The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-06-02
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STORY OF The week
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ABOUT THE WAR


Injured in Austrian air raid on Italy.
Rejuvenated Serbian army of So
roo to 100000 men transported from
island of Corfu to Saloniki
Lloyd's announces that the British
steamer Southgarth has been sunk.
TWENTY-FIVE of her crew were picked
up
Bulgars invade Greece and occupy
three forts, from which Hellenic gar
r;soHs retired without offering re
sistance
Austrian successes in Italy con
tinue surprising in significance. says
Berlin, all those won by the Italians
in a year.
French forced way into village OF
Curnieres in vicious midnight attack,
but Berlin asserts they we're driven
out later,
Greek troops are rushed to the DE-
Tense OF Demir Hissar near which
town the Teutonic allies have occu-
pied forts.
More than 200 civilians were muir
dered between Mexico City and Cuer-
nayaca, three weeks ago, it is said at
Mexico City.
Sporadic fighting OF an indecisiye
nature reported from Russian and
Caucasus fronts, Turks claim sue
cesses against British in Asiatil 1ur-
key.
Reports from Rome describe a ter.
rifle infantry action near Soglia di
f'lmnip1ia u-h oh bo II
firm against repeated onslaughts of
the Austrians.
Germans capture two miles OF
French trenches in continuation of
desperate fighting about Verdun. Part
OF these gains are admitted by the
Paris war office.
Reports that 600 armed Mexicans
are encamped across the Rio Grande
from Santa Elena. an isolated hame'
eighty miles south, were brought to
Marathon, Tex. by F. L. White
The overshadowing development in
the war Tuesday was the imminent
entrance of Greece into the war on the
side OF the entente allies, as the re.
suit OF the Bulgar-German violation
~ 'iN'h ooii. III 6oiAit guar ltI , tut
fall OF the dynasty is predicted
WESTERN
A general strike on all building
jobs was declared in Lincoln
j. j. Hill, pioneer railroad builder
died at St Paul Monday morning,
A man won the prize for the best
slogan to be carried in the suffrage
parade at Chicago on June I. his Of
fering being Give a Woman Man
Chance"
Two deaths by drowning marked
The opening of the swimming season
at Lincoln, Neb. The victims were
Arthur Sorenson, 10. Siebert, Colo,
and Lawrence Dwyer, II. Lincoln.
Frank p. Coffin, 73-year-old Civil
War veteran, dropped dead while de
ivering an address on patriotism to
school children at Memorial Day ey-
ercises at Duwamish, a suburb of
Seattle Wash.
The wealth of James J. Hill who
died at st. Paul, Mimi. after an oper.
alton, is estimated all the way from
fl00,000,000 to s500,000,000 He was
probably worth between s2Oo, 900. 900
and s250,o00, 900
United States cavalryman and in
tantrymen, doing border duty,
marched with veterans of the Confed.
eracy, the G. A. r. and the Spanish,
American War and the high school
cadet corps in a Memorial day parade
at Ell Paso. Tex.
WASHINGTON
Dimes, quarters AID half dollars of
new design will be minted after July
l, Secretary McAdoo announced
President Wilson issued a proclama.
ton calling upon the people of the
United States to celebrate Flag Dav.
June IA, with patriotic exercises, Civ
ing expression to "our thoughtful love
of America"
Placing of the postal guide in every
commercial establishment of the
United States is the aim of Postmas.
ter General Burleson, and to that end
he has reduced the price of the pub
LEGATION from SO to 80 cents.
Senator Overma9 introduced bill
to authorize erection on public land
: in Washington of memorial to Fran
els Asbury, pioneer Methodist preach.
er.
Col John s. Mosby, the most ia.
nous Confederate raider of the Civil
War, died after long illness. He
was a native of Virginia and was 50
years old.
The Senate passed the rivers
and harbors appropriation bill carry.
ing approximately $4,000, 900 by
vote of s5 to 80, after adding many
amendments.