The Colorado statesman., 1917-02-03
FOREIGN

Petrograd, says a Reuter- dispatch
from the Russian capital to London.
A Constantinople dispatch to Amster-
dam says that the Turkish parliament
on the recommendation of the govern
ment, has formally adopted the Gre
gorian calendar.
The Prussian minister OF education
has announced at a meeting of the
budget committee OF the reichstag in
Berlin that 10,950 public school teach
ers have fallen during the war ant
that their places have been taken by
women.
"The king has appointed the duke
of Connaught to be colonel-in-chief OF
the volunteer force" says an official
announcement issued in London. The
duke of Connaught retired from the
governor generalship of Canada last
October.
The ceremony of saluting the en-
tente allies flag by Greece was car
ried out Monday afternoon in the
Zappeion in accordance with the ar
rangement recently entered into be-
tween the Greek government and the
entente powers.
The Ekstrabladet reports the ar
rival at Copenhagen of twenty-six
Swedish, Norwegian and American
seamen belonging to the crew of the
British steamer Yarrowdale, which
was captured by the German raider in
the south Atlantic. They had been
interned at Neustrelitz.
Russia is experiencing famine in
the midst of plenty, according to an
article in the London Times. The
article refers chiefly, but not exclusive.
ly, to Petrograd and Moscow. The
writer believes that there is enough
food in Russia to supply the entire
population two years, but, because OF
the inadequacy of the railroads, lack
of organization and coordination in
distribution, the people in some dis.
tricts find it difficult, even impossi,
BILE, to get supplies.
SPORTING NEWS
Johnny Dundee showed in New Or.
leans conclusively that his knockout
at the hands of Willie Jackson was a
fluke, for he beat Jimmie Hanlon OF
Denver to a whisper in twenty rounds.
Hanlon not winning a round.
Henry Irslinger of Austria, claim.
ant of the worlds middleweight
wrestling championship and holder OF
the Lord Lonsdale belt, suffered a
probable concussion of the brain in
his match with Michael Yokel at At
lantic City, N. ].
Fred Winsor, local boxing pro
moter in Salt Lake City, announced
that he has signed Jim Flynn of Pu
eblo, Colo, and Jack Dempsey of Salt
Lake for a fifteen-round match Feb
IA, at Murray, Utah, suburb of Salt
Lake. The men are heavyweights.
Stephen Mcdonald was killed in AL
bany, N. Y, in the second minute o.
the first round of his first professional
prizefight when Teddy Hicks landed
a hard blow with his right hand under
McDonald's heart. Hicks was ar
rested on charge of manslaughter
The release of John Thompson and
William Stellbauer, outfielders, was
announced in Philadelphia by Connie
Mack, manager of the Philadelphia
American League Baseball Club
Thompson goes to the Omaha, Neb
Club and Stellbauer to Houston, Tex
Kid Williams, great little battler
didn't lose his ability to fight to Pete
Herman along with his crown a
month ago. That he retains a won
derful power to battle was demon
strated at Kansas City, Mo-, when he
administered to Benny Mcneil, Brit
ish bantam, a beating that was ali but
a knockout
GENERAL
Mrs. S. Olin Johnson, wife of one
of Detroit's best known business men
and prominent socially, shot and
killed herself in her home in Detroit,
Mich
Bernard Baruch, Wall street plum.
ger in New York, cleared $476,0 900
playing peace lunches during thir-
teen days in December, according to
his testimony to the Leak" commit
| tee.
Ninety medical schools in the Unit
| ed States with a total enrolment in
| graduating classes of more than 1900
young men, available for army and
navy service, has been instituted at
| Chicago.
Three persons were killed and thir-
| ty-three injured, two probably fatally.
in rear end collision between Cot.
| ton Belt engine carrying a caboose
and Rock Island passenger train at
Mounds, Ark.
The Iowa House at Des Moines, a..
by a vote of 95 to 0, passed the bill
providing for a repeal of the presi-
Dental preference primary law, and