Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-16
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR


ABOUT THE WAR
The Russian bark Marion Light
body was sunk off Queenstown by
German submarine. The crew. was
saved.
The Official press bureau has final
ly released the statement that it was
a British submarine which sank Ger
man battleship in the Baltic.
The Russian steamer Anna. from
Archangel, Russia, for Hull was
shelled by German submarine in the
North sea. The crew abandoned the
ship and landed at Peterhead. Scot
land.
Two people were killed and five
others were injured by bombs dropped
from an Austrian aeroplane on the
town of Cormons. Austria, near the
Italian frontier, eight miles northwest
of Gorizia.
The Italian navy has suffered its
first serious loss, an Austrian subma-
rine having successfully torpedoed
the cruiser Amalfi in the narrow wa
ters of the Adriatic Most of the crew
were saved.
London-General Botha, command
ing the British forces in South Africa,
has accepted the surrender of the en-
tire German force in southwest Al
rica, it was officially announced in
London. Hostilities have ceased.
The Russian Black sea fleet sank
five Turkish sailing vessels and four
l.
nople and heavily bombarded hostile
submarine off the Bosporus. 1t was
officially announced at Sebastopol.
Germany's submarines renewed
their activity, with Russian ships. or
vessels for Russian ports, as their
principal victims. The Wilson line
steamship Guido, from Hull. for Arch
angel, Russia, was sunk off the coast
of Scotland. The crew was saved.
An official statement issued at Con-
stantinople says: in the Dardanelles
a German submarine on July sank
a large French transport steamer off
Sedul Bahr. We repulsed. on the night
of July 3, attempts by the enemy to
bring forward strong divisions against
our right wing"
WESTERN
The sale of airguns to Nebraska
lads under Is years of age is prohibit
ed by the Nelson law, which was en-
acted by the recent Legislature.
Get a million new members and
81 900 900 for missions" was the slo-
gan of the twenty-seventh lnterna-
tional Christian Endeavor convention
at Chicago.
Up to Thursday night the bodies Of
twenty-seven persons, victims of the
devastating wind and rain storm
which struck Cincinnati and vicinity,
had been recovered.
Mrs. Bessie Fowle. aged SO, and
her daughter. Harriet Fowle, aged II,
pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court in
Portland, Ore, to charges of man
slaughter in having killed the girls
infant child May II last.
Newspaper editors, contrary to
popular belief, have less of chance
for liberty under the law than porch
climbers and white slaves John II.
Perry OF Seattle told delegates to the
International Press Congress at San
Francisco.
An attack on the packer trust"
was started in Denver under the aus
pices of the National Livestock Asso.
citation. assisted by government ex-
perts sent from Washington to CO.
operate in the securing of better mar
keting facilities.
Cooperation between bankers and
farmers, death to 'cut-throat competi.
ton and the establishment of ma
tional platform aiming to bring the
two industries closer together marked
the opening session of the fourth
banker-farmer conference at Chicago.
WASHINGTON
The committee on revision of the
United States pharmacopeia voted, &c
to "a. to eliminate whisky and brandy.
thus depriving them of their official
standing as drugs"
three-inch disappearing gun for
submarines has been perfected by the
Navy Ordnance Bureau, Secretary
Daniels announced, and in the future
all American underwater craft will be
equipped with such weapons for sur
face fighting.
The federal trade commission an
nounced tour of the country for the
purpose of continuing its foreign
trade investigation.
Secretary Daniels announced he had
sent Capt. Bullard. head of the gov
ernment radio service to take possess
sion of the Sayville wireless station