Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-14
FOREIGN

and from Great Britain will be CEN
sored hereafter. 1t was officially an
nounced in London.
The Bulgarian government has ar
rested the French vice consul ut Sofia
In retaliation for the arrest of the
Bulgarian consul at Saloniki.
An Athens dispatch to the London
Times says that Italy has promised
Greece that her forces shall not ad-
vance beyond the frontier Of North
ern Epirus.
Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm.
the House of Commons passed the
first reading OF the government bill
for compulsory military service by the
decisive vote OF 400 to 105.
One hundred armed men attacked
and looted the Chinese custom house
on the boundary of Kowloon. The
marauders posted proclamations des-
cribing themselves as revolutionaries
The marriage of Prince Joachim.
sixth son OF the Kaiser, has been set
| for the end of February. it was an
nounced in Berlin. 1t will be purely
| n war ceremony with only immediate
relatives present.
The Chinese minister of agriculture
| and commerce, Chow Tzu-Chi, will
| leave Jan. 10 for Toxic as special en-.
voy of President Yuan Shi Kai to con-
fer the highest Chinese order upon the
japanese emperor.
The arrival of Gen. Jacinto Trevino
at Juarez from Chihuahua City to as
sumo military jurisdiction on the
border from Brownsville, Tex, to
Hachita, n. NJ, under the new title Of
commander of the northeastern corps
of the Mexican army. was the main
development of the Mexican situation.
The sinking of the White Star liner
Arabic. the destruction OF a British
submarine by German destroyer on
| the Danish coast and the submarine
attack on the British steamer Ruel
are the three incidents that Sir Ed
ward Grey, the British foreign secre-
| tary, suggests for submission to some
impartial tribunal for investigation to-
gether with the case of the cruiser
Baralong.
SPORTING NEWS
Chas. P. Taft has sold the Chicago
Cubs to Chas. Weeghman for 100000.
Stanley Yoakum OF Denver took five
rounds and the popular verdict in his
ten-round bout with Bobby Waugh at
Fort Worth, Tex.
President Chiving:on of the Amcri.
can Association issued call for the
| associations annual meeting to be
held at Chicago Jan. Is.
| Senator Kenyon introduced bill in
the Senate to prohibit telephone or
| telegraph transmission of racing in.
| formation.
Frank Moran of Pittsburg knocked
out Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant, in
the ninth round of their ten-round
match at Madison Square Garden In
New York.
Unable TO properly train their
horses owing to the numbe. OF
Jockeys who have Joined the army,
! chiefly in the army veterinary corps.
some English race horse owners are
crying aloud for the stewards of the
Jockey Club to permit them to en-
| ploy women riders.
! Tho sale of the Lincoln Western
League baseball Club and franchise
| by Hugh l.. Jones to the Lincoln
Baseball and Amusement Company, a
stock company. was completed with
the signing Of the contracts by the di.
| rectors of the new concern and Mr..
Jones. The sale price of the club was
announced at sl2,500.
GENERAL
| Arch Eckersall. his wife and four
children, were burned to death In a
fire which destroyed their home at
Salmon. Idaho.
Announcement that Col Theodore
! Roosevelt will start on Feb. l5 on a
trip to the West Indies, from which
he will not return until April !, was
made In New York.
Trapped in a burning trolley car
which caught fire after it left the
gers were injured at Wilmette. q
North shore suburb of Chicago.
Petition for an Injunction against
the enforcement of the new state pro
hibition law was denied in the Unit
ed States District Court at Tacoma
Wash, by three judges sitting zen
banc."
A declaration that the shortage Of
food in Germany has reached criti
cal stage was made in New York b.
Dr. Edmund Won Mach, chairman OF
the citizens committee on food ship
ments.
The work of floating the tank
steamer Aztec, which sank in Erie
basin after an explosion as a result OF
which two men are known TO be dead