Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-07
Eur 3pear War News


ur3pe01l War News
France and Great Britain are pre-
pairing to enforce military measures,
already agreed upon, to defend Serbia
and Greece against oppression by Bull
garia. says dispatch from Paris.
Capt. Harold T. Cawley, member of
the British parliament for the Hay
wood division of Lancashire, has been
killed in the Dardanelles fighting
OF parliament who has been killed in
action.
The German war Office announced at
Berlin that during September there
We're captured on the Russian front
about $4,000 men, 81 cannon and 29s
machine guns.
The Petrograd correspondent of
Reuters Telegraph company at Lon
don says military authorities are OF
the belief that the Great German
thrust east OF Sventsiany Ton the main
line of the Wilma Dvinsk-P Pet.
rograd railway. is at an end.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg re-
ports progress south of Dvinsk, where
the Russians have been forced back
into the marshes and lakes. but he
still is long way from that city.
Southeast of Souchez, the British
action on the extreme western end of
the line has been slowed down Ber-
jim claims steady II slow progress of
the counter-attack against the British.
including the blowing up of two Brit.
ish companies south of the Menin-
Ypres road.
French troops in Champagne again
broke through the German lines west
of Tahure Height and at Hill No. 1911,
capturing the latter strategic position
and rendering almost the entire Ger
man railroad from Cernay to Somme-
by useless. according to an official
statement issued at both Paris and
Berlin. The recount of booty taken
by the allies since September rs puts
the total of field pieces and heavy
guns captured from the Germans at
121.
The British casualties in the recent
offensive action on the western front
included Lieut.. Gen. Sir Thompson
Capper and Maj. Gen. G. H. Thesiger.
both killed, it was announced at Lon
don.
A sweeping victory for the allies In
the Dardanelles is reported in London
1t was announced in the house of COM
mons that the British army had rout-
ed the Turks In Mesopotamia with
heavy loss and that the Turks were
In full retreat toward Bagdad.
1t is reported in London that Bull
concluded an agreement and Bulgaria
is to enter the war against the allies
on October Is.
Domestic
Chicken Joe" Campbell. the Chi
cago negro convict charged with the
murder of Mrs. Edmund M. Allen.
wife Of the former warden at Joliet
prison. was indicted at Joliet. Ill.
The West Indian hurricane that
spent it's force against New Orleans
took toll of at least two score lives
and did extensive property damage at
smaller cities and resorts along the
central gulf coast Most of the loss
of life reported was in Premier and
Manshac, La.
A five-story fall from his Office win
dow caused the death of Theodor c.
Pelzer of Kansas City. Mr.. Pelzer was
president of the Farmers Loan and
Trust company and real estate op-
orator.
Three men were killed and three
others injured in an explosion in the
powder mill at the Du Pont de Ne
mours company at Haskell. N. J.
Mrs Mary Wielage was acquitted of
the murder OF her husband, Elmer
Wielage, after hard-fought trial in
the circuit court in Quincy, ILL., The
state asked for the death penalty for
the woman. who made self-defense as
her plea. r. So.
e. M. Zell. aged fifty. and four school
children were killed when the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by Pennsylvania railroad ex-
press train at a grade crossing near
Leola. Pa. Two other children were
injured.
One man is dead one is dying and
rs others we're rescued after being
buried alive cas- the result of an ex.
plosion In the mine of the Logan Coal
company at Hanna City, Ill. The
dead: Martin Perrit. The injured:
Frank Robinson.
James Dorsey. wealthy cattle broker
of Gilberts, H.. and president of the
Elgin Road Race association. was in.
dicted by federal grand jury at Chi
cago on charge of having used the
United States mails in the furtherance