The Ordway new era., 1916-07-28
cAuaHr FROM THE NETWORK OF
WINES ROUND Asour
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

GulI OIL tlnlsiuu, anu uahiaSeu "
vessels.
Germans in night attack on French
line south of the Somme gain ground
In Biaches wood.
Russian army in Armenia captured
Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles
northwest of Baiburt.
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
in German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seven-hour battle.
Russians infiict another decisive
check upon Austrians at confluence
of Lipa and Styr rivers, capturing l.
600 men.
Italians capture more Austrian
trenches on Monte Maio but engage
ment now is almost entirely confined
TO bombardments.
Floods on the Dniester prevent
farther advance into Galicia by the
Russians, but hard fighting is in
progress below Vladimir-Volynski.
According to Rome reports. the
violent Russian offensive has been re
sumed in the Carpathians, at kovel,
Vladimir-volynski, and in the Riga
sector.
One of the most striking episodes
of the great Somme offensive was the
taking of the field fort at Biaches and
the garrison of lis men by nine
French soldiers
Germans stop new British offensive
near La Bassee and claim 1000 Eng
lishmen were killed. Berlin admits.
however, British have captured first
line trenches near Hardecourt on two
mile front
]. 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 1e, reports to General /
Jacinto Trevino at chihuahua City |
Indicated.
WESTERN
Two hundred and eighty-one women
in Kansas are running for office.
Jennie B. Campbell, 81, and Rich.
ard Cavius, is, were drowned while |
bathing in Ogden river at Ogden. |
Utah.
Eight members of the First Cali
fornia field artillery were injured
when the tent in which they sought |
cover from rainstorm at Nogales, |
Ariz-. was struck by lightning.
Lee Villa, cousin of Pancho VILLA. !
and Theodore Valencie were wounded, |
probably fatally, and Pablo Estrada
was wounded in the thigh, in nys-
terious shooting at Cheyenne, Wyo-
Permission has been obtained from
Washington, 1t was announced at
Douglas. Ariz., to ship a carload OF l.
900 boxes of dynamite across the
border tLat the Cananea Consolidated
Copper Company may resume its
normal operations.
Friends of the orpet family de-
clared at Waukegan, III, that VIII
Orpet spent his first Gay OF freedom
in the company Of Miss Celeste
Youker, the schoolteachsr whose 81
gagement to the University Of WIS
consin student was announced a few
days before Marion Lambert died n
Helms woods last FebTuav-
WASHINGTON
President Wilson nominated Ab-aEn
Elkus of New York TO be United
States ambassador TO Turkey
The McGiHieuddy-Ksra zorHnsn's
compensation bill was passed by Ing
House br vote of zss to ,.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating s135.e59 70 finance the
public health service campaign
against infantile paralysis.
Cotton used during June was 57e,-
466 bales, exclusive Of linters. and for
the eleven months ending with June
s.s06.o3 bales. the Census Bureau
announ ed
Denouncing the British blacklist as
an Outrageous assault on citizens of
this country" Senator Thomas of
Colorado, in a Senate speech. adro-
Gated reprisals of severe nature.
Freedom to enter the Unitei States,
denied at first, was granted 10 former
President Cipriano Castro of veneer
ala and his wife by order Of Secretary
Wilson Of the Labor Department
The Senate passed. by a vote OF GO
to 8. the construction section of the
navd appropriation bill providing for
- Mree-year program, including four
dree4noughts and four battle cruisers
r. ~ constructed At once.
lnqulxy ~ to Why certain business
cenU6r14 n the United States have
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