The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-28
FOREIGN


The French government officially
designated a commission for develop
ing the use of agricultural machinery
among the farmers of France.
The American fishing schooners
Richard w. Clark and Maryland have
been released. They will be per-
mitted to proceed to their destinations
with their catches.
Government agents claim to have
received additional confirmation of
Villas reported defeat of Gen Carlos
Ozuna's Carranza column at Palomas,
eighteen miles west of Chihuahua City.
According to the London newspa-
pers the Germans appear to have
forced the evacuation of Constanza by
cutting the trans-Dobrudja railway
sea coast.
Captain Boelke, the famous German
aviator, shot down two more aero
planes, bringing up the total to thirty
eight, the Berlin war office announced.
Twenty-Five allied airships were de-
All accounts in the Berlin papers
agree in calling the assassination OF
Premier Stuergkh of Austria the deed
of an irresponsible political fanatic,
If not neurasthenic, whose mind has
given way under the strain of war.
Germany is about to repatriate 1O,-
600 Italian civilians who are unfit for
military service and who hav. been
interned in Germany, according to
news dispatches from Rome. 1t is
said that the German authorities lack
the means of feeding these prisoners
and will send them home by way of
Chiasso.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says: Emperor William, in
a speech to the troops on the western
front after commemorating the dead,
said: But we who are living will
fight further until nobody will ever
dare again to assail the honor and lib
erty of the German people," The en-
peror, adds the dispatch, said he hoped
God would be with the Germans in
the fighting.
SPORTING NEWS
The new s25O,OoO gymnasium of the
Michigan Agricultural college is being
rushed to completion.
The mare Mabel Trask has won
more than 10000 in the harness events
of the season just closed
The University of Wyoming won
hni
year at Logan, Utah. defeating the
Utah Aggies, % to 10.
Young Ahearn, Brooklyn middle
weight, outpointed Len Rowlands, Mil
waukee, in ten-round no-decision con-
test at Milwaukee, by the exclusive
use of light left jab
Roam Hal, the 2:03A PAGER took in
straight heats the $1,000 2:O0-class
pacing race, the feature at Atlanta,
Ga, at the close of the Grand Circuit
meeting, from Hal Boy.
Battling Levinsky of Bridgeport,
Conn, claimed the light heavyweight
championship of America, after out
pointing Jack Dillon of Indianapolis
in a twelve-round bout at Boston.
Charley Whites reputation did not
suffer any in Pittsburg, Pa, for he
whipped Dick De Sanders to a frazzle
in a six-round bout before the Du-
quesne A. C. at the Moose temple.
w. II. Spencer of the Mound City
Rifle club, st. Louis, won first place
in field of 929 competitors and the
title of individual champion rifle shot
of the United States in the individual
rifle match of the national board for
promotion of rifle practice, at Jack.
sonville, Fla.
GENERAL
Nineteen are dead as the result of
the explosion in the Marvel, Ala, mine.
Woman suffrage was indorsed in res
olutions adopted at the Philadelphia
session of the thirteenth biennial con-
vention of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers union.
Harry X. Thaw is a campaigner.
The one-time frequenter of the white
Way" and slayer of Stanford White,
is out to beat Almet M. jerks for the
place of chief justice of the Court of
Appeals in New York.
James w. Gerard, American ambas-
sador to Germany, went to Shadow
Lawn to discuss with President Will
son what the ambassador character
lied later as "every phase Of the sit
uation involved in my work at Berlin"
A good roads committee of one hun
dred has been organized by the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce to
campaign actively for the s15,O0O,oOO
proposed state issue of bonds for
highways. to be voted on at the gen.
eral election, Nov. Z.
Vance C. Mccormick, chairman of
the Democratic national committee,