Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-05
FOREIGN

New French Cabinet coalition OF all
parties formally announced.
| Germany has cut off parcel post
service with the United States.
German with forged American
passport was court -martialed in Lon
don.
Premier Viviani and French cabinet
resign. Aristide BRAND to form new
ministry.
King George OF England thrown by
horse and injured while inspecting
troops in France.
1t was rumored in London that
Winston Churchill is about to resign
from the cabinet.
Anna Benzet of verviers, Belgium.
was sentenced to death ty German
court martial at Liege.
Calls for the overthrow of Premier
Bratiano of Rumania were shouted
during a meeting in Bucharest
1t is officially announced that a
British subject has been sentenced in
the Old Bailey Court to life impris-
onment for espionage. .l.
| Captain Ashmead- Bartlette in a
speech in London told the British peo-
Pile that there was now no hope of the
allies making further gains against
the Turks.
The ministry of finance is develop
ing a plan to establish number Of
Russian savings banks in the United
States to receive deposits from Rus
sian nationals there.
Japan has decided to adhere to her
original intention not to invite rep
resentative of the Christian religion
to the coronation ceremonies of EN-
peror Yoshihito in Kioto.
A typhoon in southern I.uzon killed
at least ITO persons and injured near
ly 500. Damage to property, and to
the hemp and rice crops is estimated
at sl,OOO.O00. The town of Tobacco
was wiped out and the railroad washed
away.
A service at st. Paul's cathedral in
London in memory of Miss Edith Ca
veil, the British nurse who was exc
cuted in Brussels, was attended by
throng which recalled the funeral of
Lord Roberts at the cathedral almost
a year ago.
The visit to The Hague of w. s.
Solf. the German colonial secretary,
according to the London Daily Chron.
icle, is connected with negotiations,
which the newspaper says, are already
on foot for the calling OF truce in
central Africa.
SPORTING NEWS
Chicago papers print story that
| peace terms have been reached under
which the Federal league and the Ma
tional league will unite.
Fifty-nine young American lives
were sacrificed to baseball during the
season of 1915. according to statistics
compiled by ]. r. Vickery of Chicago.
The University of w, oming defeat
ed the team OF the Utah Agricultural
college in a midweek -cotball game
| played at Laramie, by Il score of 13
to Z.
| Referee Billy Tillman called the
fight between Stanley Yoakum of
Denver and frankie Burns of Oak
land, Calf, at Ramona, Colo, a draw,
at the end of fifteen rounds.
| John Prentiss Poe, famous Prince
ton football player in the early 9Os.
was killed on Sept. % while fighting
as private in the British army along
the northern boundary of France.
The faculty of Knox college at
Galesburg. ILL.,, decided that football at
that institution shall be discontinued,
at least this year, because of the death
of Bryan Scott, injured in the game
with st. Louis Oct. fG aad who later
died.
Ballot, son of Voter, and reputed
one of the greatest thoroughbred race
horses of modern times. brought S15,-
600 at the sale of stations, brood
mares and yearlings belonging to the
estate of the late James B. Haggin
and quartered at the Elmendorf farm,
at Lexington, Ky.
GENERAL
| J. p. Morgan of New York was op-
Grated on for appendicitis.
Governor Hunt of Arizona has ia.
sued a proclamation askiug relief for
the striking miners.
Evelyn Nesbit was finally served
with subpoena in Harry Thaws suit
for divorce in New York She accept
ed service.
The United States Steel corpora
ton declared its regular quarterly
dividend of Ia per. cent on the pre-
ferred stock.
Five million dollars in gold sover
eigns from Canada were received by
the assay office in New York for the
account OF ]. P. Morgan & Co.
At Peabody. Mass, 81 children. most
of them girls ranging in age from 7