The Ordway new era., 1916-02-18

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At Panama three sharp earthquake
shocks occurred The whole city ana
the canal zone were shaken.
Fesrs that chihuahua city will be
alta ,ked by forces led by Francisco
Villa are general in that city.
The British steamship Elswick
Manor mas been beached off Var
mouth. Her crew was saved.
The dock laborers at Melbourne,
Australia, have refused to handle
flour for export until the local price
of bread is reduced.
A Bucharest dispatch TO the Milan
Secola says that in the explosion at
the Skoda armament factory in Boz
hemia, 1875 workmen perished.
An official statement issued at
Vienna declares that the reports thar
there has been an explosion in the
Skoda armament factory in Bohemia
are untrue.
Tho first snow OF the season fell
in Paris on the 10th. The snowfall
was general throughout northern
France and in all the trench country.
A Stockholm dispatch says that the
Swedish steamship Frisa, with coffee
and piece goods for Gothenburg, has
been seized by the Germans and taken
into Swinemunde
President Forras formally opeied
the Panama national exposition, which
had been postponed several times
owing to delay in the completion OF
the buildings and in obtaining eX-
hibits.
Gen. Sir Horace Lockwood Smith.
Dorrien has relinquished the com
mand of the British forces operating
in East Africa, owing to i'll health.
Gen. Jan Christian Smnts. the minis.
ter OF the interior, mines and defenses
of the unit of South Africa, has ac
cepted the vacancy.
SPORTING NEWS
Adolph Wolgast and frankie Burns
stepped off ten vicious rounds at Kan
sas City in nodecision battle.
Andre Anderson OF Chicago stopped
Bob Deyere of Kansas City in the
third round of ten-round match at
New York.
Charley White of Chicago decisively
outpointed Harvey Thorpe of Kansas
City in a ten-round. nodecision fight
at Kansas City.
Sam Langford knocked out Harry
Willis in the nineteentt round of a
bpY, 9,
New Orleans arena
Carl Morris of Sapulpa, Okla
knocked out Arthur Pelky of Canada
in the fifth round tonight of their
scheduled fifteen-round bout at Tul
sa, Okla.
Articles of agreement for the rich
est ten-round fight In history were
signed in New York wien negotiations
for the bout between Jess Willard and
Frank Moran were formally closed
Under the terms of the fight Willard
and Moran will meet March for
purse that will total $4,000 Willard
is guaranteed $4,000 rs his share OF
the fight and will receive $4,000
bonus for signing and 81. 800 training
expenses Moran will receive total
of s22,5O0. OF this amount $500 is
bonus for signing.
GENERAL
Col Theodore and Mrs. Roosevelt
sailed on the British steamship Gui.
ana for 4 pleasure trip through the
West Indies.
AT Sherman, Tex, the Rev II NJ
eagle died of wounds inflicted when
he was shot on the street by Mrs. An.
ME Faust Mr.. eagle died without
making any statement IT. regard to the
affair.
Hsns Schmidt, the former priest
convicted of the murder OF Anna Au
muller in New York in September,
1913, must pay the penalty of his
crime in the electric chair in Sing
Sing prison during the week OF Feb.
IL.
Col. William p. Hepburn, former
member of Congress, from the Eighth
Iowa district, died at CIarinda after
long Illness. Death resulted from kid
ney and heart trouble. Besides the
widow, a son and daughter survive
him
An announcement was made at
Long Beach, Cal, that Nathan
Strauss, philanthropist, and Mrs
Strauss had contributed $350,O0O to
the relief of the Jews in Poland since
they have been in southern Cali
fornia.
Hundreds of Iowans paid their last
tribute to Col w. P. Hepburn, former