The Ordway new era., 1916-03-24
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
TIE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union views Service
ABOUT THE WAR


intensity the last of the week.
Russians capture Mamakhuatan,
Turkish town sixty miles west OF Er'
zerum.
North of Aisne river, German az
tack against French outpost was re-
pulsed.
Germans suffered heavy losses in
attempt to capture Dead Mans NIL
at Nerdun.
Villa bandits burned a bridge on the
Northwestern railroad near San Pc
dro, Chihuahua.
Important German ammunition de-
pots north of Verdun We're blown up
by French guns.
Hard fighting between Austrians
and Italians continues with no i'm
portant change in positions.
Dutch passenger ship Tubantia
sunk by submarine OF mine, with IS
aboard. United States will investi-
gate.
The British report that the upris-
ing of the Senussi tribes in western
Egypt is being broken. The head
men of the tribes are asking for par
dons, it is said.
Around Riga terrific artillery duels
are raging. In Galicia southeast OF
Kolki and along the middle of the
Stripa river the Russians have made
small gains
A message from Berne says that
Naby Bey, former Turkish am
bassador at Rome, is reported to be
endeavoring to negotiate a separate
peace for Turkey with the allies.
The various federal states which
with Prussia constitute the empire of
Germany have shown signs of dis
satisfaction with the manner in
which the kaiser's government is car
rying on the war.
WESTERN
The postoffice and public baths ut
Monterey, Mexico, were destroyed oy
fire.
Mrs. Annie Asenath Adams Kiskad
den, mother of Maude Adams. died at
Salt Lake.
The price of sugar is advancing
steadily with no prospect for any
immediate reduction.
John Lightburn was stabbed and
probably fatally wounded in an anti
American outbreak at Point Isabel,
Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Hagadorn,
formerly of Denver, but now of Ration,
N. NJ, are principals in a divorce
proceeding in the New Mexico city
William T. Thornton, governor of
New Mexico from 1893 to 1897, who
also served in the territorial Legisla-
ture and as mayor of Santa Fe, died
at Santa Fe at the age of 73.
While most of the reports reaching
Columbus, N. NJ, unofficially from the
Mexican border indicated that the
American troops In Mexico were un-
moiested in their advance, there
were also reports that few snipers
had been encountered
Jose Pereyra, Carranza consul at
Columbus, who was killed by the villa
raiders, met death trying to save the
lives of American women. according
to story told at FL Paso, Tex, by
Mrs. w. l.. Ritchie. Mrs Ritchie's
husband ran the hotel at Columbus
and was shot to death before her eyes
by the Villistas.
WASHINGTON
Senator Benjamin F. Shively of In
diana died at Washington hospital
after an illness of many months.
The Senate passed bill to appropri-
ate S2,506,00O for equipping Puget
Sound navy yard to build battleships
Brig. Gen. John Cameron Mullen.
berg, retired, former paymaster gen-
eral of the army. died at his home in
Washington
The Senate adopted resolution to
bring the mobile army to its full
strength Immediately. which had al
ready been passed by the House.
Senator shafroth was the principal
speaker in the Senate Thursday
against the Myers bill to lease the
public lands for water power sites.
Federico Alfonso Pezet, the Peru
:, Wan minister, issued statement say.
ing reports that President Pardo Of
Peru would resign were withour
foundation.
= The Senate adopted resolution III,
dorsing President Wilson's course in
sending troops into Mexico and assur.
ing Mexican people the expedition ia
punitive only.
The diplomatic and consular ap-
preparation bill for 1917, carrying
n, ,126, ,1s5 or u ,421 ,966 more than was
spproprtsted for 1916, was reported t,
80 faosise by the foreign affairs com
ratttses
~ 6enets pasSsd the House bnii
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