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 The British steamer Clintonia, of ',s5s tons. was shelled and sunk by German submarine Eleven men were titled on the vessel and fifteen were injured.
 The Leland liner lberi3n was sunk by a German submarine. Six mem | bers of the crew were killed. two ! lied aboard a rescue boat and sixty one were landed safely Mitau, the capital of the Russian Jrovince Of Courland. twenty-five ! niles southeast of Riga, has been oc- 'upied by German troops. according | O the official statement issued by the German army headquarters staff.
 Quiet has settled down along the western front except in the Argonne and the Nosges, where German at tempts to recapture lost ground or take new trenches have failed. accord. | ing to the French communication
 London reports eight more Lowe stoft trawlers sunk by German sub marine. The crews were saved. The ! fishermen sent to the bottom were the I Quest, the Strive, the Achieve, the Athena, the Coriander and the Fitz- gerald
 All the London morning papers deal editorially at great length with the fall of Warsaw. All of them admit the tremendous political effect of he oc- equation of the PoSsh capital by the Teutons, but majority of them mini . mize its strategic results as regards Russia.
 The Germans are in possession of Warsaw, capital of Poland and the third largest city in the Russian em- pire. An official communication is. sued in Pet.ograd says: Tn view Of conditions and the general situation our troops west of Warsaw have re ceived orders to fall back on the right bank of the Nistula. According 10 re- ports received. this order was carried out and the troops which were cover ing Warsaw retired at o'clock Thurs day morning, without being attacked. toward the new front assigned to them. They blew up behind them all the bridges over the Vistula." WESTERN
 A disastrous storm swept several central and eastern Wyoming coun- ies late Saturday night and Sunday morning
 Farms inundated, crops ruined and many houses swept away in three cioubursts at Portland, Ore. Hail and wind storms in Deschutes River valley.
 David Russell Greene, the wholesale druggist Of Chicago. who was killed in an automobile accident few weeks ago, leaves 5000 for the care of his dog Nellie"
 Triplets were born 10 Mrs. Mae Fl. lis, resident of Gainesville, Tex, for several years. She already was the mother of fifteen children. all living and healthy.
 Portland. Ore, was chosen for the next meeting in 1916 at the conclud. ing session at San Francisco for the fifth assembly of the Jewish Chautau- qua Society.
 Orders for all patrolmen to salute the American flag every time it passed them on the street went into effect at Los Angeles by direction of Chief of Police C. E. Snively.
 Zapata forces south of Mexico City have suffered another defeat at the hands of Carranza troops under Gen. Coss, according to a cablegram from Vera Cruz received at the Carranza consulate at Galveston, Tex.
 Mayor Thompson of Chicago re- in which the President stated he will make it his duty to see the investiga. tion of the Eastland disaster is en- tirely satisfactory to the public.
 Mail frauds involving more than sl0,000 are said to have been brought to light through the arrest in Salt Lake City of J. Auerbach and Max Stillman by Postal Inspectors Chris tiansen and Troensegaard of the Den ger office.
 WASHINGTON
 The War Department ordered that shipments of arms and munitions over the Mexican, border be stopped.
 President Wilson is planning. to make national defense one of the prin- cipal subjects in his next message to Congress
 
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 The Leicester bookseller who wants . mere f50 for "a newly-discovered portrait of Shakespeare" looms large in the English news of the moment. The evidence of identity, and the pic