Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-11
FOREIGN

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 The sale of all spirits and other alcoholic liquors has been prohibited in Denmark.
 The storm of indignation in Holland over the German attack on seven Dutch ships is unabated.
 Sixty-five wounded Russians home ward bound from Germany, were killed in a railroad wreck near Holms- leden. in northern Sweden.
 Thomas Coffey, a negro member of the crew of Baltimore, lost his life when the Laconia went down. Consul Frost csbled the State Department.
 The steamer Frederick VIII, with Count von Bernstorff. former Ger man ambassador to the United States, and his party on board, sailed from Halifax for Copenhagen.
 The women of Ontario were virtual ly assured the right to vote when the government, through Premier Hearst. indorsed the bill of J. w. Johnson pro viding for equal suffrage.
 News dispatches from Holland to the London newspapers emphasize the continued indignation aroused among the Dutch by the recent des- truction of the Dutch ships by the German submarines.
 'Vive IAmerique" and "viye Vii son," were shouted by thousands when Capt Allen Tucker and the crew of the American steamer Orleans stepped off the gangplank of the steamer at Bordeaux.
 First editorial comment of German newspapers on the sinking Of the Cunard liner Laconia justified this latest example of the German sub marine warfare by suggesting it was merely carrying out of the German warnings that hospital ships would be torpedoed
 Merchant shipping aggregating l. e9S.s00 tons belonging to entente and neutral nations has been destroyed or condemned as prizes by the central powers since the beginning of the war, il was officially announced in Berlin Apparently this total covers a period up to the end of January, 1917, only.
 The prominence which Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg gave in his address to the sReichstag to discus sion of relations with the United States is regarded at Berlin as indi- eating his purpose to prepare the Ger man public for the eventuality which is looked forward to in many quar- ters
 We want 1000 American tractor blows for the use of a civilian army of night blowers which We are about to enlist throughout the British Isles,- said Sir Arthur Lee, director general Of food production in London. This new department. which is the out growth of Germany's submarine cam paign, aims at the enlistment of sev- eral hundred thousand civilians to cultivate every available bit of soil SPORTING NEWS
 Fred McMullin of Los Angeles, utility infielder with the Chicago Americans, signed 1917 contract.
 Fred McMullin, Sox third baseman. who has been a holdout, sent in his signed contract to President Comiskey.
 Valley Schang. catcher, signed his contract with the Philadelphia Amerl- can league baseball team. He was the last Of the big three holdouts, Strunk and Bush having signed
 Welker Cochran at Chicago made a run of 249 in the second block of his 1s.g balkline billiard match with G. Butler Sutton, former world cham pion. Cochran won the block by 400 to 229, averaging i4 4-9.
 Miss Hattie M is the latest off spring of Peter the Great to add glory to her sire, money for her owner and a championship for herself. Un. heralded, almost unnoticed, she was entered in the Grand circuit dueIling Of 1916 to emerge as champion of the 4-year-old pacers.
 GENERAL
 Approximately s2.5OO,OOO was eI- pended in the campaign to re-elect President Wilson, it was announced at headquarters of the Democratic national committee.
 James W. Gerard, former American ambassador at Berlin, sailed Feb. g on the steamship Infanta Isabel from Coruna. Spain, for Havana The | steamer is expected to reach that port March or g.
 Jchn Wallace, better known as Capt. Jack Crawford. noted Indian fighter of early frontier days, died at his home at Wood Haven, Long Island He was stricken with pneumonia more than a month ago.
 Count Kalman de Czaky, hereditary governor of Hungarian province, was sued for divorce in the Supreme Court in New York by Countess Maud de Czaky, who was Miss Maud How. ard of San Francisco.
 The state police boat Commodore Maury at Richmond, Va, fought and took the schooner Elizabeth Clark of Baltimore in the Rappahannock river, where the schooner has been running the whisky blockade. A petition for the appointment of . lunacy commission to determine the sanity of Harry K Thaw, confined in hospital at Philadelphia as the re e,,1< <R czlf sx,f cd I.