The Ordway new era., 1916-04-28
cAUohr FROM THE NETWORK or
AZ WINES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

A6OOT The WAX
Russians repulse attacks by Ger
mans in East Galicia.
Russians push forward in drive on
Turks in Asiatic Turkey.
Germans claim to have captured 600
yards of British positions near fpres.
Turks admit evacuation of Trebi-
zond Russians continue advance in
Black sea district.
British defeated with heavy losses
and compelled to retreat from posi-
tions on Tigris river, Constantinople
reports.
Germans lombard positions French |
recently captured near Dead Mans |
hill, Verdun, but no infantry attack
was made on Friday.
Constantinople reports that the |
British force besieged in Kut-el-Amara |
is near famine and has ordered the |
civil population to evacuate the town.
The German losses since the begin
ming of the war are placed at $780,
916, according to figures which are
taken from lists prepared by several
London newspapers.
-.The French have captured the
submarine which torpedoed the Sus-
sex and have made prisoners the cap
tain and crew." says the London
Daily Mail.
Gen. Funston is sending to Gen.
Pershing more than 1000 additional
troops and there is reason to believe
that even more will be placed at his
disposal if the campaign against Villa
is continued.
The sinking of neutral ship and
. British steamship was reported by
Lloyds. The Norwegian ship Glen
doom was sunk by gunfire. The lost
British steamship was the Harrovian,
which was unarmed.
Overshadowing all other phases Of
the war is President Wilson's ultima
tum to Germany insisting on an i'm
mediate abandonment of Germany's
submarine warfare, under pain of a
cessation of diplomatic relations with
the United States.
WESTERN
California has Japanese popula
ton of approximately $4,000.
Harry X. Thaw was granted d.
vorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw at
Pittsburg, Pa.
Last falls sowing of winter wheat
in Kansas is estimated to be approx
mately S,454,000 acres.
At Deming, N. NJ, seven Villista
bandits were found guilty of murder
in the first degree as the result of the
raid upon Columbus.
Nebraska Republicans have nomi-
mated A. L. Sutton of Omaha for gov
ernor, and the Democrats have Sc.
lected Keith Neville of North Platte,
according to the incomplete returns.
Twenty persons are reported dead
and more than 100 injured, several
critically, in succession of tornadoes
which swept thru the central portions
of eastern Kansas and western Mis-
souri,. Property damage totals at least
$75O,0O0.
John NJ Wagner, formerly of Den
yer, was taken into custody at Mariet-
ia, Ohio, by government authorities on
charge of white slavery preferred by
Roy o. Samson, district chief of the
United States bureau of investigation
In Denver. Wagner was indicted by
the federal grand jury in Cheyenne.
WASHINGTON
Senator Newlands introduced res
olution to urge belligerent nations OF
Europe to consider peace terms.
The German government has agreed
to permit expectation to the United
States of $1,000 tons of dyestuffs.
Senate Democrats in conference de-
cided to enact into law the house bill
repeating the provision in the Under
wood Simmons tariff law, which would
have placed sugar on the free list
May !. 1916.
The Senate has confirmed William
NJ. Ingraham Of Portland, Maine, as
assistant secretary OF war. He will
take office at once, succeeding Henry
Breckenridge, who resigned with Sec
rstary Garrison.
After three days debate on the
Bankhsad good roads bill, the Senate
adjourned without reaching a VOTE
and under the recently adopted legis-
lAtive program the measure now will
- 1lsplaced by the rural credit BILL
Hsndpran cattle growers. long barred
1EeM American markets by the pres.
eAee q The cattle tick, are treating
51As1f heras and win begin shipments
~ 1ltW Yerk a0cn.
sssS nsy n6lse acknowledged that
kehss had carried q .
A eet ~ Mexican cfficars
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