The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-07-21
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE week
ehOWINo THE PROGRESS o.
GvEaTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union views Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

from Rome
North OF Oyillers. British drive
back Germans on front OF more than
half mile.
Germans in night attack on French
line south of the Somme gain ground
In Biaches wood.
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
In German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seyen-hour battle.
The British have taken 1900 yards
of foes second line, and advance
threatens third line Teuton defense.
Lloyds reports the British steamer
Euphorbia the Italian steamer Sirra.
and the steamer Virginia probably
British) sunk
Petrograd reports capture OF Ball
urt in Armenia, sixty miles from
Erzerum and one OF the main objec-
tives OF Grand Duke Nicholas cam
paign in the Caucasus
Heavy cannonading begins on en-
tire Saloniki front. where more than
100000 French, British and Serbs
have for some time been held in
ASotiA'c5 ~ ut6iAi hNN oiA'S'
In Caucasus, Petrograd reports,
Russians have disiodged Turks from
strong positions and are continuing
their advance. In some places the
Cossacks have crossed the snow line
in the mountains.
Russians drive Germans across
river Lipa. taking 1900 prisoners.
Austrians admit their advance posts
in Carpathian region have been
pressed back, but declare main posi-
tions are firmly held.
Private X. Tucker, Eleventh infan-
try. shot and probably fatally
wounded Antonio Rodriguez, a Mexi-
can musician, while the Mexican and
a companion were making their way
toward the International boundary
near Douglas, Ariz.
J. Beltran. one OF Villas chief lieu
tenants and participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July IL. reports to General
Jacinto Trevino at chihuahua City
indicated
WESTERN
Minneapolis was selectel as the
meeting place for June 26, 81 and 2S,
1917, at the closing session OF the
forty-second annual meeting here of
the Imperial Council, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine at Buffalo.
A million acres of corn and peanuts
in the Tennessee River Valley be-
tween Chattanooga and Paducah, KY,
are under from four to fifteen feet
of water as a result of the swollen
condition OF the Tennessee river, ac-
cording to advices received at Knox
vile, Tenn.
William Boutwell,, former city
comptroller and recently a special Of
ficer on the water front, was killed
and w. w Morris and c. V. Harvey
and C. V. Harvey, members OF the
prohibition enforcement squad of the
Seattle police force. were seriously
injured in pistol fight which result
ed from raid on the bar in the
Ferguson hotel at Seattle, Wash.
WASHINGTON
Cotton used during June was $780,
466 bales, exclusive OF linters, and for
the eleven months ending with June
5.906,039 bales, the Census Bureau
announced
The annual economic loss suffered
by the United States from typhoid
fever and malaria aggregates $685..
p2l SSO acrnrSjno to ,;,
to the Senate by Senator Ransdell OF
Louisiana, chairman of the commit
tee of public health. in an address on
Rural Health-Americas First
Duty"
That meat production has not kept
pace with the increase in population,
and that its failure to do so, COM
bined with increased cost of produc.
tion and the diminished purchasing
power of the money unit, has con-
tributed to higher prices not only in
the United States. but all over the
world, is stated in an exhaustive re.
port on the meat situation by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Great Britain again has refused a
plea of the American Red Cross for
permission to make conditional ship
ments Of Red Cross supplies to Ger.
many and Austria.
The Senate adopted the enlarged
building program Of the naval bill BY
a viva voce vote. 1t provides for the
construction within three years of 1s7
war vessels Of all classes
President Wilson will attend ths
forms' dedication of the Elephant
Butte dam on October IA and the
opening Of the International Irriga-
ton Congress at 81 Paso. Tex.