The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-26
FOREIGN


Three Bulgarian officers and forty
soldiers have been killed or wounded
by the explosion of the chief ammuni-
ton store at Nish.
American Ambassador Gerard's col
larbone was broken in an accident.
skiing near Munich and returned to
Berlin at once.
The American steamship China,
which left Shanghai for San Francis
co was held up on the high seas by
British auxiliary cruiser and thirty
eight Germans were taken off.
The British steamer Dingley, dis.
placing $40 tons and registered at
Liverpool, has been sunk, with the
loss of several lives. Advices to her
owners said there probably was only
one survivor.
Premier Aristide BRAND, who heads
Frances bachelors as Lord Kitchener
does England's, is soon TO be married
in Paris to Mademoiselle Munier,
daughter of a multimillionaire French
ship owner.
Reports from Salisbury say that
thirty persons are still missing as a
result of the avalanche in the Hoch-
koenig region. No further deatus
have been reported in addition to the
fifty-five already made known.
A wreath was placed at the foot OF
the statue of Washington in Place
d'1ena in Paris by H. Cleveland Coke,
deputy consul general in Paris, on be-
half of the Empire State Society Of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
The Philippine commission has
named H. P. Willis president of the
New Insular bank, the founding of
which, capital $10000,000, was author.
lied by the last Legislature. The
salary fixed for the position is s12.-
600.
The London proprietors of the week
ly journal Bystander were fined G100,
the former editor, Vivian Carter, C so,
and Lieutenant Bernard, cartoonist,
C so, for publishing a cartoon de-
plotting British soldier lying intoxi-
Il
bottle of rum.
SPORTING NEWS
Young Ahearn won from George
Chip on a foul in the fifth round of
their scheduled ten-round bout in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bombardier Wells knocked out Dick
Smith in the third round of their bout
in London for the heavyweight cham
pionship of England.
At New Orleans Joe Mandot of New
Orleans was awarded a referees deci.
sion over Johnny Dundee of New
York at the end of twenty-round
boxing contest.
Mrs. Virginia M. Arson, wife OF
Adrian C. (Cap.) Arson, former man
ager of the Chicago National League
baseball club, died at her home in Chi
cago She was 56 years old.
Stanley C. Mortimer of the Tuxedo
Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston
captured the national title in racquet
singles from Clarence C. Pell of the
same club. The scores were 1912,
1872, 1912.
R. Lindley Murray of California
won the national tennis champion
ship in singles in New York, by de-
feating A. H. Man, Jr., former Yale
captain of New York, by the score of
6-2, g.
March is the date set for the hear.
ing in Denver of the suits of Lorean
V. and John F. Coffey, who ask $40,
600 damages each for an attack they
allege was made last August on Mrs
Coffey by James c. McGill, Denver
baseball magnate.
GENERAL
A slight earthshock was felt
throughout the Carolinas, Georgia and
Tennessee early Monday evening.
Hans Schmidt was electrocuted ut
Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y,
for the murder of Anna Aumuller.
Sept. 2, 1913.
Ten persons were killed and sixteen
injured in a triple-head smash wreck
ing two New Haven passenger trains
and freight near Milford, Conn.
Billy Sunday left Trenton, N. j., for
Winona Lake, Ind, leaving behind him
nearly 1900 "trail-hitters" and TAX
ing with him about s32,35S.O3.
Leo Crane. Indian agent at Keams
Canon, Ariz., was killed by Indians
according to unconfirmed reports re
ceived at Flagstaff Arig.. from Gallup
N. NJ, and Holbrook, Ariz.
Henry Morgenthau, United States
Ambassador to Turkey, returned from
Constantinople aboard the Scandina-
vian-American liner Frederick VIII,
for G0-day vacation during which he
plans to get in touch with American
affairs.