Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-31
FOREIGN

An unsuccessful attempt 10 aSSaSSl-
nate Premier Radoslavoff of Bulgaria
is reported from Rome.
Sir Charles Wyndham, actor-man
ager, married Miss Mary Moore. lead
ing lady in his company, at London.
Between March / and March IS
nineteen hostile ships of the entente
allies. aggregating 10000 tons, have
been sunk.
The Liberal National convention
nominated for president and vice pres
ident respectively Alfredo Zayas and
Carlos Mendieta.
Sim Fein rioters fired on the po-
lice. Three of the police were
wounded The rioting occurred at
Tullamore, Kings county, Ireland.
The steamer Englishman of the Do
minion line has been sunk, accord
ing to Lloyd's. 1t Is stated that sixty
eight survivors have been accounted
for.
The Dublin military and police
seized copies of five Irish publica-
tions and in some cases dismantled
the printing machinery. This action
was taken on the ground of disloy-
atty.
Great Britain's annual income has
increased by eGGO.0OO,0OO since the
beginning of the war, declared Sir
George Paish, the financial authority.
in lecture on war finance before the
Royal Statistical Society; and the to.
tai now has reached $4,000, 100000.
Mrs. Susanna Houghton, British
subject living at chihuahua, who ar.
rived at Juarez on a Mexican Central
train, says that it had been reported
throughout Chihuahua that Francisco
Villas object in attacking Columbus,
N. M, was to avense the death OF
Mexicans in the recent fire in the FL
Paso jail with loss of twenty-five
lives.
A dispatch from Douglas, Ariz.,
Friday. stated Gen. p. Elias Gales,
military governor OF Sonora, received
a telegram from Gen. EnriqueZ, mill
tary governor of Chihuahua, stating
five columns of Carranza troops were
closing in on Villa and his bandits
near Namiquipa, and that, with the
aid OF the American it was believed
Villa would not be able to escape.
SPORTING NEWS
Charles II. Brady. captain of Key
stone No. ] of Toledo, Ohio, rolled a
perfect score. His three-game total
was S2i, with game scores of 800. 245
and 2T9.
Forest Duffy and Frank Bishop,
well known Denver ball players,
signed contracts TO play with the
Crested Butte. Colo, Club this sea,
son. The pair will report May /.
The Hall anti-gambling bill, which.
II passed by both Houses OF the Leg.
islature, will close every mile race
track in Maryland. was passed to its
third reading in the House of dele,
gates at Annapolis.
In bad spill at the Oaklawn track
at Hot Springs, Ark. Jockey Roy
Gourley received injuries which prob
ably will cause his death. Jockey
O'Gentry was hurt internally and
Jockey Van Dusen sustained
broken collar bone.
GENERAL
Within a few hours after his mar.
riage at Deming, II. NJ, Howard p.
Burns, private, troop c, Thirteenth
cavalry, started south into Mexico, to
join in the hunt for Francisco villa.
A rush appropriation of SS,SO7,O9
to cover the extraordinary expendi
lures of the expedition into Mexico.
including the increase of the army to
its full strength, was asked of Con
gress by the War Department.
Juan T. Burns, consul general Iii
New York for the defacto government
in Mexico, said that he had received
word that Gen. Canuto Reyes. Villa
chieftain, has asked for amesty for
himself and several hundred men,
and had expressed willingness to sur
render to Gen. Trevino.
The highest price ever paid for
lambs at the National stockyards in
East st. Louis, ILL.,, was recorded
when 500 lambs sold for s11.7O Il
hundred pounds. The lambs were
shipped from Windsor. Colo, and
were put in feed yards before being
placed on the market The average
weight was eighty pounds
OF the troops on their way to the
border. all but one battalion will be
sent into Mexico, increasing Gen.
Pershing's force by about 1000 men.
One battalion of the Twenty-fourth in
fantry-a negro regiment-which is
at its full war strength and which
recently returned from the Philip
pines, will be held at the border on
patrol duty.
The Missouri Democratic state con.
vention at st. Joseph, elected Sena-
tors William ]. Stone and James A.
Reed, Champ Clark of the House of