The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-03-02
FOREIGN


killed in a railroad wreck near Holms-
leGen, in northern Sweden.
Thomas Coffey, a negro member Of
| the crew OF Baltimore. lost his life
when the Laconia went down. Consul
Frost cabled the State Department
| from Budapest that all journals in
| Hungary will cease publication in a
few days owing to the fact that they
have no paper.
"Vive TAmerique" and "vive VIII
SON. We're shouted by thousands
when Capt Allen Tucker and the crew
of the American steamer Orleans
steamer at Bordeaux.
| England's ''win-the-war" loan sub
soriptions totaled e1,3l2, $4,000 Zap
/ proximately s7.56i $50 .000) OF new
/ money. Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bonar Law announced in the House OF
| Commons.
| The bishop of London proposes to
I close all but eight churches in the city
( of London until the end of the war in
/ order to set free the clergymen to act
/ as chaplains for troops in active serv-
/ ice or for volunteers under the nation
al service scheme.
Merchant shipping aggregating L.
/ s9S,sUo tons belonging to entente and
neutral nations has been destroyed or
| condemned as prizes by the central
! powers since the beginning of the war.
/ it was officially announced in Berlin.
! Apparently this total covers a period
up to the end of January, 1917, only.
Germany's peace conditions are
| based on PREPARATION for all wrongs
| suffered and guarantees for the ex-
/ istence in the future of strong Ger
many" Imperial Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg SO outlined them in a
| speech before the Reichstag. There
is only one necessity of the day." he
declared. at dominates all questions
of policy, both foreign and domestic
il is to fight and gain victory"
Twenty-six Americans. six of whom
| were cabin passengers and twenty
| members of the crew were on board
the Cunard liner Laconia. from New
York, Feb. Is. for Liverpool, with sew
enty-fiye passengers and a crew OF 2.o.
when the vessel was sunk by Ger
man submarine Three casualties, one
unidentified, have been reported. FIJI
ty survivors were landed at Bantry
Head and 2G7 at Queenstown. Mrs.
Mary f. Hoy and daughter of Chicago
are supposed to have been drowned.
SPORTING NEWS
Fred McMullin, Sox third baseman
who has been holdout sent in mis-
signed contract to President Comiskey
Frank Taberski. worlds champion
at pocket billiards, defeated Louis
Kreuter, challenger, $50 to 399, at
| Youngstown, Ohio.
Valley Schang, catcher. signed his
contract with the Philadelphia Ameri.
can league baseball team. He was the
last OF the big three holdouts, Strunk
and Bush having signed.
Colorado's fifth annual state bowl
ing tournament came to an end In
Denver. The affair closed with the
sweepstakes. which Fred Wolf won
averaging better than 1893 pins pei
game.
GENERAL
The Delaware Senate rejected the
woman suffrage amendment, to 6.
The funeral services of Mrs Math
ew II. Maury. sister Of Mrs, Wood
row Wilson, who died at Roanoke. Va.
were held at The home. Mrs. Wilson
did not attend the funeral owing tc
the illness of her mother in Washing
ton.
A campaign to raise $5,000.000 8
month for Armenian refugees, through
subscriptions in every city and towr
in the country. was launched in New
York at the annual meeting of the
American committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief.
Gov. Simon Hamburger signed the
joint resolution passed by the Legis
lature to submit to the Utah electo
rate in 1918 the question of state-wid,
prohibition by constitutional amend
ment Statutory prohibition. effec
tive Aug /, 1917, has already beeI
provided for by the present Legisla
ture.
John Grier Hibben, president o
Princeton University, speaking in
church in New York, criticised tn,
United States for what he termed IT.
lack of international conscience" Ii
failing to join the entente allie
against Germany. and declared Amer
ica's entrance into the war was
Solemn obligation"
A petition for the appointment OF |
lunacy commission to determine tn
sanity of Harry X. Thaw, confined IL
hospital at Philadelphia as the re