Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-03-24


Unconfirmed dispatches from Rome
said that the kaiser's throat is again
giving him trouble.
Pope Benedict at Rome gave a
private audience to NJ. P. Pachitch,
the Serbian premier.
The interests Of Austria IN Portu-
gal have been confided to the Spanish
minister at Lisbon.
At Guatemala City the national as
sembly unanimously ratified the re-
election Of Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
president.
The London Opera House. which
was built by Oscar Hammerstein in
1911, has been purchased by a vaude-
Vile syndicate.
Three British airmen, Lieutenan,s
tombstone, Beaumont and Laidlaw,
were killed at London in accidents
while on experimental flights.
Premier Asquith is III. 1t was an
nOunced in a bulletin issued at his OF.
flee In London, stating he Is suffer
ing from bronchial catarrh.
Gen. Joseph Simeon Gallieni, min.
lister Of war, has resigned because OF
Ill health, and Cen. Charles Rogue has
been appointed to succeed him.
At Liverpool, the Irish Nationalist,
celebrating the eve Of st. Patrick's
day under the chairmapehip Of T. P.
o'Connor, pledged allegiance to the
allies.
The remolding of the system Of the
government of the British empire
after the war was predicted by Her
bert L. Samuel. secretary for home
affairs, at a dinner givec in honor OF
the Australian premier, William Nor.
ris Hughes in London.
Ten thousand civilians, including
government employees and school
teachers, paraded Mexico City, carry
ing the national colOrs and banners
bearing the inscription: Homage to
Venustiano Carranza, the savior of
his cOuntry's honor"
With the object Of securing arms
and ammunition, a force of rebels re.
Gently raided Shuntak in KwangtunS
province, twenty miles south Of Can
ton. China. They secured a quantity
of these munitions and escaped after
a fight with government forces in
which the casualties on each side
were estimated at 300.
SPORTING NEWS
The Pan-Hellenic Olympian games
have been cancelled owing to the
mobilization of the Greek army.
Fankie Murphy, the East Side light
weight, %outpOinted Jack Gillis, the
Frisco battler, in 10 rounds at the
National Athletic Club in Denver.
Fred Fulton, the Rochester, Mimi,
heavyweight boxer knocked out Fire
man Flynn Of Pueblo in the second
round of a 1O-round contest at Mil
waukee, Wis.
At Madison Square Garden, where
the Willard-Moran bout is to take
place on the 25th it was stated that
the advance sale of tickets for the
contest now amounts to more than
100000.
Than LangfOrd, the Boston Tar
Baby, who is rounding out his fiji
teenth year in the prize ring, is
headed toward Denver again. The of.
fetal forecaster announced that the
dark cloud on the fighting horizon
would arrive shortly after March "a,
or in time for public exhibition
March 81.
GENERAL
A. CHECK for $43, 53S, 131, one of the
largest v rel paid in the United States,
passed through the New York clear
ing house.
Robert E. Rigby, assistant cashier
of the Wabash Railroad at st. Louis,
confessed to a shortage of $4,000. He
was arrested.
The estate of Henry Gassaway
Davis, of West Virginia, is estimated
at %$1O,OOO.OOO and the bulk goes to
three children.
The funeral of Henry Gassaway
Davis former United States senator,
who died at his home in Washington,
was held at Elkins. w. Va.
1t vas learned at Columbus, N. NJ,
that the shot which killed Colonel
Lopez, Villas first chief during the
raid, was fired by an American
trooper at 1900 yards. Lopez fell at
the first shot.
That a reward of 10000 pesos for
the body of Francisco Villa had been
standing for the last sixty days in
Carranza c%onsulates was disclosed
through letters to an Albuquerque,
N. M, Carranza official.
Brigadier General Pershing's dis
patches to the southern department
headquarters confirm reports thai
Mormon colonists from Colonia Dub
Ian and Colonia Morales are acting
as scouts for the expedition.
Thomas Mott Osborne, prison re-.
former, Harvard graduate and former
warden Of Sing Sing. was acquitted
of the charge OF perjury nv direcfion