Tombstone epitaph., 1915-11-28
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

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Italy prepares for formidable attack
on Gorilla with 100000 men.
French reported victorious over
Bulgarians on Vardar river
British capture $50 yards OF Turk
trenches on Gallipol peninsula.
Fighting in France confined to bonn
bardments and explosion of mines.
Austro-Germans pierce Russian line
on Styr river and take 1890 prison
ers.
Allies hold important war council
in Paris and decide on course in Bal
kans.
The Serbians have recaptured Kali
kandel, taking 526 prisoners and large
quantities of ammunition.
The allies have practically admitted
the loss OF Serbia. The Serb army is
surrounded on three sides.
Premier Carp has announced that
Rumania will enter the war on the
side OF the Germans in December.
British squadron enters the Cate
gat, where twenty-five German tor
pedo boats and big cruiser were
seen.
England has informed the Greek
government it must take a decided
stand. a blockade OF Greek ports has
been declared.
England has issued an order in
council forbidding British subjects of
military age leaving the confines of
the empire without a special permit.
Austria declares Ancona was given
warning and tried TO escape. Italy
declares no warning preceded shots.
Nine American passengers not &C
counted for.
The French have checked the Bull
garian advance after a battle on the
Cerna river. The Germans and Aus
trians. however. are slowly pounding
their way into the heart OF Serbia.
Americans arriving from Colonia
Moreles, fifty.slx miles southeast OF
Douglas, Ariz., report the rout of the
Villa army from Chihuahua in Sonora
is marked by the bodies OF men. WON
en- and animals
Fighting on the west front has been
resumed The Germans claim to have
captured 300 meters of French
trenches near Eucurie. The French
claim gains in the Labyrinth and in
Champagne.
WESTERN
Chicago was covered with two
inches OF snow Tuesday. the first OF
the season.
Sixty thousand persons, $4,000 of
them school children, saw the Liberty
bell during its two-hour stay in San
Antonio, Tex.
A dispatch announcing the voluntary
closing of the Banco Nacional de Mex
leo at Mexico City was received In
banking circles at e Paso, Tex.
Shot through the heart while blind
folded and strapped in chair, Joseph
Hillstrom, 80 years old, poet and l.
w. W. leader, convicted of murder.
ing two men in January, 1914, was
legally executed by the state at Salt
Lake City.
Gen. Francisco Villa was reported
at Nogales, AriZ-, to have been
wounded during an engagement that
began at Aqua de Coyotes, a few
miles north OF Hermosillo, Sonora, be
tween troops led by Villa and Car
rama forces now occupying Hermo
sillo.
Gov. William Spry of Utah declined
to interfere with the execution o.
Joseph Hillstrom, condemned muir
derer. as he had been asked to do
for the second time, by President Viii
son. In a telegram to President vii
son, Governor Spry stated his decision
had been concurred in by the boar;
OF pardons.
WASHINGTON
Associate Justice Lamar of TIN
Supreme Court has so far improved
from the illness which has kept hin
off the bench during the present tern
that he is expected to resume hi
duties soon after January I.
President Wilson is now hard a
work preparing his message to Coz
gress. He plans to have 1t complete
by Nov. Is, and will deliver 1t in pei
son, probably Dec. : before a join
session of the House and Senate
The fourteenth neutrality proclams
ton issued by the United States sine
the beginning of the European war ha
been promulgated. IL covers the no.
Utilities between Great Britain. France
Serbia and Italy on one side and Blu
garia on the other.
Associate Justice Hughes of tn
Supreme Court notified the secretar
OF state OF Nebraska he would not b
a candidate at the coming presidentia
primary election and requested tina
his name be not placed upon tn
ballot