The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-04-22
Foreign

duOpteu u OIL authorizing tne govern
ment to float an interior loan of
150,000,000 francs.
American packers reached agree
ment with England whereby latter
will regulate all meat shipments of
neutral countries.
According to reports received at
Alexandria, Egypt, 100000 persons in
Jerusalem are receiving daily rations
from the American relief fund.
A Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
says an imperial ukase has been is
sued providing for suspension of ses-
empire until May 20. .
The Panama canal was re-opened to
traffic with the passage OF sixteen
ships, seven northbound and nine
southbound, including the transport
Buford
The British government has set
tied with the American packers for
sum understood to be $15.000,000.
The totals cover shipments on fifty
vessels.
The foreign office of Chang Chow
Fu, Fukien, reports thirty-two sol
diers of the northern army and up
ward of forty civilians not belonging
in that locality have been killed by
mob.
President Estrada Cabrera of Guate-
mala denies reports that he has as
sisted Gen. Felix Diaz with money
and arms. He said reports OF moboli-
zation on Guatemalan territory were
false.
The Mexico City war office re-
ceived a dispatch in which further
details are given of the Parral affair.
1t was asserted an American army
officer admitted his culpability for
entering the town.
1t was force of Carranza's soldiers
who engaged the little detachment of
American cavalry at Parral on the
18th in a regularly organized action,
according to a detailed report written
by Maj. Frank Tompkins and for
warded to Gen. Funston by Gen. Per-
shing. Forty of the Mexican soldiers,
including one major and one civilian,
were killed by the retreating Ameri-
cans. The American casualties were
two killed and six wounded, including
Maj. Tompkins. His wound was
slight.
Sporting News
Jack Ketchel won the decision
over Rex. Morris in fast twenty
round bout staged in the Lyric Opera
house at Cripple Creek. Colo.
An eight-pound baby boy was born
to the wife of Jess Willard. cham
pion heavyweight of the world, at
Chicago. He is the tifth child.
Shirley Phillips, aged 16, was in
stantly killed when struck by a base
ball pitched by j. E. Slaughter in
game at Harding, near Elkins, w. Va.
A coroner's jury later exonerated
Adolph Wolgast, Michigan wildcat,
who made a fortune out of the boxing
game in the days when he held the
championship, and who still retains
the kale IL not the title, is slated to
box in Denver at the National Athletic
Club, April 2S. with Joe Flynn. the
wop. as his opponent.
Eddie O'Donnell, winner of the
road race at Corona, Cal, April s,
won the 150-mile motor race at Ascot
speedway at Los Angeles, his time
His time was 2:17:27 AS. Hughie
Hughes finished third. his time
2:1S:27
General
Announcement of a wage increase
affecting nearly 10000 cotton mill
operatives was made at Lowell, Mass
The body of Richard Harding Davis
who died at his home in Mount
Kisco, N. Y, was cremated in Phila-
delphia.
Speedier justice in the courts was
suggested as a remedy for mob vic.
lence by Charles M. Bishop. president
of Southwestern University. Texas,
speaking at New Orleans before the
Southern Sociological Congress.
How he planned with the aid of
eight men to escape from the Ray
mond street jail in Brooklyn on April
1 was described in New York to prs-
on officials by Ignatius T. T. Lincoln,
the confessed German spy.
The mystery of the disappearance
more than five years ago of Miss
Dorothy Arnold, members of a
New York family, may be
solved by the purported confession
Of Edward Glennorris. an inmate OF
the state prison at Scranton, r. l.,
giving details of her burial in the eel
lar of house outside West Point,
n Y.
Gen. Pershing reported to head
quarters at San Antonio that a motor
.ruck train carrying aeroplanes was