The Holly chieftain., 1915-10-08
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oolNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Greece and Bulgaria have called for
their reservists in the United States.
Governor Williams of Oklahoma
says no outside aid is needed at Ard
more.
Petrograd reports indicate that the
German thrust against the Slavs has
been checked
1t seems to be a generally accepted
conclusion that Bulgaria will enter the
war Oct. Is.
The German war office announces
in an official bulletin that the allies
have taken hill No. 191
British forces now in France. mum.
bering about a round million, will be
augmented by half million more.
The Germans claim to have taken
$1,000 men and sixty-one machine
guns in the battles on the west front.
London reports tell of gains at the
Dardanelles and claim a sweeping vic
tory for British arms in Mesopotamia
General Kuropatkin, the Russian
commander in the Japanese war, will
tahC lhC llClu Will Inc al ny
as chief Of the grenadier corps.
Paris claims considerable gains in
the Champagne region, which enable
the French to make a direct attack
on the German lines of communica-
ton.
The British treasury has received
697 claims for personal injuries in the
German east coast aerial raids previ-
Gus to June 1, and 10,297 claims for
property damages.
The Prussian casualty lists covering
the period from September 18th to
2Sth give the name of 63,4GS men
killed, wounded and missing, accord
ing to a Rotterdam paper.
London advises that the Kaiser has
admitted the allies have gained to the
north of Mesnil, to the north of Mas
siges and along the road from Vile
sur-Tourbe to Cernay-en-D -Dormois.
WESTERN
A slight earthquake shock was felt
by several cities on the coast. No
damage.
kodSl oiilSA1o, oai oooS, AsSAO, A'oioS
and Salt Lake City reported slight
earthquake shocks Saturday night.
]. w. Jones, foreman of c. F. & l.
wire mill at Pueblo, was shot in the
back and has slim chance for re-
covery. The shot was fired at night
through window of Jones home.
Reopening an old family feud, Mrs.
Joseph Kirkpatrick, aged GS, shot and
killed DR.. A. C. Saylor in front of the
grandstand at the Hillsboro, Texas,
fair grounds, where William j. Bryan
had just finished delivering a peace
lecture.
Cecil H. Shields, private stationed
at Fort Logan, died in the hospital
on the reservation from injuries sus-
tanned when. he collided with the auto.
mobile driven by the wife of Lieut. A.
NJ Graham. Young Shields was rid
ing bicycle.
The sweepstakes prize of $500 for
the best bushel of wheat displayed at
the Soil Products Exposition was
taken by Saegler Wheeler Of Rosthern,
Sask
The Colorado Supreme Court an
nounced it would take original juris-
diction in the suit brought by state
officers to test the validity of the
wet amendment to the Denver city
charter. The high court issued a writ
of certiorari calling upon the city and
state to submit the law In the case.
DR.. Albert Abrams of San Francis
co announced that he had devised ap-
paratus which had already determined
at long distance the nature of certain
diseases.
The estate of A. G. Spalding. who
died at Point Iona, Cal, it is learned
after partial appraisement, will
amount to over $1,000,00O and may
reach twice that.
An enthusiastic good roads meeting
was held at Douglas, Wyo., with
prime object of developing a perma-
nent automobile highway from Denver
to Yellowstone Park via Cody.
SPORTING NEWS
Hoyle, black gelding. broke the
state record for five-eighths of mile,
running, at the Las Animas county
fair at Trinidad, by going it in 1902
flat.