Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-09-17
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ABOUT THE WAR

vysk, an important railway junction,
forty-eight miles southeast Of Grodno,
Il was officially announced at Berlin.
Twenty persons we're killed and
eighty-six others injured in Wednes-
day nights Zeppelin raid, the second
raid on England within t%wenty-four
hours.
A British official statement says;
"The ships lost for the week ending
Sept. 8 number ten, of a gross ton
mage Of 1896; fishing vessels four,
tonnage 1874"
Another Mexican was killed in Tex
as, this time by Mexicans near Ly-
ford, just north of Brownsville. This
vas the second killing Of Mexicans
about Lyford in two days.
The French steamship Bordeaux
has been torpedoed and sunk, twelve
miles outside the mouth of the
Gironde, off the western coast of
France. Its crew was taken aboard a
pilot boat.
Forty-one ships flying the Norwe-
gian flag have been lost since the be-
ginning of war in Europe and seventy
six sailors have persisted, according to
a report received at the State Depart
ment from the American minister at
Christiania.
An official communication made
public in Petrograd announces an
other big success for the Russians in
eastern Galicia. Following their re-
ported victory at Tarnopol 1t is stated
that southwest of Trembowla during
Sept. z and 8 the Russians took as
prisoners $50 officers and 1000 men
and that the Teutons retreated hast
lily toward the river Strypa.
Officers casualty lists for the fort
night ended Aug. 30 indicate the Sc
verify Of the recent fighting in the
Gallipoli peninsula, whence the bulk
of the casualties are announced. They
show that the British army lost 4O7
officers killed, 959 wounded and 1856
missing, a total of 1902 for the fort
night. Losses of officers since the
outbreak Of hostiiities have now
reached a total of 15,840, of whom A.
100 have been killed, 1888 wounded
and 1852 reported missing.
WESTERN
The Denver, Laramie G Northwest
ern railroad is to be offered Sept. 80
in Denver at foreclosure sale.
Two Mexican bandits were shot by
American soldiers returning the band
IT'S fire across the Rio Grande at
Cavazes crossing.
Faced by two holdup men who told
him to come through quick" G. M.
Bisselle of Lake Bluffs, ILL.,, at Chi
cago, handed over $500.
The funeral of George Fitch, wide
ly known as a humorist and author,
who died at Berkeley, Cal, aug. 8, was
held at Galva, Ill, his birthplace.
The Farmers Union, in its national
convention at Lincoln, Neb., went on
record rs opposed to the professional
farm adviser, sent out, it is alleged, by
some of the agricultural schools.
William Cullen Rudd, brother-in-law
of John d. Rockefeller, died at his
home in Cleveland, Ohio. He is sur.
vived by his widow, Mary A. Rookie.
Teller Rudd, Mr.. R~ockefeller's only sis,
ter, to whom he was married Oct. II
1872.
James T. J.. Archibald, detained in
England because of carrying messages
from DR.. Constantin Dumba, Austro-
Hungarian ambassador to the United
States, was formerly a citizen Of Pu-
eblo, Colo, and was a reporter in 1890
for the former Pueblo Evening Press.
That the government reclamation
projects now under construction will
require the expenditure of $4,000, OOC
and that this vast sum Is being ex
pended at the rate of $1,000, 900 month
ly was the statement made by A. A
Jones, assistant secretary of the in
terror, at a banquet given in his hon
or by Ell Paso business men.
WASHINGTON
The Department of Agriculture hal
warned farmers against buying i'm
ported crimson clover seed of low
termination and advised testing be
fore planting,
Rear Admiral Caperton reported t.
the Navy Department that Genera
Rameau, a Haitien leader of influence
had been sent to Gonaives, to quiet
unrest reported in the vicinity of thai
port.
The German vote on the sinking Of
the Arabic is disappointing to Off
Gals.
A plan to appoint a commission Of
business men to mobilize business re
sources of the United States In cas-
of war was presented to President
Wilson by Bernard Baruch, a New
York banker.
Postmaster General Burleson will,
ask Congress for an appropriation Of
$4,000, 900 to provide rural delivery
in the fiscal year beginning July 1
1916. The appropriation for the cur
rent year is $3.50, 100000.
Gen. Carranza in his reply to the
Pan American con~ferees, 1t wal
learned, will agree to any interna
tional aspect Of the Mexican situa
ton. but will decline to enter a con
ference on internal affairs.
Commanding officers of the sunker
liner Hesperian In a Joint affidavit
forwarded to the State Department de
clared that from the fragments o.
steel which fell on deck it was "indu
bitably" shown that the ship wal
struck by a torpedo.
Secretary Lansing asked Austria Il
recall Ambassador Dumba.
President Wilson's request for tn,
recall of the Austrian ambassador. DIR
Constantin Theodor Dumba. ha,
broadened into a situation ~involvin,
Capt. Franz Won Papen. the military
attache OF the German embassy; AL
exander Nuber Won Pereked, the Aus
TRAN consul general In New York. anc
possibly Count von Bernstorff, the
German ambassador.
An American ranchman has beeu