The Ordway new era., 1915-12-31
A sniEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EioN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE Ks
Western Newspaper Union news ssrvscs.
ABOUT THE WAR

The French war office reports vic
tory in the vosges.
An explosion in one OF the great
German arms plants at Muenster cost
the lives of GOO women workers.
Berlin reports say that when the
British retreatcd from the Gallipoli
peninsula they abandoned the sick
and wounded.
An Athens dispatch says that
British submarine has sunk the Ger
man steamer Leros and other craft
in the Sea OF Marmora.
British sailors from a cruiser in the
North Atlantic boarded the steamer
Rotterdam and forcibly removed from
the vessel mail bound for the United
States.
Since the war began 73i ships
owned by Germany's enemies have
been destroyed, according to reports
made at Berlin. Their aggregate tom
mage is 1.447,62s.
Russia's long-threatened blow has
fallen on Bulgaria. The Cars war
ships. conveying sixteen transports
loaded with troops, shelled .Varna,
landed large forces and laid waste the
city.
The British parliament has voted
to increase England's army to 4.000..
900. An appeal for financial aid from
the people. and shakeup in the Brit
fsh general staff ID reported from
London.
Turkish reports say the allies lost
hou nyf1 Tn, he -nfp Cal
Berlin says the Moslems captured
large war stores. London asserts
only c few men were lost and no
stores left behind.
The Carranza de facto government
II IA official control Of the former
villa state Of chihuahua. by virtue
of an agreement. The agreement
grants amnesty to all but Gen. villa
and his brother Hipolito.
Naroad J. Tennant. parliamentary
lQndsr-secr@tafy for war. in the House
= Cp9u1onA q London, safa the mum.
ber 81 Casualties published In the of
ficial lists for Prussia. saxony, Ba-
varia and Wurtemberg, up to Nov. 30.
were ::.524, AGO. or that number. he
added. 4s4.2zs men were killed or
died OF their wounds. 354.lsS were
severely wounded. 27.674 died OF dis
sase. end ss1.1ls were missing Naval
casualties, he said. were not included
III the figures.
WxsrERN
Mrs. Julia Anne Banker. Adams,
20 years old, grandmother of Maude
Adams. died at the home of Mrs.
Adams Kiskadden, mother OF ,Maude
Adams. at Salt Lake.
After having arrested T. j. Walton,
aged 40, at Paris, Tex, charged with
the murder OF his daughter, Pauline,
the night Of Dec. II, officers con-
tinued their search for evidence
The fight of 365.OOO railroad men
for ala eight-hour day without de-
crease OF pay was launched at Chi
cago at the joint convention Of the
four great railway brotherhoods.
Alexander W. swanitz, civil engi-
neer. who has been engaged. on the
construction OF the Alaska Central
railroad for the United States govern
ment, died at his home at Alameda.
: Cal. He was ca years old.
The Panama California exposition,
which will close at the end OF this
month. is free from debt. and prof.
its will accrue from December's op-
erations, according 20 financial re-
port made to the stockholders.
Denver police have been asked to
search for Grace Slaughter, 19-year-
old daughter OF John T. Slaughter Of
Laramie. Wyo., who disappeared from
the hcme of her uncle, James II.
Slaughter of Denver, where she has
been visiting for the last two months.
WASHINGTON q
Full powers to settle the Ancona
case have been given the Austrian
charge d'affaires at the national capi-
tai, 1t is reported.
The banking and currency commit
F. tees of Congress are preparing to
work out soon after the holidays
law to prevent usury.
State Department officials have de-
cided that Gen silla will receive the
asylum accorded political refugee
should he enter the United States.
The House committee on postoffices
and post roads has reported Ayorably
bill authorizing the increase of in
dividual postal savings deposits from
$500 to $1,000.
The heirs of DIR. E. F. Wood of
GAINESVILLE. Wis. one of the Ameri-
cans lost in the Arabic disaster. will
ask Germany to indemnify them for
at least $4,000. T -
An executive proclamation desig-
mating Jan. ] as a day for making con.
tributions for the relief of the strick.
en- inhabitants OF Poland, was issued
from the White House. ~ Z