Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-03
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Hard fighting continues in Volhynia
with the result indecisive.
London claims repulse of heavy
German attack near Thiepval.
Serbians capture town of Velyeselo,
near Brod, in drive toward Monastir
Provisional government of Greece
formed by Venizelos recognized for
mally by the entente allies.
German military critic estimates al
lied losses on all fronts since June l
at more than 100000 men.
The situation in Greece still is tense.
More entente soldiers have been land
ed at Athens and Piraeus to maintain
order in the country.
Russian advances in the Carpathi-
ans thrown back by Austrians. says
Vienna official statement. Successes
reported in region of Kronstadt.'
Yaqui Indians, the terrors of the
state of Sonora, are to be sent
against villa and his bandits in west
ern chihuahua, a report from Sonora
brought to El Paso, Tex, stated.
Dobrudja and France with success on
all three fronts, says Berlin. Entente
attacks checked in Macedonia, Tran
sylvania and the British front In
France. the statement claims.
French score important new ad-
vance in campaign for Peronne. push
ing forward on a front mile wide
between Biaches and La Maisonette.
Germans repulsed in violent counter
attack near Sailly-Saillisel.
The entente allies have taken over
the Greek battleship Kilkis (former-
ly the United States battleship Idaho),
the Lemnos formerly the MississippD
and the Averoff. On Oct. IL the allies
took over the entire Greek fleet ex-
cept the Kilkis. Lemnos and Averoff.
Supplemental assurances from Gen.
Carranza that he is beginning a new
and vigorous campaign against villa
were received at Atlantic City by his
representatives on the Mexican-Amer-
lean joint commission. The head of
the de facto Mexican government as
serted all available troops would be
used in the pursuit of the bandit.
WESTERN
Strikers at Bayonne, N. J.. have re-
turned to work.
Reports at Mobile, Ala, from hurri-
cane-swept districts of souther:. Ala
bama increased the death toll to four
and the property damage to 100000.
At Chicago wheat jumped over the
ha
highest figure since the Civil War
with the exception of the high level
in the Letter corner in 1898.
Leo G. Pratt, an 1S-year-old clerk in
the Canadian Bank of Commerce at
Seattle, Wash, was shot and killed in
the bank by Mrs. Edwin c. Hobel,
aged 80, who then shot and killed her
self.
An engineering corps in the employ
OF the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail-
road Company is engaged in locating
line into the Uinta basin along the
general route mapped out by the Den
yer C Salt Lake for reaching Salt
Lake City.
The Elephant Butte dam, completed
recently at cost of s15,O00,OOO and
intended to impound the largest arti.
ficially retained body of water in the
world, was dedicated at Elephant
Butte, N. NJ, by A. a. Jones of New
Mexico. personal representative of
President Wilson. Three hundred and
fifty delegates to the International IT.
rigation congress and International
Farm congress Witnessed the ,dica-
ton.
WASHINGTON
Army aviation officers al ....r-
ing TO carry their campaign for the