Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-03-10
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the tariff.
The Danish explorer, Knud Rasmus-
sen, has completed plans for a new
expedition in North Greenland.
The sinking Of the hospital ship
Marechiaro near San Giovanni hi
Medua, Albania, is reported in a dis
patch from Rome.
Il is reported that both villa and
Zapata have accepted amnesty from
Diaz, and offered to end their careers
as outlaws to fight under his banner.
A Bucharest dispatch received by
Reuters Telegram Company by way
of Amsterdam says that the queen
mother, Elizabeth Of Rumania (Car-
men SYLVIA is dead.
More than 1000 are believed TO
have been lost in the sinking of the
French auxiliary cruiser Province,
formerly In service as a transatlantic
liner, in the middle Mediterranean &C
cording to a Paris report.
The story of the three French
sappers who we're buried alive for
hours during the battle of Verdun
and who finally dug their way out to
safety, is told in detail by one of them
who arrived in Paris on a hospital
train.
The naval prize fund derived from
the sale of %contraband goods seized
by the British navy and condemned by
prize courts now amounts to over
$3O,000,0OO This fund will be distrib
uted among all men of the navy, after
the war.
The A~nglo-French answer to the
protest Of the United States regard
ing the seizure of mails in transit be-
tween America and Europe will be
delivered in the immediate future, &C.
oOrding to official announcement
from London.
That the liner Maloja, sunk off
Dover with a loss of more than $50
lives, was t~orpedoed and did not
strike a mine, was the sensational
testimony offered at the coroner's in.
quest by Chief Officer Forbes al
Dover, England.
Mrs. Viereck, mother of the editor
of the Fatherland, a New York pro-
German publication, was stripped and
searched by British authorities at
Falmouth and also at the Downs when
the Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam
stopped at those ports according to
reports from The Hague.
An Ell Paso dispatch says: Car
ranza's power in Mexico is tottering,
as Felix Diaz, with a constantly In.
creasing force, is sweeping through
the state of Vera Cruz. Carranza
forces opposing Diaz have been
forced to retreat with heavy losses.
Many of the troops sent to check
the advance of Diaz have gone owe
to his standard. Meanwhile Carranza,
by wholesale executions, is attempt.
ing to terrorize the populace into sub
mission to his government. Recently,
after the capture Of Ell Orc, Carranzq
troops executed 200 Zapata soldiers.
SPORTING NEWS
Ever Hammer defeated Joe Willing
at KenOsha, Wis, In a tame ten-rounC
bout.
Another player has been added e
the list of 1916 Grizzlies who have
signed contracts. He is Johnny Kelle
her of shortstOp fame.
Edmund Many Deeds, an Indian re
siding near Little Oak Creek, s.. D
will be given a tryout with the Sioux
City baseball club of the Western
League.
Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist
and his wife left London for Corunna
Spain. Johnson was ordered t leav,
England. 1t was stated at the tim,
that he would sail for South America
Word was received in Denver from
Japan to the effect that the cracl
University Of Waseda baseball nine
will not leave Toxic for its our d
the United States until March %.
GENERAL
Henry Ford said at Detroit thai
he was not to- be seriously con
sidered as a Republican candidate fol
the presidency.
General Felix Diaz has won tn,
first skirmish with the forces of Pro
visional President Carranza in tn.
state of Vera Cruz, according to in
formation in a code message which
reached the staff and family of Gen
eral Diaz at New Orleans.
Noah Lundy, a farmer living nea
Areoia, Ill, is mourning the loss o
$3.50 in crisp United States cur
rency. Lundy had secreted the bill
in a mail order company's catalog
and while away from home his wife
while cleaning house, burned tn
book along with other waste papers
In keynote speech and platform
Democrats of New York state, assem-
bled in informal convention at syria
cuse, ratified the administration o
President WilsOn and tOOlr etana d,