The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-07-03
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
The town of Halicz in Galicia on the
Dniester river has been occupied by
German troops, according to the an
nouncement given out by German mill
tary headquarters.
The British steamships Indrani of
$500 tons gross, was sunk by Ger
man submarine at point southwest
of Tuskar. Ireland The crew of the
lndrani was saved.
The Russians have begun re-
treat from the Vistula river and the
district of ZamosZa, southeast of Lub-
lin, in Russian Poland, according to
the official statement issued by the
German army headquarters staff at
i Berlin.
The supplementary naval estimate,
issued in London, provides for the ad-
dition of $4,000 officers and men to
the navy. This would bring the total
personnel for this year to 100000 Of
ficers and men. The last vote of
100000 men was made in February.
The Russians again are retreating
in Galicia, both to the north and
south of Lemberg, and in Poland the
Germans have launched another at
tack against Warsaw in the form of
drive from the north through
Przansysz. The new blow at the
Polish capital has been preceded by
terrific artillery action.
German submarines have sunk five
more big ships in the war zone-the
British Scottish Monarch and the Nor
wegian ships Combuskenneth, Gjeso,
Katka and Mandel, and the Holland
American line steamship Nieuw Ans
terdam, having large number of
passengers on board bound from New
York for Rotterdam, was run down in
a fog by an unknown steamer while
anchored in the Downs.
Twenty-Five persons were lost at
least twenty of whom were Ameri-
cans, and many others injured when
the Dominion liner Armenian, which
sailed from Newport News for Avon
mouth on June II, was torpedoded by
the German submarine U-3S The at
tack on the Armenian was made TWEEN
ty miles northwest of Trevor Head
Cornwall England. This information
was reported by American Consul
Armstrong at Bristol, England.
WESTERN
The "drys" made gains in the Utah
local option elections.
Dry" forces captured three out of
four counties voting on local option
in Minnesota.
The Mormon tabernacle choir of 200
voices will give series of four con-
certs at the Panama Pacific exposi-
ton, beginning July 81.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, while in
Denver, stated that he favored the
capitol of the Centennial State for the
next rational Democratic convention.
The militiamen who have been
guarding Ex-Governor Slaton's home
at Atlanta, Ga, since Leo NJ Franks
sentence was committed, have been
withdrawn
William Alternately, brother of Jack
Alternately, Theodore Roosevelts ia
nous wolf catcher, was shot by John
Hess in riot between striking zinc
and lead miners in the Webb City Jop-
lin tMo) district.
The presence of riches in huge
quantities has been detected in aban-
honed slopes of the Custer Slide Min
ing and Development Company's prop
erty at Custer, Idaho. The company is
close corporation of Colorado
Springs capitalists, headed by Will
lam II. Fits.
Miss Genevieve Clark, the 20-year-
old daughter of Speaker Champ Clark
of the national House of Representa-
tives, was married at the home of her
parents in the presence of hundreds
of home folks" at Bowling Green
Mo-, to James M. Thompson, editor
of the New Orleans Item
WASHINGTON
Inside details of the plot to restore
a Huerta regime to Mexico, nipped in
the bud by the United States, began
trickling out through the net of Of
ficial secrecy, while Gen Huerta and
his chief lieutenant, Pascual Orozco,
are under federal detention at El Paso.
Other Mexicans. nearly score of
whom had a part in the plot that
failed, and probably some Americans,
are under surveillance by the Depart
ment of Justice.
Only six cases will be under advise
ment by the Supreme Court during
the summer recess, new record for
that tribunal
The War Department has bought for
$4,000 1900 acres of land at Toby
hanna, Pa, for field artillery target
range for both militia and regular
troops.
That Attorney General Gregory
holds the President may refuse army