Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-10
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
REcoRp OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news pei
ABOUT THE WAR

lions on the Carso front were beaten
off at the point of the bayonet, the
wal office announced at Rome.
-Transylvania struggle still in prog
ress. with neither the AustrO-Germans
nor the uss-Rumanians having a de-
cided advantage. No news arrived
Sunday from the Dobrudja sector.
Italian war report chronicles on
tinued triumph for the Italian arms
in the new drive against the Aus
trians. Prisoners taken since Aug. 6
number 40,3s5. the statement says.
Important advances have been made
on the Somme and Mouse sectors By
the allies. British advance 1000
yards while French capture three
trenches and all the German posi-
tions in the St. Pierre Vast wood.
The Bucharest war office announces
that Rumanian forces in Dobrudia
nave compelled the retirement of leu
tonic forces, which in their retreat set
fire to several villages. The villages
burned we're Daeni, Garlici, Rosman
and Gaidar.
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central powers have agreed to grant
independence and a constitutional
monarchial government to Poland at
the conclusion Of the war and that
plans for stabilizing the government
will b. placed in effect at once.
After more han n week of doubt
concerning operations in the DObrudja
region OF Rumania. where the Teu-
tonic allies had been marching almost
unimpeded n%orthwapd from the Black
sea to the Danube, ome the report
that the Rumanians have taken the
offensive. probably aided by Russians,
and compelled the enemy TO retreat at
several points. On the Pennsylvania
front, however, the Rumanians in the
jul valley, who for some time had
been holding the upper hand over the
Austro-G Germans, forcing them to give
ground, have now been stopped, the
Teutons having brought up reinforce
ments.
WESTERN
The Southern Pacific has placed or
ders for % locomotives, 80 passenger
cars and 4.204 freight cars.
Cecil Towery. slayer OF Charles
Vaughn. oil man, was electrocuted in
the death chair at the state peniten-
tiary at McAlester, Okla.
Edzl Ford. only son of Henry Ford,
Detroit manufacturer, was married to
Miss Elenore Clay, a niece of the late
Joseph Hudson, millionaire dry goods
merchant.
Advances within q week in the
prices OF thirty-two items Of their
stocks were enumerated for retail
grocers OF San Francisco by the Retail
Grocers' Association.
The women of San Antonio. Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner Of the $1,000
troops stationed at Camp Wilson.
The women of San Antonio. Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner of the $4,000
troops stationed at Camp Wilson.
The American steamer Willapa
bound from BluefieldS for New or
lEans, sank off the Nicaraguan coast
according to a cablegram received by
her agents at New Orleans, La.
Seattle, Wash, was named at the
concluding session Of the fifteenth tri
ennial assembly of the general grand
chapter Of the Order OF the Eastern
Star at Louisville, KY, as the meeting
place for 1916.
At Columbus, Ca, w. o. Bowden
aged so, was in a critical condition
from stab wounds received in a fight
with relatives OF bis l6-year-old bride
OF three months. whom he had shot
TO death.
f. B. Taylor, charged with killing
r s. Burleson. a relative of Postmas
ter General A. s. BurlesOn, is under
sentence of five years in the peniten
tiary after a trial at San Antonio
Tex, on a change OF venue
The California railroad commission
authorized consolidation Of the two
telephone systems of Los Angeles, tn,
Home and the Pacific companies. anC
their sale to the Southern California
Telephone Company. which will bI
given permission to issue $14, 900 ,00l
securities to pay for the properties.
WASHINGTON
The department Of justice appealed
20 the Supreme Court from the deci
sion in the antitrust suit against the
American Can Company, which Fed
enaI Judge Rose Of Maryland declined
20 dissolve.
Acceptance OF the resignation of DR.
Constantine Dumba as ambassador Il
the United States was taken by Stat,
Department officials as a plain indi
cation that the Austrian government
"a about TO name a new diplomats
representative TO Wad iington.