The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-01
Foreign


The Persian cabinet has fallen"
says the Teheran correspondent of
Reuters Telegram Company.
There have been twenty severe
earthquakes in Guatemala in two
days. No serious damage has been re-
| ported.
Free house rent for year for i'm
poverished widows of Carranza SOL
diers is philanthropy which the new
government has undertaken at Mex
leo City.
Governor Hanna of North Dakota
who eft the peace party at Stock
holm, arrived at Copenhagen and is
in ST. Joseph's hospital suffering
from Influenza.
Sir George Foster, minister of trade
and commerce, intimated in an ad-
dress at the Peoples Forum at OF
tawa that Canadian domestic loan
of $300,000,00G might soon follow the
recent issue of $1OO,OOO,00O.
A revolutionist movement under
the leadership of Tsai 40, former
ly military governor of Yunan, has
broken out. The Chinese government
has sent 10000 soldiers to quell the
revolt
A Melbourne wheat deal just COM
pleted with the British and French
| governments involves nearly eS.0OO,-
600 sterling (S15, 1000. .00O), and the
price is above shillings n bushel A
sale also has been made to Italy.
! Richard Melville Hall of Ann Ar
Dor. Mich, volunteer driver attached
| to tina; section OF the American am
| bulanca operating with the French
army in Alsace, was killed Christmas
/ Eve n the performance of his duty.
! A committee, of which Paul Pain
leve, minister OF public instruction, is
Z the chairman, mas been organized for
the object of presenting the city OF
I Paris with a monument in the form
of bas relief in memory of Miss
Edith Cavell.
| Prince Won Buelow. former German
imperial chancellor, who has been in
Switzerland since late October but
who has denied that he was in that
county on peace mission. as has
been widely reported. left Swtzer-
land for Germany
Sporting News
Uncle Joe" Hineman of Wausau,
/ Wis, is 81 years old. yet he never
misses a trap shoot that he can at
| tend.
/ Yoakums first 1916 battle will be
on Jan. 3 when he meets Bobby
| Waugh in fifteen-round match in
Fort Worth, Tex.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland. Ohio
featherweight champion, and George
Cheney OF Baltimore. will battle fif-
teen rounds for the title in Baltimore
March II.
Jess Willard at Chicago assured
the New Orleans promoters do, he
will take on no other opponent until
he has boxed Fulton.
Hor3emen said in New York that
the sale of fifteen thoroughbred
horses, bred and foaled in Europe, for
about $4,000, was the best showing
of prices obtained for thoroughbreds
/
property of Clarence II. Mackay, and
were bred on his farm In Normandy,
France.
Packey Hommey's constant rushes
| outweighed the ringcraft of Leach
Cross, and the Ghetto champion had
a decided edge over the fighting dent
ist in their ten-round bout at the
JInr l,,l
Elommey clinched the victory in the
last round when he lambasted Cross
without return.
General
Charles Chrisdie. famous as a
clown and pantomimist half cen
tury ago, died in New York.
The Pittsburgh, Pa. Bank for Saw
ings was closed by order of the
Pennsylvania banking department.
The members of the Ford Peace
Expedition have held various meet
ings in an endeavor to arouse a peace
sentiment in Sweden
The Reading, Pa, Iron Company an
nounced wage advances of from to
10 per cent throughout its plants
About $500 men are affected
Robert b. Berman. the first mem
Der OF the Ford party to return to
America. arrived in New York aboard
the steamer Stockholm. He left the
party at Kirkwell, Scotland
President and Mrs Wilson were
driven from the golf links at Hot
SPRING. Va. Christmas, by a heavy
rainstorm which broke suddenly and
drenched both of them before they
could reach their hotel mile away.
1t. was an American who surren-
dered The CITY of Nish, Serbia, to the
inyadins Bulgarian army after the