Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-04
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EI6N COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union NEWS ssrvics.
ABOUT THE WAR

Mrs May Fabin was killed in Sec
ond airship raid on Southend, Eng
land.
Austrians surround Przemysl shut
Ing off Russian communication with
Lemburg.
British steamer Morwenna and DAN
ish steamer Betty sunk by submarines
In North Sea.
The Italian government declared
blockade OF all ports on the Austro-
Hungarian coasts.
The British battleship Triumph was
sunk in the Dardanelles, according to
official announcement at London.
Italy has given her adhesion to the
agreement already sirned by the al
lied powers not to conclude a separate
peace.
A peace treaty between Argentina.
Brazil and Chile was signed in Buenos
Aires by the foreign ministers of the
three states concerned.
Captain Greene of the American
vessel Nebraskan injured by an explo-
sion off Ireland says he is certain a
torpedo struck MS snip.
British mine-laying ship Princess
Irene destroyed by explosion at dock
near London with the loss of 327
sailors and dock-workers.
Italian gunners brought down an
Austrian aeroplane in the first contest
of the Italian campaign between fly
ing machines and antiaircraft guns.
German diplomacy is exerting itself
in every possible way to persuade Ru-
mania to preserve its neutrality, says
the Amsterdam correspondent of the
London Exchange Telegraph Com
pany.
The Overseas news agency gave out
the following at Berlin: According to
a Bucharest dispatch the Russian arm
ored man-of-war Winteleimon has
been sunk. with 1,40O men. in the
Black Sea"
Renewing the offensive movement
of Przemysl, General Mackenzen's
armies have stormed six strongly
fortified villages and captured 21,000
Russian prisoners, the war office an
nounced at Berlin.
A Zeppelin airship attacked South
End-on-Sea, forty miles east of Lon
don, dropping a score of bombs. Two
women were killed, one being blown
TO pieces. child was seriously in
jured and five buildings were set on
fire.
The official announcement by the
Italian war office states that the
italian forces penetrated Austria, had
occupied Caporetto, the heights be-
tween the Judnio and Isonzo and the
towns of Cormons, Cervignagno and
Terzo.
A Turkish gunboat of the Adm Refs
type was sunk in the Sea of Marmo:a
within sight of Constantinople by a
British submarine, according to an
Athens dispatch to the Paris Journal
The loss of the gunboat following
close upon the destruction of Turkish
transports has caused a deep impress
sion in Canstantinople.
WESTERN
Kansas has called for $4,000 harvest
hands by June 26.
Billy Sunday closed his seven
weeks Gospel campaign in Paterson.
N. j., and received $4,000.
Twenty thousand petitions asking
clemency for Leo NJ. Frank were
mailed from Chicago to the governor
of Georgia.
Thomas J. Brown, chief justice of
the Texas Supreme Court, died at
Greenville, Tex, after an illness of
three weeks.
Julia Walcott, one of the oldest act
tresses on the American stage, died at
Chicago. She was 76 and had been
PLAYING parts since she was 6.
The Rev. Father John Kelly. treas
urer of Creighton University, Omaha,
who has been pastor OF Catholic
churches in Chicago, st. Louis, Balti-
more and Kansas. died at st. Mary's.
Kans He was 81 years old.
Robert Uhlich. president of the
Trinidad local of the United Mine
Workers of America, was acquitted at
Trinidad, Colo. of the charge of hav-
i=% murdered Macl; Powell. also a un-
ion man. in the Ludlow fight of Oct.
9. 1913, incident to the coal strike.
Mrs. Tom Kelley, wife of farmer
living four miles southeast of Spald-
ing, Neb., was killed and her husband
fatally injured when their home was
destroyed by tornado.
WASHINGTON
At General Villas request the State
Department took up the case OF the
five Mexicans under sentence TO be
executed in Arizona.
Secretary McAdoo received $4,000
conscience fund contribution from
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