The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-21
FOREIGN

America to aid the million and a half.
unhappy children of Belgium"
The Copenhagen Politiken says that
M. Hammarskjold, the Swedish pre-.
mier, will resign and that he will be
succeeded by X. A Wallenberg, min.
lister of foreign affairs
James Gilhooley, who has sat in the
British Parliament as a member for
the west division of Cork county, Ire
land, since 1885, died at Cork. He
was an Irish Nationalist, and was II
years old.
Adolfo de la Huerta, governor, and
Gen. p. Elias Gales, military COM
mander of Sonora, have consented to
the operation of all idle mining prop
critics in the state by an American
syndicate.
Medic Kerovic, one of the conspira-
tors in the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to
the Austrian throne, in 1914, died in a
military prison, says a report from
Sarayevo, Bosnia.
A bill regulating the admission in
70 Brazil of persons mutilated in the
European war is being pushed by
Deputy Gustavo Borroso. Barrcso
fears the country will be overrun by
crippled immigrants.
In the House of Commons at Lon
don, a debate arose over the food sit
uation, a number of the members COM
planning of the inadequate measures
of the government to control food
supplies and prevent an executive
rise in prices.
SPORTING NEWS
The marriage of Miss Doris Tiff
fany and jerome Dustan Travers of
upper Montclair, former amateur golf
champion, took place at Newburgh,
N. Y.
Officials of the Denver Athletic
Club announce that the annual anna
teur boxing tournament conducted by
the club will begin the week of
Jan. 20.
Denver University defeated the
University of Wyoming football
eleven at Laramie 10 to-10, after the
Wyoming Cowboys" seemed to have
won the contest
'Wop" Flynn of Denver put Kid
Mex of Pueblo dead to the world in
the fifteenth round of the fiercest bat
tie staged in Denver for several years
at the National Athletic Club.
With Lu Princeton a close second
and fighting hard, Azora Axworthy,
piloted by Murphy, took two CT the
three heats and first money in the
Devereaux 2:15 trot, which was the
feature of the grand circuit program
at Atlanta, Ga.
Each of the twenty-four players on
the Brooklyn National baseball team
who was entitled to share of the
worlds series receipts received
check for $2,715.40. The amount
divided among the players was $685.
1908. Wilbert Robinson, manager
of the Brooklyns, and Lew McCarty,
catcher for the New York Nationals,
who until recently was member Of
the Brooklyn team, were included in
the distribution.
GENERAL
Two negroes were lynched by a mob
at Paducah, KY, and their bodies
burned.
After lapse of several weeks. gold
imports from Canada were resumed
at New York, ]. p. Morgan & Co., de-
posting at the assay office $4,000, 900
received from Ottawa.
Five persons were killed and three
injured when train on the La Jolla
railway crashed into an automobile
stage from Los Angeles at a grade
crossing near La Jolla, Cal.
More than 100000 Greeks in the
United States have been invited to
join the Venizelos party in America
which was organized at meeting of
5000 natives of Greece in New York.
At no time since the mobilization of
the national guard has it been safe
to reduce the number of men on the
Mexican border, in the opinion of
Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, com
manding the southern department of
the army.
Cotton reached a new high level
in Mobile, Ala, when it sold for s17.12,
the highest in the history of the Mo-
bile Cotton exchange. The price is
IL points above the New Orleans
mark, which reached the highest point
since the civil war.
Seven persons were burned to death
and two others who are missing are
feared to have lost their lives in
fire which destroyed two factories in
the manufacturing sections of Queens
borough, N. Y, with a material loss
estimated at $250,000.
The House of Deputies of the gen.
eral convention of the Protestant Epis-
IL,