The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-10
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DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
France declares that Germany has
100000 fighters.
A big submarine that dashed
through a heavy sea at incredible
speed sank the steamer Northlands
off Beachy Head in the English chan
mel.
A British officers casualty list
shows that the British army since the
beginning of the war has lost 1,S44
officers killed and 1901 wounded,
while 732 have been reported missing
This is total of 5,S77.
According to the press bureau of
the French war office, forty-three
German generals have been killed
during the war, while 1,276 other of
ficers have been slain or are missing
out of total of 52,SO5 in army in
time of peace.
Two more vessels, the Russian
three-master Hermes and the Glas-
gov steamer Divine, have been sunk
by German submarines, according to
an official statement from the ad-
miralty in London. The German u
81 sank both vessels.
Two steamers, one British and one
German, were sunk Sunday. The for
mer was wrecked by a submarine in
the English Channel, and the German
craft struck a mine in the Baltic Sea.
Turkish cruiser Medijidieh sunk by
mine in Black Sea after campaign
against the Russian fleet.
A report from Athens says the Brit
Ssh battleship Lord Nelson, stranded
inside the Dardanelles straits, has
been destroyed by the fire of the
Turkish guns on shore. A council of
war held by the British and French
admirals, the Athens dispatch con-
tinues, decided to postpone the at
tempt to force the Dardanelles.
WESTERN
George II. Green, former imperial
potentate of the Shriners, died at Dali
las, Texas
The third reduction in the price of
crude oil within two weeks was an
nounced at Pittsburg, Pa.
Naval officials turned their atten-
iion at San Francisco to new devices
for reaching the submarine "a which
took her crew to the bottom off Homo
lulu harbor March rs.
In Milwaukee the non-partisans
won all but one vacancy in judicial
offices, while the Socialists reelected
one Judge, and appear to have elected
four out of five school directors.
William McAdoo, Jr., son of the sec
rotary of the treasury, will defend
Tse-Ne-Gat in his trial for murder, ac-
cording TO members of the United
States District Attorneys office in
Denver
With the unwilling of a handsome
bronze tablet marking the place of
organization, the fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of the Grand Army of
the Republic was observed at De-
catur, Ill.
Samuel Cohen, salesman, whose
widow and three children are said to
live in Denver, was killed by gas in
Chicago. Fumes OF escaping gas at
tracted Herman Miller. with whom
Cohen was a boarder.
Returns completed at Butte Mont,
show that Charles H. Lane, Demo
crat, was elected mayor, replacing C.
A. Smith, Socialist. The city coun-
Gil. heretofore having a Socialist ma
jority, now has a Democratic major
ity of thirteen.
At Los Angeles, Charles e. Sebas-
tian, candidate for mayor, was sus-
pended as chief of police following his
indictment by the county grand jury
on the charge of contributing to the
dependency of Edith Serkin. seven
teen years old, half sister and ward
of Mrs. Lille Pratt also indicted on
the same charge. Mayor Henry Rose
said Sebastian was suspended at his
own request.
WASHINGTON
The cruiser MARYLAND with the ex-