The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-10-02
Foreign

Vice Admiral Leone Viale, Italian
minister of marine, has resigned, and
will be succeeded by Premier Salan-
dra Professionally.
Ten representative Japanese jour
States for the purpose of studying
conditions in this country.
Projected enterprises of the Japan
ese government amounting to $40, O,OOO,-
900 will be postponed, partly. at least.
by the decrease in revenues.
England will require every German,
Turk and Austrian of military age in
London who has not been granted ex-
emption. to surrender to the police.
The war has created big demand
for women physicians, and London
medical schools have larger enroll
ment of female students than ever be-
fore.
Two hospitals for cholera patients
have been established by the Red
Cross Society of China in Shanghai to
take care of the large number of
Chinese affected by cholera.
Earthquakes caused panics among
the people of Messina and Rome, but
no serious damage has been reported
1t is reported from Berlin that 49,
900 depositors in the Berlin Savings
Bank have subscribed to the new
German loan.
The Overseas News Agency at Ber-
lin reports: Information has been
received from Petrograd picturing CON
ditions there as serious. Facilities
for taking food supplies to the capi-
tai are inadequate, and only 1853 cars
of wheat and flour reached the city
in August as compared with 2132 in
May"
| Nubar Pasha, diplomatic representa-
tive in Paris of the Katholikos, or
head of the Armenian church. has
written DR.. NJ. Symbad Gabriel. presi-
dent of the Armenian General Pro
gressive Association in the United
States, that he estimated that 100000
Armenians had been put to death in
Turkey and 100000 rendered home
less. out of population of 100000.
Sporting News
Ire worlds championship baseball
series will start at Chicago Oct. 6.
John Beall. late OF the Denver West
ern League team. has been drafted by
the Cincinnati Nationals.
Bennie Chaves knocked out Young
Wright Morgan OF Pittsburg at Trini-
dad, Colo. in ten rounds.
Joie Ray OF the Illinois Athletic
Club of Chicago covered his mile run
in at Trayarc leland
Twenty thousand Japanese base
ball fans in Toxic saw the University
OF Chicago defeat Waseda University
by score of to 3.
Hoyle. a black gelding, broke the
state record for five-eighths OF mile,
running. at the Las Animas county
fair at Trinidad, by going 1t in 1902
flat.
Art Smith, who entertained San
Francisco Fair visitors early in the
season with aviation exploits, sur
passed his record at the Illinois State
Fair at, Springfield by making seven
teen. perpendicular loops.
General
John w. Bookwalter, philanthropist.
n, of Springfield, o., is dead.
AS result Of an argument eight
men were shot in street fight in
Akron, Ohio.
AS result of the slide last week.
forty-three ships are tied up at the
'anama canal.
Mayor Lindsey of Dallas, Tex,
gave it out in New York that the
South wanted the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Fifteen persons killed and fifty 9th.
more. Okla, as the result of the ex-
plosion of a car Of gasoline.
Eleven mine workers were en-
tombed at the Coaldale colliery of the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
at Coaldale, Pa, as the result of fall
of rock.
Three persons were killed and
passenger and freight trains collided
head-on near Oreapolis. Neb.. Friday
morning.
Five defendants were convicted,
thirty-five acquitted and one mis-trial.
was the verdict of the jury in the So
called election fraud trial at Corpus
Christi. Tex.
Henry Ford, after inspecting sub
marines at the New York navy yard,
said he thought they ought to be
built for one-sixteenth of the present
| cost
Private Butterfield was killed and
Captain Anderson wounded. accord
ing to a report from Brownsville,
Tex. when ten Mexicans fired on ten
American soldiers who were sleeping
in an arroyo near Progreso.