The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-18
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EurODeas1 War News

Inc central news Oh l<OuuOu 10 du-
thority for a report that all single men
are to be called on to enlist this week.
Furious fighting is general along
the western front and particularly in
the Champagne. The German war Of
fee announced the capture of zoo
yards of French positions in Cham
payne, south of Saline Marie-a-Py.
At this point 200 officers and men
were taken prisoner.
An Austrian aeroplane made raid
over Ravenna and the neighboring
towns of Codigoro and Bottrighe, In
northeastern Italy, near the Adriatic.
A Havas dispatch to Paris from Rome
says Is persons were killed and
number wounded.
The following official statement was
given out at Paris: THE ministry OF
marine fears for the fate of the cruis-
er Admiral Charner, which has been
patroling the Syrian coast. February
s German submarine sank a French
warship.'
A Belgian official report issued at
Havre states that the German gunboat
Hedwig Won Wissmann has been sunk
in Lake Tanganyika. Two officers and
nineteen sailors were made prisoners.
Official announcement was made by
the German admiralty at Berlin Of
naval battle on the Dogger bank, in
the North sea, in which two British
vessels described by Berlin as cruis-
ers were sunk. London says mine
laying vessel was destroyed.
French counter-attacks northwest OF
Vimy and south of the Somme have
failed to recapture any more of the
positions taken by the Germans, the
Berlin war Office announced.
Russians in the Stripa river region.
southeast of Isebroff, succeeded In
capturing heights commanding the dis
trict in which runs the main railway
line between the Chodorov and Stry
rivers and the heights east of Tcheme-
rine. The Germans have been forced
at several points in Galicia to retire
to their second line of defense, accord
ing to dispatches from Petrograd.
Domestic
Fire in the Proctor hospital at Pc
oria, ILL.,, threatened for time to de-
stroy the building. One hundred pa
tients were removed to places OF
safety. No one was injured and the
property damage was small.
Morse hall at Ithaca, n. Y, erected
in 1890 and containing Cornell univer-
sity's chemical laboratories and sclen-
tific equipment, was destroyed by fire
of undetermined origin. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
President Wilson visited Fortress
Monroe and inspected the great guns
that guard the entrance to Chesapeake
bay. Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, he
landed from the naval yacht May
flower.
Geraldine Farrar, opera singer, and
Lou Tellegen, actor, were married at
New York at the home of Miss Far
rar's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney
Farrar.
The United States navy possesses
the most effective torpedo in the
world, according to an announcement
at a meeting of the naval consulting
board held at New York. There was
also promised an aeroplane engine
that is said to represent the last word
in engine construction of that kind.
Three men and three women, charged
with being implicated in the robbery
of the United States customs Office
in St Paul, Mimi, on January 6, were
arrested in Chicago by federal secret
service men. Edward Leonard is de-
clared to be the man who dynamited
the vault from which stamps valued
at $576,O77 and $500 in currency were
taken.
The Most Rev. George w. Mundelein
came into his own as archbishop of
Chicago amid what was declared to be
the most gorgeously brilliant cere-
monies ever held in this Roman Cath
Ollie archdiocese.
Ensign Robert D. Kirkpatrick, for
mer executive officer of the destroyer
Hull, pleaded guilty before a court
martial on board the battleship Ore
gon, at San Fransico, to the loss Of
the code book from the Hull.
More than one hundred distin-
guished persons were poisoned, sup
posedly by ptomaines in soup at the
University club at Chicago during the
banquet given in honor of Archbishop
George William Mundelein.
Marian Lambert, student and the
daughter of Frank Lambert, an EN-.
ployee in the home Of James Kuppen-
heimer of Lake Forest, ILL.,, was found
probably murdered in the woods near
Sacret Heart academy.
M. M. Reynolds, fifty-seven years
old, president Of the Guthrie County
National bank and brother of George
M Reynolds, the Chicago banker, is
dead at his home in Panora, Ia, hav.