The Holly chieftain., 1915-10-01
Foreign

was damaged 100000 by fire.
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.
Vice Admiral Leone Viale, Italian
minister of marine, has resigned, and
will be succeeded by Premier Salan-
dra Professionally.
Ten representative Japanese jour
nalists have sailed for the United
States for the purpose of studying
conditions in this country.
Projected enterprises of the Japan
ese government amounting to $20,O00,-
600 will be postponed, partly, at least,
by the decrease in revenues.
The Navy Department has been ad.
vised by Admiral Caperton in Haiti
that a column of fifty marines and
sailors has been fired upon.
The London Globe claims to have
discovered considerable scandal in
connection with the purchase of sui
phuric acid for government use.
The war has created big demand
for women physicians, and London
medical schools have a 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.
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 capt.
tai are inadequate, and only 153 cars
of wheat and flour reached the city
in August as compared with 2,132 in
May"
Nubar Pasha. diplomatic representa-
tive in Paris of the katholikos, or
head of the Armenian church, has
written DR.. M. 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
Ty Cobb has stolen SO bases this
season, breaking Milan's record of SO
in 1918.
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 4:19 2-5 at Travers island
Twenty thousand Japanese base
ball fans in Toxic saw the University
of Chicago defeat Waseda University
by score of 5 to 8.
Art Smith, who entertained San
Francisco Fair visitors early in the
passed his record at the Illinois State
Fair at Springfield by making seven
teen perpendicular loops.
General
AS result of an argument eight
men were shot in a street fight In
Akron, Ohio.
Mayor Lindsey of Dallas, Tex,
gave it out in New York that the
South wanted the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Three persons were killed and
four injured when Missouri Pacific
passenger and freight trains collided
headon 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.
The congregation of the Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, is to stand by the
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills in his eff.
forts to straighten out his tangled
financial affairs.
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
Another subway cave-in in New
York City, in Broadway near Thirty