The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-10-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World.

war cost at $4,000. 900.
1t is declared that Australia is mo-
bilizing an army to aid Great Britain.
Mrs. Adams has been appointed as
sistant United States attorney at San
Francisco.
Canadian troops have embarked for
England to aid the British in the Euro
pean war.
Harry Thaw has leased an estate in
Manchester, N. H., where he will
spend the winter.
Two unidentified victims of the
wrecked steamer Leggett were or
dered buried at Newport, Oregon.
The Montenegrins are within artil-
lery range of the Sarajevo, the capital
of the Austrian province of Bosnia.
The will of Mrs. Frank Leslie, wife
of the late publisher, bequeaths g.
900, 900 to the cause of woman suf-
frage.
Noting the success of aviation in the
European war, Uncle Sam is said to be
increasing the efficiency of the u. S.
aviation service.
Twenty Eastern Star delegates and
members were injured when plat
form in Kansas City collapsed, precip-
itating 400 persons.
The 38th German casualty list made
| Oh Q0nn
includes three major generals, one
killed and two wounded.
A resident of Maubeuge, who had
been made prisoner but later escaped,
states that Maubeuge was three-quar-
tiers burned by the Germans.
Italy is ready to make protest to
Turkey against the abolition of the
capitulations at Constantinople, ac-
cording to a Rome dispatch to the
Havas agency.
By order of the military commander
of the province of Brandenburg, Ger
many, the Vorwaerts, organ of the So
cial Democratic party, has suspended
publication indefinitely.
The Dardanelles have been closed to
navigation, according to dispatch
from Constantinople to the Reuter-
Telegram company, London. The dura.
ton of the closure is not stated.
News from Petrograd indicates that
l 200, 900 strong will join the present
armies in Poland and Galicia for rus
sia's principal attack on Germany"
1t is officially announced at Vienna
according to Rome dispatches to thu
Exchange Telegraph company, of Lon
don, the Austro- Hungary army concen
trated at Cracow numbers 2, 500, 600.
A German bullet is said to hav
been the cause of the death of Primo
Adalbert, the German emperor's thir'
son, also, it was found that other Ger
man officers died from similar cause
A report received from Munich esti
mated that 1000, 900 men, and womel
are idle in Germany, and that the mum
Der of unemployed is increasing daily
A lack of raw material, it is said, i
the cause.
The London war information burea
has made it known that Indian troop
were landed in France last Friday
! The point of landing was not revealed
but it is presumed that the troops dis
embarked at Marseilles.
!. II is officially announced by Austria
Hungary, says dispatch from Rom
to the Havas agency, that Genera
Y Won Auffenburg, commanding the frs
t Austrian army, is i'll. 1t is said tn
general has contracted cholera.
: The historic annual banquet held b
the New York chamber of commerce
has been postponed on account of tn
war, and the president of the chambe
suggests the members give the pric
of each plate (s20) to the Red Cross.
An Antwerp dispatch to the Londo
q Daily Mail says: king Albert is
be seen constantly in the danger zon'
:, He is reported to have assembled in
balloon to survey operations. tt
enemy shelled the balloon but Il
shells fell short
Eighteen steamers of an aggregat
2 tonnage of 90, 5S1 have been sunk
Y German warships during Septembe
v according to a London board Of traC
o report, while nine steamers were d
b stroyed by mines in the North Sea
/ the same period, rs lives being lost.
K Secretary Bryan, for the Unit
, States, and Ambassador Bakhmetei
" for Russia, signed treaty bindir
n the two nations to submit all disput
:. that cannot be settled diplomatical
y to an international commission of fl
d members for investigation during
ID period of at least one year, duril
Ell which hostilities may not be col
d menced.
sr A Petrograd dispatch to the E
|. change Telegraph company, Londo
states that the Russian moratoriu
has been extended for a month.
I'd A dispatch from Rome asserts tn
lie the minister of the interior has a
I'll nounced that is new cases of chole
in were discovered in the Budapest mi
n tary hospital.
sc The operators of German Zeppe
- dirigible dropped bomb into scho
10 house at Bielostok, Russia, killing
:. children, according to a dispatch fir