The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15
FOREIGN

lHe ndtCH manufacturers OIL treat
Britain and Ireland have decided to
suspend sale and deliveries.
Germany and Rumania agreed on
mutual expectation and importation
of all home products except war ma
terials.
Three MeXicans weIe executed at
Juarez by a Carranzista firing squad
for conspiracy against the de facto
government.
Berlin reports Greece has refused
allies PERMISSION to move troops
through Greek territory from Corfu
to Saloniki because of cholera at
Corfu.
The British steamship Eastern
City of 4,342 tons gross is reported
to have been sunk According to in
formation received at Lloyd's the ves-
sci was not armed.
Five warships stationed at Canton
Joined the rebels April 6. The central
government has recalled the twelfth
division, 5000 troops of which arrived
at Shanghai from Peking.
Monsignor Ginisty, bishop of Yer
dun, is the latest arrival in Paris from
the shell-swept city, WHOSE cathedral
and bishops palace are now in the
center of smoking ruins.
From 10000 to $4,000 sovereigns
have been melted down in India ev-
cry day for the last eighteen months
for the purpose of making up for the
falling off in the imports of gold bull
lion.
An attempt was made at Annoy,
China, to assassinate the chief of the
military police. A bomb thrown
through a window of his residence
damaged the building badly, but no
one was injured. The assassins es.
capped.
Capt. Franz Won Papen, former
military attache of the German en-
bassy at Washington, whose recall
was requested by the United States
government last year, has been sent
from Berlin on secret service mis-
sion to Holland.
The German emperor is at Potsdam
recovering from nervous shock as the
result of the explosion OF a shell at
Verdun which destroyed the imperial
motor car and killed several officers,
says Rome dispatch, quoting Swiss
reports. Emperor William was un.
hurt, the dispatch adds.
The cheapness in which the Willis
tas hold human life was brought out
pointedly at Columbus, N NJ, by ].
II. Locke, an American of Minaca,
who escaped from that city the night
of March 2S, when Herman Blanken-
burg, a German, and Donald Nc
Gregor, an American, were killed by
the bandits. Locke described to Gen.
Pershing the utter reIklessness with
which these two were slain.
SPORTING NEWS
NJ S. Evans of Owensboro, KY, ac-
at the University of Colorado at Boul-
der, for the coming season.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, presi-
dent of the international Olympic
games committee, stated in Paris that
no Olympic games would be held dur
ing the present year or while the war
lasted.
The White Sox yannigans, with Joe
Benz whipping them aoross in great
shape, played championship ball at
Ottumwa, Ia, and held the Ottumwa
Club hitless. The seconds have won
their last fourteen games.
The suits of Mr.. and Mrs. John f.
Coffey for alleged assault on Mrs.
Coffey, against James G. McGill, have
been settled, for $1,000, and the re-
lease of the Denver baseball player,
who will join the San Francisco club.
new world record for the 220-
yard swim is credited to Herbert Il.
Vollmer of Columbia University and
the New York Athletic Club. He went
the distance in 2:23 20 at the A. A
U. meet at New York, shattering his
own former record of 2:24 As, made
in February. Perry McGillivray of
Chicago was second.
GENERAL
The executive committee of the
Progressive party of Virginia in
dorsed Theodore Roosevelt for presi-
dent.
About 100000 was realized at a
sale of the late j. p. Morgan's col
lection of tapestries, which have been
on view in the Metropolitan museum
in New York.
Two masked men held up and
robbed the passengers in the smok-
irnr Of lnf
Pacific passenger train No. Al as the
train was leaving Howe, Okla.
The Toledo, Ohio, street car strike
has ended. The men were given an
increase in wages of cents an hour,
but they will not be permitted to
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