The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-01
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

russians capture kaShan, one OF
the principal cities of Persia.
British Cabinet decides on modi-
fled conscription for unmarried men.
Germans retakei summit of Hart
manns-Weille-kopf on western front,
capturing 1,500 prisoners.
Kaiser loses 5000 men in an at
tempt to break through British lines
in Belgium and France.
England becomes reconciled to con-
scription, which cabinet is under
stood to have decided upon.
1t is stated that German chancellor
will frame offer of peace which will
be communicated to allies.
Japanese liner Yasaka Maru with
one American on board, sunk without
warning by submarine No lives were
lost
Russians, advancing in lines fifteen
or sixteen deep, along Dniester river,
in Bessarabia, are repulsed by Aus
trians.
British clergy declare nation will
be in poverty at end of war. London
press demands Lloyd-George be made
premier
A dispatch to Lloyds from Bergen
says the Norwegian fjord steamer
Homelen has been sunk at Svanoeen,
north of Bergen, with the loss of one
man drowned.
Replying to a written question by
p A. Moltens, member of the House
of Commons, Premier Asquith gave
the total British casualties up to Dec.
9, as 52S,227.
Dispatches from Geneva state that
Austria may reject second American
note in Ancona case and that any
break in diplomatic relations also will
involve Germany
The sinking of French liner by a
Teutonic submarine has brought the
relations of the United States and
Austria to the breaking-point. No
warning was given the vessel and
eighty persons lost their lives. Four
other ships of the allies have been
sent to the bottom.
WESTERN
Gen GrenvilIe M. Dodge is reported
critically i'll at his home at Council
Bluffs, la. He is 81 years old.
Fire at Keokuk, Ia, destroyed the
elevator of the Gate City Seed Com
pany with loss of 100000.
Three men were dead as the result
of headon collision between two
freight trains on the Santa Fe rail
road near Mullen, Tex.
At Bayonne, N. j., the stork paid a
Christmas visit to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick G. Van Horn and
left rine-pound boy, who had two
teeth.
Three thousand two hundred Chi
cago school teachers went on the
board of education payroll at salary
increases of $120 per annum, effective
Jan. l.
William Hale Thompson, mayor of
Chicago, requested the secretary of
state of Nebraska to withdraw his
name from the presidential primary
ballot in Nebraska.
George W. Glover, only son of the
late Christian Science leader, Mary
Baker Glover Eddy, died at his home
at Lead, S. D., of peritonitis, aged 76,
after short illness.
ne 100 5dlOOnS dllu SlA-
teen breweries in Iowa will close Dec.
81 because of the repeal of the mulct
law by the Legislature a year ago and
Iowa will be legally dry.
There were 671 suicides in Cook
county, Illinois, in 1915, according to
the annual report of Coroner Peter
M. Hoffman. Two hundred and forty
two ended their lives by inhaling
illuminating gas, 144 by shooting and
109 by poison.
WASHINGTON
The death rate in the United
States among babies of mothers who
work outside their homes far exceeds
the infant mortality where the mother
is not so employed.
Secretary Daniels said that when
the increased building program for
the navy ultimately made necessary
second naval academy, the logical
place for the new institution would
be on the Pacific coast
Every school building in the Unit
ed States was pictured as a potential
town hall at the session of the Ameri-
can Civic Association at which Miss
Margaret Wilson, daughter of Presi-
dent Wilson, presided
Secretary Lansing formally denied
published statements that the real
purpose of the visit to Europe of Col.
L. NJ. House was to settle differences
between Ambassador Page at London
and Ambassador Gerard and Penfield
at Berlin and Vienna.
Nearly 1000 bills were introduced
in Congress before the holiday rscass.