Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18


from Mazurian Lakes in East Prussia
towards Russian frontier.
Reports reached London that the
Germans evacuated LODI, Poland, and
citizens Of Insterburg, East Prussia.
have been advised by the military au-
thorities to leave the town.
Fierce artillery and infantry fight
ing in Alsace caused German popula-
tions of Muelhausen, Colmar and
Strassburg to fee for safer places.
Bulgaria has decided to maintain
a strict and loyal neutrality said
Premier Radoslavoff at meeting with
his parliamentary adherents in Sofia,
Bulgaria, at which the German loan
to Bulgaria was discussed
A Constantinople dispatch says Rus
slams sunk steamer Washington, sail
ing under the American flag. The mas
ter and crew OF the steamer were
Greeks.
Details OF a desperate fight in the
Carpathian mountains with ferocious
bayonet charges, described as without
precedent in history, have reached
Petrograd According to these reports,
repeated German attacks were finally
repulsed by the Russians. The losses
are described as enormous.
Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina. has
been evacuated by 100000 Russians.
The retreating troops, 1t is asserted In
Berlin, were saved from humiliation
only by the arrival of fresh forces.
The British foreign Office at London
decided cargo OF American steamship
Wilhelmina must go through prize
court. Ship may depart from Falmouth
as soon as the cargo Is discharged.
After two days the house Of COM
mons at London passed without d.
vision army estimates for 100000
men, exclusive of midas. BY "a token"
vote it also provided for the pay Of the
officers and men. Government will re-
ceive a blank check for war purposes.
Passengers on the Cunard line Brit
ish steamship Orduna, which arrived
in New York from England. said
steamer few American flag while pass
ing through the Irish sea. German
submarines we're reported.
The former German cruiser Bres-
lau shelled Yalta, in the Crimea, in
the Russian government of Taurida.
No one was killed. In retaliation the
Russian feet bombarded Trebizond.
Eight Turkish steamers. full laden.
were sunk.
Fresh particulars from the frontiers
Of Bukowina to Bucharest are to the
effect that the Russians are COM
mencing the evacuation Of that prov
ince for strategic reasons.
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Domestic
Federal officers slaughtered 127 ami
mails in the locally famous thorough
bred herd of J. c. Berker, wealthy
farmer, eight miles south of Joliet,
Ill. Baker valued the cattle at 100000.
City of Lincoln, ILL.,, voted to adopt
commission form of government by
a plurality of 127.
Max Kleist, who married Juliet,
daughter of Edward N. Breitung,
banker and owner of steamer Dacia.
told jury in the federal district court
at New York Of his courtship and
marriage. Kleist is suing Mr.. and
Mrs. Breitung for $250.000 for aliena-
ton Of the affections Of his wife.
Adolph Schmidt, twenty-four years
old. was arrested at Detroit. Mich, on
d charge Of defrauding the Fort Dear
born National bank OF Chicago to the
amount Of $500 on forged cashiers
check last May.
The Hirsch bill to legalize gambling
by the selling Of pools on horse races
in Indiana and to create a state pac-
ing commission, passed the senate at
Indianapolis. Ind, with bare consti-
tutional majority. the vote being 26
to 10.
As result Of an exciting meeting of
board Of safety of Terre Haute. Ind,
with Mayor Dom M. Roberts. men,
bers of the board resigned in body.
The meeting was surcharged with ex-
element over statements rejecting
on the integrity of Roberts.
The climax in the election fraud
cases was reached at Pikeville, KY,
when John Hall, a negro, shot and
killed Milton Butler. attorney for some
Of the defendants in the cases now be-
ing tried. The negro was captured.
No reason known for murder.
! G. H. Raine. who pleaded guilty to
misuse of the mails while president OF
the Mercantile bank at Memphis,
Tenn, now defunct. was sentenced to
fve years imprisonment in the At.
lanta federal prison.
! Mrs. Norma Ennis. twenty-seyen
years old. obtained decree of annul
ment of marriage to Alfred Ennis
seventy years old. in New York su