The Ordway new era., 1915-09-03
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAcRAPHs.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
wsstsrn NewsDnper Union NeWs serves
ABOUT THE WAR

Gen. Carranza has moved from Vera
Cruz to Mexico City.
Mexicans raided an American cat
tie ranch neur Columbus. New Mex.
Ayiators of the allies are especially
active in destroying supply depots OF
the Teutons.
President Wilson Is the man chosen
by the neutral nations to make peace
In the European war. F
The Austrian official report states
that Archduke Joseph Ferdinand
found the town of Kamieniez-l.itoysk
in flames when he arrived.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Petrograd says: "rhe President OF the
Duma has announced that the Ger
mans lost the battleship Moltke. three
cruisers and seven torpedo boats In
the Riga battle
The Germans. in full possession OF
the entire Brest.Litovsk line. have re-
sumed the offensive In the Baltic
provinces and are pressing the Rus
SLAMS both In the districts southeast
Of Mitau and to the east Of Kovno. In
an effort to reach the main line OF
railway which passes through wilma
and Dvinsk to Petrograd.
The British steamer Palm Grove
has been sunk. Her crew was saved.
During the week ending Aug. rs nine
teen British merchant vessels, with a
total tonnage OF 10000. and three
fishing vessels, were destroyed by
submarines or mines. The week was
one OF the most successful German
underwater craft have had since the
commencement OF the war. Fourteen
steamers were sunk by German sub
marines Aus. 10 and 20. The largest
Of them was the Arabic.
WARRINGTON
President Wilson appointed vannoy
H. Manning Of Holly Springs. Miss.
director Of the bureau OF mines I'm the
Interior Department. He succeeds
DR.. J. A. Holmes. who died In Denver
recently. Mr.. Manning was assistant
director OF the bureau.
The Suez canal passed three and
two-fifths times as many ships as
used the Panama canal last year. and
the receivers tolls were four and five
eighths times the receipts OF the
Panama canal during the first years
operations Of the latteR
Reinsurance to cotton shippers that
their cargoes for neutrals will not be
confiscated II they come within the
normal consumption under the recent
decree Of the allies that cotton is con-
traband. was given in a statement Is
sued at the British embassy.
Facing a charge Of violating the
federal law for tho protection OF the
national defenses by making pictures
OF military reservations, Gustav
Kopsch. German, aged 81, and an in
strument maker in the Carnegie insti-
tuition at Washington. was held in $5.-
900 bail to await trial in the Federal
District Court at Norfolk.
Secretary Garrison made public
Major General Woods reply to the
secretnry's telegram directing that no
repetition be permitted of the incident
at the Plattsburg camp precipitated
by former President Roosevelt's 8
speech to the men In training there,
"Your telegram received and policy
laid down will be rigidly adhered to-"
General Wood telegraphed.
Secretary Garrison telegraphed Maj
Gen. Leonard Wood. deprecating tina,
opportunity was given at the citizens
soldiery camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. fol
Col. Roosevelt's sensational speech
and directing nothing similar should
be permitted at any of the other
camps. Secretary Garrison referred
to Col. Roosevelt's remarks on the
military unpreparededness OF the coun
try and the attitude OF the administra
tion.
WESTERN
Harry X Thaw and his party ar
rived at Salt Lake on their way Il
San Francisco. @
Floodswept sections Of Arkansa.
appealed for aid to care for thousands
of persons made homeless and desti
tute by the rising waters.
Charles Mclean, an American, wa.
arrested by federal authorities at Gal
weston. Tex. on charge Of counter
feiting CarranZa currency. 1t Is al
legged that 361, 900 was found In hi,
possession.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa F,
railroad offices Thursday received
word that washouts In the vicinity o
Gallup, N. NJ, had delayed overland
trains twelve hours. One washout de
stroyed tracks for = distance OF 30'
feet.
Religion was proclaimed an essen
tial in mans life and in his relation.
10 the state. In an. address deliveret
at San Francisco before the -Nationa
Unitarian conference by William How
ard Taft, president Of the conference
and former President Of the United
States.