The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-26
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR
The small Italian merchant steamer
Maria Grecia was sunk by an Austrian
torpedo boat in the Adriatic.
A Reuter- dispatch from Athens says
1t is reported there that the Serbians
have occupied Durazzo, Albania.
Lieut.. Reginald A. ]. Warneford,
who gained fame recently by blowing
to pieces Zeppelin over Belgium,
was killed by the fall of an aeroplane
at Buc, France.
The town of Tarnogrod, just inside
Russian territory to the north of Sien-
lava, and the heights of Krezow to
the northeast of Tarnogrod, are occu-
pied by the troops of the Teutonic al
lies.
The strongly-fortified Galician town
OF Grodek, where it was predicted
the Russians would make a stubborn
stand, has fallen before the Austro-
German assault, according to an Aus
trian official statement
o'N'hOi DOoS may vi cid
the statement that the entire forces
under his command would be used if
necessary to resist the landing of
American marines on the west coast
10 protect foreign settlers of the Yaqui
valley from Indians now at war.
Many unconfirmed reports reached
London Tuesday that Lemberg had
already fallen to the Austro Germans,
and dispatches from Petrograd indi-
cate that the evacuation of the Ga
1ician capital by the Russians may be
looked for at any time.
WESTERN
South Omaha and Dundee have been
annexed to Omaha.
w. Il. (Red) Dwyer, %, fired a bull
let into his brain at Sheridan, Wyo
A Calexico, Cal, dispatch reports
an earthquake extending from there
TO Yuma, Ariz., in which twenty-seven
persons were killed
The Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany declared dividend of so cents
a share, an increase of rs cents over
the rate paid since last September.
A dispatch from Superior, Nebr.,
tells of terrific hailstorm near there
Saturday, chunks of ice falling of such
size as to kill cattle and other stock
Former Congressman William S.
Cowherd of Missouri, died at Pasa-
dena, Cal, of anaemia after an illness
OF six months.
A telephone message to st. Louis
lie u a.
most disastrous hail and wind storm
in fifty years swept jefferson coun-
~ and caused about 100000 damage.
Oidonycosis, a disease somewhat
like tuberculosis, but more fatal, was
described at San Francisco at the Pan
American Medical Congress by DIR. E.
c. Dickson of the Leland Stanford, Jr..
medical school.
Harvey o. Dysinger, wealthy Har-
din county, Ohio, farmer, shot and
probably fatally injured his wife, killed
his daughter, Esther, Is years old,
wounded his son Herbert, 16, and COM
mitted suicide at his home near Forst.
Three special trains of newspaper
men, members of the National News
paper Association, will arrive in Den
yer June 25 from the East en- route
10 the thirtieth annual convention in
Los Angeles, which will be held from
June 20 to July 2
Thomas Taggart, Democratic ma
tional committeeman for Indiana;
Mayor Joseph Bell, Chief of Police
Samuel Perrott and 125 other Indiana
politicians were indicted by the
Marion county grand jury charged
with conspiring to commit forty-eight
felonies in connection with the recent
election.
WASHINGTON
Serious charges of abuse by the
niles of the American flag have been
made by Germany to the State Depart
ment.
President Wilson was understood
10 have practically decided on the ap-
pointment of Robert Lansing as Sec
rotary of State to succeed William
Jennings Bryan.
Secretary Redfield reported at the
cabinet meeting that the total trade
balance in favor of the United States
on June 10 was s976,0O0.OOO. He pre-
dicted that the balance for the fiscal
years ending July l would be in ex-
cess of s1,000,000,000.
All religious education will be
barred within ten years from schools
in Korea giving "a general education"
by order promulgated by Gen. Terau-
chi, Japanese territorial governor of
Korea, the text of which was made
public by the Japanese embassy