The Ordway new era., 1916-11-03
FOREIGN

land has been sunk.
The threatened strike of conductors
and trainmen Of the Canadian Pacific
railway has been called off.
The American fishing schooner
Richard w. Clarke has been captured
in the waters around Iceland and
taken to Grimsby.
German aeroplanes on the Somme
front made more than 500 raids on
the AngloFrench positions Oct. %,
says the Overseas News Agency.
Government agents claim to have
received additional confirmation of
Villas reported defeat OF Gen. Carlos
OZuna's CarranZa column at Palomas,
eighteen miles west of Chihuahua City.
At Farnum, Quebec, nineteen per-
sons-five children, eight women and
six men-were believed TO have lost
their lives in the fire which destroyed
St. Elizabeth hospital. There were
2lS persons in the hospital.
The funeral of Count Karl Sturgkh,
late Austrian premier, was held in the
cathedral of St. Stephens ut Vienna.
Archbishop Piffl officiated. Emperor
Francis Joseph was represented by
Archduke Leopold Salvador. The body
was taken to Halbenrain, the pre-
mier's former home. for burial in the
family tomb
Pope Benedict has decided to hold
secret consstory Dec. 4, and pub
lie consistory Dec. 7, at which he will
create new cardinals. The red hat
will be conferred on Mgr. Count Raf-
faele Scapinelli. former papal nuncio
at Vienna. and Mgr. Fruewerth, form
er nuncio at Munich. Monsignor
Fruewerth will be replaced at Munich
by Mgr. Aversa. papal nuncio at
HraTil, who is now on his way to
Rome.
An ore train was burned. railroad
bridges were destroyed and the track
of the Mexican Central railroad cut
! by bandits near Ortiz, about forty
miles south of Chihuahua City. an
American who arrived at Ell Paso,
| Tex. from Chihuahua City reported.
! He said traffic had been suspended
between Chihuahua City and Torreon
on the railroad. The American also
| brought n report to the border that
| Villas troops were planning to attack
| Parral, Jiminez. Santa Rosaia and
| Torreon soon, as well as Chihuahua
| City.
SPORTING NEWS
| The mare Mabel Trask has won
| more than $4,000 in the harness events
of the season just closed.
| Alexander Brown, widely known
| polo player of Philadelphia, fell from
his hydro-aeroplane into the Delaware
river at Essington, and was drowned.
! The Chicago Americans will condi-
| ton themselves for next seasons work
| by practicing with minor league
teams, according to an announcer ent
| at Chicago.
| Young Ahearn, Brooklyn middle
weight, outpointed Len Rowlands, Mil
| waukee, in a ten-round no decision con-
| test at Milwaukee, by the exclusive
use of light left jab.
! Chick" Evans of Chicago, national
! open and amateur golf champion, and
| Martin J. Condor of Memphis We're
I defeated, ! up, by Ned Sawyer of Chi
/ cago and ]. p. Burlington, a Memphis,
( player, in an eighteen-hole exhibition
foursome at the Memphis, Tenn.
! Country Club.
! Johnny Dunn of San Francisco, l4O
/ pounds, and Kid NARROW of St. Louis,
about the same weight, who fought a
| fast 15-round draw at Victor, Colo,
Oct. IA before the Elks' Athletic club.
have been matched to go over the
twenty-round route at the Victor
| Opera house Nov. 10.
fight in which players on both
sides and more than hundred spec
tators participated broke up the Tu-
Mississippi college game at
Jackson, Miss. shortly after the fourth
period had started. The game was
called as soon as the police could
restore quiet and the official score
keeper declared Tulane the victor 10
| to g.
GENERAL
| At Toledo, Ohio, flour went to Sl1 a
| barrel on Friday.
Col Theodore Roosevelt celebrated
his fifty-eighth birthday by making
| three speeches.
James w. Gerard, American ambas
| sador to Germany, went to Shadow
Lawn to discuss with President Will
son what the ambassador character
| lied later as every phase of the sit.
uation involved in my work at Berlin
Clyde Ingram, college student,
| was shot and seriously wounded in
crowded court room at Aberdeen,
Miss, by G. G. Miller. father of Miss
Mary Miller, young school teacher,
| in connection with whose death In