The Holly chieftain., 1916-02-04
FOREIGN

The British military service bill is
meeting with favor in the House Of
Lords.
The United States note to England
is a strong protest against interfer-
ence with mails.
The British government has or
dered formal investigation OF the
sinking of the Persia.
Ben B. Lindsey has lett Holland for
Berlin to study the needs OF children
in the belligerent countries.
Gen. Viktor Won Podbielski, former
postmaster general and a close friend
of Emperor William, is dead in Bellin
at the age of II years.
An apparatus which it is claimed
will prevent the destruction of ships
by torpedoes or mines has been in
vented by Frantz Poulsen, engineer at
Copenhagen.
Rome that the condition of Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria, who has
been i'll for several days, is rapidly
growing worse.
According to the Amsterdam Tag
lische Rundschau, Dr. Karl Helfferish,
secretary of the imperial treasury, has
prepared a scheme for additional taxa
tion to yield $125,000,000.
Twenty-eight women, arrested on
charge of selling liquor at Anchorage
OF the government railroad, pleaded
guilty and were fined $l0o each
AS an instance of German thrift and
thoroughness, the Germans remove
the hides from dead army horses, says
the London Daily Mails Balkan cor
respondent, in describing trip from
Constantinople to Nish.
The electoral court at Athens has
seated in Parliament sixteen deputies
from northern Epirus-that portion of
southern Albania as far south as Ko-
ritsa, which was occupied by Greece
without authorization after the Lon
don conference.
Since the outbreak of the war to the
end of last October, 25i British merch-
ant steamers, aggregating 542,G4S tons
were lost through enemy action" ac,
cording to white, paper issued in
London. OF these III were sunk by
submarines; 46 by warships and 81 by
mines.
SPORTING NEWS
The tennis team of Leland Stanford
University will play the University OF
May.
Jim Coffey of New York, knocked
out Lew Bodie of Montana in the fifth
round of a ten-round exhibition bout
at Syracuse, N. Y.
Fred Fulton was awarded referee s
decision in the scheduled twenty.
| round bout with "Porky' Flynn at a
New Orleans arena.
Twenty-one thousand dollars for
three years work as Yale's football
coach will be the pay of Tad Jones,
according to the contract he has
agreed to sign.
Standing toe to toe with the Den
|. yer man and beating him at his own
game, Milburn Saylor won newspa.
per verdict over Stanley Yoakum in
ten rounds at Kansas City.
Jimmy Dunn, heavyweight boxer
who won over Kid Cisneros in the
semi-windup to the recent Bob York
Young Jack Johnson, is in the Pueblo
country, Colo, Jail in default of $500
bond on a charge of bottlegging.
| Denver court officials have been
anxiously waiting for James c. McGill
Denver and Indianapolis baseball
owner, who was sued by Mr. and Mrs
John F. Coffey, each for $4,000 for an
| alleged assault upon Mrs Coffey, to
| file his pleading in the cases. His
answer was filed Monday.
GENERAL
Sixty-seven members of the Ford
peace expedition arrived in New York
on the Rotterdam.
The United States Steel corporation
declared quarterly dividend of / 4
per cent on its common stock.
At Yuma, Ariz, Thursday, 900 III.
dians and scores of families were
homeless as result Of the flood.
Exactly S7,04S dogs and cats were
put to a humane death by the Morris
Refuge Association in the last year IL
Philadelphia
Railroad and wire service in Utah
and adjoining states was seriously in.