, 1918-01-31
FOREIGN

declare hat no fewer than $500 peo-
pie lost their lives in the Guatemala
earthquake.
relli, the novelist. was fined fifty
pounds Cs25O) under the food restric-
lions at London.
The director of meat supplies an
nounced that Tuesday will be the
meatless day in London and Wednes-
day in the provinces.
Confirmation was received at Buen-
os Aires of the report that DR.. Rom
ulo S. Naon, the Argentine ambassa-
dor to the United States, has resigned.
Six soldiers are known to have been
killed, n missing and thirty other
persons We're injured in a rear-end col
lision on the Canadian Pacific rail
way near Dorval station.
Last year SG7 Norwegian vessels.
with an aggregate tonnage of $685. 900
were sunk, a dispatch from Copen-
hagen reports. Since the beginning
of the war 215 Danish ships have
been sunk and 234 Danes have been
killed.
BY a reorganization of the New
foundland cabinet, Premier-elect Will
liam Lloyd, leader of the fishermen's
union party, is enabled to retain pow
ell and will probably be able to con-
duct the government of the colony I'M
til the next general election.
The latest advices received at San
Salvador show that the first reports
of the Guatemala earthquake were *
~aggerated. The fatalities as a result
of the disturbance aggregated fifty,
while only one hundred persons were
injured. Earth shocks continue, but
they are weak.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson. the Arctic
explorer. is not at Fort Yukon, Alas
ka, as reported recently, but. is be-
lieved to be at Herschel island or
Bailey island, both of which lie in the
Arctic off the Canadian coast, says a
special dispatch received from Ottawa
by the Vancouver, B.. c., World.
SPORT
Twenty-seven national and worlds
records, sixteen for men and eleven
for women. were shattered in 1917 by
American swimmers.
Andy CWildcat) Williams of Camp
Perry, Great Lakes, Ill. has been
matched to box Jack Perry ter rounds
at 1876 pounds in Cleveland, Jan. IS.
Harry 'Greb of Pittsburg started
his 1918 record with a victory over
Terry Keller of Dayton, o., in a ten
round bout before the McKeesport,
Pa, A. c.
Old Joe's White Sox, owned by
John Speer of st. Marys, Pa, and
handled by Luther Hadley. won the
amateur field championship in the dog
trials at Grand Junction, Tenn, held
under the auspices of the All-Ameri-
can Field Trial Club.
Governor Houx at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
ordered the arrest of the principals,
seconds and the referee in three prize
fights which were held at Eagle hall
New Year night, and also the arrest
of newspaper reporters at the ring
side. The prosecuting attorney was
ordered to file charges against all I'M
der the state law prohibiting prize
fighting.
GENERAL
Miners at Peabody, Tenn, have
voted unanimously to work on Sun
days to relieve the coal shortage.
General Pershing cabled the thanks
nf tho A nnrfnnn nxnnIitinnnr ~ fArrao
for President Wilson's New Year
greetings.
A total of $1,O36 has been sub
scribed to the army Y. NJ. C. A. fund
by Indians of the Rosebud reserva-
ton, Brookings. s. d.
Mrs. Annie Sherwood Hawks, auth.
or of many famous gospel hymns, in
Guiding 81 Need Thee Every Hour"
died at her home at Bennington, VT,
aged eighty-three.
Six hundred representatives of the
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Asso-
citation in annual convention at Sagi-
nav pledged to stand together for at
least $40 a ton and possibly up to $11
or not raise sugar beets in 1918.
The following nominations by Presi.
lent Wilson were announced: Regis.
tiers of land offices, Alex Nisbet,
Evanston, Wyo.; Mrs. Mary Wolfe
pargin, Denver, Colo. Receivers of
public moneys, James p. Folger,
Evanston, Wyo.
Charles Qualey, a mining man, heav,
lily Interested in Mexican properties,
was shot and instantly killed on Pho
neer Plaza in the business district OF
Ell Paso, Tex. William Russell, cattle
man from Lubbock, Texas, is under
charged with the killing.