The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-09-16
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European War News

uOn district at night, dropping IN
cendiary bombs It was announced
that there were few casualties. Ten
persons were killed and forty-three
injured by bombs dropped from Ger
man airships in the raid on the west
ern counties of England on Tuesday
night. Three persons are missing.
Near Tarnopol the Russians have
defeated the Third German division
and the Forty-eighth reserve division
with an Austrian brigade, capturing
5000 prisoners and thirty guns be-
sides a quickfirer, according to an Of
fetal statement issued at Petrograd.
The commander of a German sub
marine reported to the admiralty at
Berlin that he torpedoed the liner
Arabic in the belief that the Arabic's
action indicated she was about to at
tack the submarine and that he fred
In self-defense.
Emperor Nicholas has transferred
Grand Duke Nicholas to the command
Of the army in the Caucasus. 1t is
understood that the car will now d.
rect all military operations and that
numerous changes are to be made in
the general staff
Forty thousand German infantry
men assaulted the French line in the
western part of The Argonne in a
fierce effort to break through. They
gained footing in advanced French
trenches at some points but were
later repulsed.
Teuton warsh1ps are reported to
have entered the Gulf of Riga, com.
polling the cars war vessels to beat
a hasty retreat. The Russians evacu-
ated Dago island, says a Copenhagen
dispatch to London. This island is in
the Baltic between the entrance of the
Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland.
From private source close to the
government it was learned at Berlin
that the official report of the sinking
Of the Arabic by submarine has been
received. The submarine was not
sunk, as reported from London. The
substance Of the report, it is under
stood, is that, when the Arabic turned,
the commander thought it was with
the intention of ramming his boat, and
that he fired the torpedo, as he be-
lieved, out of military necessity to
save his submarine.
The official press bureau of Britain
announced at London that German
aircraft visited the eastern counties
Of England on Monday night and
dropped bombs which caused fires and
several casualties.
Commanding officers of the sunken
liner Hesperian in a joint affidavit for
warded to the state department at
Washington declared that from the
fragments of steel which fell on the
deck it was individually" shown that
the ship was wrecked by torpedo.
Emperor Nicholas has taken over
the command Of the Russian armies.
President Poincare of France made
this announcement at Paris following
the receipt of letter from the car
telling of his action.
A resolution against conscription
was adopted unanimously, with great
cheering, at the session of the trades
union congress at Bristol, England.
Domestic
Henry Edwards. suspect in the
murder of Judge Willis 8. Knowles
at Providence, R. l., has been arrest
ed at Worcester, Mass. Edwards de-
MED any knowledge of the assassina-
ton.
Five burned bodies of children have
been recovered from the ruins of the
st. Francis Girls directory, which
burned at San Francisco.
AuuA0" 0AO"u was Killed. Oscar
Jensen probably fatally hurt and
Davo Williams and T. R. Veltz sert-
ously hurt when their automobile was
wrecked by a St. Paul train two
miles from Corliss. Wis.,. near Ra.
cine.
Ninety head of prize-winning brown
Swiss cattle, valued at more than
100000, were slaughtered on the Sam
uell insult farm near Libertyville, ILL.,.
by federal live stock inspectors. They
were afflicted with the foot-and-mouth
disease.
Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, wife of the
head Of the Armour family of Chicago,
was held up by an armed robber in
her residence at 1924 Michigan ave.
nue.. She fought until she was
knocked senseless. She lost SIS In
cash and $4,000 worth of jewelry.