The Holly chieftain., 1915-04-02
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About the War

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War
The fall of Przemysl consolidated
Russias hold on eastern Galicia and
has released the investing army for
field operations elsewhere.
All the Alpine troops of the first
category, born In 1883, have been
called to the colors by the Italian War
Department for forty-five days.
The steamer Vosges was sunk by
shell fire off the Cornish coast. The
chief engineer was killed and three
of the crew were badly injured by
shrapnel
Both Calais and Dunkirk were Wis
tied by German aeroplanes, but
neither town was damaged Six bombs
were thrown on Dunkirk and one on
Calais.
Sixty thousand Albanian rebels are
said to be engaged in the assault up
on Durazzo, designed to force the re-
tirement of Essad Pasha, the Turkish
provisional president
A defeat of the Turks in the Black
sea region and a continuation of the
forcing Of the Ottoman troops back
in the vicinity of the Tchoruk is
chronicled by Petrograd
The battles for the .Carpathian
passes continue with extreme violence,
this being the only region where, for
the moment, fighting on large scale
is taking place. The eyes OF all
Europe are centered there
Eleven thousand German dead have
been taken from the trenches won by
the French during twenty days fighting
in the Champagne country. The Ger
man losses in killed, prisoners and
wounded is estimated by the French
military authorities as $4,000.
The admiralty has good reason to
believe the German submarine U-29
has been sunk with all hands," says
London report. 1t was this vessel
which week ago torpedoed six
steamers in Bristol channel and off
the Scilly islands within two days.
This news, published following as it
did reports that the attack on the
Dardanelles had been resumed and
that the Russians had won important
victories over the Austrians in
Bukowina and at Uzsok pass in the
Carpathians, gave the peoples of the
allied countries cause for cheerful
ness.
Western
At Coldwater, Mich, Miss Agnes
Farmer, eighteen, was forced to act as
second for two boy friends who fought
duel on the highway, when both
We're seriously injured.
With the thermometer as law as %
degrees, fruit growers say the Harri-
son county, Tex, fruit crop is ruined
and the yield in the main Texas belt
this year will be way below normal.
Upon orders from Washington, Col.
A. P. Blockson, commanding the bor-
der patrol at Brownsville, Tex,
stopped the bringing Of Mexican
wounded to this side and placed a
guard over those already there.
Lowell A. Young, formerly of Den.
yer, was fined $1OO in Judge Prindi-
ville's court in Chicago on the tech
nical charge of assault and battery,
which in this case means taking i'm
proper liberties with young women.
Members of the band of desper-
ADDE'S who escaped from Stroud, OKLA
after robbing two national banks of
$4,000, eluded half dozen mounted
posses and were believed to be riding
safely toward the Businesses of the
kiamichi mountains with their spoils
Thirty.two heirs of the David
Eccles estate, aggregating $6,5OO,OO0,
according to the court inventory, filed
through David c. Ecces, administra-
tor of the property, an answer in Salt
Lake to the claim Of Albert Geddes
Eccles, son of Mrs. Margaret Geddes
of Salt Lake City.
Washington
A memorial meeting for the. late
Associate Justice Lurton was held.
William II. Taft presided.