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1ork sunk Dy GerHau suphai ihe oii
the Orkney islands.
The Norwegian steamer Fimreite, OF
3,s19 tons gross, was sunk by a Ger
man submarine. The crew was landed
at Stornoway, Scotland.
The British steamer Grangewood, OF
3,422 tons gross, bound from Arch
angel. Russia, for Havre, France, has
been torpedoed and sunk in the North
sea by German submarine. The
crew landed at Lerwick, Scotland.
The Frankfuerter Zeitung's Vienna
correspondent says the Austro-German
forces have captured 131,250 Russian
prisoners since July IA, besides forty
one cannon, 141 machine guns and an
enormous quantity of military sup
plies.
British aviators bombarded Smyrna,
destroying the gas works and petrol
depots, according to Mytilene dis
patches TO London. A French bird
man destroyed a Turkish munitions
: convoy near the Asia Minor port of
Avail.
Definite orders have been received
from Washington by Mai. Gen. Fred
erick Funston, commanding the border
troops, to repel any firing into Ameri-
can territory in fighting threatened
between Carranza and Villa forces at
Nogales and Naco.
The Swedish bark Capella and the
Norwegian bark Nordlyset. both tim
ber laden and bound for England,
were set on fire in the North sea by
German submarines. The crew of the
Capella was landed at Hull and that
of the Nordlyset at Friedrichshafen.
Battling over the sands of the
Euphrates valley under temperature
of 113 degrees, British troops drove
the Turks from the village of Nazarea,
taking eleven machine guns and many
prisoners. it was officially announced
in London. Five hundred Turks
were killed, The British casualties
were over 81
Western
Utah Day was celebrated at the
Panama-Pacific exposition.
truce was signed at San Francis
co between the leaders of the Bing
Kong and Suey On toIS5 to prevent
any further activity among the gun
men.
l. NJ. Dean was bound over to the
District Court on a charge of abduct-
ing E. A. Empey. wealthy ranchman,
east of Idaho Falls, Ida. He signed
full confession.
Prediction that the United States
would be drawn into war with Ger
many was made by Congressman
Frank Buchanan of Chicago, speaking
at Kansas City before the industrial
council
Chicago real estate increased in
value during the last year s311,7Os,-
124, according to figures announced by
Paul II. Wiedel, real estate expert of
the board of assessors. The increase
over 1914 approximately is IL per
cent
Divers and dredgers went back
Monday at Chicago to their grim work
of removing additional dead from .the
badly balanced ship of DEATH in Chi
cago river, The divers report that
there are still about 200 bodies re-
naming in the hull.
Two million families destroyed in
fifty years is the toll of divorce courts,
said Bishop William H. Moreland of
the Episcopal diocese of Sacramento.
in an address delivered at the second
session OF the worlds congress on
marriage and divorce at Oakland, Cal.
Washington
Russias winter cereal crops prom
Use heavy increases this year.
Damage to the new superdread-
nought Oklahoma, building at Cam
den, N j., probably will delay delivery
of the ship until January.
American Red Cross. doctors and
nurses will be withdrawn from the
European battlefields Oct. l, because
of lack of funds to maintain them
longer at their stations.
The loss of life in Canton, China.
due to fire and flood, is estimated in
tens of thousands, according to a re-
port from Admiral Winterhalter. COM
mand;ng the Asiatic fleet.
Unofficial word of the sinking of
the American steamship Leelanaw by
a German submarine was conveyed to
President Wilson Monday, but he de-
clined to make any comment for publi-
cation, pending the receipt of full of
ficial details.
Formal inquiry will be made at the
Berlin foreign office by American
Ambassador Gerard for the German
official version of the recent attack by
a submarine on the British liner
Orduna as she was bound for New
York with a score of American citi-
zens among her passengers.