The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-02-12
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. D N G 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
About the War

| in Caucasus region.
The central powers are continuing
| to prepare for drive against Sa-
toniki.
Four hundred and seventy Bulgars
killed and 500 wounded by French
aeroplanes in recent attacks on camp.
French and British artillery demol-
| ish portions of German trenches on
west front British advance repulsed
near Neuville.
About l4.90O German troops from
| West African colony crossed the
border into Spanish territory and
were disarmed and interned.
1t is asserted by Petrograd newspa-
pers that the Turks have evacuated
Erzerum. one of their principal strong
holds in the Caucasus front.
Apparently authoritative reports in
Washington are that the United
State will accept Germapy's latest
suggestion for settlement of the Lusi-
tania case.
Austrian troops are sweeping
through Albania, while the Montene.
grin troops and the Serbs have ef-
fected junction at Durazzo, the chief
Albanian seaport.
Two Greek soldiers. five refugees
and seven workmen were killed and
| fifty civilians were injured by the in
nammable bombs dropped from the
| Zeppelin in the Saloniki raid.
| Earl Kitchener probably will quit
the British Cabinet to take active COM
mand in the field. A civilian will sue
ceed him as secretary of state. but the
war part of his office will be filled by
an officer.
British warships are combing the
seas for the raiders while the diplo-
matte branch of the government IL
crying piracy and demanding that
the United States restore the Appam,
the Teuton's prize. to Britain.
Western
Nineteen die and twenty towns
swept BY Arkansas flJods.
The theft from Mrs. Clara Baldwin
Stocker of n necklace reported to be
worth between $4,000 and $4,000 be.
came known at Los Angeles.
Two persons were killed and u
third injured In a snow and mud slide
which wrecked two cottages at Mag
nolia Bluff in the extreme northwest
ern part of Seattle. Wash.
Two aged negro women. both Of
whom claimed to be 115 years old,
died in Iowa within the last few days
Adaline Carter, one of them, was
buried at Milton. She was born a
slave in Kentucky. Aunt Jane Weaver,
the other. was buried at Denmark.
An explosion of 1000 pounds Of
dynamite at the gelatine dynamite
mixer house of the Dupont powder
plant at Dupont, near Tacoma, Wash.
blew three men to pieces and de-
troyed property valued at more than
100000.
| C. w. Keggale, aged 40, a prominent
Baptist minister of Sherman, Tex,
was shot and probably fatally
wounded by Mrs. Finest Faust, who
lives near Denison. The woman fired
minutes later she said the minister
had insulted her.
Washington
Public lands committee heard west.
ern men on 64o-acre grazing home
stead bill.
Senator Works attacked President S
defense campaign before the military
committee
The House passed the bill to pro-
vide for coinage of 100000 Mckinley
souvenir dollars.
Senator Thomas submitted resolu.
ton denouncing destruction OF Cana.
dian parliament building as 'incen'
diarism."
Lieutenant Governor Eshelman OF
California pleaded for relief of oil
prospectors before the Senate public
lands committee.
Big gunsites wanted by the United
States at the approaches of the Pana-
ma canal probably will be ceded to
this country by Panama.
Relative retail prices of the prin.
cipal articles of food in the United
states decreased l per cent during the
first nine months of last year
Delegates representing 700 CONNER
| NAni boutes IA psti isS Vi ehV NSuh1is
gathered for the fourth annual meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce OF
he United States
The House ways and means com.
mittee Democrats formally chose
Representative Humphreys of Mis-,
sissippi as chairman of the new House
committee on flood control
The House adopted resolution max
ing Immediately available $500, 900 for
the Mare Island navy yard and $780,
900 for the New York navy yard for
battleship construction equipment.