The Colorado statesman., 1916-03-18
FOREIGN

giving him trouble.
At Nice. France, the death of J..
Davignon, former Belgian minister
for foreign affairs, Is announced.
The London Opera House, which
was built by Oscar Hammerstein in
1911, has been purchased by vaude-
vile syndicate.
Premier Asquith is i'll, it was an
nounced in bulletin issued at his Of
flee in London, stating he is suffer
ing from bronchial catarrh.
Four German submarines are re-
ported to be in the English channel,
prepared to enforce rigidly Germany's
recently announced policy of naval
warfare.
A great avalanche has interrupted
traffic on the railway between Cuneo
and Tenda which, next to Mont GEMS,
furnishes the best Alpine communi-
cation with France.
An Athens dispatch to the Geneva
Berne Bund says the Zeppelin raid
over Greek territory near Soloniki sew
eral weeks ago caused damage esti-
mated at nearly s1,25o,0Oo.
]. B. Osborne, American consul at
Havre, in his report to Washington
on the sinking of the Norwegian bark
Silius, is understood to bring out
clearly that the Silius was torpedoed
by a submarine.
By a vote of slightly more than
two to one, Manitoba approved the
provincial temperance act, which
closes all bars, wholesale liquor
houses and licensed clubs in the
province after May 81, next.
The marriage of Prince Joachim,
the fifth son of Emperor william, and
Princess Marie Augustine, daughter
of Prince Edward of Anhalt, was
celebrated in the royal castle at
Bellevue, according to a dispatch
from Berlin.
Figures published in London show
that the total consumption of alco-
holic liquors in 1915 in the United
Kingdom was 92 per cent of that of
the previous year, while expenditure
for this year increased 10h per cent,
*
($910,000,000).
SPORTING NEWS
Sir Thomas Upton, in letter to
the Essex Yacht Club, says he hopes
to compete next year for the Ameri-
can cup.
Johnny Ertle of st. Paul, claimant
of the bantam "eisht championship,
outfought young Zulu Kid of Brook
lyn in a ten-round bout in New York.
Women golfers of Denver and Pu-
eblo met with Colorado Springs wo-
men players and formed a state as
sociation. A state tournament is
planned.
Three were tied for first place IN
the worlds pocket billiard champion
ship tournament at Chicago. Ralph
Greenleaf, 16-year-old boy of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, climbed back to a first no.
sition through his win over Chap
man of Chicago, 100 to 2S. Blanken-
ship of Detroit and Taberski of New
Jersey are tied with Greenleaf.
GENERAL
An unpledged delegation to the Re
publican national convention at Chi.
cago was chosen at the first presi-
dental primaries ever held in New
Hampshire.
Allan l.. Benson of Yonkers, N. Y,
has been chosen candidate for presi.
den. of the Socialist party by a ref.
erendum vote. George II. Kirkpatrick
of New York was nominated for vice
president
Word was received in New York
that Col. Roosevelt left Port of Spain,
Trinidad, Wednesday to return from
his West Indian tour, and that he
Will arrive in New York, Saturday,
March rs.
That reward of 10000 pesos for
the body of Francisco Villa had been
standing for tho last sixty days in
Carranza consulates was disclosed
through letters to an Albuquerque,
N. NJ, Carranza official.
Early returns from Minnesota's s
first presidential preference primary
strengthened indications that Albert
B. Cummins, United States Senator
from Iowa, led Henry d. Estabrook
of New York by a wide margin for
the Republican nomination.
A report that Juan Bilboa, an Amer.
lean cattleman of El Paso, was held
for $1,000 ransom in northern Mex.
leo. was received at El Paso, Tex.
Business associates of Bilboa have
gone to the Big Bend country in
Texas, about 200 miles east to inves.
tigate. The place of the alleged kid.
naping was a few miles across the
Mexican border from the Big Bend
section.
The 2-year old son of Mrs Maude
Hawk Wright, who was given to a
Mexican family when Wright was