The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28

Important:
News Events
of the World
Summarized
European War News
~: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

European Wa" News
Germany expects peace by sprink.
High officials in government quarters
in Berlin base their predictions that
the war has not many months to run,
ON the sound business sense of the
British" This business sense will
make itself felt when the British sec
mat there is nothing to be gained by
continuing the war. it is believed.
An Official statement issued in Sofa
announces the occupation of RADIO
Witch by the Bulgarian army. (Rado-
witch is just northwest Of Strumnitza
Unable, owing to Bulgarian activity
to the southwark, to effect transfer
to Monastir, Serbia has sent her gov
eminent archives from Nish to Pris
rend, on the Albanian frontier Re-
ports received in London indicate that
Serbia is in deadly danger of being
overwhelmed by the armies of her
Reighbor
Great Britain has made a formal
offer of the Island of Cyprus to Greece
rs soon as Greece undertakes to in
tervene in the war on the side of the
allies. The London Daily Telegraph
makes this announcement.
Italy has declared war against Bull
garia, it was announced at Rome.
Haly's declaration of war means that
she will send an army or fleet, and
maybe both, against the Bulgarian al
lies of Germany in the Balkans.
Berlin officially announced the Bull.
garian capture Of Vranya, on the Sa-
loniki-Nish railroad, and the capture
Of the city of Obrenovatz, near the
border of west Belgrade, by the Aus
tro-German troops. The Serb1ans arc
In retreat.
A change in the Austrians' favor in
the fighting with the Russians in Cali
cha was claimed in an official bulletin
issued at Berlin.
Sir Edward Carson, attorney general
OF Great Britain and leader Of Ulster,
Ireland, resigned from the coalition
cabinet at London. His detection
was the result of the strenuous fight
he has made in the cabinet in favor
OF conscription The Dardanelles
campaign and the Saloniki expedition
are said to have been bones of con-
tention
Strumnitza, in Bulgaria, has been
occupied by the allied armies of
Great Britain, France and Serbia, &C.
cording to official advices from Sa-
lcniki, telegraphed by the Reuter- cor
respondent at Athens. Various points
dominating the railway from Saloniki
10 the interior have been occupied by
and the protection of the line is re-
garded as assured.
The Marseilles correspondent of the
Paris Petit Journal telegraphs that the
mail boat Eugene Pereire has arrived
there with 33 members Of the crew.
The French steamship Admiral Hame-
lin was sunk by a German submarine.
Seventy-one persons on board the
steamer lost their lives. Twenty-three
were saved by another steamer.
The Bulgarians have been repulsed
along their whole line, and the allies
are advancing against King Ferdi-
uand's forces, according to dispatch
to London from Athens. The Bulgarian
stronghold of Strumnitza was captured
by French troops. The entente allies
have effected a landing at Enos on the
Aegean sea in European Turkey. The
Serbs have abandoned Dorian and the
Germans have occupied Zelenik.
Countess Maria Valnerikch, an Aus
rain subject, was arrested at Flor
,noe, charged with espionage.
Domestic
Eight men and two women were
cost when the gasoline schooner ALI
NICE No. was wrecked on Malpas
Oc kin dense fog. One body was
recovered and identified as that of
Miss Lena Miller of Vancouver.
Ten Mexicans paid with their lives
bor alleged completely in the wrecking
81 a st. Louis, Brownsville and Mex
TO passenger train near Brownsville,
HE killing of three Americans and the
wounding of four others.
The educational council of the Iowa
State Teachers association will rec
smmend to the convention to be held
a Des Aoines the first week in No
vember a course in Bible study for
the high schools of Iowa, according
to an announcement made in that city.
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Victor Ochon. r. L. Holmdahl and
Jose Orozco, adherents of Carranza,
were sentenced at Ell Paso to 10
months in the federal prison at Fort
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