Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
FOREIGN

The 4,2OO-ton British steamship MID
land has been sunk.
The threatened strike of conductors
and trainmen of the Canadian Pacific
railway has been called off.
The American fishing schooner
Richard w. Clarke, has been captured
in the waters around Iceland and
taken to Grimsby.
German aeroplanes on the Somme
front made more than 500 raids on
the Anglo-French positions Oct. %.
says the Overseas News Agency.
Government agents claim to have
received additional confirmation of
Villas reported defeat of Gen. Carlos
Ozuna's Carranza column at Palomas,
eighteen miles west of Chihuahua City.
At Farnum, Quebec, nineteen per-
sons-five children. eight women and
six men-were believed to have lost
their lives in the fire which destroyed
ST. Elizabeth hospital. There were
21S persons in the hospital
The funeral of Count Karl Sturgkh,
late Austrian premier, was held in the
cathedral of st. Stephens at Vienna.
Archbishop Piffl officiated. Emperor
Francis Joseph was represented by
Archduke Leopold Salvador. The body
was taken to Halbenrain, the pre-
mier's former home, for burial in the
family tomb.
Pope Benedict has decided to hold
secret consistory Dec 4, and pub
lie consistory Dec Z, at which he will
I,nt
will be conferred on Mgr. Count Raj
faele Scapinelli, former papal nuncio
at Vienna, and Mgr. Fruewerth. form
er nuncio at Munich. Monsignor
Fruewerth will be replaced at Munich
by Mgr. Aversa. papal nuncio at
p"aail. who is now on his way to
Rome.
An ore train was burned, railroad
bridges were destroyed and the track
of the Mexican Central railroad cut
by bandits near Ortiz. about forty
miles south of Chihuahua City, an
American who arrived at Ell Paso.
Tex, from Chihuahua City reported.
He said traffic had been suspended
between Chihuahua City and Torreon
on the railroad. The American also
brought report to the border that
Villas troops were planning to attack
Parral, Jiminez, Santa Rosalia and
Torreon soon, as well as Chihuahua
City.
SPORTING NEWS
The mare Mabel Trask has won
more than 100000 in the harness events
of the season inst closed
Alexander Brown, widely known
polo player of Philadelphia, fell from
his hydro-aeroplane into the Delaware
river at Essington, and was drowned
The Chicago Americans will condi-
ton themselves for next seasons work
by practicing with minor league
teams, according to an announcement
at Chicago.
Young Ahearn. Brooklyn middle
weight, outpointed Len Rowlands, Mil
waukee, in ten-round no-decision con-
test at Milwaukee. by the exclusive
use of light left jab.
Chick" Evans of Chicago, national
open and amateur golf champion, and
Martin j. Condor of Memphis were
defeated, / up, by Ned Sawyer of Chi
cago and ]. p. Burlington, a Memphis,
player, in an eighteen-hole exhibition
foursome at the Memphis, Tenn.
Country Club.
Johnny Dunn of San Francisco, 140
pounds, and Kid NARROW of St. Louis,
about the same weight, who fought
fast 15-round draw at Victor, Colo.
Oct IA before the Elks' Athletic club,
have been matched to go over the
twenty-round route at the Victor
Opera house Nov. 13.
A fight in which players on both
sides and more than 4 hundred spec
tntors participated broke up the Tu-
lane-Mississippi college game at
Jackson. Miss, shortly after the fourth
called as soon as the police could
restore quiet and the official score
keeper declared Tulane the victor 13
TO 3.
GENERAL
At Toledo, Ohio, flour went 10 SlI a
barrel on Friday.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt celebrated
his fifty-eighth birthday by making
three speeches.
James w. Gerard, American ambas
sador to Germany, went to Shadow
Lawn to discuss with President Will
son what the ambassador character
lied later as every phase of the sit
uation involved in my work at Berlin"
Clyde Ingram, college student.