Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-07
FOREIGN


Germany now has 100000 men
making munitions, according to Sen
ator Charles Humbert.
Alberto Rodriguez. the Carranzista
mayor of Ojinaga, across the river
from Presidio. Tex, was assassinated.
Two thousand munition workers are
now on strike in the government gun
factories in the Clyde district, and rs-
ports from Glasgow said the labor
troubles threatened to spread.
During the blizzard last week be-
tween forty and forty-five bluejackets
belonging to the British light cruiser
Conquest lost their lives while at
tempting to return to their ship In
London.
A wireless dispatch received at
Wellington, N H., from the Shackle-
ton Anartic expeditions auxiliary
ship Aurora reported the vessel at the
time as $50 miles southwest of Port
Chalmers, New Zealand.
AT the allies conference in Paris
it was agreed that Germany should
no longer be allowed to accumulate
her forces separately against any one
of the allies, but must be met by
crushing simultaneous action by all
the allies.
Fenustiano CarranZa, de facto presi-
dent of Mexico, has notified Gen. p.
Elias Gales, military governor of So
nora, of his approval of decree pro-
mulgated several weeks ago by Gales,
disfranchising all enemies of the
government" according to Consul
Ives G. Lelevier at Douglas, Ariz.
The war has so far cost Holland i
clear $1i0,000,000. Further, reckoning
the demands of the intervening period
at $S,000,0O0 month the new minis
ter of finance. DR.. Anton van Gym.
estimates that by Aug. l next sum
of $1S0.000,000 will have been spent
on the mobilized land and sea forces.
OF 10000 Serbian refugees who. fol-
lowing the invasion of their country
by the Teutonic allies, headed SOUTH
ward, only 5000 succeeded in reach.
ing Saloniki, all the others having
perishei of cold and hunger on the
way, according to a report received
sentative at Saloniki of the Swiss Red
Cross.
SPORTING NEWS
The fourth annual renewal of the
Mountain Marathon at Denver will
take place on or shortly after Memo
rial Day this year.
For the first time in the forty-one
years of the Kentucky Derby, Clar-
ence ii. Mackay, noted turfman, has
made nominations for the $4,000
stake.
The Brooklyn Nationals we're de-
feated, 2 to l, by the Washington
Americans in the first game at Wash.
ington of the spring interleague
series.
Eleven races for a total purse OF
$4,000 will comprise the program for
the annual grand circuit races at
Charter Oak Park, at Hartford, Conn,
Sept. A to 3.
Tom Jones, manager for Jess Will
lard, said that he had refused an Of
fer of $4,000 for the heavyweight
champion to box ten rounds with
Fred Fulton in Milwaukee.
GENERAL
Thirty were killed and forty wound
ed in a triple wreck on the New York
Central at Amherst, Ohio.
Exports of domestic merchandise
valued at $22O, ,246,021. shipped
through the port of New York during
February. established new record
in exports for a single month from
any American port.
1t is stated that the line of commu.
nications maintained by Sherman in
his march to the sea has been ex-
ceeded already in the line stretched
by the American troops southwark
into Mexico.
Americans were aboard seven ships
which met with disaster or were at
tackled by U-boats since Germany
started her new submarine campaign,
which was set for March /. but did
not assume serious proportions until
March Is.
1t became known at Pittsburg, Pa,
that a carload of ferro manganese, a
steel alloy, was sold recently to a
steel manufacturer on the basis Of
$1,000 ton, record price. Before
the war manganese was selling at
S3S ton.
r. w. Dickinson, who is said to
have numbered many famous actors
and actresses among his intimate
friends, died at Sioux Falls, S. d. He
had not worn hat for a quarter of
century. He affected the dress of
a Siberian peasant. He was student
of mystic cults and a worshiper of the
sun.