, 1918-01-17
FOREIGN

line france s war aims.
At Santiago, Chile, the Mercurio ex-
presses the opinion that President
Wilson's speech may open the door to
peace.
Reports from Rostov say that the
Republic of the d has been de-
clared existent with Gen. Kaledine as
president and prime minister.
The Bolshevik government, a Reut-
er's dispatch from Petrograd says, has
issued a decree suspending all pay
ments of dividends by private COM
panies.
The German government has of
fered to pay the family of Enrique
Granados, the Spanish composer, &C.,
O00 pesetas as indemnity for the loss
of their father.
Four children lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed the east wing of
Ii Catholic general hospital in Water
street at Ottawa, Ont, with a property
damage amounting to $1,000
President Wilson's statement OF
peace terms has been received in the
allied countries with singular enthusi'
asm, although a flat refusal to con-
slider the offer is expected from Ger
many.
Germany was never in such danger
of collapse from internal and external
difficulties as at present, says the cor
respondent i'll Germany of the Amster-
day Tijd, in IN analysis of the exist
ing situation.
The House of Lords at London re-
iected Lord Loreburn's amendment u
the representation of the people bill
by which it was sought to exclude
women from the suffrage. The vote
against the amendment was 1874 to 60.
Winston Spencer Churchill, British
minister of munitions, addressing the
American Luncheon Club in London
made a powerful appeal for the send
ing OF American soldiers to Europe
quickly and in as large numbers as
possible.
Unprecedented temperatures for
Sweden are reported at various
places in the North. Some of the
lowest figures are 700 degrees below
zero, Fahrenheit, at Asele; 67 below
at Coerfors and 63.4 below at Hog
dalsjoe.
The central powers have withdrawn
their peace terms made public at the
Brest-Litovsk conference, on Dec. 20,
it was announced by DIR. Won Kuehl-
mann, the German foreign secretary,
in his speech at the Brest-Litvosk con
ference with the Russians.
In a speech before his departure
from Petrograd Premier Lenine said:
Il fear we shall have to stop the de-
mobilization and prepare for war. If
Germany and her allies do not accept
our conditions of peace, we will de-
clare a revolutionary war on them"
The Social Revolutionists at PetEo-
grad are planning to hold a owen
ton of peasants deputies and other
organizations in connection with the
all-Russia Workmen's and Soldiers
Congress on Jan. 81. An effort will
be made to form a federation of Rus
sian republics, including the Ukraine,
Siberia. the Don territory, and the
Caucasus.
SPORT
Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher for the
Chicago Americans, announced that
he has signed his 1918 contract.
Jack Dillon and Homer Smith, Mich
igan heavyweight, have been matched
to box ten rounds at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Miss Katherine Haywood, Philadel-
phia billiard star, defeated Melville
Flynn, 200 to 63, in her first appear
ance at Chicago.
Alfred De ORC, the world champion
three-cushion billiardist, Vol the first
block in the championship match with
Charles Otis of Brooklyn by one point
at Havana, Cuba.
GENERAL
Two bandits held up the Bank of
Knapp, at Knapp, Wis, and escaped
with $4,000.
Mrs. William X. Dick of New York,
formerly Mrs. John Jacob Aston, wife
of Col. Astor, who persisted when the
Titanic was sunk at sea, is a patient
at a Baltimore hospital.
Eta May Hicks, one of the women
charged with the murder OF the child,
Alice Bradshaw, on July 5, 1917, was
sentenced to from seven to twenty
years Imprisonment at st. Johnsburg,
VT.
Mrs. Blanca de Saulles, recently
acquitted of the killing of John L.. de
Saulles, left Roslyn. N. Y, for Califor-
mia with her little son, Jack. Her
country home is now closed for the
winter.
Governor Marcus II. Holcomb has
rafucad To ca11 a snnriaI sassfpD of