The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-08
FOREIGN


The Dublin Evening Mail says the
police have seized a large quantity of
high explosives which were brought to
Ireland from Scotland
The Russian general staff in north
ern Russia has been captured. General
Dukhonin was thrown from a train
and killed by Bolsheviki gangsters.
The marquis of Lansdowne's letter
continues to be commented on by the
German press, the concensus being
that pacifism is gaining ground in
England.
Two hundred million dollars is the
estimated amount of the actual prop
erty loss from the great floods which
have swept over North China within
the last two months.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
quoted by a correspondent of the
Vienna Neue Erie Press as ironically
referring to "the American advertis-
ing methods"
Camille Huysmans, secretary of the
Socialist Internationale, according to
an interview printed in the Alton
Tidnigen, deplores events in Russia
as making the peace outlook darker.
The revolutionary movement in
Ecuador, it is officially announced,
has ended. The rebels suffered de-
feat wherever they appeared, and
their leader, Intriago has been cap
tured.
Definite proof, it is asserted, of the
existence of a German U-boat station
off the South American coast was OBJ
tanned by the authorities at Buenos
Aires in the discovery of evidence
contained among the effects taken
from crews of interned German steam
ships.
DR.. Christopher Addison, minister
of reconstruction, according to the
London Daily Express, has been ap-
pointed minister of public health, and
hopes to carry bill through Parlia-
ment before Christmas, forming a
new ministry to operate scheme of
revolutionary character" h s
scheme is said to aim at the national
ization of the medical profession, in
volving free medical attendance for
everyone without any element of
charge.
SPORTING NEWS
Denver bowlers will compete for the
benefit of the Red Cross at the Den
yer alleys ON Wednesday evening,
Dec. 12
The basketball team of Creighton
university, Omaha, will go to Colo
RADIO this winter for series of games
with state colleges and independent
teams.
Fred Eames defeated Tony Sarconi
in three-cushion billiard game for
the benefit of the ambulance fund be-
ing raised by the billiardists of the
country, played at Denver.
Earl Puryear, Denver bantam
weight, who lost on foul to Joe Leo
pold at the Lakeside Athletic club in
Denver left for Tulsa. Okla, where
he is matched to meet Nate Jackson.
Shellenberger of the Parker Lights
did some exceptional pin busting in
Denver, his performance netting him
series total of 666. Shell opened
with 25S, followed with 1877, and then
closed with 221. His scores helped
the Parker Lights romp off with the
big score of the evening in the Com
mercial league-2,739.
+ GENERAL
Over 206 persons in United States
get income of millions each year.
The capture of one of Germany's
finest submarines by an American
warship was reported unofficially at
Newport, r. l., in a story from a
French seaport.
German has been dropped from the
course of study in thirty high schools
of California because pupils have dis
continued studying the language, it
was announced by school authorities.
President Wilson's address to Con-
gress was heralded throughout the
world by the United States govern
ment. The achievement is regarded
as probably the greatest publicity feat
ever undertaken.
Evidence of a plot to poison Mrs.
Bertha Hemple, a widow, and her
four children, has been unearthed in
Hanover township, a pronounced Ger
man community, federal officials an
nounced in Chicago.
Mrs. Carrie V. Hollister, sister of
Schuyler Colfax, vice president of the
United States under President U. S.
Grant, and widow of the late Col Or
lando j. Hollister, one of the pioneers
of Utah, died at Seattle, Wash, aged
rs. She went to Seattle nine years
ago from Salt Lake.
Miss Harriet A. Varney, a nurse,
was placed on trial at Dedham, Mass,
accused of the murder of Mrs. Pauline