Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Italians claim more successes along
the lsonzo front.
Austrian squadron sinks several
sailing vessels in bombardment OF
port Durazzo.
Police in Berlin were forced to dis
perse a mob making pea ce demon
stration.
Montenegro suggested to entente
powers that it be permitted to make
separate peace.
A British submarine sank Turkish
destroyer and five supply ships in the
Sea OF Marmara.
Imperial chancellor tells reichstag
II would be folly for Germany to in.
itiate peace negotiations.
Premier Asquith announces that
any serious peace proposals will
first be discussed by the allied gov
ernments.'
The allies are avoiding direct en-
gagements. The ring that cuts off
the worlds supplies from the Teu-
tons is being drawn closer.
man on an American oil steamer
was injured by the fire of an Aus
trian submarine. Another American
oil steamer has been sunk.
Germany bowed to the wishes of
President Wilson in the cases of Cap
tains Boy-Ed and Won Papen. The
Kaiser personally recalled the unwel-
come attaches.
Destruction of large ammunition
factory at Halle. Prussian Saxony, by
m explosion, with the loss of several
hundred lives, is reported in a mes
penhagen.
A new crisis has arisen between the
United States and Austria. Diplo'
matte relations may be severed as a
result Vienna has ignored the note
on the sinking of the Ancona, and an
Austrian submarine held up and
robbed an American ship.
Three hundred Villa soldiers were
killed, 100 taken prisoners and the
remainder of the forces under Gen
Jose Rodriguez dispersed five miles
north of FronteTas, when Gen. p
Elias Gales rushed in from the south
TO the rescue of the beleaguered Car.
rama detachment, under Gen. Angel
Flores, according to reports received
at Douglas, Ariz.
WESTERN
Col. W. P. Hepburn, former con,
sressman from Iowa, is critically Ill at
ClaTinda.
Mrs Carrie Lake Morton, SIS years
old. wife OF Joy Morton. and mother
of Mrs. Joseph NJ. Cudahy OF Chicago
and Sterling Morton of Kansas City
died of acute nephritis at her home
near Lisle. Ill.
Ramon Villalobos, the first man to
undergo capital punishment since Ari
roma became state, was hanged at
Florence. Nillalobos was convicted OF
the murder OF Deputy Sheriff Phineas
Brown of Pinal county in October
1914.
The average wage of Methodist
Episcopal preachers in Ohio is s24. IL
week, and what is true of Ohio is
true of most other states, according
20 n report submitted to the Commis
sion on Church and Country Life, in
session at Columbus, Ohio.
Col. Charles F. Mills, editor OF the
Farm Home, died at Springfield, Ill,
after long illness. He was secretary
OF the State Board of Agriculture, a
secretary of the American Live Stock
Association, and for time assistant
Adjutant general of Illinois.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Garrison declares in his
annual report to the President that ii
the administration plan for n cont
mental army fails, the United States
will face some form of compulsory
military service.
Governor Dunno OF Illinois and Sec
Tetary Stevenson of the same state
invited President Wilson to speak al
the tomb of Abraham Lincoln al
Springfield, Ill, Feb. 12. The Presi
dent said he would accept II his en-
Eagements permitted.
The State Department announced
the appointment OF Judge George
Gray of Wilmington, Del. as chair
man of the United States govern
ment's delegation TO the second Pan
American Scientific Congress, which
meets in Washington Dec 27.
President Wilson's Pan.AmericaI
policy does not justify his prepared
ness program, in the eyes of william
J. Bryan.
Announcement was made that bid!
for the two fleet submarines author
iEed by the last Congress would b.
opened at the Navy Department
Feb. &c.
Bills for an s11,OO0,O 900 government
Ermor plate factory have been intro
duced In both houses of Congress b!