Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-10-26
FOREIGN

was sounded in the chamber OF depu-
ties.
Chile is gratified with course Of Peru
in breaking off relations with Ger
many.
Samuel Skinner, Harvard graduate,
was killed while flying on French bat
tie front.
Reports received that British steam
ships Memphian and the BostoniaE
have been sunk.
England undertakes to reduce wheat
consumption there to less than half
Of pre-war consumption.
American minister to Rumania
makes many visits to Russian uont
%exhorting Russians to fight.
Canadian milk dealers decide to pc.
tition government to stop expectation
Of milk and cream to the United
States.
Gen. Gurko, former commander on
the Russian northwestern front, has
arrived in England with his wife on
board a British steamship.
For the first time in t%wenty-four
days some trains were running in Ar
gentlna, marking the governments
successful step in combating the gem
eral strike.
The 3,000-ton Danish steamship Vir-
ginia, from a port of the United
States for Montevideo, arrived at st.
Thomas, Virgin Islands, with her car
go afire.
British airmen in their recent at
tack on the Belgian town Of Roulers
caused the destruction of an arsenal
in which was quartered a newly ar
rived German regiment.
Two German torpedoboats we're
sunk and two damaged, and one Rus
sian torpedoboat sunk in an engage
ment Sunday in Soela sound, north of
Oesel island.
The commander and sixteen sailers
of German submarine u BIB, who
were informed with German refugees
from the Kamerun near Alcala de
Henares, northeast of Madrid, have
escaped.
A Zurich dispatch to the Paris Ma
tin says the old wound of former
King Constantine of Greece has re-
opened and that an operation was per
formed in Zurich. His condition is
said to be most grave.
Georgetown, Grand Cayman, British
West Indies was visited by the most
violent hurricane in it's history OH
Sept, oath. The property loss, exclu
sive OF shipping, is estimated at $500,
900. Two lives were lost.
The family of Nicholas Romanoff
former Emperor of Russia, now pro
cures its food supplies by the use o.
cards. The authorities in the Tobolsl
district are using food cards and IT,,
Romanoffs must obtain their food thu
same as the other citizens.
SPORTING NEWS
Great lakes transportation soon t
close because of winter.
Frank j.. Dreher, the champion re
volver shot of the world, died at Au
rora, Colo, Of tuberculosis.
Dennis Sheehan, a seaman, wa.
killed when boiler tube explosion tool
place on board American patrol shiI
in home waters.
Old Bob Fitzsimmons, the creates
boxer Of all time, was on the verg,
of a knockout in Chicago in the big
gest fight Of his career-a battle witt
death.
frankie Murphy of Denver and Han
. vey Thorpe, the Kansas City light
weight, were matched to box fifteeI
rounds before the Lakeside Athleti
Club in Denver on the night of Oct
29th.
Members of the world champion
/, White Sox team received checks TO
their share of the receipts from tn
world series amounting to S91, 1876
Each Of the twenty-five players ell
gible to share in the money receive
-. a check for $3,6G6.
GENERAL
e The state OF Connecticut purchase
$4,000 Liberty bonds.
" j. o. Bentall, Socialist candidate fo
T. governor OF Minnesota last year, SCI
9 fenced to one year in county jail.
Commander II. C. Sparrow, forme
ly Of the battleship Pennsylvania, b.
gins duties as aide to Secretary Dal
g. iels.
J. Dealers in waste materials pledg
cooperation with government in utl
izing country's by-products for mil
h taTy purposes.
The government forecast OF the fir
war crop of potatoes Is 452,000,0(
bushels, an increase Of 100, 10000
p bushels over last year. according
n an announcement by L. ID. Sweet.
A million dollar block Of LiberI
4 Loan bonds changed hands on Il
g stock market in New York at 99.7
a This Is the largest single transacttC
L in the bonds since they we're put {
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