, 1917-12-13
FOREIGN

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The Dublin Evening Mail says the
police have seized a large quantity Of
high explosives which were brought to
Ireland from Scotland.
Twenty-Five corpses of railway en-
ployes were found between Deepwater
and Richmond following the explosion
of an American munitions ship in Hal
flax, N. S. harbor.
Outside the toll of life claimed on
land and sea by the great war, the
catastrophe at Halifax, If reports of
1000 dead are borne out. is by far
the greatest disaster in many years.
Thousands of persons were killed
and injured and half of the city OF
Halifax is in ruins as the result of
the explosion of a French NUM-
ton ship in the harbor at Halifax,
N. S.
Viscount Drumlanrig. son and heir
of the marquis of Queensberry, was
married in London to Miss Irene Rich
ards a musical comedy actress. He
is 81 years old and is a lieutenant in
the Black Watch regiment.
Germany made a formal effort to
obtain peace last August through
Spain, according to resolutions in
h latest chapter of the secret dip
lomatic archives" made public by
Bolsheviki Foreign Minister Trotzky.
Macmillan Harden, editor OF the
Amsterdam Die Zukunft, declared in
al article recently published in his
newspaper: "Only a miracle can
bring peace. Either Germany must
be crushed or our enemies defeated.
There is nc alternative"
The dead in the Halifax explosion,
caused by the collision of two ships,
is placed at 1000, and the wounded at
5000. The property loss was intimated
at between $4,000, coo and 100000
600 and the number of destitute at
upward of 10000 in a statement is
sued by Justice Harris, chairman of
the citizens finance committee.
A dispatch received at Amsterdam
from Vienna quotes Emperor Charles
of Austria-Hungary as saying in an ad-
drss to an Austro-German delegation
that the dual monarchy is ready at
any time to conclude peace that would
guarantee the Integrity of the mon
archy. He added, however, hat his
country would not cease fighting I'M
til its enemies renounced their inten-
lions of dismembering 1t.
DIR. Christopher Addison, minister
of reconstruction, according to the
London Daily Express, has beer ap-
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hopes to carry a bill through Parlia.
ment before Christmas, forming a
new ministry to operate a scheme of
revolutionary character" This
scheme is said to aim at the national.
ization of the medical profession, in.
volving free medical attendance for
everyone without any element of
charge.
SPORTING NEWS
The football players of the Univor.
sity of Colorado at Boulder, selected
George Costello of Denver for the
captain of the 1918 eleven.
Members OF, the University of New
Mexico's football squad refused the
athletic councils award of letters in
recognition OF their services on the
gridiron.
H. G. Bedwell, formerly connected
with a string of horses in Denver, has
purchased The Cudgel, regarded as
one of the greatest ~3-yearold perform
ers in the country and a leading
money winner of the year. The price
of the horse was 100000, and it was
formerly owned by ]. w. Schorr of
Memphis, Tenn.
GENERAL
Minimum price of silver probably
will be fixed at 81 cents.
The principal grades of crude oil
We're advanced by the purchasing
agencies at Pittsburgh, Pa.
German has been dropped from the
course of study in thirty high schools
of California because pupils have dis.
continued studying the language, it
vas announced by school authorities.
American farmers are planning next
spring to plant only a small per cent.
of their usual acreage, as a result OF
the labor shortage, Ton Clark. head
of the cattle department of the Inter.
national Livestock Show declared in
Chicago.
Potatoes grown in the infield at his
toric Churchill Downs race track at
Louisville, KY, were sold at auction
for a total of $1,270, which was do.
mated to the Christmas cheer fund for
the soldiers of the new national army
at Camp Zachary Taylor.
A Christmas fruitcake four feet in
diameter, II foot high and Weighing
$50 pounds was completed in the
kitchnn of n Naw Nnrl hntn1 md mill