The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-07
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS oE
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

The British steamer Clintonia, of
s,S5S tons, was shelled and sunk by
German submarine. Eleven men were
killed on the vessel and fifteen were
injured.
The Leland liner Iberian was sunk
by German submarine. Six MEM
bers of the crew were killed, two
died aboard a rescue boat and sixty
one were landed safely
A petrograd dispatch states that
two hundred Turkish sailing vessels,
laden with coal or ammunition, have
been destroyed by Russian torpedo
boats along the Asia Minor coast.
Mitau, the capital of the Russian
province of Courland, twenty-five
miles southeast of Riga, has been &C.
cupied by German troops, according
to the official statement issued by the
German army headquarters staff.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
the Overseas News Agency reports
the sinking through an unknown cause
of large Russian torpedo boat de-
stroyer off the island of Kerkin, to
the east of Chilea, in the Black sea.
London reports eight more Lowe
stoft trawlers sunk by a German sub
marine. The crews were saved The
fishermen sent to the bottom were the
Quest, the Strive, the Achieve, the
Athena, the Coriander and the Fitz-
gerald.
A London dispatch of the Sd says
the stubborn resistance which the
Russians are offering to the Austro-
Germans and the slowness with which
the forces of the invaders have been
able to move during the last few days
leads to the belief in some quarters
that the German supply of ammunition
is beginning to feel the effect of the
protracted struggle and that Russia
may yet save the Polish capital.
WESTERN
A disastrous storm swept several
central and eastern Wyoming coun-
ties late Saturday night and Sunday
morning.
Farms inundated, crops ruined and
many houses swept away in three
cloubursts at Portland, Ore. Hail and
wind storms in Deschutes River
valley.
Triplets were born to Mrs. Mae Ell
lis. resident of Gainesville, Tex, for
several years. She already was the
mother of fifteen children, all living
and healthy.
Orders for all patrolmen to salute
the American flag every time it
passed them on the street went into
effect at Los Angeles by direction of
Chief of Police C. E. Snively
From the pulpit of the Trinity Meth
odist Episcopal church in Berkeley,
Cal, Judge Alton b. Parker, Demo
cratic candidate in 1904 for president,
made a plea for stronger coast de-
lenses.
Henry Starr, Colorado bandit whose
exploits for years have terrorized
Oklahoma, pleaded guilty at Chandler,
Okla, to the charge of holding up the
Stroud National bank a few months
age He took his sentence of twenty
five years in the McAlester peniten-
tiary calmly.
George II. Jones. the haywood ga
rage proprietor who killed his wife,
her brother, John Cosgrove, and her
sister, Catherine Cosgrove, and later
fired bullet into his own head died
at hospital in Chicago. The trouble
is said to have grown out of Jones
infatuation for 21-year-old girl.
Jones was As.
WASHINGTON
w. ]. Boardman, father of Miss
Mabel Boardman, executive board
head of the American Red Cross. died
suddenly.
The condition of the growing cot
ton crop of the United States on July
25 was 1853 per cent of normal, the
Department of Agriculture announced.
Three notes from Great Britain
and one from Germany, all dealing
with the commercial rights of neutral
nations in war time were before Sec
rotary Lansing Monday.
Preliminary plans designed to make
available the resources of the federal
reserve system, in the annual fall
movement of crops, have been worked
out by the Federal Reserve Board.
In its controversy with the United
States concerning the English order
in council, the London foreign office
stands pat"
Word vas received that Gen. Venu-
stiaro Carranza is preparing to make
a strong bid for recognition by the
United States within few days.
Two hundred and eight automobile
rural delivery routes, distributed over
eight states, went into operation Aug.
I. This means that approximately
11,440 miles of rural post roads will
be traversed six days week during
August by automobile.