Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-21
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD or IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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ABOUT THE WAR

The Germans have gained a loot-
hold at Damloup and in Fumin wood
at Verdun.
The Grand Duke Nicholas reports
successes against the Turks in the
Caucasus region.
Italians claim continued successes
in their offensive to drive the Aus
TRANS back on their own soil.
Rome reports continued successes
against the Austrians and reports the
enemy is in 'disorderly retreat"
Petrpgrad reports fierce Austro-
German attack repulsed, with capture
of 1920 men and much wal material.
Germans gain ground with mass at
tacks out of Fleury, but Paris a y
they have suffered enormous losses"
Grand Duke Nicholas, operating in
Caucasus, is launching offensive
against Erzerum to penetrate heart
of Turkish empire.
British troops, attacking on the
Somme front captured German sec
Ond line trenches on a four-mile fronc,
taking many prisoners.
German troops operating in Galicia
inflicted a severe check upon the Rus
slams by an encircling movement and
counter attack, according to the Ber-
lin statement.
Gen. Haig regained control of the
entire Mametz woods, lost to the Ger
mans. Two heavy attacks by the
kaiser's forces on Contamination re-
pulsed.
The summit of Castelletto in the
Tofana region has been blown up by
the Italians, the entire Austrian force
there being buried in the wreckage,
the Rome war office announces
Information indicating that the gar
rison at Ojinaga, opposite Preside,
body of Villas men moving northward
instead of resisting them. was re-
ceived at Gen. Fu~nston's he~adquar.
tiers.
Gen. P. Elias Gales, military com
mander of Sonora, ordered the de-
mobilization of troops now in the Dor
der districts, discharged from the n a.
tlonal service, and ordered the re.
opening of all public offices along the
border.
WESTERN
State troops were ordered to La
Sale, ILL.,, where a strike of cement
mill workers was in progress.
A meteor, the unburied part of
which is as large as a five-room house
fell on the farm Of j. w. Skipes,
twenty miles west of Hot Springs,
Ark.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, owner of
the Hacienda de Babicora, the ranch
reported to have been seized by the
de facto government Of Mexico, tele-
graphed from San Francisco TO Robert
Lansing, secretary of state, protesting
against what she declared to be IAN
unlawful act"
Henry Ford of Michigan will be
nominated for President on the first
ballot by the Prohibition party at its
national convention to be held in st.
Paul, July IS to q, if he will consent
to accept the honor, in the opinion of
the party leaders who held a confer
ence in Chicago.
WASHINGTON
The cost of living, after rising
steadily since 1907, except in 1911,
took a downward trend during 1915.
President Wilson has agreed to &C.
cept the resignation of Maj. Gen.
Goethals as governor of the Panama
canal.
The House bill appTopriating $500,
600 for the relief of needy American
refugees from Mexico was passed By
the Senate.
American sheep raisers will receive
about $4,000, 900 for this years WOO.
crop. the Department of Agriculture
announced.
More than 1900 postmasters en-
rolled at the convention of the Ma
tional Association of Postmasters o.
the United States.
The annual agricultural bill carry.
ing approximately $4,000. 900, was
passed by the Senate I'm virtually the
same form as passed by the House.
The nomination OF John H. Clarke
Of Ohio for associate judge OF the Su
preme Court to succeed Justice
Charles Il. Hughes, was tent co InC
Senate by President Wilson.
The country's foreign trade during
the fiscal year ending with last
month reached a total Of $685. 900.
900, exceeding by many millions, al
previous records.