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been fixed By Pope Benedict a.
March %.
Thirty thousand saloons in Great
Britain viii probably be closed dur
ing the next few months.
Gen. obregun has resigned as min
lister Of war in the Mexican Cabinet
and shortly VIII retire to private life.
Fernand Labori, who was attorney
for Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. died in
Paris after a long and painful illness.
Official action by Great Britain.
France and Rosiy IN recognition Of the
provisional government OF Russia was
take in PetrOgrad.
Gen. Louis Hubert COnzalve Lyau
tey, minister of war in the FreTch
Cabinet. has resigned as the result Of
incidents IN the Chamber Of Deputies.
The pope has decided to pronounce
an important allocution at the con
sistory to be held at the end Of the
month, according to q news dispatch
from Rome.
During the funeral OF Count zeppe-
lin at Stuttgart ten airplanes and two
airships flying mourning flags. ap-
peared YER the church yard and
dropped wreaths.
AS a special mark of honor to the
late George w. Guthrie, American am
bassador to japan, the emperor is ex
pected to detail a Japanese warship to
transport the body to the United
States.
Mail carried on an American ship,
the Standard Oil tanker John D. Arch
bold, was removed by the British au-
thorities at Halifax, according to the
officers Of the vessel, which arrived
in New York from Bergen, Norway.
On Jan. 1, 1918, Grand Duke Mich
ael was banished from Russia by EN-
peror Nicholas and relieved of the
command of the Chevalier guards be
u of his marriage. He was also
busted from his position as regent.
designate.
Additional evidence that the Lib
erals have virtually decided to substi-
tute a campaign of fire and pillage for
an organized military movement is
contained in a report of a meeting
held at Songo. Cuba, the headquarters
Of Maj. Rigoberto Fernandez, one OF
the rebel leaders.
The steamship Algonquin, flying
the American flag, was sunk by a Ger
man submarine at 6 o'clock the morn
ing Of March IL. while on the way
from New York to London. The crew
Of twenty-three men, including eleven
Americans, was saved, although the
submarine refused to assist the sur
vivors in the lifeboats.
SPORTING NEWS
Play for the national A. A. U.
basketball championship started in
Chicago with sixteen teams Gem
peting.
The annual tournament of the Ma
tional Association of Scientific Ang-
ling Clubs will be held in Chicago
Aug. 81 and Sept. l and 3.
The racing season at the Denver
City park track, under the manage
ment of the Gentlemen's Driving and
Riding Club, will open earlier this
season than last, according to an n
nouncement made by the racing COM
mittee.
Entries to the Kentucky handicap,
to be run at Douglas park, May 26,
and to the Latonia derby, at Latonia,
June 16, were announced at Louisville
by John Hachmeister, general man
ager of both tracks. He also n
nounced that 458 nominations have
been made for the Latonia champion
ship stakes which will have its first
running in 1919 for S-year-olds and
will be worth approximately $4,000.
GENERAL
A bomb exploded in the Suffolk
county courthouse, Boston, killing
two men and injuring another.
Casper. Wye, the recognized center
of the petroleum industry in the Far
West, is to have an oil exchange.
Profits from operations of 1885,
$40 are reported for 1916 by the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company in the
annual statement, as against $780,.
4G5 in 1915.
william F. Sheehan, former lieu
tenant governor OF New York and a
lawyer who was prominent in state
and city politics in former years, died
at his home In New York.
Nearly 10000 union workmen, mem
bers OF the Building Trades Council,
were idle at Cleveland, Ohio, as a re-
suit OF the sweeping lockout order
put into effect by the Building Trades
Employers Association.
Mail carried on an American ship,
the Standard Oil tanker, John D
Archbold, was removed by the Brit
ish authorities at Halifax, according
to the officers of the vessel, which
arrived at New York from Bergen,