Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-10
FOREIGN

that the British government has not
contemplated an alliance with China.
War and the food supply will be the
principal topics considered at the
reichstag session which convened In
Berlin.
Premier Asquith's daughter, Violet,
and his secretary, Bonham Carter.
were married at st. Margaret's, West
minister, in London.
The American steamer Andrew
Welch is being held in the harbor OF
Haelmstad by y-Swedish torpedo boats
after an unsuccessful attempt to pro
coed to Germany.
Subscriptions totaling $11O.O0O,000
have been received. It was announced
at Ottawa, for the Canadian $50.00O,-
900 war loan. The grand total came
from $4,000 separate subscribers.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen was
slightly wounded by Serbian bullet
during the recent operations. says a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Noyos
Vremya. Won Mackensen was in
charge of the invasion of Serbia.
British woman suffrage leaders
hailed as their first important victory
the governments appointment of Miss
PRESLEY Smith, organizer. to secre-
tarial post in the British Christiania
legation.
"Advices from Rosedaal (Holland), ,
state that Belgian newspapers under
the German censorship have been or.
dered to announce that Brand Whit
lock Omitted States minister to Bel
gium), will not return to Brussels.
The news has been received with con-
sternation throughout Belgium
''The famous Hindu scholar, Tara
knasdas. declares that the Mohamme.
dan nations of Asia favor union with
Turkey, and that there are 23,OOO,000
Mohammedans in India who are ready
for war;" says Constantinople dis.
patch given out by the Overseas News
agency.
Carranza forces again have opened
communications between Guaymas
and Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora
state. and Gen. Dieguez is endeavor-
ing to intercept $500 villa troops sup
posed to be heading through southern
Sonora In an attempt to join Gen Ban.
dera. the Villa commander in north.
ern Sinaloa.
After being robbed and then tor.
tured by Villa soldiers, who demanded
that he give them $500 which they be-
lieved he had hidden, McEnnis Ring
an American mining man and store
keeper at Cos, Sonora. a short dis
tance north of Nacozari, arrived at
Douglas, AriZ., and told of conditions
south of the international border,
where the Villa troops have been op-
Grating. Other Americans, Ring said,
also had been robbed and imprisoned.
SPORTING NEWS
The annual meeting of the National
League will be held in New York Dec.
IA.
Eddie McGoorty, middleweight of
Oshkosh, Wis, who is boxing in Aus
tralia, has scored his fifth successive
knockout, according to a cablegram
received by friends in Chicago.
Because. he claimed, the county au-
thorities OF jefferson parish, Louisi-
ana, known as Louisiana free state"
were not enforcing the state laws
against gambling, Governor Hall pro-
claimed martial law in the parish.
Jess Willard will meet Fred Fulton
of Rochester. Mimi, in a twenty-round
bout at New Orleans March 3 for the
heavyweight championship OF the
world, according to an announcement
by promoters of the match.
Lefty Flynn, famous Yale athlete.
will marry Mrs. Blanche Shrove.P Pal.
mer, a wealthy widow, this winter.
Flynn was divorced from Irene Claire,
a Winter Garden show girl, whom he
married shortly after he left college.
He will take his new bride to his
ranch in Colorado
A crowd of 1000 Kissed Champion
Jess Willard at a vaudeville perform
ance at Los Angeles when he demand
ed pay TO test the chains and weights
OF strong man. The actor was
given a hand when he told Willard:
'I'll be in the spotlight when you are
in the discard"
GENERAL
Son of w. H. Dickens, the aged
Longmont, Colo, banker found slain
a week ago, arrested as assassin, after
attending the funeral.
Paul Fuller, noted international law
YER who was sent to Mexico by Presi.
dent Wilson to investigate the Carran.
"a government, died suddenly in New
York.
Four persons indicted with Mayor
Dom NJ. Roberts in the Terre Haute
election conspiracy case were given
sentences by Judge Anderson in the
United States District Court at In.
dianapolis.
Three high officials and a subordi
nate officer OF the Hamburg-American
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