenching at
the Progreso crossing of the Rio
Grande about thirty miles above
Brownsville, Texas. They shouted
across the river to American soldiers
at that point that they would not fire
upon American troops. They also an
nounced that they would reserve the
right to fire upon any rangers, depu.
ties or civilians who appeared on the
American bank of the river.
SPORTING NEWS
Robert Gardner of the Hinsdale
Country Club of Chicago is amateur
golf champion of the United States
for the second time.
At the aviation grounds at Rott.
hansen, Rhenish Prussia. an aeroplane
of the Condor type ascended 5000 me.
ters carrying four passengergs.
Terry Kellar of San Francisco was
given a decision over Dick Gilbert OF
Denver in fifteen-round bout at the
Ramona arena at Colorado Springs.
Eddie Johnson of Pueblo won by a
knockout over AL Greenwood of New
York in the seventh round of sched.
uled twenty-round bout at Sugar City,
Colo.
Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman. was
given the decision over Morgan VIII
liams at Victor. Colo, in the four
teenth round of scheduled fifteen
round bout.
The 2:11 trot for a purse of $4,000
at the grand circuit meet at Hartford,
Conn, was won by Lulu Lumine: Sec
ond. Earlwood L.; third. Bronson.
Best time, 2:O6A.
A. G. Spalding, who died in San
Diego. Cal, gave up So a week job
in grocery in Chicago to become
identified with baseball and was per-
haps better known to the sport than
any other man.
At Forrest Hills, l.. l., William NJ.
Johnston of San Francisco won the
tennis championship of the United
States at the West Side Tennis Club
by defeating Maurice f. Mclaughlin,
also of San Francisco. in a spectacu.
lar match. Score 1-6. Go. rs, los.
GENERAL
John Atkinson, 80, labor leader. was
shot and killed at Murphysboro. Ill.
by Bracey Force. q waiter. who es-
capped.
An attempt to break down the alibi
of two of the three negroes charged
with the murder of DIR. c. Franklin
Mohr. was made at Providence. r. |.
Governor Capper declared martial
law in North Fort Scott, the flooded
residence district. and placed Compa.
ny B, Kansas National Guard, In
charge.
All but fourteen of the 500 buildings
on the island of Caynan Brac, the
smallest of the Cayman group in the
Caribbean sea, were destroyed blythe
hurricane.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith demanded in
Boston that girl stenographers be
kept in wire cages while at work, SO
ne