Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-23
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

to comply with Germany's demands to
allow weapons and ammunition to ira
verse Rumania for Turkey"
The Grimsby trawlers Hainton and
Syrian have been sunk by German sub
marines in the North Sea. The crews
of the vessels were landed at Grimsby.
A renewal of desperate fighting in
the West with the crown prince lead
ing the German forces in the Argonne,
was reported by both the Paris and
Berlin war offices.
The crews of four Lowestoft trawl-
ers-the Woodbine, Purple Healer,
Speedwell and Merlin-which were
sunk by a German submarine, have
been landed at Lowestoft, England.
The captain and four members OF
the crew of the Swedish schooner
Daisy were killed when the vessel
was sunk by a mine off Floejtans
lighthouse, according to a Reuter- dis
patch from Stockholm.
Gen. Fable Gonzales, commander of
the Carranza forces in Mexico City,
has issued proclamation asserting
that foreigners, no matter what their
nationality, will be treated as rebels"
if they aid in any way the work of the
''reactionary party"
The London Daily Mails correspon-
dent at British headquarters in France
says: THE French are arming their
troops with short knife for use in
trench warfare, thus displacing the
bayonet, which. when fixed in the rifle,
is too long a weapon to give a man
tn,
The German Emperor. according to
the London Times, in speech to a
deputation of bankers, who had in
sisted on an interview in order to
point out to the Emperor the financial
difficulties of the situation and the
grave risk attending the pursuance of
the campaign through another win
ter, stated that the war would end in
October.
WESTERN
Five dead. scores injured and more
than 100000 worth of property
damaged were the toll of floods
which resulted from torrential rains
throughout central Ohio.
Immediate and countrywide pros
perity was proclaimed by Champ
Clark, speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. in an address before the
Commercial Club of San Francisco.
An appeal for help has been sent
out from Rosendale. Mo-, village OF
several hundred inhabitants, twenty
five miles north of St. Joseph. A sud.
den rise of four feet in the river put
the entire town under water.
On recommendation of Attorney
General Cosson, Justice Sawyer, at
Bedford, Ia, dismissed the four Tay-
lor county men held in connections
with investigation of bandit murder OF
Nathaniel Smith and his son in 1865
Top-hatted reception committees,
policemen, station porters and guards
were swallowed up at San Francisco
in a tumultuous throng which gath
cred to greet the nations Liberty
Bell upon its arrival from Philadel-
phia.
Villa forces under General Trujillo
were completely routed near Cabullo-
ma by 5000 Carranza troops which
left Aqua Prieta secretly, according to
an official report of Col. Max Joffre.
chief of staff for Gen. Gales. Car
rama commander in Sonora
Ramon Villabolos, one of the five
MeXicans who escaped the gallows
at the last minute, May IS last, by
reprieve, opened at Phoenix, Ariz..
fight to again avoid execution July
30 by appealing to the State Supreme
Court for a new trial.
The imperial council of the Ancient
Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, in secret session at Seattle,
Wash, established new temples in
four cities and granted a dispensation.
not Immediately effective. in a fifth.
and decided to hold the next meeting
in Buffalo.
Charles d. Cook. a hotel man from
Telluride, Colo, attending the Elks'
reunion at Los Angeles. died from
the effects of poison taken at the
hour set for his wedding to Miss
Elizabeth Wilcox OF Bellflower.
suburb. Cook. who was about So
years old. leaves a stepdaughter. Mrs.
l.. c. Lomax, at Telluride.
WASHINGTON
The receipts from income tax for
the year will total around 100000 900.
Haitien government troops were re
ported victorious in a battle four
miles south of Cape Iaitien. in mes.
sage from Rear Admiral Caperton
Postmaster General Burleson has
ordered that the size limit OF pack
ages for parcel post shipment be in
creased TO a combined length and
girth OF eighty.four inches. which will
permit the mailing of standard fruit
- b.rry gratag