The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-01-04
FOREIGN

FO&EIGU
In . note to Presidsat Wilaso. Az
tria declares in favor of peace.
Lloyd's reports the shaking OF the
Norwegian steamship SnO. 1923 toas
gross.
In addition to decree creating Gen.
JOffre a marshal of France. President
Poincare has signed another revoking
the DEGREES OF Dec. 2. 1915. and Dec.
l3. 1916.
The coronation festivities are in full
swing at Budapest. under the bright
est OF winter skies. and Budapest. for
the time being, seems to have forgot
ten the war.
Three hundred persons perished in
the wreck OF the japanese steamship
Sankaku Maru. on the Chinese coast
near Chefoo. according 70 dispatch
received at Toxic.
Five men were killed and six in
jured in = rear-end collision when the
c. p. X. Toronto train for Montreal
ran into the local train from Cornwall
to St. Polycarpe.
A Vienna dispatch says that Privy
Councilor Rudolf Seighart, governor Of
the Austrian land credit bank has re-
signed, at the request of Emperor
Charles. He is succeeded by Ritter
Won Leth.
"The number of civilians assassinat-
ed in East Prussia in 1914 during tho
Russian invasion. now has been Off
cially made public by the Koenigsberg
statistical office, and totals 6,O4S. OF
whom 80 were women" says q Berlin
statement.
Mrs. Venustiano Carranza. wife Of
the de facto president. accompanied
by several other prominent Mexican
families, has arrived in Nuevo Laredo
en- route to the United States. They
sIe said to be leaving Mexico because
OF Villas activities.
The London Times prints a forecast
of the report Of the committee which
has Investigated the results of last
years daylight saving. 1t says the
evidence taken shows that opinion
overwhelmingly favors making the
plan general in 1917.
Speaking in London at a meeting Of
the Rumanian Consolidated Oil Fields.
William w. Rutherford, member Of
Parliament from Liverpool, said that
probably the value of the oil fields de-
stroyed by the allies in the Rumanian
retreat amounted to f30,OOO,00o.
Nine de Thebes. the most famous
clairvoyant in the world. who prophe-
sled the great war. the death of Queen
Victoria, the assassination of Presi-
dent Carnot of France the San Fran
cisco earthquake and other events Of
moment in the history of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries, Is
ccad at her home at Meungsur-Loire
France. Her real name was Anne de
Savigny. She was 7S years old.
SPORTING NEWS
frankie Russell Of New Orleans and
Jim Hanlon of Denver, lightweights,
signed articles for twenty-round bout
at New Orleans Jan. 4.
Harry Sherman, Minneapolis fight
promoter, has an offer of a $4,000
purse for ten-round contest between
Mike Gibbons and Les Darcy.
Jack Read, the Australian Biffer
didn't last long in his scheduled fif
teen-round bout with Sailor Kirke OF
California at the National Athletic
Club in Denver. Kirke knocked him
down three times in the first round
and in the second flattened him fol
the decision.
Frank Isbell, one Of the owners oi
the Des Moines Club of the Western
League, announced at Wichita, Kan.
that he had purchased the park and
franchise and the Wichita Club of the
same league, the price being $1,000
for the franchise and similar amour
for the park.
GENERAL
OIL sales in which $4,000, 90,
changed hands were announced a
Tulsa. Okla.
The high price of copper is respon
sible for the scarcity of coal in Ari
zona. according to w. 8. Goldsworthy
Phoenix general agent of the Santa F,
railroad
Although the year 1916 was one o
record breaking traffic and earnings
new mileage built was the smallest
with the exception of 1915, since tn
Civil war.
News of movements of British ves
sells to and from the Boston port wi
be withheld by agents Of the variou
lines as a result of an order receive
from their head offices at Liverpool.
Redress and revenge are not to iii
ure in Honora May O'Brien's shattere
romance. Although Tilted by John I
Manning. the S3-year-old banker, jus
before her wedding. she denied at Me-
| yorly thot Ohio u,o,,ld dom md ,,,opot, i,