Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-11-16
FnREIGN

cree ordering the CLOSING OF the port
Of Rio Janeiro.
The condition Of former Queen
Liliuoklani is critical. There is little
hope Of her recovery, Ter physicians
said at Honolulu.
The British cabinet Has passed IA
Torably on the proposed plan for the
establishment Of Pale tine as a ma
uonal home for the Jewish people.
The Vossische Zeitufg OF Berlin
says that Budapest me- spapers an
nounce that the Aus ro-Hungarian
Augleich will be renewel PROVISIONAL
ly for two years.
Italy will continue to hght until the
end despite the efforts of German
propaganda and the disaster on the
1sonzo front, in the opinidn of official
circles at Rome.
The first three American soldiers
killed in the trenches in France are
sleeping in French soil, IGNORED by
the American army and the people
and army of France.
Premier Kerensky has been over
thrown; the Bolsheviki-or immediate
peace advocates-have assumed pos
session Of Petsograd and issued a
proclamation favoring Russia's max
ing peace.
Finland's position is desperate and
her outlook hopeless, according to an
appeal sent President Wilson by
Professor Wendt. The whole nation,
he declared, approaches the winter in
a state of famine.
That the Russian coup d'etat was
engineered and subsidized by Ger
many for the purpose of eliminating
Russia from among her enemies is
the virtually unanimous opinion ex-
pressed I'm a newspaper editorial com
ment at London.
At Santa Ana de Livramento, Bra
I'll. officials believe the settlement of
the strike, which has greatly %interfer-
ed with the shipment of foodstuffs
and other supplies to the ente allies,
is only temporary and that the Ger
mans are fomenting a new walkout.
In the battle for the possession OF
Petrograd, the Women's battalion OF
death, charged by the old government
with defense of the winter palace held
out to the last and only SURRENDERED
when literally overwhelmed by the
Bolsheviki troops and menaced by
enough guns to blow up the whole
palace.
SPORTING NEWS
Gunboat Smith and, Fred Fulton
heavyweights, will meet at Minneapo
lis, Nov. 20 in a ten-round %no-decision
boxing contest.
Proceeds of the liberty golf tourna
ment conducted by the United States
Golf Association during the summer
for the benefit of the Red Cross, was
$72,375, it was announced in New
York.
The Western League of Baseball
Clubs will fight any movement for
third major league which provides fol
the American association taking ovei
any Western league territory, accord
ing to E. w. Dickerson, president o.
the Western league.
GENERAL
Woman suffrage carried in New
York by about 100000 majority, add
ing 100000 voters to the Empire
state.
A complete wireless receiving out
fit has been discovered near Norwich
Conn, by federal agents and confis
Gated by the government.
The news from P~etrograd telling o
ehe overthrow of the Russian provis
ional government precipitated a fresl
slump in the stock market in New
York.
DIR. Harry Lorenzo Chaplin, physi
clan, author and traveller, was muT
dered by an unidentified assailant il
a at a downtown hotel at Cleve
land, Ohio.
Julia Smith, II years old, daughter
of John Smith, a miner of Dawson, N
NJ, walked into the office of Mayo
Speer of Denver and asked him t
communicate with her father and tel
him to send her transportation TO tax,
her back home.
At Mineola, l.. l., Mrs. Blanca d,
Saulles is fighting 10 keep her son
Jack, 8, from being delivered to tn,
custody of Charles A. De Saulles, he
dead husbands brother. Mrs. ID
Saulles killed her husband in a quar-
rel over the boy. She goes to tria
for murder Nov. 10.
Charles C. Parsons of Hollywood
Cal, formerly Of Denver for twenty
five years, died at his residence, age,
y years. In the days when LeadviIl
was at the height Of its boom MI
Parsons had a law office there wit
Charles S, Thomas, now United State
senator from Colorado.
A corn crop. larger by more thai
$4,000, 900 bushels than ever grown il
the history Of American agriculture
Is the production OF the farmers O
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