Cheyenne record., 1916-02-03
FOREIGN

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The British labor congress passed
resolutions against conscription.
The British military service bill is
meeting with favor in the House OF
Lords.
The United States note to England
is strong protest against interfer-
ence with mails.
The British government has or.
dered formal investigation Of the
sinking of the Persia.
Ben B. Lindsey has left Holland for
Berlin to study the needs of children
in the belligerent countries.
Gen. Viktor Won Podbielski, former
postmaster general and a close friend
OF Emperor William. is dead in Bel lin
at the age of II years.
An apparatus which it is claimed
will prevent the destruction of ships
by torpedoes or mines has been in
vented by Frantz Poulsen, engineer at
Copenhagen.
1t is reported in vatican circles at
Rome that the condition of Emperor
Il AaASlo JOoCPh+~soA <AuoAkAo, WIZ Aoo
been Ill for several days, is rapidly
growing worse.
According to the Amsterdam Tag
lische Rundschau, DR.. Karl Helfferish,
secretary of the imperial treasury, has
prepared scheme for additional taxa
tion to yield $125,OO0,O0O.
Twenty-eight women, arrested on a
charge of selling liquor at Anchorage,
Alaska, principal construction camp
OF the government railroad, pleaded
guilty and were fined 800 each.
AS an instance of German thrift and
thoroughness, the Germans remove
the hides from dead army horses, says
the London Daily Mails Balkan cor
respondent, in describing trip from
Constantinople to Nish.
The electoral court at Athens has
seated in Parliament sixteen deputies
from northern Epirus- portion Of
southern Albania as far south as Ko-
rftsa, which was occupied by Greece
without authorization after the Lou
don conference.
Since the outbreak of the war to the
end Of last October, 254 British merch-
ant steamers, aggregating 542,64S tons
were lost through enemy action" ac-
cording to a white paper issued in
London. OF these III were sunk by
submarines; 46 by warships and 81 by
mines.
SPORTING NEWS
The tennis team of Leland Stanford
University will play the University Of
Colorado team in Boulder, Colo, in
May.
Jim Coffey of New York, knocked
out Lew Bodie of Montana in the fifth
round of ten-round exhibition bout
at Syracuse, N. Y.
Fred Fulton was awarded referees
decision in the scheduled twenty
round bout with "Porky' Flynn at
New Orleans arena.
Twenty-one thousand dollars for
three years work as Yale's football
coach will be the pay of Tad Jones,
according to the contract he has
agreed to sign.
Standing toe to toe with the Den
yer man and beating him at his own
game, Milburn Saylor won a newspa.
per verdict over Stanley Yoakum in
ten rounds at Kansas City.
Jimmy Dunn, a heavyweight boxer,
who won over Kid Cisneros in the
semi-windup to the recent Bob York
Young Jack johnson, is in the Pueblo
country, Colo, Jail in default of $500
bond on charge of bottlegging.
Denver court officials have been
anxiously waiting for James c. McGill,
Denver and Indianapolis baseball
owner, who was sued by Mr.. and Mrs.
John F. Coffey, each for 100000 for an
alleged assault upon Mrs. Coffey, to
file his pleading in the cases. His
answer was filed Monday.
GENERAL
Sixty-seven members of the Ford
peace expedition arrived in New York
on the Rotterdam.
The United States Steel corporation
declared a quarterly dividend of IL
per cent on it's common stock.
At Yuma, Ariz., Thursday, 900 In.
dians and scores of families wero
hOmeleSs aS result of. the flood