The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-10-15
FOREIGN

dead. He was born In France In 1923.
King Constantine Of Greece II Ill
and confined TO his room. says . dis
patch from Athens.
Rudyard Kipling in London has re-
ceived no further news OF his son.
who was wounded and reported miss
ing in the north OF France.
The Norwegian bark Seileren. from
Clyde for Savannah, has been sunk a.
the result of collision near TORI
Head. Her crew was saved.
The British governments intention
to declare cotton piece goods and
other cotton products contraband was
announced by Foreign Secretary Grey
In the House Of Commons.
The Austrian government has IL
sued an appeal to the public to take
all gold and silver jewelry. plate and
other articles made OF these metals
to the mints for conversion into coins
or bars.
More than 1000 900 pounds sterling
Cs5.000,000) weekly, is being paid by
the British government to the wives
and children Of soldiers with the
colors. This statement was made in
the House OF Commons
Another success for British arms In
the kamerun, a Germany colony in
western Equatorial Africa. where
allied troops have been fighting the
Germans for several months, was Off
cially announced In London.
Prince George OF Greece, brother Of
King Constantine. left Athens for
Paris, where he Is to be married to
the daughter OF Prince Roland Bona
parte. Prince George is highly in IA
vor OF the cause OF the allies.
There are now In the district form
ing the entrenched camp OF Paris L.
44s charitable organizations working
for the relief Of victims OF the war
and more than 400 hospitals. which az
ford accommodations for about a., 1000
wounded
Five steamers are now known to
have been sunk" says a Copenhagen
newspaper. How many British sub,
marines have got through the narrow
sound is not known, but 1t is evident
that Germany was too late in laying
the Baltic mine fields"
SPORTING NEWS
Hal Boy defeated Judge Ormonde
In the $4,000 match race at the
Grand circuit meeting at Lexington,
Ky. Best time; 2:01h
For the eighth time iii his career.
Ty Cobb is champion batter OF the
American league. according to aver
ages published in Chicago
The University of Minnesota SEN
ate committee on athletics has de-
cided to recommend the abolition of
intercollegiate baseball at the univer-
sity
AT Braves Field, Boston. the ma
tional commission announced the fol.
lowing figures for Tuesdays game:
Attendance, 41,096. total receipts,
ss2,046.50; national commissions
share, ss,204.65; players share, s44.-
305.11; each clubs share, sl4.76S.37.
A new worlds record in automobile
speeding was made when Gil Ander.
son, at the new Sheepshead Bay
speedway, driving at an average rate
of 1925 miles an hour, won the $50
mile automobile race for the Aston
cup and $4,000 in prizes. His time
was hours, "a minutes and AZ sec
onds, making a worlds record by 10
minutes ~ 3S-100 seconds.
The Boston Americans and the Phil
adelphia Nationals will go intact to
the Pacific coast for a series of
games, beginning in San Francisco.
Oct. %, according to arrangements
made at Boston by the national COM
mission, the presidents of the two
clubs, and representative of the Pan
anna Pacific exposition. The teams
will play in Chicago. Omaha, Denver
and Salt Lake City on the way to the
coast, and also in Los Angeles and
San Diego.
GENERAL
The trophy for battle efficiency was
presented to the battleship Michigan
at Newport, r. |.
Two negroes who confessed that
they killed A. II. Cage, cashier of the
Planters bank Of Clarksdale, Miss,
In an attempt at robbery, were
lynched by mob Of 1000 armed citi-
zens
A second suit to test the constitu-
tionality of the Illinois woman suf-
frage law was filed in the State SUI
preme Court at Springfield In the
previous suit the law was held to be
constitutional
Grave anxiety is felt for the welfare
OF approximately 500 members of the
Mormon colonies of the Casas Grandes
district when the news of the recogni-
ton of Carranza becomes generally
known in the Villa army modified
there.
The Rev. Byron Holley, rector OF