Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-03

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Richard w. Clarke, has been captured
in the waters around Iceland and
taken to Grimsby.
German aeroplanes on the Somme
front made more than 500 raids on
the A%nglo-French positions oct. %.
says the Overseas News Agency.
Government agents claim to have
received additional confirmation of
Villas reported defeat Of Gen. Carlos
DUMAS Carranza column at Palomas,
eighteen miles west Of Chihuahua City.
At Farnum, Quebec, nineteen per
sensitive children, eight women and
six men-were believed to have lost
their lives in the fire which destroyed
st. Elizabeth hospital. There were
21S persons in the hospital.
The funeral of Count Karl Sturgkh,
late Austrian premier, was held in the
cathedral of st. stephens at Vienna.
Archbishop Piffl officiated. Emperor
Francis Joseph was represented by
Archduke Leopold Salvador. The body
was taken to Halbenrain, the pre-
mier's former home, for burial In the
family tomb.
Pope Benedict has decided to hold
a secret consistory Dec. 4, and a pub
lie consistory Dec. Z, at which he will
create new cardinals. The red hat
will be conferred on Mgr. Count Raj
faele Scapinelli, former papal nuncio
at Vienna, and Mgr. Fruewerth, form
er nuncio at Munich. Monsignor
Fruewerth will be replaced at Munich
by Mgr. Aversa, papal nuncio at
Brazil, who is now on his way to
Rome.
An ore train was burned, railroad
bridges we're destroyed and the track
of the Mexican Central railroad cut
by bandits near Ortiz. about forty
miles south of Chihuahua City, an
American who arrived at Ell Paso,
Tex, from chihuahua City reported.
He said traffic had been suspended
between Chihuahua City and Torreon
on the railroad. The American also
brought a report to the border that
Villas troops were planning to attack
Parral, Jiminez, Santa Rosalia and
Torreon soon, as well as Chihuahua
City.
SPORTING NEWS
The mare Mabel Trask has won
more than 100000 in the harness events
of the season just closed.
Alexander Brown, widely known
polo player of Philadelphia, fell from
his hydro-aeroplane into the Delaware
river at Essington, and was drowned.
The Chicago Americans will condi-
tion themselves for next seasons work
by practicing with minor league
teams, according to an announcement
at Chicago.
Young Ahearn, Brooklyn middle
weight, o%utpointed Len Rowlands, Mil
waukee, in a ten-round %no-decision con-
test at Milwaukee, by the exclusive
use of a light left jab.
Chick" Evans of Chicago, national
open and amateur golf champion, and
Martin j. Condor of Memphis were
defeated, 1 up, by Ned Sawyer of Chi
cage and j. P. Burlington, a Memphis,
player, in an -eighteen-hole exhibition
foursome at the Memphis, Tenn,
Country Club.
Johnny Dunn of San Francisco, 140
pounds, and Kid NARROW Of st. Louis,
about the same weight, who fought a
fast 15-round draw at Victor, Colo,
Oct. ii before the Elks' Athletic club,
have been matched to go over the
twenty-round route at the Victor
Opera house Nov. 10.
A fight in which players on both
sides and more than a hundred spec-
tators participated broke up the Tu-
lane-Mississippi college game at
Jackson, Miss, shortly after the fourth
period had started. The game was
called as soon as the police could
restore quiet and the official score
keeper declared Tulane the victor 10
to 8.
GENERAL
At Toledo, Ohio, flour went to $11 a
barrel on Friday.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt celebrated
his fifty-eighth birthday by making
three speeches.
James w. Gerard, American ambas
sador to Germany, went to Shadow
Lawn to discuss with President Will
son what the ambassador character
lied later as every phase of the sit
uation involved in my work at Berlin"
Clyde Ingram, a college student,
was shot and seriously wounded in a
crowded court room at Aberdeen.