The Ordway new era., 1915-03-26
FOREIGN

Hatfera1.
Madame Melba. famous prIma don
ma, at Melbourne. denied the report
published In New York that she would
appear In vaudeville In America.
Four hundred and seventy cases Of
small pox were reported In Petrograd
during January and February. as com
pared with 1.17s for all OF last year.
A Petrograd dispatch to Reuters
Telegram company says that in Feb
ruary $4,000 German and Austrian
prisoners passed through Kiey.
Three hundred of the crew of the
German cruiser Dresden. sunk Off
Juan Fernandez island, have been
transferred to Quiriquina island. In
Telcahuano bay.
The potato crops throughout east
and south Germany have been SER
iously damaged by sudden frost. ac-
don from Copenhagen.
The Anchor line steamer Cameronia,
which arrived at Liverpool from New
York March Is with cargo valued at
$5.O0G,00O successfully ran the German
submarine blockade.
The Swedish steamer Gloria. carry
ing cargo OF corn from La Plata, Ar
gentina. to Stockholm was halted by
a German warship and conveyed into
Swinemunde. on the Baltic.
Baron Newton suggested in the
House Of Lords in London that the
A ,pnriron vpynrrr,nrt hn ocEod m
make inquiries concerning the treat
ment Of British prisoners In Germany.
Reports from Rome show that all
Italy is aflame with demand for war
because OF reports that Austrian and
German troops are concentrating on
the border menacing Milan.
According to the Berlin Tages
Zeitung. the American ambassador at
Constantinople. Henry Morgenthau.
has. with the permission OF the Turk.
ish government. left Constantinople
for the Dardanelles.
An American woman. known as
Miss Florida Settle OF New York, was
sentenced to month in prison and
fined 200 francs for having shot at o
man named Waterman. who. last No.
vember. persisted in teasing her dog,
while in France.
SPORTING NEWS
The baseball senson opens In Rocky
Ford, Colo. Sunday. April =. when q
game will be played with the Nit.
chells of Pueblo.
A bill permitting twenty-round
fights in Nevada upon payment OF
800 license fee Is before the COVER
nor. The measure passed both House
and Senate.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt. the Norweg.
Ian champion, won the women's ma.
tional indoor tennis championship at
New York. defeating Miss Marie Wag-
ner. the title holder. Ga. GA.
A hundred and fifty miles an hour
was the speed Lincoln Benchey, killed
ut San Francisco. estimated he could
get out of the monoplane whose col
lapse sent him to his death.
Frank Sites. n Los Angeles aviator.
80. fell 300 feet in an "air Well at a
motion picture city near there, jumped
from the aeroplane when thirty feet
from the ground and died from his
injuries shortly afterward.
The Nevada state racing commits
sion announced that the first race
meet under the pari-mutuel system,
legalizeti by the Legislature. will be
held at Reno following the Denver
meeting ending July 3.
Funeral services over the body OF
Lincoln Benchey were held In Elks
hall in San Francisco. Several thous.
and persons, representing all walks In
life, assembled at the hall and paid
their last respects to the daring bird
man.
Sprinsing an elventh-hour coup, the
Nevada Legislature passed a gambling
bill Just before adjournment. permit
ting the playing of poker. stud poker.
solo. whist. five hundred and a mum
Der Of other games. except those op
Grated under percentage.
GENERAL
Reuben Burnett. 81. pioneer Texas
cattleman, died at Fort Worth.
More than $1,000 men took part In
the st. Patrick's day parade in New
York. ...
Vice President Thomas r. Marshall
left Chicago for San Francisco and
other cities on the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Helen M. Angle was found NJ,
guilty of manslaughter by jury In
the Superior Court at Bridgeport,
Conn.
Relatives of Humberto Ferrara. son
of the Italian consul at Monterey,
made q second request to Washington
that Carranze be asked to order an
investigation into the young mans
disappearance.
There are 100000 persons unem.
ployed in the United States whose
yearly earnings should at least be