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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Riot occurs in Italian cabinet over
pence suggestion.
Russians claim to have made slight
advance near Riga.
Germans recapture positions near
pVinsk from Russians.
London official statement denies
Lord Kitchener has resigned.
Fall of Nish imminent and Serb
army is slowly being crushed.
Greek king calls council of minis
ters to save neutrality" cabinet
Germans violently attack French
positions in Champagne and gain foot
hold.
Austrians report complete repulse of
Russians from Sienikowce and cap
ture of 1000 men.
Germans have captured Kraguye-
satz. where the main arsenal of the
serbians is located.
Allied troops have landed at Kavala
In Bulgaria. Kavala is the terminus
pf three important railways.
British war office announces 800
port Ramazan in Aegean sea.
Fire, believed of incendiary origin,
destroyed s25,00O worth of sugar for
Great Britain and damaged steamer
Euterpe, being loaded at Brooklyn.
Serbia is reported to have informed
Russia that unless aid is Forthcoming
1t once the Serbs will make the best
terms possible with the invaders and
conclude separate peace.
Germany is ready to consider peace,
according to Amsterdam reports. The
German chancellor is quoted as saying
that the kaiser will agree to peace If
Belgium is ceded to him with certain
other territory. An indemnity of ST.
500 900 is also demanded.
Premier Asquith in the British
house of commons admitted that the
campaign against the Dardanelles had
failed. The premier, reviewing the
war, told the Britons tEcy must pre-
pare to make great sacrifices and
adopt a rigid economy in order to win
the war.
Defeated, the Villista army retreated
10 the eastward from Aqua Prieta,
leaving 400 dead and wounded on the
battlefield. Eight persons on the
American side of the boundary, in
Guiding four soldiers OF the Seventh
Infantry, were wounded during the
fighting Harry Jones, private in Com
pany C. Eleventh infantry. died of the
wounds inflicted by a bullet from the
Aqua Prieta battle line.
WESTERN
The Parnell, Ia, Savings Bank was
robbed of $500 by burglars who blew
the safe.
Rear Admiral Thomas Stowell
Phelps, U. S. N, retired. died at his
home in Oakland, Cal.
Bandits held up and robbed the San
Simon Valley bank at San Simon,
Ariz., escaping with S400.
George Roberts. 40, plumber, of
Spokane, Wash, killed two members
of his family and himself after prob
ably fatally wounding two others.
Bear meat is in season now in Hood
River, Ore. Local butchers offer
steaks and fat juicy roasts from
berry-fed animals at 25c per pound.
John T. MacAuley, 90, one of the
most widely known men in this coun.
try. died at Louisville, KY, from dia-
betes, complicated with other all
ments.
James C. Bulgar was given a new
lease of life when the Colorado Su-
preme Court granted him a stay of ex-
ecution until the week beginning
Jan. ..
Death rather than the white mans
jail was the choice made by Charlie
Nelson, an Indian, who killed his
squaw and himself in cell in the
county Jail at Colusa, Cal.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson appointed Tillman
p Johnson of Ogden United States
district Judge for Utah.
Turner A. Wickersham. manager of
the estate of the late Thomas F.
Walsh, died suddenly at Washington.
Representations have been made
through the State Department to the
British government in new protest
regarding meat shipments to neutral
ports.
England was asked by the United
States to explain the seizure of the
American steamer Hooking at Halifax.
A sculptor is placing new eye,
nose and ear on George Washington,
whose bust in the treasury depart
ment fell from its pedestal.
The entire state OF New York is
freed OF the foot and mouth disease
quarantine by an order signed by the
secretary of agriculture.
Srrrctary Daniels transmitted the