Gilpin observer., 1915-08-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

About the War
The Swedish steamer Mai has been
sunk by a German submarine.
The Austro-German statement says
that forts near Novogeorgievsk have
been captured.
German troops have crossed the
Vistula and occupied Praga, eastern
suburb of Warsaw.
French air squadrons bombarded
the Rhenish Prussian city of Saar-
brucken, injuring few civilians.
The Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-
Din Barbarossa of $500 tons displace-
ment, formerly the German warship
Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm, was
sunk by submarine or the entente
powers, according to an official an
nouncement issued by the Turkish
government.
London newspapers lay emphasis
on what they assert is Russia's i'm
proved situation in the Riga district.
"The Russians" says the Morning
Post Petrograd correspondent, "are
forcing vigorous aggressive and the
Germans have been swept clear from
the Riga region"
While the Austro-German armies
made fresh progress in their cam
paign against the Russians Monday
the conflict on the western front took
on new impetus, Sir John French,
commander of the British expedition
airy forces, reporting fierce artillery
engagement in which British and
French forces captured trenches at
Hooge, near Ypres, along front of
nearly a mile.
The Germans are in possession of
Warsaw, capital of Poland and the
third largest city in the Russian EN-
pre- An official communication is
sued in Petrograd says: In view of
conditions and the general situation,
our troops west of Warsaw have re-
ceived orders to fall back on the right
bank Of the Vistula. According to re-
ports received, this order was carried
out and the troops which were cover
ting Warsaw retired at o'clock Thurs
day morning, without being attacked,
toward the new front assigned to
the bridges over the Vistula."
Western
Governor Carlson of Colorado for
mally suspended State Printing Com
missioner Harry Risley.
; A three-year agreement providing
for the return to work of 10000 union
painters, who have been on a strike
four months was signed in Chicago.
Three Mexican outlaws were killed
by posse at farm house about thir-
ty miles north of Brownsville, Tex
One member of the posse was slightly
wounded.
DR.. N. Cox Of Cairo and DIR. B. A.
Smith of Champaign were removed
from the State Board of Dental Ex-
aminers by Governor Dunno of ILL
nois for neglect of duty"
Many phases of immigration prob
Iems Of the United States are in
cluded in the subjects for discussion
by the International immigration Con-
gress. which opened at San Francisco.
The referendum has been invoked
against two of the four nonpartisan
state election bills, the chief meas
ures advocated by Gov. Hiram w.
Johnson at the recent session of the
California Legislature.
Cold and hungry, Hugh Punneo, 81
years old, who went to Denver from
Bosworth, Wyo., to search for his
father, Isaac Punneo. applied at police
headquarters for shelter and food. The
young man declared he had tramped
the streets for days, but was unable
to find any trace of his father
Washington
Millions of dollars worth of by.pro.
ducts from coke production are literal
ly thrown away annually in the Unit
ed States through the continued use
of the obsolete beehive oven process,
according to report by the Geo.
logical Survey. The loss by that
method last year is estimated at full.
iy s40.000.O00
The Mexican situation moved for.
ward with two important develop
ments. Gen. Carranza signified his
Willingness to meet his adversaries in
a peace conference and an authorita
tive announcement was made OF the
views with which the United States is
approaching the problem in the Pan
American conference.
President Wilson has signed an ex
ecutive order creating the Big Lake
reserve In northeastern Arkansas fol-
the protection Of native birds.
A definite policy as to Mexico has
been agreed upon by the Pan-Ameri-
can conference, Secretary Lansing an.
nounced.
DR.. Bobo. former Haitian revolu.
ZIONIST, has given up his rebellion, or
dered his generals to disarm and has
announced himself as candidate for