Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-01-14

of the Mexican army, was the main
development of the Mexican situation.
The sinking of the White Star liner
Arabic, the destruction of a British
submarine by a German destroyer on
the Danish coast and the submarine
attack on the British steamer Ruel
are the three incidents that Sir Ed
ward Grey, the British foreign secre-
tary, suggests for submission to some
impartial tribunal for investigation to-
gether with the case of the cruiser
Baralong.
SPORTING NEWS
Chas. P. Taft has sold the Chicago
Cubs to Chas. Weeghman for 100000.
Stanley Yoakum of Denver took five
rounds and the popular verdict in his
ten-round bout with Bobby Waugh at
Fort Worth, Tex.
President Chivington of the Ameri-
can Association issued a call for the
associations annual meeting to be
held at Chicago Jan. Is.
Senator Kenyon introduced a bill in
the Senate to prohibit telephone or
telegraph transmission of racing in
formation.
Frank Moran of Pittsburg knocked
out Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant, in
the ninth round of their ten-round
match at Madison Square Garden in
New York.
Unable to properly train their
horses owing to the number of
jockeys who have joined the army,
chiefly in the army veterinary corps,
ONE English race horse owners are
crying aloud for the stewards of the
Jockey Club to permit them to en-
ploy ONE riders.
The sale of the Lincoln Western
League Baseball Club and franchise
by Hugh L. Jones to the Lincoln
Baseball and Amusement Company, a
stock company, was completed with
the signing Of the contracts by the di.
rectors of the new concern and Mr..
Jones. The sale price of the club was
announced at $12,5OO.
GENERAL
Arch Eckersall, his wife and four
children, were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home at
Salmon, Idaho.
Announcement that Col. Theodore
Roosevelt will start on Feb. Is on a
trip to the West Indies, from which
he will not return until April /, was
made in New York.
Trapped in a burning trolley car
which caught fire after 1t left the
rails and turned turtle, thirty passen.
gers were injured at Wilmette, a
North shore suburb of Chicago.
Petition for an injunction against
the enforcement of the new state pro
hibition law was denied in the Unit
ed States District Court at Tacoma
Wash, by three judges sitting zen
banc."
A declaration that the shortage o.
food in Germany has reached a criti
cal stage was made in New York by
DR.. Edmund Won Mach, chairman oil
the citizens committee on food ship
ments.
The work Of floating the tanI
steamer Aztec, which sank in Erie
basin after an explosion as a result o.
which two men are known to be dead
and ten others are missing, has beer
begun at New York.
Petitions requesting that the names
of President Wilson and Vice Presi
dent Marshall be placed on the ballot
to be voted on for denomination in the
primary March z were filed with the
secretary of state at indianapolis.
The funeral of Associate Justice
Lamar of the Supreme Court was helC
at Augusta, Ga, at the First Christian
church. At the grave a simple eere
mony was conducted, consisting Of {
prayer and the recitation Of Tenny
sons Crossing the Bar" ,
Nineteen persons, including a WON
an, we're shot, four were killed out
right, buildings in the business dis
trict of the city we're dynamited, ant
fifteen city blocks destroyed by fire
as a result OF riots growing out OF 1
big steel mills strike in East Youngs
town, Ohio.