Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-06-17

tne LlverpO0l type on tne Aipdnldn
coast. London denies the report.
With news of the capture by the
Italians of Ploeken, in Austria. came
word that the Serbians had taken
Elbasan and Tirana. in Albania, and
were advancing rapidly on Durazzo.
on the Adriatic sea.
The second American note on the
steamship Lusitania incident was well
received in official quarters in Berlin.
Ambassador Gerard presented the
aote to the German office. A reply
prohebly will not be handed to him be-
fore June IL.
Russian forces In Galicia, south OF
Lemberg, have defeated the Austro-
German forces upon the Dniester river,
capturing $500 men. 1873 officers, IL
cannon and 40 maxim guns. General
Won Linsingen has been driven back
across the Dniester by the Russians,
and the Austro-German drive against
Lemberg from the south has been
checked, says an official statement
issued at Pctrograd.
Reports to Athens from Mitylene
state that the allies. after successive
attacks, have succeeded in occupying
two heights dominating Maidos and
have captured 700 Turkish prisoners.
Reports to London from Berlin and
Petrograd indicate that the Russians
have administered serious check TO
the German arms in the Baltic prov
inces and are for the most part hold
ing their own against the Teuton adj
vance upon Lemberg and In Buko-
wilma.
The German answer to the second
American note regarding the sinking
of the American ship Frye insists
that the stopping of supplies to an
enemy belligerent may be effected by
the destruction of the contraband and
the destruction Of the ship carrying
the contraband. without violation OF
the treaty obligations.
The department of militia at
Niagara Falls, Ont, gave out informa-
ten that an additional $4,000 Cana
dian soldiers are to be dispatched to
France at once.
Two British torpedo boats we're tor
pedoed of the coast of England by
German submarine. The boats are
the No. 10 and the No. IL. Both OF
them went to the bottom. The sur
yivors, Al In number. have been
brought ashore.
The capture Of Stanislau, an i'm
portant town on the railroad from
Bukowina to Lemberg, and the isola-
ton of the great Russian army operat-
ing In the Bukowina region was off,
cially announced at Berlin.
The Russian embassy at London an.
nounced the death of Count Peter
Benckendorff, youngest son Of Count
Alexander Benckendorff, Russian am
bassador at London. The count was
shot through the neck in action near
Kovno
Premier Asquith announced In the
house OF commons at London that the
total of British casualties from the
beginning of the war to May 81 was
25S.0 69 men In killed and wounded and
missing. The losses in the naval di.
vision are not included
An official statement from Constan-
tinople announces the destruction OF
French transport near the entrance
of the Dardanelles.
Domestic
James B. Forgan says 1t is too early
to quote figures. but as far as he can
see this year there win be no more
money stringency.
Iowa was awarded the grand prize
for the state agricultural exhibit at
the Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Francisco, and all but four of 2s9 in
dividual exhibitors Of Iowa received
prizes or honorable mention for agri-
cultural exhibits.
Lieutenant Brauer and certain men
OF the crew" of the German commerce
-aider, Prince Eitel Friedrich, who
left the ship before she was formally
interned, and have not returned to
the Norfolk navy yard, are believed to
have left the country.
Joseph Strendo, Sicilian mine
worker. who was arrested on the
charge Of assassinating w. E. Chap
man. a wealthy farmer. and wounding
his daughter. was taken from Jail at
Johnston City, ILL.,. and lynched.
Gustav stahl, former German SOL
der. who made an affidavit that he
saw four guns mounted on the Lusi.
tania the night before she sailed from
New York, was arrested by United
States agents at New York on charge
of perjury.
Frank Thompson Of Carpenter,
Wyo. was killed instantly and Theo-
dore Poelman, lawyer. was badly
injured when an automobile driven
by Thompson skidded over an en-
bankment into creek near Beloit,
Wis.