Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-08-13
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
in LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

bers of the crew were killed. Two
died aboard rescue boat and sixty
one were landed safely.
While according to Petrograd the
Germans have been thrown back I'M
mediately south of Riga. they have
made further advance east OF Ponie-
wesch toward the Dvinsk-Vilna-Petro-
grad railway
Mitau, the capital of the Russian
province of Courland. twenty-five
miles southeast Of Riga. has been oc-
cupied by German troops. according
to the official statement issued by the
German army headquarters staff.
All the London morning papers deal
editorially at great length with the
fall of Warsaw. All of them admit the
tremendous political effect Of the oc-
cupation of the Polish capital by the
Teutons. but a majority of them mini
mize its strategic results as regards
Russia.
With the exception Of the great en-
trenched camp of Novogeorgievsk. the
Russians have evacuated the whole
line OF the Vistula river. Iyangorod,
the southern fortress. having fallen
Into the hands of the Austro-German
army, the Russians are now making
their way eastward to the Brest-
Litovsk line. The decision of the gem
eral staff to leave the garrison in
Novogeorgievsk. nineteen miles north
west of Warsaw. is announced In
Petrograd dispatches.
The Germans are in possession of
Warsaw, capital of Poland and tho
third largest city in the Russian en-
pire An official communication Is
sued in Petrograd says: I'm view of
conditions and the general situation,
our troops west of Warsaw have re-
ceived orders to fall hack on the right
bank of the Vistula. According to re-
out and the troops which were cover
Ing Warsaw retired at 5 o'clock Thurs
day morning. without being attacked.
toward the new front assigned to
them They blew up behind them all
the bridges over the vistula."
WESTERN
Mexican outlaws raided the village
Of Sebastian. thirty-seven miles north
OF Brownsville. Tex, killing two
men.
1t is stated In Chicago that at least
six persons will be indicted by the
federal grand jury investigating the
Eastland disaster.
A mob attacked the jail at Dade
City. Fla, overpowered the jailer and
lynched Will Leach, negro. charged
with attacking a white girl.
David Russell Greene, the wholesale
druggist of Chicago. who was killed in
an automobile accident a few weeks
ago. leaves $4,000 for the care of his
dog Nellie"
Portland, Ore. was chosen for the
next meeting in 1916 at the conclud-
ing session at San Francisco for the
fifth assembly of the Jewish Chautau-
qua Society.
Kansas City was selected as the
next years meeting place by the
American Osteopathic Association at
the closing session at Portland of its
nineteenth convention.
The thirty-second annual conven-
ton of the Kniga;s of Columbus ended
at Seattle, the final business being
the choosing of Davenport. Iowa. as
the convention city for next year.
Zapata forces south OF Mexico City
have suffered another defeat at the
hands of Carranza troops under Gen.
Coss, according to a cablegram from
Vera Cruz received at the Carranza
consulate at Galveston, Tex.
Mayor Thompson of Chicago re-
ceived letter from President Wilson
in which the President stated he Will
make 1t his duty to see the investiga.
tion of the Eastland disaster is en-
tirely satisfactory to the public.
WASHINGTON
Mai. Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, chief of
staff of the United States army, ac-
companied by Lieut.. Col. Robert F. l..
Niche. a member of the general staff
left Washington for Ell Paso. Tex, to
confer with Gen. Francisco Villa and
other revolutionary leaders there re-
garding the Mexican situation.
The War Department ordered that
shipments of arms and munitions over
the Mexican border be stopped.
Redeemed paper money with a
nominal value of sl,54l, l,l31.111 in 377,-
36i.lSs pieces. was destroyed by the
Treasury Department during the fiscal
year ended June 80.
Friday was the anniversary of Mrs.
Wilson's death. There was no special
observance OF il at Windsor. Vt. but
the President was advised and
touched by the tribute paid her mem
ory b. Rome. Ca. citizens.