The Holly chieftain., 1915-07-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD,
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War


About the War
The British steamship Lomas, bound
from Argentina for Belfast with car
go OF corn, was sunk by German
submarine sixty miles west of the
Scilly Islands.
The town of Halicz in Galicia on the
Dniester river has been occupied by
German troops, according to the an
nouncement given out by German mill
tary headquarters
Servian forces have invaded Aus
tria, capturing the village of Mich
arskaada, forty miles west of Bel
grade, the war office announced. The
serbs took 1856 prisoners.
The first great naval battle of the
war in the Baltic sea has been fought
and meager reports received from
Copenhagen indicate that the German
fleet has been defeated by the Rus
SLAMS.
An unconfirmed report from Athens
says the allies have taken the Turk
ish stronghold of Krithia, on the
Gallipoli peninsula, to the western
edge of which Gen. Ian Hamilton's
report carried his forces.
A German torpedo boat was sunk
in the Baltic off Windau, Petrograd
announced. A German squadron of
one battleship, four light cruisers and
several torpedo boats was put to
flight after shelling Windau.
, To add to the elation in London at
the reports of the Russians sea vic
tory, the news came that British
submarine on June 26 sunk Turkish
transport No. AZ. with shipload of
troops in the Sea of Marmora.
German U boats made their biggest
haul Friday since the torpedoing of
the Lusitania. They sent to the bot
tom the big steamer Caucasian, the
liner Inglemoor, whose tonnage ex-
ceeded that of the Leyland liner Ar
menian, the steamer Welbury, the
schooner l. C. Tower and a bark, all
British vessels. The Inglemoor was
the largest and one of the newest yes
sells of the Moor line of twenty-eight.
Twenty-nine persons were lost. at
least twenty of whom were Ameri-
cans, and many others injured when
the Dominion liner Armenian, which
sailed from Newport News for Avon
mouth on June II, was torpedoded by
the German submarine U38. The at
tack on the Armenian was made twen-
ty miles northwest of Trevor Head,
Cornwall. England. This information
was reported by American Consul
Armstrong at Bristol, England.
Western
The "drys" made gains in the Utah
local option elections
Billy Kersands, once widely
known negro, minstrel performer, died
at Artesia, N. NJ, aged 7s years.
tornado that swept parts of OF
tawa county, northeastern Oklahoma,
was reported to have killed five
persons.
Charles Goodnight Of Armstrong
county, Tex, has on his ranch 14S
buffalo and 35 catalo, the latter a
domestic Poll-Angus.
A disastrous storm of hail and wind
devastated parts of the four counties
of Adams, Clay, Fillmore and Thayer
in Nebraska, sweeping in zigzag
course over a stretch of more than
sixty miles.
The effect of an injury sustained in
an automobile accident four years ago
in which she nearly lost her life is
believed to have caused the death of
Mrs. Guilford Wood, social leader and
philanthropist, who passed away in
her winter home in Pasadena, Cal.
Wyoming withdrew from the Colo
RADIO Industrial School for Boys the
twelve boys from that state who have
been cared for at the institution. An
industrial school and reformatory has
been completed at Worland, and the
boys will henceforth be instructed
there.
Washington
The condition of Franklin D. Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the navy,
operated on for appendicitis, con-
tinued favorable.
A tremendous explosion, believed
to have been caused by some kind of
bomb or Internal machine, wrecked
the public reception room on the east
side of the Capitol building shortly