The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-12-03
yhE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAG RAPho.
STORY OF The week
SAOWiNG THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR


Total number OF British and French
landed at Saloniki to date is l25,ooo
and $4,000 more on way.
German official statement an,
aounces campaign against Serbia mas
seen closed as way to Turkey is now
open.
Germans and Austrians report fur
ther gains In Serbia and assert lol,-
800 Serbians have been captured since
invasion began
Italy has redoubled her efforts on
the Isonzo front The Italian army
has prevented Austria from sending
any achievements into the Balkans.
Allies agree to provide provisions
Tor Hontenegros army and people
King Nicholas declares nation will be
eEterminated rather than submit TO
slavery
Reports received at Geneva from
Chiasso on the Swiss Italian border.
,ay that Gorilla has fallen, the Ital-
aaus having entered the town from
the north.
Earl Kitchener is again in London.
It is reported that the British war
secretary and the French envoy to
Greece disagreed on the terms to be
urged on the Hellenic government.
Austria is reported as attempting
10 make separate peace with Italy.
The Vienna government is said to be
Wiling to make concessions in order
- free the army tnow occupied on
Ihe Italian front.
Bread riots are causing the Berlin
government alarm. Women have ap-
scared in mobs before the Berlin
palace gates demanding food and the
return OF their husbands from the
trenches
France has called the conscripts OF
19iT to the colors. This contingent Is
composed of boys about IS years Of
age. This is done, according to the
French leaders, to prepare the recruits
Cor service in the spring of 1916
Rumania has blocked the plans of
Russia to attack the Bulgars from the
Danube. In sharp note the Ruman
ian government informed the car that
the river was mined and that every
effort would be made to protect the
neutrality OF Rumania.
WESTERN
More than half the town OF Avalon
n Santa Catalina Island was de-
seroyed by fire.
l&M cents a gallon, against II cents
three months ago.
The permit for a widows tag day
vas revoked by the city council of
Chicago last night
The University of Washington will
Aaye two representatives in the Henry
Ford peace delegation TO Europe
Chicagos 100000 guaranty fund for
national conventions has been com.
Disted
At New Orleans. La, wholesale
merchants are said to have reported
that their November business in.
creased from so to 100 per cent.
A widow OF Johann Hoch, one Of the
thirty-two, died of starvation. superin.
duced by pneumonia, at Chicago. She
vas Mrs Mary Hoch Wernke, aged 65
Years..
Thirty workmen were killed and
seven fatally injured in terrific ex,
piosion of four tons of black powder
at the Upper Hagley yard of the Du
Pont Powder Company at Wilmington,
Del
WASHINGTON
Self-government without complete
independence for some time to come
10 the administrations policy for the
F1lipinos.
The Austro- Hungarian government
has informed Ambassador Penfield at
Vienna that 1t desires more time to
complete a formal statement regard
ing the sinking OF the Italian steam
ship Ancona.
The New York anti-alien labor law
u 1909, under which it was made
compulsory to employ only citizens
In the construction of public works,
was held constitutional by the Su-
preme Court.
Senator Kern of Indiana was re-
elected chairman of the Democratic
Senate caucus and floor leader by
unanimous vote at the conference of
Senate Democrats.
Federal quarantine for foot and
mouth disease has been lifted entirely
from Massachusetts and New Jersey
and modified in number of counties
in Illinois.
President Wilson entertained mem
bsrs of the Princeton class of '79, of
which he is one, at dinner at the
White House. Between fifty and six
~ classmates accepted invitations.