Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-30
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
tern 4 Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Vienna reports that Radon, capital
of the province of Random, which lies
fifty-seven miles south of Warsaw,
was captured by the Teutonic allies.
So far as British vessels are con-
cerned, the German submarines drew
a blank during the week ending July
23. Not a single British merchant
ship or fishing craft was sunk.
Immediately southwest Of Warsaw
and less than twenty miles from 1t,
Blonie has fallen: and further south,
Grojeo. while German cavalry are
astride the important railway, from
Radon to Ivangorod.
A dispatch from The Hague to the
Overseas News agency says that ac-
cording to reports from Cairo the
British steamship Theresa, while pass
ing through Suez canal, ran upon
Turkish mine and sank
According to dispatch from Petro-
grad to Reuters Telegraph agency,
fleet of fifty-nine Turkish sailing yes
sells. laden with war materials for the
Turkish arIhy Of the Caucasus. has
been destroyed by Russian torpedo
boat destroyers.
The Swedish bark Capella and the
Norwegian bark Nordlyset. both tim
ber laden and bound for England,
were set on fire in the North sea by
German submarines. The crew of the
Capella was landed at Hull and that
of the Nordlyset at Friedrichshafen.
Conditions in the Mexican capital
have become more desperate in the
last few days, and n state of anarchy
reigns. There has been much rioting
and looting OF stores inside the city.
The prospects for the relief of half
million people are indefinite. The at
tempts of Carranza's army to hold the
capital have collapsed.
The Austro-German armies continue
to press the Russian forces defending
Warsaw; but, while they have made
progress at some points, they have not
made any serious breach in the we'll
fortified inner lines. The Russians
have been pressed back to the bridge
head positions directly west of War
saw, and into the fortress of Ivan
gorod further to the southeast on the
Vistula.
WESTERN
Ira Nelson Morris, American min
lister to Sweden. arrived in Chicago
to undergo a slight operation on his
throat He expects to remain in this
country about one month.
Chester Hall, 5S, of Grand Rapids.
Mich, shot and killed his wife, Anna,
3S. and his stepson, Henry Tunis, is.
Both died instantly. Hall then blew
off his own head with a shotgun.
More than 1000 employees of the
Montezuma Copper Company at Naco-
zari, Sonora, are without employment
because the plant was forced to close
down through inability to obtain coal.
War in Mexico is about over now"
declared Major Alberto Salinas, aide
to Gen. Carranza and chief of the
Mexican aviation department, who ar
rived in Denver on his way to San
Francisco to study American air craft.
James Ryan, Beau Brummel of the
clairvoyant trust" revealed in the
Chicago police graft trial of former
Detectives William Egan and Walter
o'Brien, how his adept and successful
love.making netted the gang $4,000
per month.
A Douglas, Ariz., dispatch says:
Two Mexican officers were killed and
one was wounded by party of five
Americans, who fired on the Mexi-
cans when their house was surround,
ed, in the belief that they were being
attacked by bandits.
WASHINGTON
Five hundred Carranza troops cap
tured Santa Cruz, according to re-
ports reaching Nogales, Ariz.
The American consul at Warsaw
cabled the State Department that the
Belgian consul had left Warsaw and
that the American consulate had TAX
en- charge of the affairs of both Bel
gium and Serbia there.
The submarine which attacked the
Cunarder Orduna, with Americans
among its passengers. in mid-Atlantic
westbound between Liverpool and
New York, did so without warming
The story as originally published was
correct.
Kansas. West Virginia and Connec
ticut have been added to the states
entirely freed from federal quarantine
against foot and mouth disease.
In round numbers there were 90.
100000 persons enrolled in educational
institutions In the United States in
1914, according to the annual report
of the Commissioner of Education.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided that the revenues of the