Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-05-12
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

GermanS report capture Oh huSSiah
positions and 5000 prisoners south Of
Lake Narocz.
Five German airships attack north
east coast of England and southeast
coast of Scotland.
German attempts to dislodge Rus
SLAMS from positions near Olyka sta
tion repulsed. says Petrograd.
Germans report twenty-six allied
aeroplanes destroyed in April and ad-
init loss Of twenty-five machines.
Civilians are reported to be evacu-
ating Metz. forty miles east of Yer
dun and fifteen miles from the French
front.
Turks beaten back by Russians in
attack near Baiburt, Asia Minor.
Turkish trenches captured near Err.
mgan.
Fire from warships Of allied fleet
brings down Zeppelin in Saloniki har-
Dor. Another Zeppelin destroyed off
coast OF Schleswig.
Twenty-Five persons reported killed.
hundreds injured and DR.. Karl Lieb-
knecht. the Socialist leader. is under
arrest as the result of May day riots
In Germany.
British force besieged 143 days
in Kut-elAmara surrenders. London
says there were about 10000 men in
the army. Constantinople puts the
number OF prisoners at 1890.
Both the French and German of.
fcial statements Friday chronicle
gains for the Germans northwest of
Verdun. Paris asserts, however, that
German gains of two months about
the fortress have been nullified in the
last few days.
Execution of the four leaders of the
Sim Fein rebellion in Ireland appears
to have been the finishing blow in
Quelling the insurrection. Reports
from Ireland indicate that the revolt
has been crushed in all parts of the
country.
WESTERN
The jury In the William Lorimer
case at Chicago returned a verdict of
rot guilty.
The woman's party convention at
Chicago. June 81. does not contem-
plate the nomination of a woman
presidential candidate
Wallace Pritchard of Chicago and
James Smith of Sheridan, Wyo., aged
10 and 16 respectively, were killed by
a Burlington train at Arrada. The
boys were asleep in warm ashes on
the main line track.
Thirty Carranza customs guards
stopped an American motor supply
train at Las Palomas. eight miles
south of the border and ordered the
commander to remove American
flags flying from the cars.
julius C. Hightower and Pedro
Monies. sentenced to be hanged at
Silver City. N. NJ, for murder, were
granted stay of execution by the
Supreme Court Gov. W. C. Melon
aid granted a respite of ten days.
President Joseph F. Smith of the
Mormon church in Salt Lake, OBJ
served one of his two golden we'd
ding anniversaries, he having mar
ried Mrs. Julina Lamson Smith half
century ago. If his other wife lives
two years he will observe another
similar anniversary.
WASHINGTON
Women suffragists presented Rep
resentative Williams of Illinois, one
of their supporters. with a birthday
cake
Rear Admiral Caperton has gone to
Santo Domingo, with the cruiser
Prairie and a strong force OF marines,
to put a stop to the activities of fac
tional leaders seeking to overthrow
the Jiminez government
Advocates of the Shields water
power bill, pending in Congress. won
their fight in the National Conserva.
tion Congress when the Congress
voted to adopt a majority committee
report indorsing the measure.
All worlds export records were
broken by the United States during
March, and it was predicted by de.
partment of Commerce officials that
at the end of the fiscal year this coun-
try would have trade balance of
$4,000, 100000 in its favor.
Commissioners of agriculture of
the forty-eight states met and organ
ized the National Association of Com.
missioners of Agriculture.
The Hollis farm loan bill, embody.
ing the administration plan for estab
fishing n system of rural credits.
passed the Senate by vote of 5S
to 5.
Ernst Bruncken. assistant registrar
in the copyright division of the Lii.
brary OF Congress, was dismissed for
making statements derogatory to
President Wilson and the United
gates il general.