The Ordway new era., 1917-03-02
FOREIGN
Germany il employing 10000 war
prisoners as farm laborers.


months business in January, lT6 YES
sells with tonnage OF 557,sSs to-
having passed through the waterway.
Several buildings of the famous
Cockerill works at Seraing. five miles
southwest OF Lisge, Belgium, have
been destroyed through an incendiary
fire.
\ score OF United States consuls
and government agents with their
families reached Zurich after having
awaited week permission to leave
Germany.
1t is reported from Copenhagen
says the Overseas News Agency, that
1900 persons were killed and 1000
wounded in an explosion Of ammunt
tion at Archangel, Russia.
There were approximately 1000 per.
sons killed or injured in the recent
railroad accident near Chirurcha in
northern Rumania. according 10 the
Moscow newspaper. Russkoye Slovo.
In a speech in the House OF Com
mons Sir Edward Carson. first lord OF
the admiralty. said the submarine
menace recently had grown until its
extent had become grave and serious
/ Vice Admiral Won CappeIe. German
minister OF the navy, told the Reich
stag. according to Berlin dispatches,
/ that the submarine warfare had not
only realized hut surpassed the navys
| expectations.
! 4 number OF Sim Feiners. who had
. recently returned from iRternment in
England, were arrested in Limerick
Galway and Skibbereen, as well as
in Dublin. The arrests were made un-
der the defense Of the realm act.
Sinking Of the Swedish steamer Ed
da was "a mistake BY German sub
marine commander" the Swedish gov
ernment was informed By the German
minister. He expressed the German
governments formal regret at the
sinking and its promise OF an in
demnily.
The frontier CORES pOndent OF the
Amsterdam Telegraaf says that a
strike in the Krupp works at Essen,
involving 1900 workmen, has been
in progress for a fortnight The men
the correspondent declared. are de-
manding higher wages and increased
food rations. Many OF the strikers.
he adds, have been sent to the front.
SPORTING NEWS
There will be no material change
made in the racing dates for 1917
over those OF 1916.
Ad Wolgast. former worlds light
weight champion, is suffering from a
general nervous breakdown. his ply
sician said in Chicago.
Jess Willard, the heavyweight cham
pion, through his manager, signed an
eight months agreement at Chicago to
appear with a circus during the com
ing season.
1t took Joe Stecher of Nebraska,
heavyweight wrestling champion of
the world, less than one hour at San
Francisco to crush the titular ambi-
tions OF Ad Santel. Pacific coas.
heavyweight champion.
Harry H. Frazee, president of the
Boston American League baseball
club. announced that he was seriously
considering an offer made by bust
ness men of Honolulu to have the
team train there in the spring OF 1915
GENERAL
Fire in the downtown retail district
at Omaha wiped out half block with
loss OF $3.50 900
Business was suspended in Las
Vegas during the funeral OF E. C. de
Baca, governor OF New Mexico.
San Diego has been selected as the
first city on the Pacific coast to be
equipped with a squadron OF battle
planes and seaplanes to act as scouts
for the ports seacoast defense.
Thirteen persons are known to have
lost their lives and more than 100
have been reported injured in a series
of tornadOes that swept portions of
Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi Fri
day.
By unanimous vote the Senate Of
Maine adopted a resolution providing
for woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment. The measure which the
House adopted l13 to 35 now goes to
Gov Milliken
| Women led in riots in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston. demanding
relief from the high prices of food
| Governor Whitman is considering the
| appointment of a food dictator for the
state of New York.
a four months old Berkshire hog
sired by Epochal, an English hog,
sold for $1,000 at the annual sale in
connection with the American Berk.
shire Congress convention at Purdue
University at Lafayette, Ind.
New York city, glutted with the
widest prosperity the metropolis has