The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-23
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Withdrawing on Saloniki. This news
canes from Paris and Rome dis
patches.
Two British divisions. approximate
~ 10000 men, are reported by the
Berlin war office to have been prac.
tically annihilated in the greatest de-
feat inflicted upon the Franco-British
allies in the Balkan campaign.
Russian artillery destroyed Yep
pelin airship the night of December s.
near the station Of Kalkun on the
Libau-Romin railway. All members Of
the crew persisted. says q dispatch
from Petrograd.
The British steamer Orteric, a
Bank liner OF 6,565 tons, was sunk b,
submarine, it is announced at Lon
don.
The official statement issued at Der.
hin is as follows: The AnglO-French
troops, after suffering a series of decisr
i've defeats by the army Of General
Todorofr. are retreating in miserable
condition over the Greek frontier.
Their losses in men and material OF
all kinds have been extraordinarily
heavy.
Three English battalions were sur.
rounded by the Turks and surren-
dered. acco.o:n. to Constantinople
dispatch. The English are expected to
retreat still further south.
According to information received at
Washington from Athens the Greek
governmeA mas agreed to withdraw
its troops from Salonik.
Domestic
United States District Attorney
Frank C. Daley announced at Indian
apOlis that he would retire from office
January /. Mr.. Daley will enter one
of the large law firms of Indianapolis.
George Horn, prominent politician
of Irvine, KY, was assassinated as he
walked along the streets of that town.
Because of a famine in antitoxin
cholera serum manufactured and fur.
nished by the state laboratories at
Springfield. ILL.,. central Illinois is
threatened with an epidemic of hog
cholera.
Fifteen hundred engineers, tiremen
and trainmen of the Belt railway OF
Chicago have declared strike. Freight
are tied up in the freight yards about
the city. The men were provided with
no service train to the yards and they
objected to walking.
Edward Barry and his wife, Josie
Barry. and Aaron Barbara were burned
to death by fire in rooming house
at 1857 East Grand avenue, Chicago.
Pawn tickets for jewelry aggregat.
ing $4,000 we're found by the police of
Des Moines, la, on Raymond FRANKIE.
Walter Johnson and Mrs. Edna Hug
zleton. captured in raid on a hotel.
Charles P. Cummings. superinten-
dent of public schools at Lansing.
Mich. and one of the states best
known ed o:tors. accidentally shot
himself with shotgun. He may not
recover.
The plant of the La Crosse wis.,
Knitting works, rushed with war or.
ders for the allies. was partially de-
stroyed by tire. with $4,000 loss.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury at San Francisco
against Baron George Wilhelm Won
Brincken C. C. Crowley and Mrs Mar
garet Cornell. who are alleged to be
the ringleaders Of band of plotters,
pro-German in sympathy. who have
cOnspired to wreck ships.
Mayor George E. Ellis of Grand Rap
ids. Mich. ordered Police Commits.
sioner Carroll to rigidly apply the
Michigan blue law passed in 1852
Sunday all places Of business except
drug stores we're ordered closed and
all except theater managers obeyed the
mandate.
Plans for the destruction of NUM-
ton plants at Gary. Ind. Aetna, Ind.
and 1shpeming. Mich. were revealed at
San Francisco when there were made
public the details of indictments re-
turned against three alleged conspir
at0rs In German plots.
Attorneys for c.. B. Munday. convict.
ed Of conspiracy to defraud the La.
Sale Street Trust and Savings bank
Of Chicago, filed Written motion for a
new trial at Morris. Ill.,. citing IS rea>
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