The Ordway new era., 1916-01-21
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ne rrussian Parliament met on

The 1916 session Of Parramens
opened in Paris.
The Duke of Connaught, governor
general OF Canada, is suffering froa
grip.
Seventy persons We're killed ana
fifty seriously injured by the explc-
sion of an ammunition depot IN Lille.
Documents taken from Capt. Noi
Papen, recalled German attache, snow
he made payments to alleged plotters
In America.
Bert Kramer, son OF an American
ranchman, was executed by a Nillista
firing squad at Guerrero, contifmed
chihuahua City adyices.
The British have seized lS5 bags OF
parcel post bound from New York 10
Norway, almost at the moment the
American ambassador to London an
nounced that he had filed protest in
London.
The Swiss mails have transmitted
to prisoners of war during the periou
| from Aug. 10 to Dec. l5, 1913, 10000
900 parcels, 70.00o,o0o letters and
cards and 100000 money orders for
total of 3o,OOO.oOO francs.
A meeting of the Friends Meeting
House Headquarters in Great Brit
ain, called to discuss problems OF
| the settlement of the war broke up
after an hour of pandemonium, with
| the singing of the national anthem
I and three cheers for conscription.
After years of experiment, Director
Klingenberg of the General Electric
| Company, has announced the perfec-
ton of an electric magnetic hand
with which it is possible to grasp
even the heaviest metal object and
work with them adyantageously with
human hands.
The Ford peace expedition has elect
ed the following American members of
the permanent peace board to sit in
Europe Indefinitely with the purpose
of using all efforts to settle the war:
William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ford,
Miss Jane Adams, the Rev. Charles
F. Aked and Mrs. Joseph Fels of Phil
adelphia.
Berlin authorities announce that,
although there is grain Oh hand in
sufficient quantities. prudence die
tates that Berlin shall go back to the
early 1915 basis, which means that
the bulk of the population will be re-
stricted again to 200 grams of bread
daily instead of 225, and that corn
and other foodstuffs will be put under
control.
SPORTING NEWS
Many fine horses are at the Denver
show.
frankie Murphy of Denver and
Grover Hayes of Philadelphia fought
fifteen rounds to draw before the
National Athletic Club in Denver.
Jess Willard has wired that he can
not fight Frank Moran in New York
in March, but that il a later date
around Memorial Day is selected he
will meet the challenger
Suits were filed in the District
Court in Denver simultaneously, by
John F. Coffey, former manager of the
Denver baseball team, and his wife,
Mrs. Lorean V. Coffey, against James
c. McGill, owner of the Denver base
ball team and part owner of the In.
dianapolis baseball team, in which
each plaintiff seeks to recover from
McGill $4,000 damages for an alleged
attack upon Mrs Coffey by McGill.
GENERAL
Ada Rehan, the actress, died in n
New York hospital after an operation
for arterial affection
Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest
daughter of the President, underwent
an operation at Jefferson hospital in
New York. during which adenoids
and her tonsils were removed.
Col. Joseph Haddox Dorst, United
States army, retired, who took a
prominent part in the campaigns
against the Indians in the '7Os and
sos and married Esther J. Archer of
Denver, is dead in Warrenton, Va,
where of late years he made his home
i The American Smelling & Refining
Company representatives at El Paso,
Tex, received a telegram from Chi.
huahua City stating that trainload
of employees which left the capital for
| Cusihuiriachic, western chihuahua,
had been held up by Villa bandits and
all the Americans killed
The body of former President Vic.
toriano Huerta, whose death occurred
at FL Paso. Tex, was placed in the re-
ceiving vault at Copcordia cemetery.
Members of the family and former Of
ficers of the Mexican army followed
the flag-draped casket to the ceme.
terry. where brief services were con.
Quoted by the Rev. Father Carlos
Mayer.