The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-01
FOREIGN

Gen. Victoriano Huerta, former pro-
visionai president of Mexico, is seri-
ously ill.
The Persian cabinet has fallen,"
says the Teheran correspondent of
Reuter- Telegram Company.
Eighteen German soldiers on fur
Tough were killed and forty-seven
wounded when a train jumped the
track at Bentschen station near Ber-
lin.
Count Tisza, the Hungarian pre-
mier contemplates making the cult
walton of wheat a state monopoly, ac-
cording to the London Posts Buda-
pest correspondent.
The Overseas News Agency says
that the Vienna Reichpost reports
that during the whole war Serbia
received each month 30,000,000 to 35,-
100000 francs in gold from France.
Upon request by General Gallieni,
the French war minister, the French
Senate passed a bill approving the
action of the Chamber of Deputies in
giving the war minister the 1917 class
of recruits for Jan. 5.
Sir George Foster, minister of trade
and commerce. intimated in an ad-
dress at the Peoples Forum at OF
tawa that a Canadian domestic loan
of $S00,000000 might soon follow the
recent issue of $100,000,000
A committee, of which Paul Pain
leve, minister of public instruction. is
the chairman, has been organized for
the object of presenting the city of
Paris with monument in the form
of a bas relief in memory of Miss
Edith Cavell
Gen. Francisco Villa, with only a
few Of his old-time bandit band with
him, is back where he started in the
days of Diaz. He is again the outlaw
with n price on his head and, accord
ing to reports received at Ell Paso,
Tex, Las reverted to his old manner
of living.
At least 100000 Albanians have
been starved to death in the last year
and the same fate awaits an equal
number during the coming year, ac-
cording to w. w. Howard, owner of
the American relief schooner Albania.
Howard has just reached Rome after
distributing 200 tons of flour tC the
starving Albanians.
SPORTING NEWS
Jan. IS has been definitely set as
the date of the proposed Mike Glib
bons-Young Ahearn Fight at st. Paul.
Jan. Is has been set as the date
for the beginning of the annual twen-
ty-four-hour tournament on the Den
yer alleys.
Johnny Griffiths of Akron, bv a
slight margin, outpcinted Jack Brit
ton of Chicago in twelve fast rounds
at Akron, Ohio.
Thomas Shevlin, millionaire lum.
herman and famous Yale football star,
died of pneumonia at Minneapolis,
Mimi, after an illness of but six days.
Ted Lewis of England moved into
the championship row as result OF
Ritchie in their tcn-round welter.
weight scrap in New York.
At Sydney, N. S. W., Les Darcy,
the middleweight champion of Aus
tralia. easily defeated Eddie Nc
Goorty, an American middleweight, in
the eighth round of their match.
In one of the best slugging matches
that has been staged in Denver in
months. Gilbert Gallant of Boston was
given the decision over Stanley Yoak-
um at the end of their fifteen-round
bout before the National Athletic
club.
Unless the plans of Capt Will c..
Bryan, athletic instructor at the State
School of Mines at Golden, go astray
Colorado will be represented in the
national championship track and field
meet of the A. A. u. in Newark, N. j.,
next summer.
GENERAL
The Pittsburgh, Pa, Bank for Saw
ings was closed by order of the
Pennsylvania banking department.
George Franklin Harding. aged So
years, one Ol lue prOIlOlerS OF Ine
Chicago, Burlington e Quincy rail.
road, died at his home in Chicago. His
estate is estimated at $5,OOO,O0O.
Mrs. Laura S. Rockefeller, wife of
John D. Rockefeller, who died last
March, left an estate valued at 81 ,49O,-
All, according to the appraisal filed
in the New York Surrogate Court.
The steamer Corwin, Capt. ]. r
Healey, just arrived at Seattle, Wash
from Nome, Alaska, brought 1855
walrus, by far the biggest catch on
record, according to Captain Healey
and Oscar Annevik. the chief hunter
At Milford, Conn, Mrs. Edward
Krause threw her two small sons into
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