The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-17
FOREIGN

been fixed by Pope Benedict as
March %.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer,
who now is at Sydney, Australia, says
he is going into active war service.
Carlos Jaeger, Brazilian consul gen.
eral in Vienna. committed suicide fol-
lowing an abortive attempt at self-de-
struction by his wife, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch.
A Pekin dispatch to Reuters says
that the House of Representatives, at
a secret session, approved the govern
ment's diplomatic policy, including a
rupture with Germany.
The Nizam of Hyderabad. ruler of
the largest and most populous of the
internal states of India, sent to the
British government s500,000 for use in
the ant-submarine campaign.
AS a special mark of honor to the
late George w. Guthrie, American am
bassador to Japan, the emperor is ex-
pected to detail Japanese warship to
transport the body to the United
States
A memorial service for Mrs. Mary
Hoy and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Hoy of Chicago, who lost their lives
by the sinking of the British steam
ship Laconia by German submarine,
was held in st. Martins church,
Trafalgar Square, in London.
i Laden with presents showered upon
them by the Swiss, fifty-nine of the
Yarrowdale prisoners arrived in zu-
rich, Switzerland. Although emaciat-
ed from their Imprisonment and lack
of food since their arrival in Germany
on Dec. 81, they are in fair condition.
| After announcing the fall of Bagdad
in the House of Commons, Andrew
Bonar Law, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, said there was every reason
to believe that two-thirds of the
Turks artillery had fallen into the
hands of the British or had been
thrown into the Tigris.
One thousand troops of the Sonora
command of Gen. Guillermo Chavez
left Juarez over the Mexican Central
railroad to pursue Gen. Jose Ynez
Salazar and his rebel command which
attacked the passenger train at La
guna station March 8, killing forty
five of the de facto train guard and
wounding three passengers.
SPORTING NEWS
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee won an
easy decision over Kid Mex of Pueblo
at the end of their fifteen round bat
tie in Denver.
| Tho Con INt-a =, ciccn Clrh IF tho pa
| cific Coast league defeated the Chi
cago National team No. at Marys-
vile, Cal, to 3.
The Fort Morgan five defeated the
Akron basketball quintet in the final
game of the season at Fort Morgan,
Colo, by a score of 80 to 7.
Miss Alice Johnson, 10 years old.
blonde and inevitably pretty, has
drafted Al Mamaux, youthful pitching
prodigy of the Pittsburg Pirates, for
matrimonial duty in Brooklyn.
Frank A Marshall the American
| chess champion, created what is be-
lieved to be a new record for stimuli
taneous play at Buffalo, N. Y. Mar
shall played against 144 local players.
| including one woman and five chill
dren. The best previous record known
was 129. Marshall lost one game and
drew twelve.
Twenty-Five representatives of CON-
mercial clubs and rotary clubs in the
| eight cities in the Western Baseball
| league at meeting. in Omaha as
| guests of the club owners passed reso-
lutions directing the formation OF
boosters clubs in each city in the
league to promote the general inter
| est in baseball"
GENERAL
Another shipment of gold amount
| ing to s7,200,000 has been received
| from Canada at the United States as
say office in New York
The United States has contributed
| a total of $9,9S0,602 to Belgium relief,
according to statement made by the
| commission for relief in Belgium.
Food, clothing and money for the
relief of victims of the tornado which
destroyed more than s1,O00,0O0 worth
| of property and took toll of nine
teen lives in Newcastle, Ind, is
needed.
Richard Jacobs, prisoner in the
Philadelphia police station, declared
| he was one of the German sailors who,
| under orders, wrecked the machinery
| of the German liner Vaterland at Ho-
| boken, N. ].
A daily average of 29,42O,OoO tele-
| phone calls was recorded in 1916 by
the Bell system, which was approx
mately at the rate of 100 calls year
| for every man, woman and child in
| the United States.