The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-06
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Russian troops have landed in
Varna in Bulgaria, Black sea port.
The French submarine Turquoise
has been sunk by Turkish artillery.
Berlin reports the capture of an i'm
portant Serbian railroad junction town.
British auxiliary vessel sunk in col
lision at Galipoli and los men miss
ing.
French occupy Strumitsa and ad-
vance twenty miles into Bulgarian
territory.
Germans have captured Kraguye-
Vatz, where the main arsenal of the
Serbians is located
One fourth of Bulgarian city of
Dadeaghatch destroyed by allies fleet
in recent bombardmcnt.
Bulgars are advancing on Nish, the
war capital of Serbia They are meet
ing with fierce resistance.
From all sides the Germans, Aus
trians and Bulgarians are slowly clos
ing in on the Serbian armies, the po-
sition of which grows graver daily.
The Berlin war office announced
hullh6 Tic VI oClODGl
more than 100000 prisoners were cap
tured on the Russian and Serbian
fronts.
Germany is ready to consider peace,
according to Amsterdam reports. The
German chancellor is quoted as saying
that the kaiser will agree to peace if
Belgium is ceded TO him with certain
other territory. An indemnity of ST.
5O0,000,000 is also demanded.
Premier Asquith in the British
house of commons admitted that the
campaign against the Dardanelles had
failed. The premier, reviewing the
war, told the Britons they must pre-
pare TO make great sacrifices and
adopt a rigid economy in order to win
the war.
Defeated, the Villista army retreated
TO the eastward from Aqua Prieta
leaving 400 dead and wounded on the
battlefield. Eight persons on the
American side of the boundary, in
cluding four soldiers of the Seventh
infantry, were wounded during the
fighting. Harry Jones, private in Com
pany c, Eleventh infantry. died of the
wounds inflicted by bullet from the
Aqua Prieta battle line.
WESTERN
Edward l.. Preetorius, publisher of
the st. Louis Times, committed sui
eide.
Six men are under arrest at Peoria,
Ill, in connection with an alleged
wholesale clearing house for stolen au.
tomobiles
Perry Morris, a farmer, killed four
persons near Winnsboro, Tex, includ-
ing himself, and seriously wounded
fifth.
Four babies were born on two of
the troop trains which took reinforce
ments to the Aqua Prieta garrison via
Eagle Pass and Laredo.
William c. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury, arrived in Chicago from
the Pacific coast. Prosperity is
everywhere, according to McAdoo.
Mrs. Rose M. Cosgriff. widow of the
late Thomas A. Cosgriff was appoint
ed Administrative of that portion of
the estate left by Mr. Cosgriff in Lar
annie county. Wyoming. valued at
100000.
Colorado and Wyoming will unite
their forces in the building of a mod
ern highway from Denver through the
Rocky Mountain National park in
northern Colorado to the Yellowstone
National park in Wyoming. The Vel
lowstone highway, as it will be known,
is to be the first link in a 3,500-mile
chain highway joining al! the national
parks in the intermountain and Pacific
coast territory.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Garrison temporarily sus.
pended classified freight rates on the
Panama railroad.
England was asked by the United
States to explain the seizure OF the
American steamer Hooking at Halifax
The American steamer Llama was
seized by a British prize crew and
afterward run aground off the coast
of Scotland according to a report to
the state department by the Ameri-
can consul at Dundee, Scotland.
Following the White House an.
nouncement that the president and
Mrs. Calf would be married the latter
part of December, 1t was stated that
the honeymoon would be spent in the
South, possibly at Pass Christian,
Miss.
A series of severe earth shocks
were recorded by the Georgetown uni
versity's seismograph at Washington.
complete and thorough investiga-
zion of the oil business of the United
States is being made by the federal
trade commission.