The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
FOREIGN

hlltua III u TdllTOdu WIdCh ncdl I1Oiiuo-
leden, 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.
The Frankfurter Zeitung learns
from Budapest that all journals in
Hungary will cease publication in a
few days owing to the fact that they
have no paper.
"Vive rAmerique" and "Vive VIII
sonl" were shouted by thousands
when Capt Allen Tucker and the crew
of the American steamer Orleans
stepped off the gangplank of the
steamer at Bordeaux.
England's "win-the-war" loan sub
scriptions totaled' e1,312, 100000 Zap
proximately s7.564,75O, ,OOO) of new
money, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bonar Law announced in the House of
Commons.
The bishop of London proposes to
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 A.
99S,S00 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 a 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 1T dominates all questions
of policy, both foreign and domestic
it 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-five passengers and crew of 2Io,
when the vessel was sunk by a Ger
man submarine Three casualties, one
unidentified, have been reported. Fif-
ty survivors were landed at Bantry
Head and 267 at Queenstown. Mrs.
Mary E. Hoy and daughter of Chicago
are supposed to have been drowned.
SPORTING NEWS
Fred McMullin, Sox third baseman,
who has been holdout, sent in his
signed contract to President Comiskey.
Frank Taberski, worlds champion
at pocket billiards, defeated Louis
Kreuter, challenger, 450 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.
Colorados 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 1919 pins per
game.
GENERAL
The Delaware Senate rejected the
woman suffrage amendment, s to 6.
The funeral services of Mrs. Math-
ew H. Maury, sister of Mrs. Wood
row Wilson, who died at Roanoke. Va,
were held at The home. Mrs. Wilson
did not attend the funeraIVewing to
the Illness of her mother in Washing
A campaign to raise $5,000,000 a
month for Armenian refugees, through
subscriptions in every city and town
in the country, was launched in New
York at the annual meeting of the
American committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief.
Gov. Simon Bamberger signed the
joint resolution passed by the Legis-
lature to submit to the Utah electo-
rate in 1918 the question of statewide
prohibition by constitutional amend
ment. Statutory prohibition. effec-
tive Aug. l, 1917, has already been
provided for by the present Legisla'
ture.
John Grier Hibben, president of
Princeton University, speaking in a
church in New York, criticised the
United States for what he termed it's
lack of international conscience" in
failing to join the entente allies
against Germany, and declared Amer
ica's entrance into the war was a
Solemn obligation"
A petition for the appointment of a
lunacy commission to determine the
sanity of Harry X. Thaw, confined in
hospital at Philadelphia as the re-
suit of self-inflicted wounds when he
was about to be arrested on a New