Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-17
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


German troops have captured Volko-
vysk. an important railway junction.
forty-eight miles southeast of Grodno.
it was officially announced at Berlin.
Twenty persons were killed and
eighty-six others injured in Wednes-
day nights Zeppelin raid, the second
raid on England within twenty-four
hours.
A British official statement says:
"The ships lost for the week ending
Sept number ten. of gross ton
mage of 1896; fishing vessels four,
tonnage 1884,"
Another Mexican was killed in Tex
as. this time by Mexicans near Ly-
ford. Just north OF Brownsville. This
was the second killing of Mexicans
about Lyford in two days.
The French steamship Bordeaux
has been torpedoed and sunk, twelve
miles outside the mouth of the
Gironde, off the western coast OF
France. It's crew was taken aboard
pilot boat
Forty.one ships flying the Norwe-
gian flag have been lost since the be-
ginning of war in Europe and seventy
six sailors have perished. according to
report received at the State Depart
ment from the American minister at
Christiania.
An official communication made
public in Petrograd announces an
other big success for the Russians in
eastern Galicia. Following their re-
ported victory at Tarnopol it is stated
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Sept. and the Russians took as
prisoners $50 officers and 1000 men
and that the Teutons retreated hast
lily toward the river Strypa.
Officers casualty lists for the fort
night ended Aug. 80 indicate the Sc
verify of the recent fighting in the
Gallipoli peninsula, whence the bulk
of the casualties are announced. They
show that the British army lost 407
officers killed, 959 wounded and 1856
missing, total of l.502 for the fort
night. Losses of officers since the
outbreak of hostilities have now
reached total of 1880, of whom a.
100 have been killed. 9.69S wounded
and 1852 reported missing
WESTERN
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest
ern railroad is to be offered Sept 80
in Denver at foreclosure sale.
Two Mexican bandits were shot by
American soldiers returning the band
is fire across the Rio Grande at
Cavazes crossing.
Faced by two holdup men who told
aim to come through quick" C. NJ.
Bisselle of Lake Bluffs, ILL.,, at Chi
.ago, handed over 500.
The funeral of George Fitch, wide
y known as humorist and author.
Who died at Berkeley. Cal, aug. .. was
held at Galya, ILL.,, his birthplace.
The Farmers Union. in its national
convention at Lincoln, Neb., went on
record as opposed to the professional
,arm adviser. sent out, it is alleged, by
some of the agricultural schools.
William Cullen Rudd. brother-in-law
of John d. Rockefeller, died at his
home in Cleveland, Ohio. He is sur
vived by his widow. Mary A. Rookie
Teller Rudd, Mr.. Rockefeller's only sis
ter. TO whom he was married Oct. II.
1872.
James 7. J. Archibald. detained in
England because of carrying messages
rom DR.. Constantin Dumba, Austro-
Hungarian ambassador to the United
States, was formerly a citizen of Pu-
eblo, Colo. and was a reporter in 1890
,or the former Pueblo Evening Press.
That the government reclamation
projects now under construction will
require the expenditure of s40,000,000
and that this vast sum Is being ex-
pended at the rate of 81 100000 month.
ly was the statement made by A. A.
Jones. assistant secretary of the in
terror, at banquet given in his hon
or by Ell Paso business men.
WASHINGTON
The Department of Agriculture has
warned farmers against buying i'm
ported crimson clover seed of low
termination and advised testing be-
fore planting.
Rear Admiral Caperton reported to
the Navy Department that General
Rameau. a Haitien leader of influence,
had been sent to Gonaives, to quiet
unrest reported In the vicinity of that
port.
The German vote on the sinking of
the Arabic is disappointing to Off
cials.
A plan to appoint commission of
business men to mobilize business re-
sources Of the United States in case
Of war was presented to President
Wilson by Bernard Baruch. a New