The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24
FOREIGN

fashionable suburb of Havana.
Work has been going on continually
preparatory to the first effort to raise
the sunken submarine F-4 by direct
lift at Honolulu.
The transit shipping trade of Rot
terdam is suffering to an enormous
extent In peace times this port
ranks third in Europe for this kind
of traffic
Declaration of intention to become
an American citizen will not exempt
native of Germany, Austria or Tur-
key from arrest if found in Canadian
territory.
Queen Helena of Italy may suffer
the loss of her right arm a result
of injuries received seven years ago
while working among the Messina
earthquake sufferers.
The Third Australian eXpeditionary
force, to consist of 10000 men. which
will soon leave the commonwealth for
the front. will be made up largely of
recruits from New South Wales and
Victoria
The captain and nineteen members
of the crew of the Dutch steamer
Olanda we're landed at Grimsby Eng
land, by port trawler The Olanda
struck a mine in the North sea Sun
day and sank. She carried cargo of
coal
Baron Augustus julius Clemens Her
bert de Reuter-, managing director of
Reuters Telegraph Company, com
mitted suicide at Reigate. Surrey.
Grief over the death of his wife, who
died recently, is believed to have been
the reason.
Rumors that the Alaska engineering
commission had decided to throw
open to settlement the sixty-acre term
inal tract at Seward acquired by the
government with the purchase of the
Alaska Northern Railroad, caused
stampede of squatters who have &C.
cupied almost all of the tract
Work that has been going on for
several days preliminary to an at
tempt to raise the submarine F-4, sub
merged outside the Honolulu harbor
since March %, was halted because
of bad weather. The hulk, which con.
tains the bodies of twenty-one men. is
resting at the place on the ocean
floor to which it was towed after be-
ing raised twelve feet.
SPORTING NEWS
OF the forty-eight states in the union
the box-fight game is permitted in
eighteen.
Jimmy Reagan was given a decision
over Billy Wagner in fifteen round
bout in Denver
The Denver Bears wound up their
spring practice games by 6 to / vic
tory over the Spuds at Greeley, Colo
Eight hundred and fifty mares
were nominated in the $4,000 Ken
lucky futurity for foals of 1915, en-
tries to which closed April /.
The Rev. c. ]. A. PAIL. a Baptist
missionary arrived in Pomona, Cal,
on the last lap of his 26S,OOO-mile
trip around the world on bicycle.
Tom McCarty, Montana heavyweight
had the better of every round of a
| round bout in New York with
Colin Bell, Australian heavyweight
title holder.
The Louisville Jockey club an
nounced that at the spring meeting,
beginning May s, there will be seven
races a day. The extra race will be
for a purse of not less than 5000.
Jack Johnson, the former champion
heavyweight pugilist, and his wife,
sailed for Spain on the steamer Maria
Christina From Spain Johnson in
tends to proceed to England
The English Football Association
has announced that with the close of
the present season, on May 5, no more
| professional football games will be
played until after the war is ended.
The report on the progress of hos
tilties given out by German headquar-
tors relates that Lieut. Roland G. Gar
ros, the famous French aviator has
been made prisoner by the Germans
at Ingelmuster, Belgium, seven miles
north of Courtrai
GENERAL
William l.. Miller, 101 years old, an
nounced his wedding at Joplin, Mo-,
to Mrs Nancy B. Pike, sixty.
The Gary, Ind, plant of the Ameri-
can Bridge Company resumed work,
giving employment to $50 men.
The first step toward the arbitra-
ton of the building trades strike and
lockout which has thrown $4,000
wage earners out of employment was
taken in Chicago
The sudden collapse of the Villa
power in central Mexico before the
accomplishment of his concentration
of troops from the east and west was
indicated in news from the south.
Leaders in political and financial at,
fairs of the nation were present at