The Colorado statesman., 1915-09-04
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Itusts VI lHS IOIlIeSS, beIllH IepOllS'
The total number of Prussian
losses published up to Aug. "a
amounts to 1,74O,S36 killed, wounded
and missing
Two Mexican bandits were shot to
death near Kathryn, Tex. They had
been arrested by a posse and were
trying to escape.
The Russian fortress of Lutsk has
been captured by Teutonic forces, it
was officially announced by the Aus
trian war office.
The British steamer Sir William
Stephenson of 1910 tons, has been
sunk by German submarine, accord
ing to London reports.
A telegram from Maasbode says al
lied aviators destroyed a large build
ing at Client, Belgium, used by the
Germans for housing air craft.
report was given out by the Over
seas News agency at Berlin that a
cruiser of the allies had met with dis
aster off the coast of Asia Minor.
The British employed $4,000 men
in their attacks on Turkish positions
on Gallipoli peninsula, according to a
dispatch from Constantinople to the
Berlin Frankfurter Zeitung, and their
losses were extremely heavy. The
correspondent estimates that since
Aug. the British losses have been
in excess OF $4,000.
More than 100000 Russians have
been taken prisoners by the Germans
since the campaign in Galicia began
on May 2, German army headquarters
announced. Captures of Russians dur
ing the month of August totalled 1000
officers and 269,S39 men, while 1900
cannon and $50 machine guns were
taken.
The Russian armies along the line
OF the upper Bug and the Zlota Lipa
are being withdrawn rapidly and ap
parently without great loss, as neither
Vienna nor Berlin claims any extern
sive captures of prisoners or booty in
this region. In the center of the line,
due east of Warsaw, the invaders
continue to make steady progress,
while further north they are advanc-
ing more slowly. The fall of Lipsk
brings the attacking forces nearer
Grodno, the last big fortress on the
front to be retained by the Russians
WESTERN
No mail deliveries will be made in
Denver on Labor day.
The Utah highway commission has
let a contract for a concrete highway
between Salt Lake City and Murray,
the cost of which will be 1924, 900, ac-
cording to Walter B. Elcock
Bankers passing through Chicago on
their way TO attend the annual con
vention of the American Bankers AS
sociation at Seattle, Wash, declared
that return of prosperity is at hand
John S. Mosby, Jr., of Washington,
ID. c., well known in Denver and Colo
RADIO, as Jack" Mosby, former law
yer, newspaperman and educator, died
at the Emergency hospital, Washing
ton, aged 81.
OF the S44 men, women and chill
dren who met death in the Eastland
disaster at Chicago, sixty-six com
prised twenty-three families that were
wiped out, leaving no relatives OIL
heirs to claim damages.
An attempt to massacre Americans
in revenge for the killing of Gen
Pascual Orozco is feared at El Paso
Tex, as the result of the spreading oil
charges among the Mexican popula
ton that OroZco was murdered in cold
blood by American cowboys.
At Marietta Ga the Cobb county
grand jury assembled to investigate
the lynching of Leo NJ. Frank ant
take up its regular work. Judge Pat
terson, in his charge, told the jury il
was their duty to ferret out any crime
alleged to have been committed.
WASHINGTON
Hundreds of Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, representing every
state in the Union, headed by Mrs.
William Cumming Story and her ma
tional officers, will make a patriotic
pilgrimage to the San Francisco ex-
position to participate in the special
exercises of the Daughters of the
American Revolution week, Sept.
1918.
Secretary Garrison announced that
the department is determined not to
re-establish the divisional army camp
at Texas City, Tex, destroyed by the
recent storm.
The scalplock of a Mexican bandit
was a grim memento of troubles along
the lower Texas border on exhibition
in the Gtate game and fish warGen's
office at Austin Tex
spread Tuesday over the northern
part of the country from the Rocky
mountains to the Atlantic and south