The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-02
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D % NJ G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTS. SuFFERiNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union views Service
About the War

| by French submarine.
Lord Robert Cecil denies GERMANY
ever made peace overtures,
Greeks. rioting for Venizelos,
stopped royal parade at Athens.
America denounced in reichstag as
virtual arsenal for entente allies.
Six British vessels, one Spanish and
one Norwegian sunk by mines or tor
pedoes.
Paris reports capture of $50 yards
of German trenches southwest OF
Douaumont.
British troops at St. Eloi capture
| German trench and retake mine crater
recently lost.
French evacuate Pethincourt salient
at yerdm into which Germans had
driven wedge.
Germany announces the steamer
| Sussex was not attacked by Ger
man submarine.
Violent fighting taking place on
AustroItalian front. with Austrians
reporting successes.
| British forces repulsed by Turks in
effort to penetrate to relief of Kut-el-
| Amara. floods hampering attack.
Bombardment of city OF Rheims by
| Germans has now lasted three weeks
and is increasing in violence, 1000
shells being dropped on the city in
one day.
Russians repulse German attack by
water in Pripet marsh near Dvina
river. and capture German trench.
Russian army engages Turkish main
forces south of Lake Urumiah.
Furious fighting continued Monday
at Nerdun, with little advantage ap-
parent on either side. Crown prince
hurled fresh divisions against new
French line beyond Bethincourt, but
without success.
Gen. Gavira. Carranza commander
at Juarez, announced that the forces
of the de facto government were in
n position to take immediate control
of the villa situation II the American
troops withdrew.
A civilian who arrived at FL Paso.
Tex. Sunday from Columbus reported
that additional troops are being hur
ried south into Mexico from the base
as rapidly as they can be provided
with transportation and equipment.
Western
r. NJ. Potter of Norwich, Kan. shot
ard killed his wife because she TOOK
their children walking Sunday when
he protested.
The condition OF Lieut. Col. Rivers
was considerably improved. according
10 private advices received at Colum-
at Casas Grandes.
Judge Charles Donnelly, at Wauke-
gan, Ill. continued the case of Will
lam II. Orpet, Wisconsin university
STUDENT charged with the murder OF
Marian Lambert. until May Is.
Four persons riding on motor
truck loaded with furniture entering
Bisbee. Ariz., were seriously injured
when the truck was pushed off the
side of the road into n deep arroyo
Fifty persons, including women and
children. were murdered by bandits
between Torreon Zacatecas, March rs,
when the marauders wrecked the
train on which they were riding, ac-
cording to word brought to Laredo.
Tex. by passengers.
Carl Dudley, negro, was taken
from the Comanche county Jail at
Lawton. Okla, by mob of 200 un-
masked men and shot to death in the
jail yard Dudley was arrested on a
charge OF fatally wounding Patrolman
James Hayes while resisting arrest
A Villista band, under Simon Reyes
and Chacon, attempted to surprise the
garrison in the mining town of Par
ras. several miles east of Torreon,
Mex The garrison. under Col. j. NJ
Gonzalez. drove off the bandits, kill
ing forty-two and capturing guam
tity of arms and number of horses
Washington
Corn production of the 1856 sea
son in the ten leading producing
countries, which grow more than %
per cent OF the world crop. was s..
727,2G0,000 bushels, or 81 per cent
more than the previous seasons out
put.
Curtailment, in a degree, of the au-
thority of the secretary of the navy
as advocated recently by Rear Ad.
miral Bradley Fiske, among the most
radical of the Daniels critics, was
agreed upon by subcommittee OF
the House naval committee.
Secretary Lansing and Secretary
Baker both declined to comment Mon
day on border reports that an agree
ment between Washington and the
Cprranza government had fixed a
dead line" beyond which the Ameri
can troops would net go in pursuit OF