Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
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Allied airmen dropped bombs on the
German balloon sheds at Brussels,
causing slight damage.
The small Italian merchant steamer
Maria Grecia was sunk by an Austrian
torpedo boat in the Adriatic.
A Reuter- dispatch from Athens says
it is reported there that the Serbians
have occupied Durazzo, Albania
Lieut.. Reginald A. ]. Warneford,
who gained fame recently by blowing
to pieces a 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 strongyfortified Galician town
of Grodek, where it was predicted
the Russians would make stubborn
stand, has fallen before the Austro-
German assault, according to an Aus
trian official statement.
Governor Jose Maytorena authorized
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
to protect foreign settlers of the Yaqui
valley from Indians now at war.
Red Cross figures say the total
killed in the European conflict up to
March l of this year was 2,146,0O0;
seriously wounded, 1,150000; slightly
wounded, 1871 900; prisoners, 1,764,-
900, making a total of S,S31,00 put
out of combat.
After seven weeks battering across
Galicia, during which the Russians
have been thrown back more than
$50 miles, the Austro-G ermans are
as close to Lemberg as were the
Germans to Paris after their first
dash across France last fall
That the Russian army. short of am
munition and pushed back to it's last
line of defenses before Lemberg, may
give up the city to the advancing
order to save the grand dukes army,
was indicated Monday by dispatch
from Petrograd.
Western
South Omaha and Dundee have been
annexed to Omaha.
w. E. (Red) Dwyer, 25, fired bull
let into his brain at Sheridan, Wyo.
The petition for the appointment of
receivers for the knights of Honor, a
fraternal insurance order, was denied
In the Federal Court at ST. Louis.
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.
Oidonycosis, a disease somewhat
like tuberculosis, but more fatal, was
described at San Francisco at the Pan
American Medical Congress by Dr.. E.
c. Dickson of the Leland Stanford, Jr..
medical school,
The Nebraska Supreme Court de-
clared that in the absence of specific
Legislative action the state railway
commission is without authority either
to advance or lower passenger rates
on Nebraska railroads.
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 l6, 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
to the thirtieth annual convention in
Los Angeles, which will be held from
June 29 to July 2.
Washington
The British admiralty has an
nounced officially that the German
submarine U-29, which was sunk the
latter part of March, fell victim to
a British warship, the name of which
is not disclosed.
Former Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan, in the third and con
cluding section of his statement of the
"Causeless War" suggests mediation
as the way out
Special safety measures to be OBJ
served by ships navigating Swedish
waters have been proclaimed at Stock.
holm. according to advices to the
State Department.
President Wilson was understood
to have practically decided on the an.
pointment Of Robert Lansing as Sec.
retary of State to succeed William
Jennings Bryan.