Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-05-28
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. D DING s. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

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ABOUT THE WAR
The British steamer Drumcree was
torpcdoed by a German submarine, 1t
was announced In London. Her crew
was saved. according to a dispatch
from Cardiff.
A royal decree under which all rail-
road lines and stations in Italy are
placed under the supervision Of the
military authorities is published by
the Official Gazette.
A revolution has broken out at
Trieste. according to a message 10 the
Rome Idea National, telegraphed from
the frontier. The dispatch states that
forty-seven women were killed and
over 800 injured.
Eight Of the fourteen members OF
the crew Of the small government
steamer Christine were drowned when
that steamer was rammed and sunk
by a Canadian submarine off the is
land of Orleans.
Italy has asked Switzerland to take
charge of Italian interests i'm Ger
many. The Swiss federal council has
accepted the charge. At the same
time Switzerland has taken over dip
lomatic German interests in Italy.
The Austrian report says: THE
allied Germanic troops are gaining
ground in the east and southeast of
Galicia. We captured an additional
$500 prisoners in battles along the
upper Dniester. In one section to the
north of Sambor, the Russians were
driven from their main defensive posi-
TONS
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Copenhagen says: 1T is stated that
the Germans have captured Riga, on
the gllf of Riga, in northwest Russia.
A private dispatch reports a big naval
battle in the Baltic" Riga is Rus
sia's principal port on the Baltic aside
from Petrograd. It has a population
of about 100000.
London advicec of the 21st says a
state Of war exists between Italy and
her former allies. Austria and Ger.
many although no formal declaration
10 AAAahNs ~ AuoAA III haN0 hANll
drawn their TROOPS and customs
guards from the frontier at Ponte
Caffaro and Lodrone after burning the
bridges the telegraph and telephone
lines and the electric light apparatus.
other bridges on the frontier have
been mined as active hostilities begin.
WESTERN
The home rule Oiquor) proposition
vas carried I'm the Denver city cleo
ton.
Lassen's peak bubbled over again
Friday and sen a river of mud cas-
cading down the mountain side near
Redding, Cal.
The body Of former Gov. Amos w.
Barber Of Wyoming. who died in
Rochester. MINI, arrived in Cheyenne,
accompanied by Percy s.. Hoyt and
Mrs. Barber, the wi-ow.
A provisional quarantine against all
livestock from the state Of Arizona,
California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and
Washington was declared by the Mis-
souri, board Of agriculture.
Radical reduction in freight rates
from California to eastern points was
predicted before the National Whole
sale Grocers' Association, in their
ninth annual convention at San Fran
cisco.
Endorsement of President Wilson's
note to Germany and an offer of 90,
600 men for the United States army in
the event of war with Germany were
voted at Nation, ILL.,, by the great
council Of the Illinois Improved Or
der Of Red Men.