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The British government has decided
that the steamship Mauretania can
he released from hospital duty and
returned to her owners.
Col Theodore and Mrs. Roosevelt
arrived at Barbados, b. w. l., and pro
ceeded to Demerara, British Guiana.
Tney will go from Demerara to Trim
idad, where they will take a steamer
direct to New York.
The chamber of deputies at Paris
telegraphed the Russian duma ITS
ardent sympathy with the duma. on
resumption of its sessions. in Its an
nounced determination to carry the
war 10 a successful conclusion.
Reports from Salisbury say that
thirty persons are still missing as A
result of the avalanche in the Hoch-
koenig region. No further deaths
have been reported in addition to the
fifty.fivc already made known.
Cut off and surrounded by strong
force of Villa followers who have
raised a cry of NO quarter" the dc
facto government garrison at
Guerrero. Western Chihuahua. sent an
urgent appeal to the Carranza COM
mander at MADEIRA for assistance
Berlin morning newspapers print
Havas dispatch from New York which
says that the administration at Wash
ington has determined 10 break off re
lations with Count Won Bernstorff, the
German ambassador 20 the United
States, and negotiate direct with
Berlin.
The Paris Temps. discussing the
situation between the United States
and Germany, says: Neither Great
Britain nor her allies have any inter
est in seeing a war between Germany
and the United States American
sympathies are sufficient and these
have been won.'
SPORTING NEWS
the University OF Wyoming basket.
ball team defeated the five of the
Colorado Agricultural College at Fort
Collins.
Young Ahearn won from George
Chip on a foul in the fifth round of
their scheduled ter-roUnd bout in
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Capt. David Shaw OF Cleveland, it
was learned, has just turned down au
offer of 100000 for Peter Mac, trot-
ting stallion by Peter the Great.
Joe Mandot of New Orleans and
Ritchie Mitchell OF Milwaukee were
nrla
March ; in a twenty-round decision
fight.
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 we're 1912,
l5-2, 1912.
Club owners of the American Asso-
citation baseball league. in session at
Columbus, Ohio, adopted a playing
schedule of les games for the com
ing season, naming April IS as the
opening date. The last games of the
season will be played Oct. 1.
The permanent retirement of Leach
Cross from the boxing ring was an
nounced in New York by his manager,
Samuel Wallach, who said that Cross
fight with Johnny Griffiths had been
cancelled by mutual consent Cross
was knocked out by Milburn Saylor.
GENERAL
A slight earthsho2k was felt
throughout the Carolinas, Georgia and
Tennessee early Monday evening.
New York's subway, which carries
more than 100000 passengers a day.
experienced the worst tie-up in its his
tory Friday because of flooded tracks,
the result of a heavy downpour Of
rain.
At the annual banquet of the trust
company section of the American
Bankers Association in New York
Ben b. Lindsey of Denver told of his
experiences in Europe with the Ford
peace expedition.
The South Carolina State Senate
passed without division the House bill
which would raise from ~ to IA years
the legal age limit at which children
may be employed in textile plants,
factories and mines.
James McCloskey. watchman. was
held at Butte, Mont. in connection
with an investigation into the MUIR
der of Miss Josie Leary, 20 years old.
who was found shot to death on the
Anaconda road. She had been at
tackled.
Pleas for preparedness coupled
with warning. by Charles ]. Bona
Darte former T1nited Statac Attnrna,,