The Ordway new era., 1916-11-17
FOREIGN

The Marquis de Vogue, membsr Of
the academy and president Of the
central committee OF the French Red
Cross. died in Paris.
Vienna newspapers say that Count
de Tarnow-Tarnowski, Austrian min
lister to Sofia. has been appointed
ambassador to Washington.
WI Ting Fang has been appointed
minister Of foreign affairs. His ap-
pointment was approved by the vtr-
tually unanimous vote of Parliament
at Peking.
Minister Of Finance Ribot an
nounced in the chamber of deputies at
Paris that s2,27O. 100000 had been sub
scribed to the last loan. or this more
than so per cent is new money.
Canada's war expenditures during
the seven months ending Oct. 81 Of
the fiscal year aggregated nearly
than $lS,O00.0OO monthly, according to
| figures issued at Ottawa
One hundred and twenty persons
have been drowned through the sink
ing of barge on the Vistula, accord
ing to central news dispatch from
Amsterdam. The disaster occurred at
Kamierz, near Lublin, in Poland.
Chancellor Won Bethmann Hollweg
announced at Berlin that after the
ending of the war, Germany would CO.
| operate in an endeavor to find n prac-
tical means for procuring lasting
eace by means of an international
league.
The Canadian munition industry has
been developed to a point where it is
Independent of the United States.
This announcement is made by the i'm
| perial munitions board, which is re-
sponsible for placing s5OO,OO0.00J
worth of shell orders in Canada for
the British government.
Alexander Ribot, minister of finance
introduced in the chamber of deputies
a bill appropriating for the first quar-
ter of 1917, S,539.00O,O00 francs, for
general purposes, including the war.
and 934.O00.000 francs for supplement-
ary appropriations. The daily eXpen-
ditures of France now exceed 1O5,OOO.
900 francs.
SPORTING NEWS
Billy Miske of ST. Paul knocked out
Tim O'Neil of Chicago in the sixth
round of ten-round match in Brook
lyn, N. Y.
At Auditorium in ST. Paul, Minn.,
Mike Gibbons of St. Paul outpointed
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis in a ten
| round no-dccision contest
Danny Maher. the American jockey,
died at nursing home in London aft
er lingering illness which caused his
retirement from the turf three years
ago.
Robert S. Bingham, veteran half
back of the Yale football team, who
has been out of the game for two
weeks on account of illness, will be
unable to play any more this season.
What promises to be the nucleus of
federal bowling league exclusively
for women was formed by members
of the United States forest service in
the Denver offices of the department.
Harry Bramer collapsed in the
eighth round of his scheduled twelve.
round bout with Eddie Campi at the
National Athletic Club in Denver, aft
er being outpointed and outclassed up
to that time.
Denny Sullivan. who bore the title
of manager with the St. Joseph club
of the past season and was Nap in
1909, says he is done with baseball
and hereafter will devote all his time
tt. practicing medicine.
GENERAL
Henry Ward Ranger, one of the best
known American landscape artists,
died at his home in New York.
Miss Myrtle Page, who lives two
and one-half miles from Richmond.
Mo-, walked 6,024 miles in the last six
years to obtain her education, and in
all that time she has neither been alb.
sert nor tardy.
Victories were gained by the Pro-
hibitionists in Montana, South Dako-
ia, Michigan and Nebraska. Arkan-
by statewide vote, refused to allow
amendments to their statutes re-estab-
fishing the liquor traffic in their states
in any form. Prohibition was de-
feated in Missouri and Caliit Lila.
A Mexican courier who was sent
out from Chihuahua City to learn the
! fate OF the Americans in Paral failed
&C return after ten days. refugee
from Chihuahua City reported at El
Paso, Tex. AS it has been thirteen
days since these Americans and other
foreigners were last heard from,
their employers here fear they have
been killed.
Ten wealthy British residents of
| chihuahua, half of their number wom-