The Ordway new era., 1916-03-24
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Pope Benedict at Rome gave
private audience to NJ. p. Pachitch,
the Serbian premier
The interests of Austria in Portd'
gal have been confided to the Spanish
minister at Lisbon.
At Guatemala City the national as
sembly unanimously ratified the re-
election of Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
president,
The London Opera House, which
was built by Oscar Hammerstein in
1911, has been purchased by a vaude-
vile syndicate.
Three British airmen. Lieutenants
Johnstone, Beaumont and Laidlaw.
were killed at London in accidents
while on experimental flights.
Premier Asquith is i'll. it was an
nounced in bulletin issued at his OF
flee in London, stating he is suffer
ing from bronchial catarrh.
Gen. Joseph Simeon Gallieni, min
lister of war, has resigned because OF
i'll health, and Gen, Charles Rogue has
been appointed to succeed him.
AT Liverpool, the Irisn Nationalists,
celebrating the eve of st. Patrick's
day under the chairmarship of T. p.
O'COnnor, pledged allegiance TO the
allies
The remolding OF the system OF the
government OF the British empire
after the war was predicted by Her
., Hn
affairs, at dinner giver in honor OF
the Australian premier. William Nor
ris Hughes in London.
Ten thousand civilians, including
government employees and school
teachers, paraded Mexico City, carry
ing the national colors and banners
bearing the inscription: Homage to
Venustiano Carranza, the savior of
his country's honor"
With the object of securing arms
and ammunition, force of rebels re
Gently raided Shuntak i'll Kwangtuny
province, twenty miles south of Can
ton, China. They secured quantity
of these munitions and escaped after
fight with government forces in
which the casualties on each side
were estimated at 300.
SPORTING NEWS
The Pan-Hellenic Olympian games
have been cancelled owing to the
mobilization of the Greek army.
Fankie Murphy, the East Side light
weight, outponted Jack Gills, the
Frisco battler, in Is rounds at the
National Athletic Club in Denver.
Fred Fulton, the Rochester, Mimi,
heavyweight boxer knocked out Fire
man Flynn of Pueblo in the second
round OF 10-round contest at Mil
waukee, Wis.
At Madison Square Garden. where
the Willard-Moran bout is TO take
| place on the 25th it was stated that
the advance sale of tickets for the
| contest now amounts to more than
100000.
Than Laugford, the Boston Tar
| Baby, who is rounding out his fiji.
| teenth year in the prize ring, is
headed toward Denver again The of.
ficial forecaster announced that the
dark cloud on the fighting horizon
would arrive shortly after March "A.
or in time for public exhibition
March 81
GENERAL
a check for $iG,53S,l III, one OF the
largest ever paid in the United States,
passed through the New York clear.
ing house.
Robert E. Rigby, assistant cashier
of the Wabash Railroad at St. Louis,
confessed to shortage of $4,000. He
was arrested
The estate of Henry Gassaway
Davis, of West Virginia, is estimated
at $l0,0O0,0O0 and the bulk goes to
three children.
The funeral of Henry Gassaway
Davis, former United States senator
who died at his home in Washington,
was held at Elkins, w. Va.
1t was learned at Columbus. n. NJ,
that the shot which killed Colonel
Lopez, Villas first chief during the
raid, was fired by an American
trooper at 1900 yards. Lopez fell at
the first shot
That reward of 10000 pesos for
the body of Francisco Villa had been
standing for the last sixty days in
Carranza consulates was disclosed
through letters to an Albuquerque.
N. NJ, Carranza official.
Brigadier General Pershings dis.
patches to the southern department
headquarters confirm reports tba.
Mormon colonists from Colonia Dub
Ian and Colonia Morales are acting
as scouts for the expedition.
Thomas Mott Osborne, prison re-.
former, Harvard graduate and former
warden of Sing Sing, was acquitted
OF the charge of perjury by direction