Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-02
FOREIGN

months business In January. 176 YES.
sells with a tonnage Of 557.S39 10
having passed through the waterway.
Several buildings Of the famou3
Cockerill works at Seraing, five miles
southwest Of Liege, Belgium, have
been destroyed through an incendiary
fire.
A score OF United States consuis
and government agents with their
families reached Zurich after having
awaited a week permission to leave
Germany.
It is reported from Copenhagen.
lays the Overseas News Agency, that
1900 persons were killed and 1000
wounded in an explosion Of ammuni
ton at Archangel, Russia.
There we're approximately 1000 per
sons killed or injured in the recent
railroad accident near Chirurcha in
northern Rumania, according to the
Moscow newspaper, Russkoye Slovo
In a speech in the House Of Com
mons Sir Edward Carson, first lord Of
the admiralty, said the submarine
menace recently had grown until its
extent had become grave and serious.
Vice Admiral Won Cappelle, German
minister of the navy, told the Reich
stag, according to Berlin dispatches,
that the submarine warfare had not
only realized but surpassed the navy's
expectations.
A number OF Sim Feiners, who had
recently returned from internment in
England, we're arrested in Limerick.
Galway and Skibbereen, as well as
in Dublin. The arrests we're made un.
der the defense Of the realm act.
Sinking Of the Swedish steamer Ed
da was "a mistake by a German sub
marine commander" the Swedish gov
eminent was informed by the German
minister. He expressed the German
governments formal regret at the
sinking and its promise of an in
demnity.
The frontier correspondent of the
Amsterdam Telegram says that a
strike in the Krupp works at Essen,
involving 1900 workmen, has been
in progress for a fortnight. The men,
the correspondent declared, are de-
handing higher wages and increased
food rations. Many OF the strikers,
he adds, have been sent to the front.
SPORTING NEWS
There will be no material change
made in the racing dates for 1917
over those Of 1916.
AID Wolgast, former worlds light
weight champion, is suffering from a
general nervous breakdown, his ply
stefan said in Chicago.
Jess Willard, the heavyweight cham
pion, through his manager, signed an
eight months agreement at Chicago to
appear with a circus during the com
ing season.
1t took Joe Stecher Of Nebraska,
heavyweight wrestling champion Of
the world, less than one hour at San
Francisco to crush the titular ambi.
tions Of Ad Santel, Pacific coast
heavyweight champion.
Harry H. Frazee, president Of the
Boston American League baseball
club, announced that he was seriously
considering an offer made by bust
ness men of Honolulu to have the
team train there in the spring of 1918.
GENERAL
Fire in the downtown retail district
at Omaha wiped out half a block with
a loss of $75O,OOO.
F1siness was suspended in Las
Vegas during the funeral Of e. C. de
Baca, governor of New Mexico.
San Diego has been selected as the
first city on the Pacific coast to be
equipped with a squadron Of battle
planes and seaplanes to act as scouts
for the ports seacoast defense.
Thirteen persons are known to have
lost their lives and more than 100
have been reported injured in a series
of tornadoes that swept portions of
Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi Fri
day.
BY unanimous vote the Senate Of
Maine adopted a resolution providing
for woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment. The measure which the
House adopted 113 to 35 now goes to
Gov. Milliken.
Women I'D in riots in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, demanding
relief from the high prices Of food.
Governor Whitman is considering the
appointment Of a food dictator for the
state of New York.
A four months old Berkshire hog
sired by Epochal, an English hog.
sold for $1,000 at the annual sale in
connection with the American Berk-
shire Congress ccnvention at Purdue
University at lafayette, Ind.
New York city, glutted with the
widest prosperity the metropolis has
ever known, blinked and stared while
from the bowels of the East Side there
suEged into City Hall square a mob of