The Ordway new era., 1918-08-02
FOREIGN

| King George has ordered tne british
court to go in mourning for four weeks
for former Emperor Nicholas of Rus
sia.
Influenza Is epidemic In the Swiss
army. There are now 1,500 cases OF
the malady and 100 deaths have re-
suited.
A peasant rebellion has broken out
In the Ukraine on formidable scale.
according to information received In
London.
Two Austrian transports were sunk
in an Italian attack on Cattaro, ac-
ocrding to dispatches received from
Cattaro.
Germany has made suggestions for
a peace conference to the Spanish gov
| ernment, says the Socialist Vorwaerts
Of Berlin.
| II was officially announced In Lon
don that Japan had decided to accept
the American proposal to assist the
Czecho-Slovak armies in Siberia.
Baron Won Hussarek, former minis
| ter of education. has been appointed
to the Austrian premiership in success
sion to DIR. Won Seydler, whose cabinet
resigned recently.
The Rumanian press bureau says
that according to the Spanish embas-
sy's doctor at Constantinople, 81 per
cent of the Rumanian prisoners have
died from typhus in Turkish camps.
The important point of Oulchy-le-
Chateau slowly but surely is being
surrounded. say dispatches from Paris.
II the Germans lose 1t, 1t will be impos
sible for them to hang on TO Fere-En-
Tardenois.
Thirty-seven German airplanes were
brought down or put out OF action by
French and British airmen July %.
Four captive balloons were burned and
many tons OF bombs were dropped on
German concentration points.
Alexis Romanoff, the former heir
apparent TO the Russian throne, died
from exposure a few days after his
father. the former emperor. was exc
cuted, says dispatch from Moscow to
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger.
A Russian wireless received in Lon
don says: After the siege of Yaroslav
by the councils troops against coun-
ter revolutionaries the place was occu-
pied by red army Between 5000 and |
5000 white guards tried to save them
selves on the Volga but a majority OF |
them were drowned"
The giant White Star liner Justicia
was torpedoed and sunk. Four hun
dred of the crew of the Justicia were
landed at an Irish port. They report |
that the liner was sunk after q TWEEN
ty-four-hour fight with submarines. No |
passengers were lost. and only ten OF |
the crew were killed.
SPORT
Professional baseball PLAYERS were |
given until Sept to seek essential !
employment or be called to the colors, ,
in an order issued by Secretary Baker.
Judging from the interest being
shown in advance. there will be big |
attendance from Denver at the race |
meeting scheduled to open at Chey-
enne on Aug. 10. The meet will con
tinue until Sept. 2.
Ten thousand persons at Frontier
park in Cheyenne, on July "a, saw
Joe Gardiner of Oklahoma clip four
seconds from the worlds steer-roping |
record and by doing it provided the |
supreme thrill of the first day of the |
Frontier days celebration. Roping in |
an arena hock-deep with mud and |
slippery as rink, the Oklahoman
completed the hog-tie in % seconds
fiat. The previous record. 81 seconds.
was held by Bert Weir of New Mex
leo.
GENERAL
The losses to British and allied ship |
ping due to enemy action or marine
risk for the month of June totalled |
275,629 gross tons. this being the low |
est record for any month since Sep
tember, 1916
The British armed cruiser Marmora
was torpedoed and sunk by German
| submarine
Mai. Arnhando Andre, Cuba's direc-
tor of subsistence, has placed articles
of dress. including shoes, under the
same restrictions as food
Aviator ]. Lawrence Durham, Brock
Vile. Ont. was instantly killed and
Ralph Doolittle San Francisco, fatally
injured in the fall of an aeroplane at
the Curtiss testing field at Buffalo.
n. Y.
| AT Kennebunkport, Me-, scores of
patrol boats, submarine chasers and
| private craft were sweeping the coast
searching for eight of the crew of the
fishing schooner Robert and Richard.
which was sunk by German sub
marine sixty-fve miles off Cape Por-
poise
A dedication of all its strength and
| resnurces to President Wilson In TIN.