Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-11-02
FOREIGN


The government wal defeated In the
Chamber Of Deputies at Rome when
a vote Of confidence failed by 314 to
90.
The Swiss newspapers express the
opinion that the destruction of four
zeppelins in France is a death blow
to aircraft Of this type.
The newspapers state that Premier
Kerensxy probably will relinquish the
post Of commandments Of the Rus
sian armies to General Boukhonin.
Sixty persons we're killed and nine
ty seriously wounded, as the result Of
an explosion which occurred in the
principal barracks at San Jose, Costa
Rica.
The Russian preliminary parlia-
ment, according to the newspapers,
shortly will discuss the fate of the
Romanoff family, now imprisoned
neal Tobolsk, Siberia.
The American congressman who are
making an unofficial tour of the war
area held a conference with Walter
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dor, at the embassy in London.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann in Berlin still
is the most talked Of candidate for
the ,chancellorship of that country
but Amsterdam reports say Kaiser
will keep Michaelis in power.
Chancellor of the Exchequer A. Bo-
mar Law said he would move a vote
Of credit for $4,000, 10000 in the
House of Commons in London. This
amount will finance the war until early
in December, it is estimated.
In the House of Commons, Lord
Robert Cecil, minister of blockade,
gave a categorical denial to rumors
circulated by Germany that the West
ern powers were contemplating a sep.
arate peace at the expense of Russia
and Rumania.
The Sim Fein conference in Dublin
decided the members of the organiza.
ton should be trained in the use of
arms, though this will not be compul.
sorry. The conference promised that
the provisional government of Ireland
should be established without delay.
ROLAND s. Morris, the new Ameri-
can ambassador to Japan, in success
sion to the late George w. Guthrie,
arrived at Toxic in good health. Mr..
Morris was welcomed at Yokohama
by the staff of the American embassy
and by members of the American as.
ISOLATION.
Details have reached London of a
German plan to obtain ascendancy
after the wal in Denmark by ceding
TO Denmark a small strip of former
Danish territory in North Schleswig,
in return for "a large sum of money"
and, presumably also. certain eco
nomic and commercial concessions.
SPORTING NEWS
Benny Leonard was offered $25, 900
to box Charley White, the Chicago
lightweight.
Introduction of a third major league
baseball circuit with or without the
sanction of organized baseball was the
announcement made at Chicago on the
authority of Charles w. Murphy, for.
mer owner of the Cubs.
Alfredo de Orc, at New York, re.
tanned his title as three-cushion bill.
lard champion when he defeated John
DAILY, the challenger, in the final block
of fifty points by a score of so to 46.
The total for the three nights play
was: De Orc, $50; DAILY, 129.
GENERAL
Mrs. Vincent Aston is reported to
be i'll in Paris.
Canadian wheat soon t be moving
toward eastern mills.
Returns from the Liberty loan cam.
paign of the Boy Scouts of America
showed that bonds in excess Of S21,.
900, 200 were sold.
Secretary McAdoo, in speech at Lit
tie Rock, declares that militant Amer
lea can whip the Kaiser, but that the
Kaiser can whip apathetic America.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt, on her
seventy-third birthday, said: "Ameri.
ca will win the war for France" and
expressed her profound admiration
for America and American ome
Blown down by a high wind, a big
oak tree struck an automobile neal
Dallas, Tex, killing Frank Boyd, dep
uty sheriff of Rockwell, Tex, and Eu.
genia Handy, his slster-in-law. Two
others were seriously injured.
A British tank, similar to the giant
war machines of this character in &C.
tive service in France, reached the
New York port on a steamship from
Europe and was set up as a compan.
ion exhibit to the German submarine
which recently arrived, to stimulate
Liberty bond purchasing.
Benjamin P. Cheney, Boston; Au-
gustus d. Julliard, New York, and T..
Dewitt Cuyler, Philadelphia, were re.
elected directors Of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe Railway at the an.
nual stockholders meeting at Topeka,