Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-28
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN G s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

was announced in London. Her crew
was saved, according to a dispatch
from Cardiff.
A royal decree under which all rail
road lines and stations in Italy are
placed under the supervision of the
military authorities is published by
the Official Gazette.
A revolution has broken out at
Trieste, according to message to the
Rome Idea National. telegraphed from
the frontier. The dispatch states that
forty-seven women were killed and
over 800 injured.
Eight of the fourteen members of
the crew of the small government
steamer Christine were drowned when
that steamer was rammed and sunk
by a Canadian submarine off the is
land of Orleans.
Italy has asked Switzerland to take
charge of Italian interests in Ger
many. The Swiss federal council has
accepted the charge. At the same
time Switzerland has taken over dip
lomatic German interests in Italy.
The Austrian report says: THE
allied Germanic troops are gaining
ground in the east and southeast of
Galicia. We captured an additional
5000 prisoners in battles along the
upper Dniester. In one section to the
north OF Sambor, the Russians were
driven from their main defensive posi-
tions."
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Copenhagen says: ut is stated that
the Germans have captured Riga, on
the gulf of Riga, in northwest Russia.
A private dispatch reports big naval
battle in the Baltic" Riga is Rus
sia's principal port on the Baltic aside
from Petrograd. 1t has a population
of about 100000.
London advices of the 21st says
state of war exists between Italy and
her former allies. Austria and Ger
many although no formal declaration
was made. The Austrians have with
drawn their troops and customs
guards from the frontier at Ponte
Caffaro and Lodrone after burning the
bridges the telegraph and telephone
lines and the electric light apparatus.
Other bridges on the frontier have
been mined as active hostilities begin.
WESTERN
The home rule Qiquor) proposition
was carried in the Denver city cleo
ton.
Lassen's peak bubbled over again
Friday and sent a river of mud cas-
cading down the mountain side near
Redding, Cal.
The body of former Gov. Amos W.
Barber of Wyoming. who died in
Rochester. MINI. arrived in Cheyenne,
accompanied by Percy S. Hoyt and
Mrs. Barber, the widow.
provisional quarantine against all
livestock from the state of Arizona,
California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and
Washington was declared by the Mis-
souri, board of agriculture.
Radical reduction in freight rates
from California to eastern points was
predicted before the National Whole
sale Grocers' Association, in their
ninth annual convention at San Fran
cisco.
Endorsement of President Wilson's
note to Germany and an offer of 2O.-
the event of war with Germany were
voted at Mattoon, ILL.,, by the great
council of the Illinois Improved Or.
der of Red Men.
WASHINGTON
Several popular demonstrations be-
cause of the food shortage have oc-
Cured in the Mexican capital within
the last few days.
Two of the submarines engaged in
the Atlantic fleets war game off the
coast were disabled, and were taken
in tow for Newport to be repaired.
Communication is cut between Pan
uco, in the Mexican oil fields, and
Tampico, bottling up one of the Brit
Ish navy's principal oil supply sources,
according to State Department ad-
vices.
The Supreme Court affirmed the
decision of the Ninth United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in cancelling
five patents to Oregon lands held by
the oth-Kelly Lumber Company be-
cause of fraud in entry
Votes for women was urged as the
remedy for Industrial unrest before
the commission on industrial rela-
lions at Washington by Mrs. Chrystal
Eastman Benedict of New York, rep
resenting the Congressional Union for
Woman's Suffrage.
If Italy were to enter the European
conflict, American ambassadors. min
listers and consuls abroad would add
to their already numerous tasks the
custody of Italian interests in Austria,
Germany and Turkey, as well as
Austrian interests in Italy.