The Holly chieftain., 1915-06-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D IN G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western New.p.per union Kew. serv,c..
About the War


British battleship Majestic sunk by
q torpedo in the Dardanelles.
Mrs. May Fabin was killed in a Sec
ond airship raid on Southend, Eng
land.
British steamer Morwenna and Dan
ish steamer Betty sunk by submarines
In North Sea.
The British battleship Triumph was
sunk in the Dardanelles, according to
official announcement at London.
A peace treaty between Argentina,
Brazil and Chile was signed in Buenos
Aires by the foreign ministers of the
three states concerned.
The statement from the German war
office comedies the victory of the
Russians in battle along the San
river in central Galicia.
Captain Greene of the American
vessel Nebraskan injured by an explo-
sion off Ireland says he is certain
torpedo struck his ship.
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 anti-aircraft guns.
The capture Of 5000 more prisoners
is announced by the German war Of
flee which represents the situation in
the east an favorable to Germany, with
the exception of the retreat from the
San near Sieniawa.
Reports of the sinking Of the Brit
ish steamers Cadeby and Spenaymoor
and the Swedish bark M. Roosvall, and
a statement that the big liner Argyll
shire was chased and fired upon by
an under-sea boat, but succeeded in
escaping and reaching Havre were re-
ceived in London.
A Turkish gunboat of the Aidin Refs
type was sunk in the Sea of Marmora
within sight Of Constantinople by
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
Billy Sunday closed his seven
weeks Gospel campaign in Paterson,
N. j., and received $4,000.
Twenty thousand petitions asking
clemency for Leo M. Frank were
mailed from Chicago to the governor
of Georgia.
The Mccormick bill, limiting the
work day of women to nine hours was
defeated in the lower House of the
Illinois Legislature.
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 G.
A total of eighteen deaths have oc-
Cured from the floods, high winds
and electrical disturbances of the last
few days in Kansas, western Missouri
and Oklahoma.
Members of the congressional party
who returned to San Francisco from
selves vigorously concerning the re-
ported torpedoing of the American
steamer Nebraskan.
Out Of an estate valued at more
than $1,O00,O0O the former Princess de
Chimay, who was Clara Ward of De-
troit, Mich, is bequeathed only ST.
900, it was learned in Chicago, by tho
will Of her mother, Mrs Catherine l..
Ward-Morrow of London.
Robert Uhlich, president of the
Trinidad local of the United Mine
Workers of America, was acquitted at
Trinidad, Colo, of the charge of hav-
ing murdered Mack Powell, also un-
ion man, in the Ludlow fight of Oct.
9, 1918, incident to the coal strike.
After every legal recourse had
failed, the mercy plea of William ].
Bryan. secretary Of state, which had
been rejected by the State Legisla-
ture, proved potent to save the lives
of the five Mexicans who were to have
been hanged at the penitentiary at
Florence, Ariz. At the last moment
the State Board of Pardons and Pa
roles, taking cognizance Of Mr..
Bryan's request for delay, ordered re-
pfieves of six weeks for all of the con-
dsmned men and recommended that
they be executed separately and not
together.