Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-31
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
wertern Newspaper Union News servic'
ABOUT THE WAR

Great Britain is guarding the Sucz
canal with 100000 troops.
Great Britain's loss of officers and
mcn at the Dardanelles up to Dec. IL
was li2.94i.
Germans retake summit OF Hart
manns-Weille-kopf on western front,
capturing 1900 prisoners.
Japanese liner Yasaka Maru, with
one American on board. sunk without
warning by submarine. No lives were
lost
An Athens dispatch says that
British submarine has sunk the Ger
man steamer Leros and other craft
In the Sea of Marmora.
British sailors from a cruiser in the
Sorth Atlantic boarded the steamer
Rotterdam and forcibly removed from
che vessel mail bound for the United
States.
Germany informs Greece the Teu-
ton armies hope to reach Saioniki by
Jan Is. and promises to evacuate
Greek territory "as soon as the task
fs finished"
Since the war began 1884. ships
been destroyed, according to reports
made at Berlin. Their aggregate ton
mage is 1,4i7,G2S.
Russia's long-threatened blow has
fallen on Bulgaria. The Cars war
ships, conveying sixteen transports
loaded with troops, shelled Varna,
landed large forces and laid waste the
sity.
The British parliament has voted
20 increase England's army to 4.000.-
900. An appeal for financial aid from
the people, and shakeup in the Brit
ssh general staff is reported from
London.
Harold ]. Tenant, parliamentary
mdersecretary for war, in the House
Of Commons at London, said the num-
Der of casualties published in the of.
dcial lists for Prussia, Saxony. Ba-
raria ard Wurtemberg. up to Nov. 30,
we're .,52i.4G0. OF that number, he
added, 4S4,22S men were killed or
died of their wounds. 354.i9S were
severely wounded, 27.G7i died of dis
ease, and 1.149 were missing. Naval
casualties. he said. were not included
in the figures.
WESTERN
Judge A. J. Seay, formerly terrific
rial governor of Oklahoma. died at his
home at Long Beach. Cal.
The nitro-glycerine plant of the
Aetna Powder Company at Fayville,
H., was blown up when 1000 pounds
OF nitro-glycerine exploded.
Mrs. Julia Anne Banker Adams,
30 years old. grandmother of Maude
Adams, died at the home of Mrs.
Adams, at Salt Lake.
Afte- having arrested T. J. Walton.
aged &c. at Paris. Tex. charged with
the murder of his daughter. Pauline,
the night OF Dec. II. officers con-
tinued their search for evidence.
With the same necktie with which
she attempted to take her own life.
Mrs. Minnie Schmitz. 10, strangled
Ncr I7-year.old daughter. Gertrude. to
death, according to the police at Gin
einnati, Ohio.
Denver police have been asked to
search for Grace Slaughter, 19.year.
old daughter of John r. Slaughter of
Laramie. Wyo., who disappeared from
the hCme of her uncle, James II.
Slaughter of Denver. where she has
been visiting for the last two months.
WASHINGTON
SuIl powers to settle the Ancona
case have been given the Austrian
charge d'affaires at the national capt
tai. it is reported.
In notifying the State Department
that Great Britain would permit the
immediate shipments of 400 tons of
logwood or dyestuffs from Jamaica TO
the United States, the British embas-
~ has indicated that the shortage of
the extract OF logwood in Canada
must be relieved as condition of the
smbargo's modification.
Full settlement OF the Lusitania
case, including reparation for the
lives Of the American victims, which,
It became known. recently was near
has been postponed by the dismissal
Of the German naval and military at.
tRches and the American demands on
kustria-Hungary as a result of the
iinking of the Ancona.
A German seaman aboard an
American vessel on the high seas is
Immune from arrest by, Germany's
enemies, in the view of the State De-
aartment, unless il can be shown that
no is an active member of German
naval or military forces.
The Postoffice Department notified
postmasters that It is about to issue
stamped envelopes bearing an en-
bosscd 2-eent postage stamp of new
design. The new stamp is printed in
red ink and Is in the form of circle.