The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-01
FOREIGN


from Dieppe.
Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader
of the Jameson raid on the Transvaal
in 1895, shortly before the Boer war.
died in London.
Germany has again attempted to de-
tach Japan from the allies and again
been refused, according to word reach
ing Amsterdam.
All goods for Russia have been
stopped at Haparanda, Sweden, OPP
posite Tornea, Finland, and are being
returned to Narvik.
Suffering from cold, exhaustion and
hunger, three American naval airmen
were picked up by a French patrol
boat after having been lost at sea for
nearly sixty hours.
The crest of the tide of inflowing
Liberty Loan dollars was reached
when the net balance In the United
States treasury reached the new high
record of $1,921 100000.
Death of ten soldiers at Camp Beau
regard, near Alexandria, Va, during
twenty-four hours, was announced,
making twenty-five deaths in three
days. Most of the deaths were due
to pneumonia and measles.
The jury which is to determine
whether CASTOR B. Means shot and
killed Mrs. Maude "A. King, wealthy
Chicago widow, at Blackwelder
Springs near Concord. N H., on Au-
gust 29 was completed in Cabarrus
County Court.
Troop movement figures to date in
dicate that the railroads of this coun-
try have safely transported approx
mately 100000 soldiers to training
camps and embarkation points since
August /, according to Fairfax Harri-
son, chairman of the railroads war
board.
Miss Margaret NJ Fotheringham,
three times arrested for picketing at
the White House, Washington, is no
longer a domestic science teacher un-
der Buffalo's school department. By
unanimous vote the board of education
dismissed the teacher for being absent
from her school duties without leave.
brewed henceforth in the United
States shall be less intoxicating. He
approved a recommendation by Food
Administrat.r Hoover reducing the al
coholic content of beer to three per
cent and also reducing the amount OF
grain used in brewing to approximate
ly seventy per cent of the volume now
consumed.
SPORTING NEWS
A Thanksgiving Day shoot was held
by the Denver Trap Club.
Benny McNeill, the crack Oklahoma
bantamweight, will appear in Den
yer ring within the next month.
Kid Roster of New Orleans knocked
out Johnny Eggers of New York at
the opening of the fourteenth round
| of a scheduled twenty-round fight at
New Orleans, La.
Mrs. John p. Poe, mother of the
Poe brothers, who helped to build
Princeton's football prestige, has re,
ceived a letter from Lieut.. Nelson
Poe, her son, in which he writes that
the first British officer he met on his
arrival abroad was the man who COM
manded the company of the Black
Watch in which John P. Poe, the
Princeton football star, served when
killed two years ago in France.
GENERAL
Orders were issued to kill enemy
aliens caught in barred zones.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has
taken action to relieve coal situation.
George Ray Wicker, professor of
economics in Dartmouth College, died
at his home in Hanover, N. H.
The revolutionists have been de-
feated in battle at Babahoyo, the capt.
tai of the province of Los Rios.
President Carranza has issued a de-
cree increasing the taxes and import
duties on all wines and alcoholic
liquors, to take effect January 1.
Refugees from Palestine report that
the Turks, in cooperation with the
Germans, are committing the most
| fearful atrocities on the Jewish colo
nies in Palestine.
December cotton crossed the 30
cent mark on the floor of the New
York Cotton exchange Nov. &c, and
later sold for 1920 cents, the highest
price ever recorded on the exchange.
A conference of Russian political
leaders assembled at army headquar-
ters for the purpose of forming ID gov
ernment representing all parties, ac-
cording to a Petrograd dispatch to
the London Times.
Col. Edward NJ House, Gen. Tasker
H. Bliss, Admiral Benson and the
other members of the American mis-
sion in Paris visited the Pichus cem-
etery and placed a floral wreath on