Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-28
FOREIGN

Juarez.
| 1t was stated Friday that eighteen
Villista bandits. who participated IN
the massacre of Americans, had been
executed at Chihuahua City.
| All street traffic at Hamburg was
tied up by the unprecedented floods,
caused by storm blowing water
from the sea back up the Elbe river.
At Guatemala City. Manuel Estrada
was declared reelected president of
the republic for the term beginning
March. 1917, and running for six
years.
| The coronation of Yuan Shi Kai as
Emperor of China has been postponed
indefinitely. The reason given Of
ficially is the uprising in southern
China.
The cathedral at Sora was de-
stroyed by fire while services were in
progress throughout Italy commemo-
and Sora year ago.
Seven lives are known to have been
lost and many persons are missing as
the result of general storm of unpre-
cedented violence that for a week has
been sweeping the Hawaiian islands.
An Anglo. French corporation with a
capital of 4SO,000,000 leu (about $780,
000,00O) has been formed to buy up
all available grain, SO that the cell
trail powers will be unable TO import
needed supplies.
| A committee to regulate the cost of
living at Juarez, Mex, by the fixing
of prices and profits was appointed
by Gen. Gabriel Gavira, Carranza
commandant, who also announced
that the bodies of Rodriguez and
Rivas. Villa chiefs, shot after the
force of Rodriguez had been defeated
at Pearson, would reach the border so
Americans might verify the report OF
their execution.
SPORTING NEWS
The baseball season will open April
22nd.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul knocked
out Young Ahern in the first round
of their scheduled ten-round bout at
st. Paul, MINI.
Jess Willard began preparation to
go to Excelsior Springs to train for
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next April in New York.
| Formal transfer of the Chicago Ma
tional League Baseball Club from
Charles p. Taft of Cincinnati to
Charles ii. Weeghman of Chicago was
completed in Chicago with the pre-
sentation of certified check for
100000, the purchase price, by Mr..
Weeghman to Charles Schmalstig,
personal representative of Mr.. Taft.
Tex Rickard and Samuel McCrack.
en-, who made the original offer of S45.
900 for a ten-round bout in New York
between Jess Willard and Frank Mo
ran, increased that offer to $i9. 500.
They have come to an agreement with
Moran by which the Pittsburg mans
end of the purse will be $4,000 instead
1 of $500, and have wired to Willard
and his manager that they will give
the world champion $32 500, the orig
inal offer having been $4,000.
| Miss Loula Long of Kansas City,
horsewoman of renown, whose sterling
champions of the tanbark have tri
umphed in Denver. st. Louis, Chicago
and New York time and time again
over the greatest stables of the coun.
try, met her match at the stockyards
stadium in Denver as Miss Katherine
Williams, tiny Denver girl. who
drove the blue-blooded equines of John
l.. Bushnell OF Ohio, snatched the
coveted ribbons frcm the reach of the
Kansas City woman.
GENERAL
Strikers in the Arizona mines have
made an offer to return to work.
Oscar Hammerstein. former grand
opera impresario, was adjudged a
bankrupt at New York
Governor Whitman at Albany, n. Y,
dismissed John B. Riley as state gu
perintendent of prisons.
Blackmailing operations carried on
at the seaside summer resorts, net
ting more than s25O.000 We're revealed
by two arrests in New York.
Enrique Perez Rul, secretary to
cen. Francisco Villa, escaping through
the lines of the Carranza government,
was in Ell Paso and renounced further
revolutionary activities in Mexico.
]. A. Melee & Sons, tunnel con-
tractors of Denver. have been award
ed s750,000 verdict against Foley
Brothers, contractors representing the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, by juds-
ment of the Privy Council of Eng
land.
Madame L. Lanel, wife of the
French minister to Brazil, who died
in Rio Janeiro, was Miss Amy Mckee,
the daughter of Mrs. Sam Bell Nc,
Kee of Oakland, Cal. She is survived
by her husband. mother, a brother
and two sisters.