Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvHNTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Services.
ABOUT THE WAR


war on Bulgaria.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout Greek Macedonia.
The British steamer Salerno has
been sunk. The crew was saved.
Bulgaria has definitely thrown in
her lot with Germany. Austria and
Turkey.
Fifty-five persons were killed and
ia injured in the Zeppelin raid over
London.
The British steamer HaliZones OF
s,O93 tons gross has been sunk. Her
crew was saved.
Guaymas. Sonora. the only port on
the west coast under Villa control. has
fallen to Carranza forces.
Bulgarians have captured the passes
between Bjelogradcik and Knjazevac,
announced the war office at Berlin.
Italy will send 10000 men to the
Balkans, according to information re-
ceiyed by the Excelsior, OF Paris.
Austrian troops have stormed and
taken the Serbian positions of Brino.
Bordo, Cunak and Stazard, the Ser
hians suffering heavy losses.
Losses of the Austro-G German forces
On the northern front of Serbia have
totaled 10000 killed and 10000 wound
ed, according to the latest reports re-
eeived at Serbian headquarters in
Nish.
From all the battle fronts come
news of continued fighting, but from
aone of them has been received any
indication of victories or reverses
which would make a marked change
in the general situation.
The total of British casualties at the
Dardanelles up to Oct. 9, according to
official figures, was 96,S99. OF this
total the number OF men killed was
1887. of whom 1,1S5 were officers.
Casualties of the Australasian contin-
gents were 29,121.
The Bulgarian minister notified the
Greek government that Bulgaria had
declared war on Serbia because Ser
bian column had attacked the Bulgar.
Eans near Kostendil Southwest Bul.
saria), killing seventy men and
rounding 500.
WESTERN
Cabaret performances in Mime
apolis cafes will be prohibited after
Nov. l..
At Omaha Jack Shwichtenberg. a
grain speculator. shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide.
The peace committee elected by the
striking copper miners of the Clifton,
Ariz., district, arrived at Ell Paso, Tex,
for a conference with the mine man
ayers.
Gen. Venustiano Carranza entered
Tampico on the flagship of the Mexi-
can navy while the whistles of every
boat in the harbor added their well
come to the official salute fired as he
walked down the gang-plank.
Dan Parker, a negro, and T. Ohama,
n Japanese, who have been in the state
penitentiary at Rawlins. Wyo., for sew
eral weeks, under sentence to be
hanged Oct 2S, will live until next
May at least, Judge John r. Arnold of
the Lincoln County District Court
having issued stay of execution un-
I'll the May term of court.
The federal grand jury, which COM
pieted its two weeks session at Pu-
eblo for the Colorado district, re-
turned more than a dozen indictments
Of statewide interest. Chief among
them were those against w. B. and
Coney C. Slaughter, president and
cashier respectively of the now closed
Mercantile National Bank of Pueblo.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson appointed Edward
White of California commissioner of
immigration at San Francisco.
A license to marry his stepmother,
Mrs. Laura e. Thomas, was denied to
Albert E. Thomas of Coatesville, Pa.
State Department advices from
Sweden reported five German vessels
sunk in the Baltic sea by submarines.
Four hundred million dollars for ma
fional defense-an increase of approx
imately s140O00,000 over last year
constitutes the amount which Presi-
dent Wilson and his advisers at pres
ent estimate should be appropriated
by the next Congress for the army
and navy.
The Department of Labor announced
the appointment of Miss Helen L.
Sumner as assistant chief of the Chill
dren's Bureau to succeed Lewis Mer-
lam, resigned.
The United States government has
done all it can, officially, toward re-
lievinE the condition of the Armenians
In Turkey, in the opinion of the State
Department officials.
President Wilson appointed John
Koren of Massachusetts as a member
OF the international prison commits.