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Foreign

been sunk by an Austrian submarine
off Durazzo, says Vienna dispatch.
The British delegation to the Anglo
arrived In Paris to confer with French
senators and deputies.
Three Bulgarian officers and forty
soldiers have been killed or wounded
by the explosion of the chief ammuni-
tion store at Nish.
The parish church at BEAUFORT
near Quebec, was destroyed by fire
| The fire started In the sacristy The
loss is estimated at about $5O0,OOO
The American steamship China.
which left Shanghai for San Francis
CO was held up on the high seas by a
British auxiliary cruiser and thirty
eight Germans were taken off.
| Premier Aristide BRAND, who heads
Frances bachelors as Lord Kitchener
does England's. is soon to be married
in Paris to Mademoiselle Munier
daughter Of . multimillionaire French
ship owner.
The Philippine commission has
named H. P. Willis president of the
New Insular bank, the founding of
which, capital $10,000,000, was author
ized by the last Legislature. The
salary fixed for the position is $12.-
900.
At Manchester. England, Albert
Holt, managing director, and Diony
sius Cooper, secretary Of the firm OF
Messrs. w. A. Holt, cotton spinners
have been sentenced to prison for VIC
lation of the Trading With the En-
emy act.
The London proprietors of the week
ly journal Bystander were fined f1Oo.
the former editor, Vivian Carter, G so.
and Lieutenant Bernard, cartoonist,
$50, for publishing a cartoon de-
picting British soldier lying intoxi-
Gated beneath tree and clasping
bottle of rum.
mutiny of Hindu troops In Egypt
is reported by the Berlin Cologne
Volkes Zeitung as quoted by the
Overseas News Agency. 1t is said an
entire regiment mutinied, killing
twelve officers. including a major.
and that other Hindu troops went
over to the mutineers.
Sporting News
At New Orleans Joe Mandot OF New
Orleans was awarded a referees deci
sion over Johnny Dundee of New
York at the end Of twenty-round
boxing contest.
r. Lindley Murray of California
and A. II. Man. Jr., former Yale cap
tain, won places in the final round OF
the national indoor tennis champion
ship singles at New York.
Mrs. Virginia M Anson. wife OF
Adrian C. (Cap.) Anson, former man.
ager OF the Chicago National League
baseball club. died at her home in Chi
cago. She was Sc years old
Jack Dillon of indianapolis noored
Wick Hanson of Los Angeles six
Times in the third and fourth rounds
of their eight-round bout at Memphis,
Tenn. and won ar easy decision.
March is the date set for the hear
ing in Denver of the suits of Lorean
v. and John F. Coffey, who ask $780,
900 damages each for an attack they
allege was made last August on Mrs
Coffey by James C. McGill, Denve,
baseball magnate.
Charles Barrett, captain Of last
years Cornell varsity football team.
twice chosen q member of the all.
American team, and regarded as one
of the greatest players In Cornells
gridiron history, has been dropped
from the university because of poor
scholarship. according to a statement
made by Dean A. w. Smith of SibleY
College.
General
A slight earthshock was felt
throughout the Carolinas Georgia and
Tennessee early Monday evening
Hans Schmidt was electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y.
for the murder of Anna Aumuller.
Sept. 2. 1913.
Billy Sunday left Trenton, N. J., fol
Winona Lake, Ind, leaving behind him
nearly 1900 "trail-hitters" and tax
ing with him about s32,35S.OS.
Princeton University has been be-
queathed between $4,000 and $780,
coo by the will of Mrs. Marie An
tonette Fiske. who died recently In
Pasadena, Cal.
Leo Crane, Indian agent at Keams
Caiion. Ariz., was killed by Indians
according to unconfirmed reports re
ceived at Flagstaff Arig., from Gallup
N. NJ, and Holbrook. Arz.
The American Brass Company at
Ansonia, Conn, has declined to grant
the principal demands of its $500
striking employees after long confer.
ences between strikers committee
and comDany officials