Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-12-17
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RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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Italians claim more successes along
the Isonzo front.
Austrian squadron sinks several
sailing vessels in bombardment of
port Durazzo.
Police in Berlin we're forced to dis
perse a mob making a pease demon
Btration.
Montenegro suggested to entente
powers that II be permitted to make
separate peace.
A British submarine sank a Turkish
destroyer and five supply ships in the
Sea Of Marmara.
Imperial chancellor tells reichstag
It would be folly for Germany to in
itiate peace negotiations.
Premier Asquith announces that
any serious peace proposals will
first be discussed by the allied gov
ernments."
The allies are avoiding direct en-
gagements. The ring that cuts off
the worlds supplies from the Teu-
tons is being drawn closer.
A man on an American oil steamer
was injured by the fire of an Aus
trian submarine. Another American
oil steamer has been sunk.
Germany bowed to the wishes OF
President Wilson in the cases of Cap
tains BOy-Ed and Won Papen. The
Kaiser personally recalled the unwel-
come attaches.
Destruction OF a large ammunition
factory at Halle, Prussian Saxony, by
an explosion, with the loss of several
hundred lives, is reported in a mes
sage from Holding, Denmark, to Co
penhagen.
A new crisis has arisen between the
United States and Austria. Diplo-
matte relations may be severed as a
result. Vienna Las ignored the note
on the sinking Of the Ancona, and an
Austrian submarine held up and
robbed an American ship.
Three hundred Villa soldiers were
killed. 100 taken prisoners and the
remainder Of the forces under Gen.
Jose Rodriguez dispersed five miles
north of Fronteras, when Gen. p.
Elias Gales rushed in from the south
to the rescue of the beleaguered Car
rama detachment, under Gen. Angel
Flores, according to reports received
at Douglas, Ariz.
WESTERN
Col, w. P. Hepburn, former con.
gresham from Iowa, is critically i'll at
Clarinda.
Mrs. Carrie Lake Morton, So years
old, wife of Joy Morton, and mother
OF Mrs. Joseph N. Cudahy of Chicago
and Sterling Morton of Kansas City,
died of acute nephritis at her home
a Lisle, Ill.
Ramon Villalobos, the first maA to
undergo capital punishment since Ari-
zona became a state, was hanged at
Florence. Villalobos was convicted of
the murder Of Deputy Sheriff Phineas
Brown OF Pinal county in October,
1914.
The average wage Of Methodist
Episcopal preachers in Ohio is $24.12
a week, and what is true Of Ohio is
true of most other states, according
~ q AGBOAN ouBlAlNNCu " Nh0 OOAlAAAo-
|, sion on Church and Country Life, in
session at Columbus. Ohio.
/ Col. Charles F. Mills, editor of the
Farm Home, died at Springfield, H.,
after a long Illness. He was secretary
OF the State Board of Agriculture, a
D secretary OF the American Live Stock
D Association, ana for a time assistant
, adjutant general of Illinois.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Garrison declares in his
! annual report to the President that II
the administration plan for a CONT
? mental army fails, the United States
will face some form of compulsory
military service.
Governor Dunno of Illinois and Sec.
rotary Stevenson OF the same state
lrvited President Wilson to speak al
+. the tomb of Abraham Lincoln al
Springfield, Ill, Feb. ~. The Presl
dent said he would accept If his en-
g%agements permitted.
' The State Department announced
the appointment of Judge George
= Gray Of Wilmington, Del, as chair
y man of the United States govern.
ment's delegation to the second Pan
American Scientific Congress, which
meets in Washington Dec. q.
. President Wilson's PanAmericar
policy does not Justify his prepared
ness program, IN the eyes of William.
J. Bryan.
6 Announcement was made that bids
/, Tor the two fleet submarines author
I lied by the last Congress would be
opened at tho Navy Department
Feb. 1G.
n Bills for an $1,000, 900 government
< armor plate factory hav' been intro.
} dueed in both houses OF Congress by
D Chairman Tillmnn OF the Sen te naval
committee and Representative Taven,
ner ~ Illinois.