The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-22
FOREIGN

FORElGN
The Prussian Parliament met on
Jan. 10.
Russia's offensive in East Galicia
has been checked.
Direct passenger service between
Berlin and Constantinople has been
inaugurated.
The conscription bill passed the
British House of Commons committee
without change. Several amendments
were suggested but none accepted.
All street traffic at Hamburg was
tied up by the unprecedented floods,
caused by a 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.
Sixty thousand revolutionary troops
have defeated the forces of Yuan Sni
Kai, head of the Chinese government,
in an action fought in the province of
SEE Chuen.
The cathedral at Sora was de.
stroyed by fire while services were in
progress throughout Italy commemo.
rating the earthquake at Avezzano
and Sora year ago.
In the face of Villas threat to OK
terminate Americans and foreigners,
four Americans, heavily armed, left
for the mountains north of La Junta,
Mexico, to rescue DR.. r. P. Kramer.
Late dispatches indicate that King
Constantine is tottering on his throne.
There is a disposition among the en-
tente powers to replace the monarchy
with republic headed by Venizelos.
The American members of the
Ford peace mission, except those as
ISOLATED with the permanent peace
board, sailed from Rotterdam aboard
the steamer Rotterdam for New YORK.
The corpse of Gen. Jose Rodriguez
Villas cavalry leader, was placed on
public exhibition Monday in the yard
of the Juarez custom house. The
gruesome show was meant to prove
that the Carranza government was
determined to punish the murderers
of Americans and other foreigners.
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 SC
Americans might verify the report OF
their execution.
SPORTING NEWS
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul knocked
out Young Ahern in the first round
Of their scheduled ten-round bout at
st. Paul, MINI.
w. H. Williams, star halfback of
last years School of Mines football
team at Golden, Colo, was elected
captain of the 1916 gridiron squad.
Dick Gilbert, the Denver heavy
weight, was matched to meet vic Han
son, the coast heavy, in ten-round
battle at Kansas City on the night of
January "a.
Fred Lewis of England was ready
to take on Packey Mcfarland for the
welterweight championship. as a re-
suit of his easy win at Milwaukee
over Kid Graves of Cleveland
Black men and white may here
after stage boxing bouts in New York
state. The athletic commission will
rescind the old rule against mixed
bouts because the attorney general
says it is unconstitutional.
James C. McGill, Denver and Indian
apolis baseball magnate, defendant in
suits filed in the District Court by
John F. Coffey, formerly manager CT
the Denver team, and his wife, Lorean
V. Coffey, who charge assault, must
defend the actions in the identical
courtroom in which he appeared ten
years ago when Estelle f. Del Poso,
beautiful Spanish girl, sued him for
$4,000 for breach of promise.
GENERAL
An earth temblor was felt at Ell
Centre, Cal, and at other points in
the Imperial valley. No damage re-
suited.
Blackmailing operations carried on
at the seaside summer resorts, net.
ting more than $250,00O were revealed
by two arrests in New York.
The Rainer club, the principal SO.
cial club in Seattle, Wash, was raided
by deputy sheriffs, who confiscated
400 quarts of whiskey, champagne,
gin and other intoxicants
A Fremont, Ohio, dispatch says F..
j. Calm of Rich township is perhaps
the biggest country schoolboy in Ohio
If not in the United States. He is 16
years of age and weighs 26O pounds.
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