The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-12
FOREIGN

Fears that Chihuahua city will be
attacked by forces led by Francisco
Villa are general in that city.
A Bucharest dispatch to the Milan
Secola says that in the explosion at
the Skoda armament factory in Bo-
hemia, 1875 workmen persisted.
King Georges coronation gift to
Emperor Yoshihito is teautiful bay
horse which arrived a few days ago
at the imperial stables rom India.
According to advices received at
Panama, from La Paz, capital of Bo-
livia, section of the city about 1.600
yards long is sliding into the Cho-
queyahu river.
President Forras formally opeaed
the Panama national exposition, which
had been postponed several times
owing to delay in the completion of
hibits.
Col. Hipolito Villa, brother of Gen.
Francisco Villa, was arrested ut
Havana at the request of William E.
Gonzales, the American minister to
Cuba. Villa is charged with damaging
the railroad near Ell Paso
Sensational reports of the discovery
of new German plots were in circula-
ton as parliament prepared to as
semble at Ottawa, Ont, to discuss the
origin of the fire that destroyed the
Canadian parliament buildings
Viscount Bryce, former ambassador
to the United States, speaking at Bed
ford College, London, condemned the
policy of reprisals against Germany,
which, since the last Zeppelin raid,
has gained many advocates.
The government at Picking an
nounced that its troops had recap
tured Pingshan, northeast of Siu-F'u,
in the southern part of SzeChuen
province, and that a general attack
upon the rebels at Siu-Fu is immi-
nent.
CASTOR Plaintiff, financial manager
of the Ford peace expedition; Judge
Ben B. Lindsey of Denver the Rev.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones OF Chicago, and
Gov. l.. B. Hanna sailed from Rotter.
dam for New York on the Nieuw Am
sterdam.
SPORTING NEWS
Johnny Ertle, bantam champion,
signed to box Roy Moore at Mime
apolis March II.
Adoiph Wolgast and frankie Burns
stepped off ten vicious rounds at Kan
sas City in a no-decision battle.
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis out.
fought Battling Levinsky of New York
in ten-round bout in Brooklyn.
The Western Association of base
ball clubs will play lao games during
the coming season, opening April 20
and closing Labor day, Sept. A.
The management of the Philadel-
phia National league baseball club an
nounced that the club has secured
| Wilbur Good, outfielder, from the Chi
cago Nationals.
o. S. Golf, business agent of the Ar
kansas Valley Baseball league, is max
| ing a wholesale raid on the semi-pro
ball teams in Denver. He sent offers
to twelve players who have been pei.
| forming on the corner lots of Denver
the last few seasons.
1t is announced at Grand Junction
Colo, that Raymond Pagan, son OF
Master Mechanic j. L. Pagan, has been
| given berth with the Detroit Tigers
| for the 1916 season. Last season Fa
gan pitched for Oklahoma City and
won all thirteen of tho games he
| pitched.
GENERAL
Henry Ford, the Detroit manufac
turer who sent a peace ship to
Europe, has a new peace plan.
Formal announcement was made in
st. Louis of the engagement of Miss
Clara Busch, granddaughter of the
late Adolphus Busch, and Percy Orth
vein, an artist
At Sherman, Tex, the Rev. H NJ
| eagle died of wounds inflicted when
he was shot on the street by Mrs. An
ME Faust. Mr.. eagle died without
making any statement in regard to the
affair.
A thousand men battled with an oil
fire on the Stevenson tract at Hum
BILE, Tex. The loss soon after the
blaze started was estimated at $50 900
A driller named Hancock and a helper
named Watt were severely burned.
Col. William p. Hepburn, former
member of Congress, from the Eighth
Iowa district, died at Clarinda after n
long illness. Death resulted from kid
ney and heart trouble. Besides the
widow, son and daughter survive
him.
Labor leaders in New York say that
a. movement is under way to bring
about concerted action of members of
the four great unions of railway en-