, 1917-10-25
FOREIGN

relations with at present.
A call to Mexico to join the allies
was sounded in the chamber of depu-
ties.
Chile is gratified with course of Peru
in breaking off relations with Ger
many.
Samuel Skinner, Harvard graduate,
was killed while flying on French bat
tie front.
Reports received that British steam
ships Memphian and the B%ostonian
have been sunk.
England undertakes to reduce wheat
consumption there to less than half
of pre-war consumption.
American minister to Rumania
makes many visits to Russian 'front.'
eXhorting Russians TO tight.
Canadian milk dealers decide to pc
tition government to stop expectation
of milk and cream TO the United
States.
Gen. Gurko, former commander on
the Russian northwestern front, has
arrived in England with his wife on
board a British steamship.
For the first time in twenty-four
days some trains were running in Ar
gentina, marking the governments
successful step in combating the gen
eral strike.
The 3.0O0-ton Danish steamship Vir-
ginia, from a port of the United
States for Montevideo, arrived at st.
Thomas, Virgin Islands, with her car,
go afire.
British airmen in their recent at.
tack on the Belgian town of Roulers
caused the destruction of an arsenal
in which was quartered a newly ar.
rived German regiment.
Two German torpedoboats were
sunk and two damaged, and one Rus.
sian t~orpedoboat sunk in an engage.
ment Sunday in Soela sound, north of
Oesel island.
The commander and sixteen sailers
of German submarine U B-23, who
were informed with German refugees
from the Kamerun near Alcala de
Henares, northeast of Madrid, have
escaped.
A Zurich dispatch to the Paris Ma
tin says the old wound of former
King Constantine of Greece has re,
opened and that an operation was per.
said to be most grave.
Georgetown, Grand Cayman, British
West Indies was visited by the most
violent hurricane in its history on
Sept. Gath. The property loss, exclu,
sive of shipping, is estimated at $500,
600. Two lives were lost.
The family Of Nicholas Romanoff,
former Emperor of Russia, now pro
cures its food supplies by the use OF
cards. The authorities in the Tobolsk
district are using food cards and the
Romanoffs must obtain their food the
same as the other citizens.
SPORTING NEWS
Great lakes transportation soon tc
close because of winter
Frank ]. Dreher, the champion re.
volver shot of the world, die at Au.
rora, Colo, of tuberculosis.
Dennis Sheehan, a seaman, was
killed when boiler tube explosion took
place on board American patrol ship
in home waters.
Old Bob Fitzsimmons, the greatest
boxer of all time, was on the verge
of a knockout in Chicago in the big,
gest fight of his career-a battle with
death.
frankie Murphy of Denver and Har.
vey Thorpe, the Kansas City light.
weight, were matched to box fifteen
rounds before the Lakeside Athletic
Club in Denver on the night of Oct,
29th.
Members of the world champion
White SoX team received checks for
their share of the receipts from the
world series amounting to S91, 733. 15.
Each of the twenty-five players ell
gible TO share in the money received
a check for SS,66G.
GENERAL
The State of Connecticut purchased
$750,00O Liberty bonds.
j. o. Bertall, Socialist candidate for
governor of Minnesota last year, sen.
fenced to n yea in county jail.
Commander H. &. Sparrow, former.
ly of the battleship Pennsylvania, be.
gins duties as aide to Secretary Dan
iels.
Dealers in waste materials pledge
cooperation with government in util.
izing country's ~by.products for Mill
tary purposes.
The government forecast of the first
var crop of potatoes is 452, 900 ,0OG
bushels, an increase of 100, COO. OOC
bushels over last year, according tc
an announcement by I, ID Sweat