The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-11-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World.

Belgian refugees in Holland will not
be forced to return to their nativity.
Turkey has opened war on Russia
and begun bombardments on the Black
sea.
Beginning of winter in Europe has
lessened the night attacks of the OPP
posing armies.
1t is reported in Rome that the Ger
man crown prince has been wounded
while leading an attack on Verdun.
The Newspaper of France says the
Belgian parliament will be called into
session at Havre some time IN Novem-
Der.
England declares the report that the
Indian troops in Egypt are in mutiny
is false, because there are no such
troops in that country.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
ordered lit more freight cars to haul
the immense crops, also its president
says 81, 100000 will be expended in
Improving tuc iiilcs
Arguments in the Federal suit to
dissolve the United States Steel cor
poration, have closed, and, it is said,
the court may not reach a decision
until next summer.
The Swedish steamship Ornen, from
Portugal for Gothenburg, Sweden, hit
mine Monday in the North sea, and
sank off Cuxhaven. Five members of
her crew were drowned.
A dispatch received from Roosen-
daal says that ID, 500 Belgian refugees
returned Tuesday and 1880 Wednes-
day.to Antwerp, but that $500 of them
have left the city again for Holland.
All the German army corps on the
left bank of the Vistula in Poland are
in full retreat, according to an Official
report from Petrograd made public in
Washington by the Russian embassy
The London Daily News correspond
ent on the allies left wing reports
that a German submarine boat which
attacked the British battleship Veneer.
able off the Belgian coast has beer
sunk.
A squadron of British torpedo boa
destroyers has sunk the Adriatic, I
German steamship, which had beer
converted into a cruiser, according t,
a dispatch from Barcelona to thu
Havas News agency. The British res
| cued the German crew.
1t is announced in London that whel
parliament reassembles on Novembe
IL, Premier Asquith will move a vot
for another $500, 900, 900 on account o
the war. A similar amount was vote
in August, of which $3.50, 900, 900 ha
already been expended.
The Cologne Gazette says it ha
learned from Berlin that soldiers o
various general units, which have be
come exhausted and weakened OWN
to the long stay in the trenches, ar
being sent home on furlough lastin
from five to seven days.
The London Daily Chronicles Pari
correspondent asserts that with a vie'
to detaching France from the allies
Germany has made an offer to conclud
peace on the basis of the cession O
Metz and possibly a portion of Alsac
to France. The offer, according to tn
correspondent, was rejected.
West Virginia has snow storm an
mercury stands at 80 degrees.
l,n,,+aL f-ox., po~l;x, .Ia;.~,a To-
many holds 296, 800 prisoners.
Germany is now heavy buyer {
cotton from the United States.
President Jefferson's friend, Thoms
G. Fagg, aged SO years, dies in san
tarium in St. LOUIS.
Products from five states are beir
shown in the Manufacturers and Lar
Show being held in Portland.
Canada is raising second army
Is, 900 to aid England, which will er
bark for that country in December.
1t is reported that 1000, 900 Be
gians are facing starvation and tn
the food supply will last only tv
weeks.
When dealers advance prices of p
! tatoes in Amsterdam, people start ri
and destroy greater part of stock b
fore the police arrive.
A woman, widowed by the Titan
4 disaster, has become the wife of mi
picked up by the lifeboat she W
} saved by. They will reside in Hun
\ ington, W. Va.
! Judges of the Mississippi Supren
b court heard arguments while clad
overalls and cotton shirts. Attorne
presenting cases were clothed sin
\ larly. The departure from conve
tional dress was the result of loo
cotton day. in furtherance of t
n wear cotton clothes" movement
\ the South
8 F. H. Crosby, of San Francisco,
= purchased the entire stocks and bon
of the Northwestern Long Distan
Telephone company for $3.50. 900.
= A thrashing at home with Dir
3 rod was the sentence melted out
y three grammar school boys in p
c mouth, Mass, when they were fou
y guilty of burglary.
= Seventy-one Japanese held as pr
N oners in Germany have been releas
e and escorted safely out of the count
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