Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-01
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All the People.
European War News
German troops northwest of Halicz.
Galicia, under command of General
Linsingen, have met with a reverse on
the Dniester river and have withdrawn
to the south bank of that stream. 1t
is admitted in an official report from
the general staff.
German troops are using asphyxiat.
ing gas and burning liquid on the
Mouse front in an effort to gain the
mastery over the French troops there.
The official communique issued at the
Paris war office stated the Germans
gained a temporary advantage, but
they were later driven back.
The war office at Petrograd says
that the Teutonic troops have been
defeated in six-day battle on the
Dniester river front, the Russians TAX
ing more than five thousand prisoners.
The press bureau in London an
nounced the execution Of the German
spy. Muller. He was shot to death.
The execution took place in the Tower
Of London.
The British admiralty, through the
official press bureau. announced at
London that the cruiser Roxburgh
was struck by torpedo in the North
sea. The damage was not serious.
Two German successes are chron-
icled in the latest reports of the fight
ing in France. On the heights of the
Mouse the Germans recaptured their
second line of trenches and in the
Vosges mountains they wrested hill
No. 631 from the French.
Thirteen hundred Turks have been
killed in an all-day fight for Turk
ish position at the Dardanelles. says
an official bulletin from Cairo.
The city of Lemberg has been re-
captured by the combined Austro-Ger-
man armies. Sixty thousand Russian
troops and njne cannon fell into the
hands of the triumphant army in the
drive on the Galician city. Lemberg
was taken only after one of the most
desperate battles of the war.
Domestic
Lon Carter. convicted Of the MUIR
der of his wife, and sgd Jones. who
killed fellow convict in the sanner
mines, were hanged in the county jail
at Birmingham, Ala. Both were ne
groes. Tim Sharpe was hanged in An
niston for the murder of two police
men.
Under orders from his physician to
take complete rest President Wilson
settled down at the summer White
House at Cornish, N. H., for brief
vacation to prepare himself for the
arduous work he is expecting within
the next few months in handling Euro
pean and Mexican problems.
Hazing at the naval academy at An
napolis. Nd, which was supposed to
have been stamped out ten years ago
as the result Of Congressional inves-
tigation. has been practiced recently.
according to Midshipman Charles M.
Reagle, testifying at the court of in
quiry.
Seven men were probably fatally
burned In an explosion of gasoline at
the works Of the Aetna Explosives
company at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ensign John McCabe Manley, o 1915
graduate OF the United States Naval
academy at Annapolis. Nd, was killed
near Columbus. o., when his automo.
bile was struck by car. Manley was
twenty-five years old. He came to Co
lumbus to visit his mother, Mrs. Aus
tin M. CourtsAay.
Seven persons were killed and four.
teen injured In head-on collision be-
tween the Blue Mountain Express and
Baltimore train on the Western
Maryland railway at High Bridge,
Eear the Mason and Dixon line.
The plant of the Wilson Provision
company at Peoria. H.. burned. The
loss is 100000.
Thirteen witnesses, including Thaw
himself, testified at New York that
they believed Harry X. Thaw Is sane.
Under Judge Lawrence Aliens In
structions the jury in the libel case
against Carl z. Person Of Clinton, ILL.,,
editor of the Strike Bulletin. official
organ of the Illinois Central System
Federation. found the defendant mot
guilty"
Governor Dunno of Illinois signed
the marriage bill introduced by Repre-
sentative George H. Wilson, 1t pro-
vides that any marriage contracted in
any state by residents of Illinois, who
under the laws Of this state are pro
hibited from marrying. is void.
An aviator has been appointed to
hunt forest fires in the north woods