Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-19
FOREIGN

regiment Ill 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 ($12, 2,S74,22D.
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram
company from Athens says a 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
a tie deum on the maneuver grounds.
in the presence of King Constantine
United States will investigate
charges by DIR. 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
ters 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 month
for discussing food conditions.
The Berlin Koelnische Volks Zei-
tung reports that Emperor William
has telegraphed Cardinal Hartmann
that, at 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.
1.-THE American note causes us little
concern, as Englishmen." Gays 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 aot make us
relax in the slightest degree the grip
on the throat of Germany which our
sea power gives u.s.
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 a charge that he stalled"
in his bout with Ritchie 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 a 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
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
than one hundred injured, many seri
ously, in cyclone which swept
through the residence section of Great
Bend, Kan, at 1880 o'clock on the
10th.
The gruesome termination of the
execution of c. A. Meyers, the 6O-year
old murderer who was decapitated
when hanged at Fort Worth, Tex, may
result in statewide campaign fol
abolition OF capital punishment.
The fire which virtually destroyed
the No. 4 machine shop of the
Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethle
hem, Pa, was finally extinguished
| after causing damage estimated at
from 100000 to 100000.
The thirteenth or alternate Juror