The Ordway new era., 1916-07-14
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 view. service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Italians claim continued progress in
Trentino district.
Contalmaison stormed by British
but retaken by Germans in strong
counter-attack.
Austrians admit crushing defeat by
Russians and retreat of five miles on
Galician front.
On the Trentino front the Italians
report continued successes against
the Austrians.
Germans gain foothold in French
trenches at Thiaumont but are driven
out by counter attack.
Russians extend drive to cover Riga
front and entire German army in
East may be forced to retire.
along the front held by the British
and important infantry movements
are developing.
The battle of Verdun is proceeding
with undiminished fury. Germans re-
take Thiaumont work for fourth
time, after massed attack.
London reports substantial prog
ress" by the British troops, although
the Germans recaptured some posi-
tions which they had lost.
Signal successes on the eastern
front over the Austro-G crman armies
are reported by Petrograd. Teutcn
losses since the drive began now are
Officially estimated at 100000 men.
During their raid on Jiminez, the
Villista troops captured the Carranza
pay train on its way from Mexico City
with paper money for the army and
civil government of northern Mexico.
The French, continuing their steady
hammering at the Germans, have cap
tured all the enemy's second-line
trenches on six-mile front near the
Somme. Two more towns were cap
tured.
Friday the British captured 1000
yards more of trenches at La Bois-
selle, forced their way into the vii
lage of Ovilleres and took three lines
of trenches and two woods north OF
Fricourt.
WESTERN
Twenty persons were injured in a
railroad accident at Barstow, Calf.
Three deaths from heat were re-
ported to the police in ST. Louis,
July 3.
Violence was threatened the Mexi
can residents of Vinita, Okla, by
mob of 500 citizens enraged by re
ports that a Mexican waiter had
slapped the face of a small American
boy.
The defense, after introducing doc
umentary evidence bearing on the
Wisconsin statute governing the sale
OF poisons. rested Friday in the case
OF Will H. Orpet, charged with the
murder of Marion Lambert at Wauke-
gan, Ill.
Three cases of the dreaded infantile
paralysis, which is sweeping New
York and which also has broken out
in the vicinity of Springfield, H.,
have been discovered in Chicago by
inspectors under John Dill Robertson,
health commissioner.
Reports at New Orleans from the
storm-swept gulf states. though bring
may total millions of dollars, estab-
lished definitely only one death, that
of an engineer killed at Bond, Miss.
when his train ran into a washout.
The central army division at Chi
cago announced the discovery of a
case of smallpox in the Wyoming mo
bilization camp at Cheyenne. Though
do r,f hn djcn hro Il ntIi
in other camps Is felt, precautions
have been taken in all mobilization
camps.
WASHINGTON
A Census Bureau table estimate.
the number of able-bodied men of mil
itary age in the United States as abou
21,O00,O00.
The Senate defeated the item ir
the agricultural appropriation bill
calling for the distribution of seeds
by the government on congressional
y frank.
President Wilson has appointed
John Robert Espey and Josiah New
4 hall Hall of Colorado and Willard
Clyde Foster of Wyoming as first lieu
tenants o. the medical reserve corps
A note formally accepting Gen
Carranza's proposal that differences
between the United States and tn,
Dc facto government OF Mexico be set
tied By direct negotiations. was hand
\ "a 70 Elfse0 Arredondo, the Mexical
shassador-dcsigztate
"a lf6ubsrs q the Congressfona