The Ordway new era., 1915-09-17
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PATCHES PUT INTO ABORT.
cRlaP PARAoRAPHs.
SToRY,eF THE week
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westsrD. New .pspsr Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

A6OOT THE WAX 80 4t
German troops have captured Vclko-
vysk. an Important railway junction.
forty.eight miles southeast Of Grodno.
1t was officially announced at Berlin.
Twenty persons were killed and
eighty-siX others injured in Wednes-
day nights Zeppelin raid. the second
raid on England within twenty-four
hours. ea- iL-s
A British official statement says:
"The ships lost for the week ending
Sept number ten, Of a gross ton.
mage of 37.s26: fishing vessels four.
tonnage 1874"
Another Mexican was killed In Tex
as, this time by Msxicans near Ly-
ford. Just north OF Brownsville. This
was the second killing Of Mexicans
about Lyford in two days.
The French steamship Bordeaux
has been torpedoed and sunk. twelve
miles outside the mouth of the
Gironde. off the western coast lof
France It's crew was taken aboard .
pilot boat.
Forty-one ships flying the Norws
gian flag have been lost since the be-
ginning OF war In Europe and seventy
ak sailors have perished. according to
. report received at the State Depart
ment from the American minister at
Christiania.
An official communication made
public In Petrograd announces an.
other big success for the Russians In
eastern Galicia. Following their re-
ported victory at Tarnopol 1t Is stated
that southwest Of Trembowla during
Sept. z and s the Russians took as
prisoners $50 officers and 1000 men
and that the Teutons retreated hast
lily toward the river strypa.
Officers casualty lists for the fort,
night ended Aug. 20 indicate the Sc
verify Of the recent fighting in the
Gallipoli peninsula, whence the bulk
OF the casualties are announced. They
show that the British army lost 407
officers killed, 959 wounded and 136
missing , total OF 1909 for the fort.
night. Losses Of officers since the
outbreak Of hostilities have now
reached total Of 1880. OF whom L..
$50 have been killed. s.6sS wounded
and 1859 reported missing.
WRSTERN
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest.
ern railroad Is to he offered Sept. so
in Denver at foreclosure sale.
Two Mexican bandits were shot by
American soldiers returning the band
its' fire across the Rio Grande at
Cavaxes crossing.
Faced by two holdup men who told
him to come through quick" C. NJ.
Bisselie Of Lake Bluffs. ILL.,, at Chi
caEo. handed over 800.
The funeral OF George Fitch. wide.
ly known rs humorist and author.
who died at Berkeley. Cal. aug. 8. was
held at Galva. H.. his birthplace.
The Farmers Union. in its national
convention at Lincoln. Neb.. went on
record as opposed to the professional
farm adviser. sent out. II is alleged. by
some of the agricultural schools.
William Cullen Rudd. brother.in-law
of John ID. Rockefeller. died at his
home in Cleveland. Ohio. He is sur.
vived by his widow. Mary A. Rookie
feller Rudd. MIR. Rockefeller's only sis.
ter. to whom he was married Oct. IL,
1872.
James T. ]. Archibald, detained In
England because of carrying messages
from DR.. Constantin Dumba. Austro-
Hungarian ambassador to the United
States, was formerly q citizen of Pu-
eblo, Colo. and was areporter in 1890
for the former Pueblo Evening Press.
That the government reclamation
projects now under construction will
require the expenditure of $4,000, 900
and that this vast sum Is being ex.
pended at the rate OF s., ,O0O.O 900 month.
ly was the statement made by A. A.
Jones, assistant secretary of the in
terror, at banquet given In his hon.
or by FL Paso business men.
WASHINGTON
The Department OF Agriculture has
warned farmers against buying i'm.
ported crimson clover seed of low
termination and advised testing be.
fore planting.
Rear Admiral Caperton reported to
the Navy Department that General
Rameau. Haitien leader of influence,
had been sent to Gonaives. TO quiet
unrest reported in the vicinity of that
port. @
The German vote on the sinking OF
the Arabic is disappointing to Off
cials,
A plan to appoint commission OF
business men to mobilize business re,
sources of the United States in case
OF war was presented to President
Wilson by Bernard Baruch. New
York banker.
Postmaster General Burleson will
ask Congress- for an appropriation OF
$4,000, 600 to provide rural delivery
In the fiscal year beginning July /
1916 The appropriation for the cur
rent year is s$53,000.090.