The Colorado statesman., 1916-12-09
FOREIGN


| signed.
The new governor of Chihuahua,
Gen. Arnulfo Gonzales, was installed
Tuesday.
The government has granted the de-
mand of the Welsh miners for a Is
per cent increase in wages, says a
Cardiff dispatch.
A dispatch from Rome chronicles
the death of Sir Francesca Paolo Tos-
ii. the Anglicized Italian composer
and song writer.
Lloyds announces the sinking of the
Norwegian steamship Bosi 1,462 tons
gross, and the Draupner, 1,126 tons.
German submarines torpedoed them.
The passage of the home army bill
caused panic throughout Berlin
when it was realized that women
would be forced into the factories,
according to an Amsterdam dispatch.
Capt. ]. A. Hughes and eight pri-
Yates of the Thirty-first company and
two privates of the Thirty-second COM
pany of United States marines were
wounded in the fight Nov. 30 and 80
at Macoris, Dominican republic.
A wireless dispatch from 3erne
quotes Macmillan Harden in the Zu.
kunft as saying that Herr Won Jagow
left the German foreign office beco use
he disapproved of a submarine policy
which offended the United States.
Two Belgians who have arrived at
| Sluiskill, Holland, from Ghent report
that there was revolt in Antwerp on
Nov. 30, in which between two and
three hundred inhabitants and many
German soldiers are said to have been
killed.
| At a secret consistory, which was
attended by twenty-eight cardinals,
Pope Benedict announced the nomina-
tion of ten new cardinals, says a dis
patch to the Havas agency from
Rome. None of the cardinals are
Americans.
The Italian steamship Palermo, with
twenty-five Americans on board, has
been torpedoed off the Spanish coast,
One sailor, reported to be an Ameri.
can, was wounded by a shell and died
in a hopsital at Palafrugell, Spain,
where the survivors were landed
by the torpedo.
SPORTING NEWS
At Buenos Aires, Argentine Repub.
lie, the aviator Cattaneo fell while
looping the loop and was badly in
jured. His airplane was destroyed
At Colorado Springs, Thornton
Thomas, center of the Colorado Col
lege football team was chosen captain
of the Colorado College Tigers next
year
Though the basketball season in
Colorado colleges will not begin until
after the Christmas holidays, the car.
men of the School of Mines at Golden
are already out in practice, and are
expecting to build up a pennant-win
ming team.
Frank Calvin, noted speed demon,
lost his race at Uniontown, Pa. Death
overlook him in the last lap. Satur.
day Calvin suffered a fractured skull
when he catapulted from his car after
it had crashed into the press stand.
Monday he died.
Although prostrated by the shock OF
her husbands death at Uniontown,
Pa, speedway, Mrs. Hughie Hughes,
wife of the famous auto racer, at Los
Angeles declared she would lend all
assistance possible to secure legisla.
tion prohibiting auto racing.
Three members of the Colorado in.
fantry are in the base hospital at
Douglas, AriZ., as a result of football
game which was won by the Eleventh
infantry team, 40 to 0. The injured:
Private Harmon, broken collar bone !;
Private Cavanee, shoulder dislocated,
ligaments torn; Private Ivey, back
sprained, possible spinal injury.
GENERAL
George C. Boldt, proprietor of the
Waldorf-Astoria, died at New York.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard is seriously
i'll in New York. She was so i'll she
was unable to appear at the benefit
for the blind soldiers of France
Percival " Allen, serving term in
the King county, Washington, Jail for
unlawfully living with Miss Anna Dan
ielson of Iowa, who died in convul.
sions, July 15, in Aliens apartment in
Seattle, escaped with Harry Gardner,
said by the police to be nationally
known. as a pickpocket.
A noted figure in the worlds petrol.
cum industry was removed when John
Dustin Archbold, capitalist, president
of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, and officer or director in vari,
Gus other enterprises, died at his
home at Tarrytown, N. Y, after an ill
ness subsequent to an operation for
appendicitis.