The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

New Greek cabinet formed and dis
solution of Parliament avoided.
The kaiser is massing 10000 men
for an invasion of Montenegro.
Russians report capture of $500
men in surprise attack on Sienikowee
Nish, capital of Serbia, captured by
Bulgarians, opening through route to
Constantinople.
Austrians report complete repulse of
Russians from Sienikowce and cap
ture of 1000 men.
German submarines pass through
straits of Gibraltar and begin cam
paign in Mediterranean
Russians thrown back to old posi-
tions in Galicia and 5000 taken pris-
oners, according to Austrian report.
British war office announces 300
men were lost with sinking of trans.
port RamaZan in Aegean sea.
The Greek chamber of deputies will
be dissolved because of its refusal to
support the kings peace cabinet.
Nearly 100000 allied troops have
been landed at Saloniki. The Serbs
are fighting desperately, but are being
slowly crushed by the invaders.
The Bulgarians have extended their
grip on the Belgrade-S -Saloniki railway
north and south of Nish, and have oc-
cupied Leskovac, south of the cap
tured capital, and Aleksinao to the
north.
Great Britain is facing a crisis in
India. Revolts and uprisings are
causing British power to totter, and
Japan may send troops to crush the
rebellions and uphold the power of
England in the East.
The Italian steamer Ancona was
torpedoed by an Austrian submarine.
About, 312 passengers are believed
lost, The sinking of the vessel raises
a crisis in Washington similar to that
of the Lusitania The action of the
United States is based on whether or
WESTERN
The European earwig has been dis
covered in rose gardens in widely sep
arated portions of Seattle.
The two Indians who shot JusIice
George II. Bartlett near Whiterocks,
Utah. are resisting arrest and blood
shed is feared
The American Federation of Labor,
at the close of the first session of it's
thirty-fifth annual convention at San
Francisco, faced the question of bar
ring from future conventions fraternal
delegates of religious organizations.
The sale of near beer was held
to be violation of Arizonas recently
adopted prohibition law by the State
Supreme Court in decision which
construed the law to bar the sale in
Arizona of any beverage containing
any alcohol.
A mob composed of unpaid Villa
soldiers, civilians and women, raided
the German consulate in Chihuahua
Mexico, burned the market house and
looted the headquarters of the confis
cation agency, according to delayed
message received at San Antonio,
Tex, from Corral, near Chihuahua.
More than 10000 persons paraded
through the streets of Chicago to ex-
press their displeasure at the recent
order of Mayor Thompson enforcing
the state law keeping the saloons
closed on Sundays. Some estimates
of the number of marchers ran as
high as 100000.
WASHINGTON
Cotton ginned prior to November 1
70
including 69.204 round bales and 55-
1858 bales OF sea island cotton.
The nations principal farm crops
this year are worth about $5,5O0,0O0,-
600 exceeding by more than $500, ,00O,-
900 their value in 1914, the previous
banner value year.
According to information made
public by the Department of Agricul-
ture the total expenditures for road
improvement in the Juited States in
1914 from state fund.- joint funds and
local funds aggregate $3.50, ,797,911.
Battleships now building for the
United States navy will cary fourteen
inch, fiftycaliber guns, which are be-
lieved by ordnance experts to be the
equal OF the fifteen-inch weapons in
foreign navies, although of lighter
weight.
II is stated that President Wilson
and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait will be
married Immediately after Congress
adjourns for the Christmas holidays.
The honeymoon will be spent on the
u. S. S. Mayfiower and probably in
Florida waters.
Germany. in a note which reached
the state department. denies flatly
testimony alleged to have been given
in English courts that German of
ficers prepared false American pass.