Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-09-17

draped with the American flag, we're
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
we're 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 a
man named Wolff. aged 81. and born
in New Jersey, was lost in the sink
ing Of the Hesperlan.
Reports that a bill had been passed
by the Reiohstag for an increase IN
the age limit for army service are in
correct. The Reichstag bill orders
medical ~relnspection Of persons of
service for various shortcomings, ac-
cording to a Berlin report.
The Trades Union Congress, repre-
senting more than 100000 organized
English workingmen, rejected by an
overwhelming vote at Bristol a 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-G 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 entrenohing 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 tho
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 assembled 5000 me-
tiers carrying four passengergs.
Terry Kellar Of San Francisco was
given a decision over Dick Gilbert of
Denver in a f~ifteen-round bout at the
Ramona arena at Colorado Springs.
Eddie johnson of Pueblo won by a
knockout owe AL Greenwood of New
York in the seventh round of a seized
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 a scheduled fifteen
round bout.
The 2:11 trot for a purse of $4,000
at the grand circuit meet at Hartford,
Conn, vas won by Lulu Lumine; sec
ond, Earlwood L.; third, Bronson.
Best time, 2:06A.
A. G.. S~palding, who died in San
Diego, Cal, gave up a IS a week job
in a grocery in Chicago to become
identified with baseball and was per
haps better known to the sport than
any other nan
At Forrest Hills, l.. l., William M.
Johnston of San Francisco won the
tennis championship of the United
States at the West Side Tennis Cluh
by defeating Maurice e. Mclaughlin
also of San Francisco, in a s~pectacu
lar match. Score is, 60, rs, 1913.
GENERAL
John Atkinson, 80, labor leader, was
shot and killed at Murphysboro, Ill,
by Bracey Force, a 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. l..
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 800 buildings
on the island of Cayman Brac, the
smallest of the Cayman group in the
Caribbean sea, we're destroyed by the
hurricane.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith demanded in
Boston that girl stenographers be
kept in wire cages while at work, SC
as to prevent their employers from
flirting with them.
Chicago's new directory shows
Americas second largest city to have
increased $4,000 in population to a TO-
tai of 2,550,O00. The directory shows
Charles e. Baker to be one, H.. G.
Bitters is a druggist, William Blade is
a cutter, Joseph Flask is a bartender
and William Fry is a cook.
Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, wife of the
Chicago packer, fought a hand-to.
hand conflict with two masked and
armed robbers in attempting to pro.
tect her jewels in her home, 1884
Michigan avenue The bandits drove
Mrs. Armour and three maids into a
room, secured jewelry valued at ST..
500 and escaped.
International bankers at New Yora
did not altogether relish the new
from Portland, Me-, that more thar
SOS, 100000 in gold coin was speeding
to New York to bolster Great Brit
aims credits in this country.
Police Judge williams of Muskogee,
Okla, assessed upon Mandy Simon, a
Creek Indian woman, a fine Of $1,000.
900 and sentenced her to serve ninety
nine years in the city jail. She has
been in Police Court virtually every
week for several years.
Thirteen families one-fIfteentE
Of the assessed land in the Borough
OF Manhattan, New York, according e
a statement issued by the Society I,
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