The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
FOREIGN

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.
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.
Danish sailing vessel that is 12s
years old but is still in sound condi-
ton, put into West Hartlepool to dis
charge cargo The vessel, named De
Tvende Brodre-"The Two Brothers"
was built in 1886.
The Monaghan insurgents have
crossed the great wall of China and
an advance guard of 1000 is be-
sieging the city of Da Tum Fa. says
dispatch from Mukden forwarded 70
Reuters from Petrograd.
The province of Kweichow, China.
is in full rebellion. The governor was
forced to flee on Jan. 16, and COM
munications have been interrupted. 1t
L
sing have been captured by the revo-
lutionists
Gen. Tomas Ornelas, commandant
at Juarez until he fled to Ell Paso to
escape death at the hands of Fran
cisco Villa, was taken from a Next
can Central passenger train at
Laguna, north of Chihuahua City, by
an armed squad and shot to death.
The japanese cruisers Chitose and
Tokiwa are en- route from Vladivostok
to San Francisco conveying a gold
shipment, half of which is destined
Russian credit in the United States,
according to mail advices from Toxic
to Honolulu.
The subscriptions to the Italian war
loan reached the sum of 1000, 900, 900
lire, although the lists have been open
tinue open until Feb. 10, but the gov
eminent has already received an
amount equal to what had been ex-
pected from the entire subscriptions
SPORTING NEWS
Louisiana, Philadelphia feather
weight, fought ten rounds to draw
at Kansas City with Benny Chavez of
Trinidad, Colo.
The Tijuana racetrack, near San
Diego, which has been washed away
by a flood, was opened last New Year
day and a To-day meeting was
planned
Twenty-one thousand dollars fol
three years work as Yale's football
coach will be the pay of Tad Jones
according to the contract he has
agreed to sign.
Playing a careful game and leaving
the balls safe for his opponent, Good
man defeated Pits in the three cushion
handicap billiard tournament in Den
yer by the score of SO to 80.
Jimmy Dunn, 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.
In two fast bouts at Milwaukee,
Billy Kramer, Milwaukee welter-
weight, outpointed Art Magril of
Oklahoma, while Benny Palmer,
Memphis lightweight, shaded Young
Otto Wallace, Milwaukee, in the opin.
ion of sporting writers.
Denver court officials have beer
anxiously waiting for James C. McGill
Denver and indianapolis baseball
owner, who was sued by Mr.. and Mrs
John F. Coffey, each for $4,000 for ar
alleged assault upon Mrs. Coffey, te
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.
James Trainor, whose restaurant
gave the name of "Tenderloin" to
that section of New York in the neigh
borhood of Broadway and West
Thirty-third street, is dead.
Attorneys for the White Star line
announced in New York that agree.
ments had been reached with more
than 200 claimants whereby about
100000 will be paid in claims arising
out of the Titanic disaster.
How she was kidnapped, stripped OF
her clothing and auctioned ON the
block in New York white slave
market for $55 was told by 1S-year
old Marie Klein, daughter of the Rev.
Charles Klein of Bethany Reformed
church, in New York, following her
rescue and the capture of Jimmy
Naples, her alleged kidnaper
Returns from the vote being taken
among the 100000 employees of the
SIS railroads in the United States,
which will be complete March 1, in
dictate that more than 80 per cent of
the men will demand an eight-hour
day and time and half for oyartip,,,