The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24
NEWS To DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
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

EOn ana villa claiming victory.
Italy has 100000 soldiers under
arms and fully equipped, according
10 General Zupelli, minister of war
The British admiralty announced Of
ficially that the British submarine ELS
was destroyed in the Dardanelles by
British picket boats.
Two Turkish torpedo boat de-
stroyers were blown up, says
Saloniki dispatch, while passing
through mine belt which Russian
ships had succeeded in laying across
the entrance to the Bosporus while
the Turkish fleet was cruising in the
Black sea
The British, as an offset to their
success in destroying a Turkish tor
pedo boat, which attacked the trans
port Manitou off Chios, lost the sub
marine Els, which, while carrying
out a difficult reconnaissance in the
Dardanelles mine field, ran aground
on Keppez point, the crew being made
prisoners. According to the Turkish
report, seven of the crew are miss
ing.
Lord Kitcheners army of 100000
men has begun its big push" to drive
the Germans out of Belgium and
northern France, which has been
promised in the early spring, accord
ing to dispatches from the front, sup
ported by the London war office Of
fetal report. Abandonment by the
German general staff of plans for a
general offensive in France is inferred
from dispatches received at London.
WESTERN
Fire, started by lightning, caused
loss of $4,000 when the Barkhausen
oil warehouses at Green Bay, Wis,
were destroyed.
Heavy rains, causing much prop
erty damage, were reported from over
southwest Texas. Hail followed the
rain in most localities.
Striking miners to the number of
about 1000 assembled at Dillonvale.
Ohio, where memorial service for
the men killed in the Colorado strike
last year was held.
Mrs. Creatore. wife of the famous
Italian bandmaster of that name, died
at Sacramento, Cal, following
paralytic stroke. Mrs. Creatore was
sister-in-law of Adelina Patti, the
former opera singer.
Total profits made by the Utah Cop
per Company for the year ending Dec.
81, 1914, were $3.50, 421 80, according
10 the tenth annual report of the COM
pany, copies of which were received
at the executive offices in Colorado
Springs.
At Los Angeles, presiding Judge ].
Perry Wood electrified auditors in the
Superior Court by saying that Charles
T. Sebastian, suspended chief of police.
would have to go to trial on charge
OF attempting to intimidate the grand
jury, even if an indictment accusing
him and Mrs. Lille Pratt with sub
Verting the morals of Edith Serkin
blows up"
WASHINGTON
President Wilson went to New
York to attend the annual luncheon
of the Associated Press.
The appropriations for public build
ing sites in Colorado that are to be
held up are Canon City, $4,000
Monte Vista, 10000; Montrose, $751;
600; Sterling, $4,000.
Washington society circles were sur
prised when il became known that
William F. McCombs, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, and
Mrs. McCombs had separated.
The Supreme Court held that tho
state of Georgia had denied Leo NJ.
Frank no right under the federal con-
stitution in sentencing him to death
for the murder of Mary Phagan, an
Atlanta factory girl
Mrs Ida NJ. McNabb. thirty-seven,
Escanaba, Mich, and Wisconsin, won
$4,000 breach of promise verdict
against John S. Kinney. seventy weight,
of the same state. Mrs. McNabb, a
widow, sued for 100000.
President Wilson in an address at
the annual luncheon of the Associ-
ated Press in New York gave def
mite statement of his idea of true
neutrality and of the duties that de-
volve upon Americas connection with
the Europeon war.
TIE need of self-possession. calmness
and judicial temperament on the
part OF the United States in the pre-
sent world crisis was urged by Presi-
dent Wilson in a speech before the
opening session OF the twenty-fourth
continental congress of the Daughters
of the Revolution. The President said
selfpossession was the supreme test
of a nations mettle.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has announced discontinuancc of
its investigation into the rates and
practices of the telephone ana tele-
graph companies