The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-10-01
news OF THE week
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout The World

10y H-'fo0 VI hoiiiodub west OF YER
Cruz.
Official confirmation has reache,
London of the appearance of cholera il
the Austrian army.
A German prisoner who escaped wa
recsptured after living for 20 days OF
raisins and raw snails.
British war office admits the sinkins
Of three of her warships in the Nortf
Sea by German submarines.
L A hodcarrier on a San Francisco
skyscraper slid 13 stories down rope
burning out the palms of both hands.
i Vessels from the Dalmatian coast
report that the bombardment of Cat.
taro by French ships and land forces
has begun. =
A British detachment numbering
800 South Wales border men and 40C
Indian Sikhs were landed near Lao
shan, China.
Because reporters were required to
enter the back door of the official
press bureau in London, the war writ
Sf0 nave bune on strlke.
People in Vienna are rioting because
OF the government withholding the
war news. Several persons have been
killed and many arrests made.
An Amsterdam dispatch says the
Berlin Vorwaerts was suspended for
three days for saying that the German
advance was in reality retreat.
Another Grimsby trawler was blown
up by mine in the North Sea. The
crew all escaped except one deckhand.
who was killed by falling debris.
The European war has not affected
the date of opening the Panama Pa
cific exposition. No nations have
withdrawn their intentions to partici-
pate.
Berlin army headquarters admits
that one mortar shot was fired against
the cathedral of Rheims, as otherwise
1t would have been impossible to drive
away the enemy's observation posts
there.
Russian troops occupying Seniawa.
IL miles northwest of Jaroslau, says a
Petrograd dispatch, found that the
town had been sacked by Austrians.
A large number of Austrian soldiers
were captured.
The correspondent of the Italian
newspaper Corriere Della Terra at
Trieste says that two Austrian torpedo
boats and one destroyer were sunk by
floating mines last Friday on the coast
of Dalmatia.
A South Shields dispatch to the Gem
trail News of London says that the
Norwegian steamer Hesvik has been
destroyed by striking mine in the
North Sea. The chief engineer and
one assistant were killed.
A Pretoria dispatch to the Reuter-
Telegram company says it is officially
announced that the German post at
Schuckmannsberg, near Zambesi, South
Africa, surrendered without opposition
on September 81 to the Rhodesian po-
lice.
The military correspondent of the
London Times says the question of
officers is a serious one. An examina-
ton of English casualty lists shows
the loss of 100 officers in killed.
wounded or missing. This is two out
OF every five among those at the front.
Loans by Portland banks have in
creased 50, 500, 600 despite decrease in
deposits, claims State Superintendent
OF banks, who points to conditions in
Oregon as evidence thai criticism of
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo, that
banks are boarding money, does not
apply on the Coast
Reuters Constantinople correspond
emit says the former German cruiser
breslau has been renamed Midirli and |
the Goehen Sultan Selim. The CORES
pondent adds that the cruisers. accom-
panied by Turkish gunboats and tor
pedo boats, have been engaged in gun
practice in the Black Sea.
Pope Benedict XIV. the new Pom
.itf, has great love for America and
Americans, looking up to our govern
nent as model to all and an example
II the best on this earth," says Car
final O'Connell. 1.-THE holy father
sent message of sincere good will to
he people of this land, /" he adds.
A Berlin dispatch to the Rueter Tel
'gram company by way of Amsterdam
'ays warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Able Wetterle for high trea-
ION. Able Wetterle is member of
he Reichstag from Alsace-L Lorraine
md recently. declared the people of
hat province were waiting for the
french soldiers to rescue them.
General Beyers, head of Enpland's
roops in South Africa, refuses to lead
he Beers in campaign against the
iermans, holding the conflict unjust.
Ii is officially announced from Zanzi-
'ar that the British cruiser Pegasus.
which was recently attacked and
disabled by the German cruiser Koen-
gsburg, has been beached.
A message from Petrograd saws that
turing three days the Russians in Ga
icia have captured 5000 Austrians.
including $50 officers. Many cannon.
Iuick-tire guns and supplies also have
'een taken.
In desperate attempt on the part
4 the chauffeur of King Albert. of
Selgium, TO deliver him to the Ger
mans for price. the king promptly
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