The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-09
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS or EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o oINos 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News ssrvies
ABOUT THE WAR

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Dardene!les in political possibilities.
Belgrade has again been bombarded
W Austrian guns, while Austrian air
men have dropped bombs on Cettinje.
he Montenegro capital.
A German protest and threat Of re-
2risals on account Of the treatment by
3rsat Britain of the prisoners taken
N board German submarines was
made public at London.
The British losses already reported
'or the week ending March 81 we're
tive steamers. A sixth vessel was
tOrpedoed, but reached port. During
he week, however. 1859 vessels en-
tered and sailed from British ports.
Preceding the reoccupation by the
Russians OF Salmac plains In Aver
,aijan province, northwest OF Uru-
mlah, hundreds OF native Christians
were rounded up by the Turks In the
village Of Haftdewan and massacred.
Eleven thousand German dead have
been taken from the trenches won by
he French during twenty days fighting
In the Champagne country. The Ger
man losses in killed. prisoners and
wounded is estimated by the French
military authorities as $4,000.
Austrian losses in Lyutta valley and
the province Of Bereg northeast Hun.
gary on March rs, are estimated at
$4,000, according to dispatches re-
ceived by Swiss newspapers. These
advices state that a column of 1000
Austrians was annihilated In less than
an hour during a desperate action in
Bereg province, six miles north of
Verceske.
The Germans have added two more
steamers to the long list of merchant.
men sunk off Beachy Head. The vic.
Tins this time we're the French
steamer Emma, which was torpedoed
without notice, nineteen Of her crew
going down with their ship, and the
British steamer Seven Seas, sent u
the bottom without warning, seven OF
her crew being drowned.
WESTERN
Six desperate men In the North Da-
kota p~enitentiary at Bismarck sawed
their way through bars and escaped,
J. c. Clancy, a chauffeur, aad Hardy
White, an electrician, we're shot from
ambush 9 a q roadside inn fourteen
miles west Of Bl Paso, Texas.
David starkey, according to Sheriff
Davis, has confessed that he started
the fire which destroyed his house
aud burned his wife and Gaby TO death
At ottawa, Ill.
Many OF the postoffices Of Wyoming
and Colorado have been given VAIN
ing TO watch out for postal money or
1ers stolen from the Station A Of
flee in Portland. Ore, last February.
Cole Younger, last OF the group of
bandits who terrorized Missouri short
ly after the Civil war, is dying at his
home at Lees Summit, Mo. Deep feel
ing over the death OF Frank James is
believed to be Fastening the death OF
Younger.
Twenty-Five ~stockyRrds. packing
houses and commission men from the
Denver Union S~tockyards are plan
ming to 20 to Douglas, Wyo., to attend
the convention OF the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association in that city April
IS and 16.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., in a tele.
gram to the Colorado state commit
tee on unemployment and relief, an.
nounced that the Rockefeller founda.
ton stood ready to contribute $780,
900 to relieve distress among the
workers IN Colorado. particularly In
the mining districts.
WASHINGTON
Louisiana's sugar crop for the sea
son just closed totaled 242,0 600 tons,
or about $4,000 less than In 1913.
President Wilson will deliver the
principal memorial address at the
Grand Army exercises in Arlington
cemetery May 80.
Practical eradication OF the live
stock foot and mouth disease in the
United States was announced by the
Department OF Agriculture.
The fight for nationwide erohibi.
tion viii be renewed with greater
yigor than ever at the next session
Of Congress. Senator Sheppard OF
Texas announced.
Interests concerned in the Midwest
oil Company case are preparing to ask
the Supreme Court TO reconsider its
recent decision upholding the validity
of President Taft's withdrawal OF
large sections Of public oil lands In
California and Wyoming.
Dispatches TO the State Department
said that the revolution which broke
out in Paraguay recently was still
under way. Sixty persons were under
arrest IN Asnncion charged with con
spiracy against the government, the
dSpatch said. and tweuty-one Others
had been deDorted on similar charges