The Ordway new era., 1915-12-17
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union NEWS Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


port Durazzo.
Police In Berlin were forced to dis
perse mob making peate 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 Marmarn.
Imperial chancellor tells reichstag
1t 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.
A 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 Boyd and Won Papen. The
Kaiser personally recalled the unwel-
come attaches.
Destruction OF large ammunition
factory at Halle. Prussian Saxony, by
an explosion. with the loss of several
hundred lives, Is reported in mes
sage from Holding. Denmark. to Co
penhagen.
A new crisis has arisen between the
United States and Austria. Diplo-
matte relations may be severed as n
result Vienna Las 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
ren{afnder q theSforces Under Gen.
Jose Rodriguez dispersed five miles
north OF Fronteras. when Gen. P.
Elias Gales rushed in from the south
rama detachment. under Gen. Angel
Flores, according to reports received
at Douglas. Ariz.
WESTERN
Col w. P. Hepburn. former con.
gressman from Iowa, is critically Ill at
Clarinda.
Mrs. Carrie Lake Morton, SIS years
old, wife Of Joy Morton. and mother
OF Mrs. Joseph NJ. Cudahy of Chicago
md Sterling Morton OF Kansas City,
died OF acute ncphritis at her home
near Lisle. ILL.,
Ramon Villalobos. the first man to
undergo capital punishment since Ari-
zona became state, was hanged at
Florence. Villalobos was convicted OF
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Phinens
Brown of Pinal county in October,
1914.
The average wage Of Methodist
Episcopal preachers in Ohio is s2i.
n week, and what is true of Ohio is
true of most other states, according
to report submitted to the Commits.
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. Il
secretary of the American Live Stock
Association, ana for Il time assistant
adjutant general of Illinois.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Garrison declares In his
annual report to the President that il
the administration plan for cont.
mental army fails, the United States
will face some form of compulsory
military service.
Governor Dunno of Illinois and Sec.
retary Stevenson of the same state
invited President Wilson to speak at
the tomb of Abraham Lincoln at
Springfield. ILL.,, Feb. IL. The Presi
dent said he would accept if 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, whicl,
meets In Washington Dec. 81.
President Wilson'S Pan-Americar
policy does not Justify his prepared
ness program. in the eyes of William
j. Bryan.
Announcement was made that bids
for the two fleet submarines author.
fsed by the last Congress would be
opened at the Navy Department
Feb. 16.
Bills for an sl1 100000 government
armor plate factory have beep intro.
duced In both houses of Congress by
Chairman Tillman of the Senate naval
committee and Representative Taven-
ner OF Illinois.