The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-25
FOREIGN

Shipping suffered severely in the
heavy gales off the British coast Sat
urday and Sunday, and it is believed
at least seventeen lives were lost.
Viscount Ichiro Motono, former Jap
anese ambassador to Russia, took up
the portfolio of foreign minister in the
cabinet of Premier Terauchi at Toxic.
The italian government has Joined
the other entente powers in protesting
against the action of Germany in pro-
claiming Russian Poland an independ-
ent state.
On Nov. 1 the 1,000th German shell
struck the Cathedral of Rheims. Four
of the flying buttresses supporting the
roof of the nave have been demolished
and several others hit.
A proposal has been made to the
Canadian banks to finance purchases
of grain in the Dominion for the i'm
perial government to the extent of
$S0,ooO,0OO, it was learned at Mon
treal.
Plans to take 5000 English women,
widowed by the war, to Canada have
been completed by officers of the Sal
walton Army working in conjunction
with the officials of the Dominion and
provincial government in Canada.
Rigid economy throughout the world
in the consumption of food, in view
of the deficient crops and the extror-
binary requirements of the European
armies, is urged by the International
Institute of Agriculture at Rome.
The new Philippine congress, con-
vened under the Philippine bill which
was signed by President Wilson Aug.
20, met at Manila, and for the first
time in the history of the government
of the islands full-blooded Moro took
his seat in the upper house. The Mo-
ro senator is Hadji Butu, for many
years prime minister of the sultan of
Sulu.
The death of Francis Joseph, en-
peror of Austria, is remarkable eli
max to the long list of tragedies in
the Hapsburg family-a list unparal-
leled in any other reigning house in
Europe. He dies in the midst of the
worlds greatest war, which he him
self largely brought about by his de-
termination to avenge the act of as
sassination of his heir, the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, as the result of an
alleged Serbian conspiracy, while on
a state visit to Bosnia on June 2S,
1914.
SPORTING NEWS
Yale triumphed over Princeton in
/ No Dat,
ton. N. j., by score of 10 to 0.
Hamline University defeated Nc
Alester college for the first time in
six years in their annual gridiron con-
test at st. Paul, Mimi, to 0.
Goading each other into cyclonic
speed, the members of the School of
Mines eleven at Denver defeated the
University of Colorado, 81 to 10.
Sporting, excise and swinging-door
circles were agog when it was report
ed that the price of beer is to be
raised to 6 cents glass in Philadel-
phia.
The seventh. annual international
won by Johnny Aitken, driving as re-
lief for Howard Wilcox, at Santa
Monica, Cal.
Dario Resta, automobile racing
driver, became the sole claimant of
the American Automobile Associa-
tion's title of champion driver of
America" when Johnny Aitken, his RI
at Ascot speedway on Thanksgiving
day.
GENERAL
The U. S. Steel Company has in
creased the pay of its employees.
The annual production of clothing
in New York city amounts to approx
nately $532.OOo.OOO.
Papers in three libels, totaling $780,
900, were filed against the German
submarine Deutschland at New Lon
don, Conn.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson of the
| died at his home in Baltimore after a
protracted illness. He was 80 years of
age.
| Prospects of his having trouble with
the blond Eskimos of the extreme Arc
tic regions are intimated in letter re-
ceived in New York from Vilhjalmar
| Stefansson.
The Cotton Manufacturers Associa-
tion of New Bedford, Mass, voted to
| grant a 10 per cent increase in pay to
their $4,000 operatives, to be effective
for a period of six months beginning
Dec. 4.
Twenty unexploded bombs were
found in the sugar cargo of the Ameri-
can steamship Sarnia upon her ar
rival at Cherbourg, France, after a