Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-21
FOREIGN

Austria.
The Picking government has con-
sented to truce for discussion OF
terms of peace with the southern
revolutionists.
The British government has set
tied with the American packers for
a sum understood to be S15,O00,OO0.
The totals cover shipments on fifty
vessels.
The Germans are using either SUI
persubmarines of underwater boats
without periscopes in their new cam
paign, according to the best informed
London authorities.
The Danish steamer Dorthea struck
a mine and foundered Immediately,
says a Lloyd's Amsterdam dispatch.
The crew was saved and landed
at Ymuiden. The captain was
wounded.
The Mexican government sent its
ambassador in Washington a note to
Secretary Lansing, asking that the
American troops be withdrawn from
Mexican territory and that the pur-
suit of Villa be left to the Mexican
Constitutionalist army.
The governor of Kiang-Si province
officially declared his independence
of the administration of President
Yuan Shi Kai. Kiang-Si is one of tn,
southern provinces of China. 1t has
an area OF about 10000 square miles
and a population of about 2o.0OO,00o.
The capital is Nan Chang.
Mexico City was brilliantly illumi-
mated in honor of the arrival in tn,
Mexican capital of Gen. Carranza
Large crowds paraded the streets.
Gen. CarranZa met his ministers at
the national palace and later ap-
peared on the palace balcony, under
the liberty bell, and addressed the
throng in the square below.
Censored details of the murder by
Mexican bandits of F. c. Burke, Rod
erick Davidson and Walter Wallace,
Americans, and Spanish railroad
contractor. south OF Rosario, were
told by V. ii. York. an American of
the party, whom the bandits gave lib.
erty because they couldn't find spot
to place bullet without killing wo-
men and children cliuging to him.
The cheapness in which the Willis
tas hold human life was brought out
pointedly at Columbus, N. NJ, by J.
ii. Locke, an American of Minaca.
who escaped from that city the night
of March IS. when Herman Blanken-
burg, German, and Donald Nc
Gregor, an American, eere killed by
the bandits. Locke described to Gen.
Pershing the utter recklessness with
which these two were slain.
SPORTING NEWS
The fourth annual renewal of the
Mountain Marathon will be held in
Denver Saturday morning, June 8.
to the wife of Jess Willard, cham
pion heavyweight of the world. at
Chicago. He is the fifth child.
Orders to the police to break up
the various baseball pools that op-
Grated in St Louis last season were
issued by Chief of Police Young. 1t
is stated that last year the pool pro-
moters made 100000.
Customs Collector Malone at New
York was instructed by the treasury
to seize the JohnsonWillard fight
films recently made n this country
by phctographing the original films
at point on the boundary line be-
tween the United States and Canada.
Following the compromise of his
$4,000 suit for damages against
James C. McGill, former owner of the
Denver baseball team, John +. Coffey,
former captain of the Grizzlies, left
for San Francisco, where he has OBJ
tanned a berth with the Coast League
team there. His release from the
Denver team was part of his set
tlement with McGill. McGill, now
owner of the Indianapolis team, paid
over the $1,000 cash agreed to in the
stipulation.
liENERAL
The coroner's jury in the inquest
over the body of Mrs. Joseph E. How
ard, formerly Irma Kilgallen OF Chi
cago and divorced wife of the Count
de Beaufort, at Omaha returned a
verdict of suicide.
Wage advances which will put the
pay of textile operatives in many o,
the mills in New England and New
York state on the highest basis in
the history of the industry, were an.
nounced in Boston.
A forty-mile-an.hour gale swept
over Baltimore and Chesapeake bay
Friday. Sophie Doyer, aged 10, AMI
| her younger sister, Lillian, whila
,ly l. tod
| automobile. Sophie's neck was
broken and her sister badly hurt
| Several other persons were injured.
Granting increases IN wages which,
| IL is estimated will total S2.hO0 .00n z