The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-11
FOREIGN


in an attack on Oct. 10-11. The poet
was also recommended a second time
for the silver medal for valor.
The sinking of British small cruis-
er off the Irish coast by a German
submarine has increased the total Brit
ish losses in battleships and cruisers
to 501,790 tons, says an Overseas News
Agency announcement at Berlin.
DR.. Fisher, an American physician
living at Santa Rosalia, was killed by
the Villa bandits under Gen. Baudelio
Uribe, according to the statement of a
Mexican refugee who arrived at Chi
huahua City from Santa Rosalia.
DR.. c. N. Bell, for the last thirty
years secretary of the Winnipeg Grain
Exchange, has resigned, and DIR. Ma
gill, chairman of the dominion grain
commission, has been offered the po
sition, it was announced at Montreal,
Canada.
DR.. Juan l.. Montalvo, assistant sec
retary of the interior, announced at
Havana that according to figures re-
ceived by him, the reelection of Pres.
ident Mario G. Manocal over his Lib.
eral opponent, DR.. Alfredo Zayas, was
assured.
The steamship Lanao, which was
sunk by submarine on Oct. 2S, was
under Philippine registry and was fly
ing the American flag when destroyed,
according to statements made at Car
diff by Capt. Henry Mainland, the only
American on board.
The Board of Trade figures for Oc-
tober show increases of G13,000,000 in
imports and G12,746,000 in exports,
The principal increase in imports were
food, &c 100000, and cotton, &c G3,000,O00
and the leading gains in exports were
in manufactured goods including cot
ton textile, 93,O00,0O0, and woolens,
E1,500000.
Announcement was made at Ottawa,
Can, by the Grand Trunk railway sys.
TEN that the award of the board of
conciliation granting an increase of
pay to the maintenance of way en-
ployes of the system in Canada had
men an increase of 25 cents a day and
foremen 20 cents. About 1900 en-
ployes are affected.
SPORTING NEWS
Pete (Kid) Herman of New Orleans
won from Knockout Eggers of New
York in twenty rounds at New Or
leans, La.
The Sterling High school football
eleven shut out the State Teachers
College of Greeley by score of 20 to
0, at Sterling.
Edward H. Marsh, friend of William
f.. Taft, was registered on the voting
lists at Sandusky, Ohio, with his occu
patton as "golf fiend."
Between S9,000,OO0 and $4,000, ,OOC
changed hands over the election, ii
York and in the larger cities are cor
rect.
Freddie Welsh, lightweight cham
pion boxer, has agreed to meet John
ny Kilbane, champion featherweight
in a fifteen-round bout for $4,000 In
Toledo, Ohio.
Bills for legalizing boxing in the
states of New Jersey and Delaware
will be introduced in those legislatures
when they assemble in January. A bill
for boxing commission also will be
introduced at Harrisburg when the
next Pennsylvania legislature meets.
Ben Hogan, former prize fighter
who once fought Tom Allen for the
heavyweight championship of America
and lost, left an estate valued at $5S,
900. Hogan, who died several days
ago, for years conducted a soup house
and lodging place for down and outs
on the West Side in Chicago.
GENERAL
Cecil Towery, slayer of Charles
Vaughn, oil man, was electrocuted in
the death chair at the state peniten
tiary at McAlester, Okla.
The Gulf coast region of east Texas
and the western part of Louisiana have
been afflicted with the worst scourge
of mosquitoes ever known.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, accompanied by his wife
arrived at New London, Conn, from
Washington to visit the undersea
freighter Deutschland, being loaded
for her return trip home.
Six and one-half tons of silver bull
lion from the mint at San francisco
were unloaded in New London, Conn.
at the railroad station by an express
company and transported to the Ger
man merchant submarine Deutschland
moored at the state pier, for shipment
across the ocean.
The lives of from thirty to forty
persons were lost when a crowded
passenger car of the Boston Elevated
Street Railway plunged through an
open drawbridge into Fort Point chan