The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-07-10
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

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
The latest achievement of the
Italian air service is the dropping of
bombs on factory at Trieste.
The Italians have occupied the vii
lage of Tolmino, on the lsonZo, north
of Gorilla, according to Rome dis
patch.
The first great naval battle of the
war in the Baltic sea has been fought
and meager reports received from
Copenhagen indicate that the German
fleet has been defeated by the Rus
SLAMS.
In the Black sea, Gen. Sir Ian Ham
ilton reported from the Dardanelles
that the French troops have advanced
until the Anglo-French line is almost
straight. Constantinople, however,
claims that the British were forced
back into their original positions.
Five Swedish vessels were seized
Sunday in the Baltic sea and taken to
Swinemunde," says the Copenhagen
correspondent of the London Morning
Post. They are the steamers Ligu-
arda, Waermeland and Henrik Wi
candra and the sailing vessels Orvar
and Hoppet"
An official statement issued at Con-
stantinople says: In the Dardanelles
a German submarine on July sank
a large French transport steamer off
Sedul Bahr. We repulsed, on the night
of July 8, attempts by the enemy to
bring forward strong divisions against
our right wing
The official statement given out by
the German army headquarters an
nounces that the Germans have
gained possession of the lowlands of
the Labunka river in Russian Poland,
province of Lublin. The statement
also admits the Germans have lost the
gains made by them against the
French on Hilgenfirst in the Vosges
mountains.
WESTERN
A great wave of patriotism that
withstood even a pouring rain storm
greeted the Liberty bell in Chicago.
The Colorado and Wyoming chap
ters of the Modern Brotherhood of
America held their combined state
convention in Denver
Four robbers overpowered two
watchmen at the Midway gardens, an
amusement park in Chicago, blew
open the safe and escaped with $780,
BOO.
Nineteen persons were killed and
lO9 ipiurpd as reSmlt of Fourth of
July celebrations throughout the ma
ton, according to figures compiled by
the Chicago Tribune.
Maxine Edmondson, years old,
died as the result of burns received
when a pin wheel set her dress afire.
This was the only Fourth of July acct
dent at Albuquerque, N M.
Eighteen persons were injured, one
probably fatally, when the second sec
ton of an excursion train on the
Southern Pacific railroad ran into two
helper locomotives at Ashland, Ore.
In the last ten days the estimated
yield of the 1915 wheat crop in Kan
sas has declined nearly 10000, 900
bushels, according to the annual crop
reporter of the Kansas Grain Dealers
Association.
Mrs. Maud Mason Whitney of Sheri-
dan, Wyo., governor of the Woman's
Republic and president of the Sheri-
dan Civic Circle of the Republic. will
head the Wyoming delegation to the
national convention of the republic at
Atascadero, Cal.
WASHINGTON
The condition of Franklin D. Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the navy,
operated on for appendicitis, con-
tinued favorable.
Through the arrest at Los Angeles
of Fred Lavorin, United States Off
Gals said they had discovered a
scheme to ship liquor into prohibition
Arizona as baggage.
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